Janet Kelso

Janet Kelso
Janet Kelso speaking at Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology conference in 2015
Born (1975-03-24) March 24, 1975 (age 49)[2]
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
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InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
ThesisThe development and application of informatics-based systems for the analysis of the human transcriptome (2003)
Doctoral advisorsWinston Hide
Websitewww.eva.mpg.de/genetics/bioinformatics/group-staff.html

Janet Kelso (born 1975) is a South African computational biologist and Group leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.[2][3][4][5] She is best known for her work comparing DNA from previous humans (i.e. Neanderthals) with those of the present (Homo Sapiens).

A previous challenge for computational biologists was the lack of proper DNA preservation and technology to analyze the nuclear genomes of the ancient humans. This obstacle strengthened Kelso's interest in bioinformatics and initially approached the issue using the reference based method. From there, her and her research team have made advances in research towards ancient DNA.[6]

  1. ^ Anon (2017). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 20 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Existing members of ELIXIR SAB.pdf" (PDF). Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  3. ^ Leipzig, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. "Dept. of Genetics | Bioinformatics | Group Staff". www.eva.mpg.de. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
  4. ^ Janet Kelso at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ Janet Kelso publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  6. ^ KAUST Live: Janet Kelso of Max-Planck and Sudhir Kumar of Temple University, retrieved 27 November 2021