Heng Li
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. He was previously a research scientist working at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts with David Reich and David Altshuler. Li's work has made several important contributions in the field of next generation sequencing.
Heng Li | |
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| Known for | Bioinformatics Burrows–Wheeler transform Samtools TreeFam |
| Awards | Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Broad Institute Beijing Genomics Institute |
| Thesis | Constructing the TreeFam database (2006) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wei-Mou Zheng |
| Website | hlilab |
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