Lior Pachter

Lior Pachter
Lior Pachter in 2013
Born
Lior Samuel Pachter

(1973-05-03) May 3, 1973 (age 51)
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology (BS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
AwardsISCB Fellow (2017)
Scientific career
FieldsComputational biology
Bioinformatics
Genomics
Computer science
Mathematics[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisDomino Tiling, Gene Recognition and Mice (1999)
Doctoral advisorBonnie Berger[2]
Doctoral studentsCole Trapnell[2][3]
Websiteliorpachter.wordpress.com

Lior Samuel Pachter is a computational biologist. He works at the California Institute of Technology, where he is the Bren Professor of Computational Biology. He has widely varied research interests including genomics, combinatorics, computational geometry, machine learning, scientific computing, and statistics.[1][4][5]

  1. ^ a b Lior Pachter publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b Lior Pachter at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Trapnell, Cole; Pachter, Lior; Salzberg, Steven L. (2009). "TopHat: discovering splice junctions with RNA-Seq". Bioinformatics. 25 (9): 1105–1111. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp120. ISSN 1460-2059. PMC 2672628. PMID 19289445.
  4. ^ Curriculum vitae: Lior Pachter (PDF), 2017, retrieved 2017-05-16.
  5. ^ Trapnell, Cole; Williams, Brian A; Pertea, Geo; Mortazavi, Ali; Kwan, Gordon; van Baren, Marijke J; Salzberg, Steven L; Wold, Barbara J; Pachter, Lior (2010). "Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation". Nature Biotechnology. 28 (5): 511–515. doi:10.1038/nbt.1621. ISSN 1087-0156. PMC 3146043. PMID 20436464.