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Daehwan Kim, Ph.D.

Daehwan Kim, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Endowed Title
Michael L. Rosenberg Scholar in Medical Research
School
Medical School
Department
Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics
Graduate Programs
Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Biology
  • Biography

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    Dr. Daehwan Kim has been an assistant professor in the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics since September 2017. He is a member of the Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Systems Biology. He is also a Michael L. Rosenberg Scholar in Medical Research and a Scholar of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).

  • Education
    Undergraduate
    (2017), Computer Sciences
    Graduate School
    (2017), Computer Sciences
  • Research Interest
    • Life Design Platform development: L++ (a computer programming language), LCC (a compiler), simulation, and visualization
    • Next-generation sequence alignment, and graph alignment of genomes and genotyping
    • Personalized medicine with a focus on cancer diagnosis
  • Publications

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    Centrifuge: rapid and sensitive classification of metagenomic sequences.
    Kim D, Song L, Breitwieser FP, Salzberg SL Genome Res. 2016 Dec 26 12 1721-1729
    Transcript-level expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with HISAT, StringTie and Ballgown.
    Pertea M, Kim D, Pertea GM, Leek JT, Salzberg SL Nat Protoc 2016 Sep 11 9 1650-67
    Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks.
    Trapnell C, Roberts A, Goff L, Pertea G, Kim D, Kelley DR, Pimentel H, Salzberg SL, Rinn JL, Pachter L Nat Protoc 2012 Mar 7 3 562-78
    TopHat-Fusion: an algorithm for discovery of novel fusion transcripts.
    Kim D, Salzberg SL Genome Biol. 2011 Aug 12 8 R72
    * See Google Scholar webpage for more publications
    Since 2011
  • Professional Associations/Affiliations
    • Department of Bioinformatics (2017)