Heng Li | |
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Known for |
Bioinformatics Burrows–Wheeler transform Samtools TreeFam |
Awards | Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) (2012) [1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Broad Institute Beijing Genomics Institute |
Thesis | Constructing the TreeFam database (2006) |
Doctoral advisor | Wei-Mou Zheng [2] |
Website |
hlilab |
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.
Li majored in physics at Nanjing University from 1997 to 2001. [7] He received his PhD from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. His thesis, titled "Constructing the TreeFam database", was supervised by Wei-Mou Zheng. [2]
Li was involved in a number of projects while working at the Beijing Genomics Institute from 2002 to 2006. These included studying rice finishing, [8] silkworm sequencing, [9] and genetic variation in chickens. [10]
From 2006 to 2009, Li worked on a postdoctoral research fellowship with Richard M. Durbin at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. [11] During this time, Li made several important contributions to the field of next generation sequencing (NGS) through the development of software such as the SAMtools NGS utilities, [12] the Burrows–Wheeler aligner (BWA), [13] MAQ, [14] TreeSoft and TreeFam. [15]
Li joined the Broad Institute in 2009, working in the core faculty lab of David Altshuler, [11] [16] which investigates the discovery and understanding of the genetic causes of disease.
As of December 2018, Li's papers on SAMtools [12] and BWA [13] (sequence alignment using the Burrows–Wheeler transform) have both been cited over 16,000 times. [17]
In 2012, Li won the Benjamin Franklin award [1] in bioinformatics. Li became the fourth former member of Richard Durbin's lab to win the award, following Sean Eddy, Ewan Birney and Alex Bateman. [18]
Li lives in Boston with his wife, daughter, and fish. [6]
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Heng Li | |
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Known for |
Bioinformatics Burrows–Wheeler transform Samtools TreeFam |
Awards | Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) (2012) [1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Broad Institute Beijing Genomics Institute |
Thesis | Constructing the TreeFam database (2006) |
Doctoral advisor | Wei-Mou Zheng [2] |
Website |
hlilab |
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.
Li majored in physics at Nanjing University from 1997 to 2001. [7] He received his PhD from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. His thesis, titled "Constructing the TreeFam database", was supervised by Wei-Mou Zheng. [2]
Li was involved in a number of projects while working at the Beijing Genomics Institute from 2002 to 2006. These included studying rice finishing, [8] silkworm sequencing, [9] and genetic variation in chickens. [10]
From 2006 to 2009, Li worked on a postdoctoral research fellowship with Richard M. Durbin at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. [11] During this time, Li made several important contributions to the field of next generation sequencing (NGS) through the development of software such as the SAMtools NGS utilities, [12] the Burrows–Wheeler aligner (BWA), [13] MAQ, [14] TreeSoft and TreeFam. [15]
Li joined the Broad Institute in 2009, working in the core faculty lab of David Altshuler, [11] [16] which investigates the discovery and understanding of the genetic causes of disease.
As of December 2018, Li's papers on SAMtools [12] and BWA [13] (sequence alignment using the Burrows–Wheeler transform) have both been cited over 16,000 times. [17]
In 2012, Li won the Benjamin Franklin award [1] in bioinformatics. Li became the fourth former member of Richard Durbin's lab to win the award, following Sean Eddy, Ewan Birney and Alex Bateman. [18]
Li lives in Boston with his wife, daughter, and fish. [6]
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