Dr. Inanc Birol

Titles and Education

Titles

Scientist, BC Cancer Agency, Genome Sciences Centre
Adjunct Professor, Computing Science, Simon Fraser University

Education

B.Sc., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul
M.Sc., Systems and Control Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Ph.D., Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul

Research

Dr. Inanc Birol is the Bioinformatics Team Leader at the British Columbia Cancer Agency in the Genome Sciences Centre, and is an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University, School of Computing Science.

Dr. Birol’s research interests include the analysis of short read sequencing data to study genomes, epigenomes and transcriptomes of model species and humans. He develops bioinformatics tools for de novo sequence assembly, sequence mapping (MrsFAST), and data analysis (trans-AbySS), (LaneRuler) and visualization(AbySS-Explorer).

Recent Publications

• Morin RD, Mendez-Lago M, Mungall AJ, Goya R, Mungall KL, Corbett RD, Johnson NA, Severson TM, Chiu R, Field M, Jackman S, Krzywinski M, Scott DW, Trinh DL, Tamura-Wells J, Li S, Firme MR, Rogic S, Griffith M, Chan S, Yakovenko O, Meyer IM, Zhao EY, Smailus D, Moksa M, Chittaranjan S, Rimsza L, Brooks-Wilson A, Spinelli JJ, Ben-Neriah S, Meissner B, Woolcock B, Boyle M, McDonald H, Tam A, Zhao Y, Delaney A, Zeng T, Tse K, Butterfield Y, Birol I, Holt R, Schein J, Horsman DE, Moore R, Jones SJM, Connors JM, HIrst M, Gascoyne RD, Marra MA, "Frequent mutation of histone-modifying genes in non-Hodgkin lymphoma", Nature. 2011 Aug 18; 476(7360):298-303.
• Geraldes A, Pang J, Thiessen N, Cezard T, Moore R, Zhao Y, Tam A, Wang S, Friedmann M, Birol I, Jones SJM, Cronk QCB, Douglas CJ, "SNP discovery in black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) by population transcriptome resequencing", Mol Ecol Resour. 2011 Mar 1;11 Suppl 1:81-92.
• Gardy JL, Johnston JC, Ho Sui SJ, Cook VJ, Shah L, Brodkin E, Rempel S, Moore R, Zhao Y, Holt R, Varhol R, Birol I, Lem M, Sharma MK, Elwood K, Jones SJM, Brinkman FSL, Brunham RC, Tang P, "Whole-genome sequencing and social-network analysis of a tuberculosis outbreak", N Engl J Med. 2011 Feb 24; 364(8):730-9.
• Fejes AP, Hadj Khodabakhshi A, Birol I, Jones SJM, "Human Variation Database: An open source database template for genomic discovery", Bioinformatics. 2011 Apr 15; 27(8):1155-6. [Epub 2011 Mar 2.]
• Earl DA, Bradnam K, St John J, Darling A, Lin D, Faas J, Yu HOK, Vince B, Zerbino DR, Diekhans M, Nguyen N, Nuwantha P, Sung AW-K, Ning Z, Haimel M, Simpson JT, Fronseca NA, Birol I, Docking TR, Ho IY, Rokhsar DS, Chikhi R, Lavenier D, Chapuis G, Naquin D, Maillet N, Schatz MC, Kelly DR, Phillippy AM, Koren S, Yang S-P, Wu W, Chou W-C, Srivastava A, SHaw TI, Ruby JG, Skewes-Cox P, Betegon M, Dimon MT, Solovyev V, Kosarev P, Vorobyev D, Ramirez-Gonzalez R, Leggett R, Maclean D, Xia F, Luo R, L Z, Xie Y, Liu B, Gnerre S, Maccallum I, Przybylski D, Ribeiro FJ, Yin S, Sharpe T, Hall G, Kersey PJ, Durbin R, Jackman SD, Chapman JA, Huang X, Derisi JL, Caccamo M, Li Y, Jaffe DB, Green R, Haussler D, Korf I, Paten B, "Assemblathon 1: A competitive assessment of de novo short read assembly methods", Genome Res. 2011 Sep 16. [Epub ahead of print]
• DiGuistini S, Wang Y, Liao NY, Taylor G, Tanguay P, Feau N, Henrissat B, Chan SK, Hesse-Orce U, Alamouti SM, Tsui CKM, Docking RT, Levasseur A, Haridas S, Robertson G, Birol I, Holt RA, Marra MA, Hamelin RC, Hirst M, Jones SJM, Bohlmann J, Breuil C, "Genome and transcriptome analyses of the mountain pine beetle-fungal symbiont Grosmannia clavigera, a lodgepole pine pathogen", Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2011 Feb 8; 108(6):2504-9. [Epub 2011 Jan 24.]

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