Salzberg Lab

Computational biology and genomics @JHU

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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.
July 2016. Steven Salzberg gives a keynote talk on open science at BOSC 2016. See the talk on YouTube.
June 2016. Steven Salzberg, Florian Breitwieser, and other scientists including Hopkins neurologist Carlos Pardo publish a landmark study on the use of sequencing to diagnose brain infections in critically ill patients.
May 2016. Former student Mike Schatz is named a Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Computer Science and Biology at Hopkins.
Feb. 2016. Daehwan Kim, Li Song and Florian Breitwieser release Centrifuge, a new metagenomics classifier.

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