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Steven Salzberg
PeerJ Advisor & Author
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Bioinformatics
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Bioinformatics
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Steven Salzberg

PeerJ Advisor & Author

Summary

Steven Salzberg is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, and the Director of the Center for Computational Biology. His research focuses on the development of novel computational methods for analysis of DNA from the latest sequencing technologies. His software has been downloaded >1,000,000 times and he writes a popular science blog at Forbes magazine. He's an elected Fellow of AAAS and ISCB.

Bioinformatics Computational Biology Genomics

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences
PeerJ Computer Science

Past or current institution affiliations

Johns Hopkins

Work details

Professor

Johns Hopkins University
Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science

Websites

  • Salzberg at Forbes
  • Google Scholar

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 3
  • Answers 1
January 2, 2017
Bracken: estimating species abundance in metagenomics data
Jennifer Lu, Florian P. Breitwieser, Peter Thielen, Steven L. Salzberg
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.104
March 3, 2015
Arioc: high-throughput read alignment with GPU-accelerated exploration of the seed-and-extend search space
Richard Wilton, Tamas Budavari, Ben Langmead, Sarah J. Wheelan, Steven L. Salzberg, Alexander S. Szalay
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.808 PubMed 25780763
November 20, 2014
Unexpected cross-species contamination in genome sequencing projects
Samier Merchant, Derrick E. Wood, Steven L. Salzberg
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.675 PubMed 25426337

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