Li Ding

Li Ding
Alma materUniversity of Utah
Scientific career
ThesisThe molecular cloning, characterization, and regulation of diacylglycerol kinases (1998)
Websitedinglab.wustl.edu

Li Ding is the David English Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Washington University. She is known for the development of multiple computational tools now commonly used in cancer biology research, including VarScan,[1] HotSpot3D,[2] and BreakDancer.[3]

  1. ^ Koboldt, DC, et al. (2012). "VarScan 2: somatic mutation and copy number alteration discovery in cancer by exome sequencing". Genome Research. 22 (3): 568–576. doi:10.1101/gr.129684.111. PMC 3290792. PMID 22300766.
  2. ^ Niu, B, et al. (2016). "Protein-structure-guided discovery of functional mutations across 19 cancer types". Nature Genetics. 48 (8): 827–837. doi:10.1038/ng.3586. PMC 5315576. PMID 27294619.
  3. ^ Chen, K, et al. (2009). "BreakDancer: an algorithm for high-resolution mapping of genomic structural variation". Nature Methods. 6 (9): 677–681. doi:10.1038/nmeth.1363. PMC 3661775. PMID 19668202.