My surname (family or last name), is Yap. My given (first) name is Von Bing. I have no middle name.
1. Matrix extension and biorthogonal multiwavelet construction (with SS Goh). Linear Algebra and its Applications, 269:139--157 (1998).
2. Association between divergence and interspersed repeats in mammalian noncoding genomic DNA (with F Chiaromonte, S Yang, L Elnitski, W Miller and RC Hardison). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 98:14503--14508 (2001).
3. Scoring pairwise genomic sequence alignments (with F Chiaromonte and W Miller). Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 115--126 (2002).
4. Modeling genomic DNA base substitution (with TP Speed). Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, 3855--3864 (2002).
5. Modeling DNA base substitution in large genomic regions from two organisms (with TP Speed). Journal of Molecular Evolution, 58:12--18 (2004).
6. Identification of evolutionary hotspots in the rodent genomes (with L Pachter). Genome Research, 14:574--579 (2004).
7. Genome sequence of the brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution (with The Rat Genome Sequencing Consortium). Nature, 428:493--521 (2004).
8. Comparative immunopeptidomics of humans and their pathogens (with S Istrail, L Florea, BV Halldorsson, O Kohlbacher, RS Schwartz, JW Yewdell and SL Hoffman). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 101:13268--13272 (2004).
9. Rooting a phylogenetic tree with nonreversible substitution models (with TP Speed). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 5:2 (2005).
10. Estimating substitution matrices (with TP Speed). In Statistical Methods in Molecular Evolution, edited by R Nielsen (2005).
11. The defensive role of scutes in juvenile fluted giant clams (Tridacna squamosa) (with L Han, PT Todd, LM Chou and B Sivaloganathan). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 359:77--83 (2008).
12. Comparison of methods for estimating the nucleotide substitution matrix (with M Oscamou, D McDonald, GA Huttley, ME Lladser and R Knight). BMC Bioinformatics, 9:511 (2008).
13. Pathological rate matrices: from primates to pathogens (with HW Schranz, S Easteal, R Knight and GA Huttley). BMC Bioinformatics, 9:550 (2008).
14. Pitfalls of the most commonly used models of context dependent substitution (with H Lindsay and GA Huttley). Biology Direct, 3:52 (2008).
15. Data-driven optimization of metabolomics methods using rat liver samples (with GS Parab, P Rao, S Lakshminarayanan, SM Moochhala and S Swarup). Analytical Chemistry, 81:1315--1323 (2009).
16. Similar states in continuous-time Markov chains. Journal of Applied Probability, 46:497--506 (2009).
17. Estimates of the effect of natural selection on protein coding content (with H Lindsay, S Easteal and G Huttley). Molecular Biology and Evolution, Online Advance Access (2009).
18. Statistical analysis of binary data generated from multilocus dominant DNA markers (with TF Khang). Accepted by Molecular Ecology Resources.
19. The apportionment of total genetic variation by categorical analysis of variance (with TF Khang). Accepted by Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology.
1. National University of Singapore: Department of Anatomy, Open House, Science Research Programme, Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, Science Faculty Teaching Workshop, Science Focus, Statistics Camp.
2. Schools: Hwa Chong Institution, Raffles Junior College, Victoria Junior College.
3. Ministry of Education: Gifted Education Programme Annual Conference 2004, 'A' Level Mathematics Teachers Sharing Session 2009.
4. Singapore Mathematics Society: Mathematics Enrichment Programme, Primary Mathematics Olympiad Programme.
I supervised three projects under the Science Mentorship Programme for secondary schools.