Salzberg Lab

Computational biology and genomics @JHU

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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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