Lior Pachter's Website
Departments of Mathematics, Molecular & Cell Biology and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
- November 2012
- Adam Roberts' paper on Streaming fragment assignment for real-time analysis of sequencing experiments describing the eXpress software is published in Nature Methods.
- May 2012
- Lior Pachter's talk on RNA editing is most tweeted at Biology of Genomes 2012.
- Aaron Kleinman graduates with a Ph.D. in mathematics for his thesis "Combinatorial phylogenetics of reconstruction algorithms". He is now a direct (academic) descendant of Nicolaus Copernicus.
- March 2012
- TopHat and Cufflinks protocol paper provides a step-by-step tutorial on how to use the Tuxedo suite of tools for RNA-Seq analysis. A one day workshop, Berkeley *Seq I, during which this and other tutorials will be presented will be held at Berkeley on June 30th 2012.
- February 2012
- Lior Pachter awarded the first Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in Computational Biology at UC Berkeley, effective July 1 2012.
- Adam Roberts' new eXpress software for streaming read assignment is presented at AGBT 2012.
- January 2012
- Wet lab started in the new Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences.
- November 2011
- Frazer Meacham and Meromit Singer's paper on systematic error in Illumina reads is most forwarded paper of BMC Bioinformatics.
- June 2011
- Lior Pachter is an invited speaker at FPSAC 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Sharon Aviran and Julius Lucks' work on SHAPE-Seq is published in a pair of papers in PNAS, together with a commentary by Kevin Weeks.