Salzberg Lab

Computational biology and genomics @JHU

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Posted in Uncategorized on February 21, 2015 by salzberg1.

Lab news

Apr 2018: Steven Salzberg elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy honors exceptional scholars, leaders, artists, and innovators and engages them in sharing knowledge and addressing challenges facing the world.
Feb 2018: Former student Cole Trapnell (now an Asst. Prof at U. Washington) wins this year’s Overton Prize from ISCB.
Feb 7, 2018: Our work on the redwood genome is featured on the front page of the Washington Post.
Dec 2017: See Steven Salzberg’s talk on genome assembly at the Oxford Nanopore Community Meeting in NYC.
31 Oct 2017: “Small group scoops international effort to sequence huge wheat genome.” This is us: read the story in Nature.
Oct 2017. Released the Kraken! (v1.0 that is.) See ccb.jhu.edu/software/kraken for details.
Sept 2017. Two new Ph.D. students join the lab, Alaina Shumate in the BME program, and Ales Varabyou in the CS program.
July 2017. Aleksey Zimin, Daniela Puiu, Steven Salzberg and others release a bioRxiv preprint describing the first-ever complete draft assembly of the massive, 15.3 Gb wheat genome.
May 2017. Steven Salzberg publishes a paper refuting a recent claim that horizontal gene transfer is a widespread phenomenon in animal species.
Jan. 2017. Aleksey Zimin and colleagues publish a new hybrid genome assembly method, the “mega-reads” algorithm, in Genome Research.
Nov. 2016. Steven Salzberg is named a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters, in the areas of both computer science and microbiology.
Aug. 2016. Ela Pertea and colleagues publish a new paper in Nature Protocols describing how to use StringTie, HISAT, and Ballgown to analyze RNA-seq experiments.

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