Heng Li

Heng Li
Known forBioinformatics
Burrows–Wheeler transform
Samtools
TreeFam
AwardsBenjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) (2012) [1]
Scientific career
InstitutionsWellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Broad Institute
Beijing Genomics Institute
ThesisConstructing the TreeFam database (2006)
Doctoral advisorWei-Mou Zheng[2]
Websitehlilab.github.io

Heng Li is a Chinese bioinformatics scientist. He is an associate professor at the department of Biomedical Informatics of Harvard Medical School and the department of Data Science of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.[3][4][5] He was previously a research scientist working at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts with David Reich and David Altshuler.[6] Li's work has made several important contributions in the field of next generation sequencing.

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  3. ^ "Heng Li | Department of Biomedical Informatics". dbmi.hms.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
  4. ^ "Noted computational biologist Heng Li joins faculty". harvard.edu. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
  5. ^ "HLi Lab - Home". hlilab.github.io. Retrieved 2018-10-30.
  6. ^ "Heng Li's Homepage". sourceforge.net. Archived from the original on 2012-04-19.