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Inanc Birol
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Research
Latest papers
ntSynt-viz: Visualizing synteny patterns across multiple genomes.
Journal of evolutionary biology · 2026 · senior author
Population-scale disease-associated tandem repeat analysis reveals locus and ancestry-specific insights.
Nature communications · 2026
Genome misassembly detection using Stash: A data structure based on stochastic tile hashing.
PloS one · 2026 · senior author
Latest funding
- $990,676
Sequence-based Ancestry Inference, Multi-genome Synteny Detection, and Interactive Visualization
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
Bridging gastric cancer biology to prevent progression of pre-cancerous gastric lesions
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $180,000
Using advanced genomic and computational approaches to discover and characterize novel genetic variants in neurodevelopmental disorders.
CIHR · 2023 · Supervisor
110 publications.
ntSynt-viz: Visualizing synteny patterns across multiple genomes.
Coombe L, Warren RL, Birol I
Population-scale disease-associated tandem repeat analysis reveals locus and ancestry-specific insights.
Rajan-Babu IS, Chiu R, Weisburd B, Caglayan I, Birol I, Friedman JM
Genome misassembly detection using Stash: A data structure based on stochastic tile hashing.
Sarvar A, Coombe L, Birol I
Efficacy and safety evaluation of artificial intelligence-identified antimicrobial peptides targeting avian pathogenic Escherichia coli in broiler chickens.
Demirsoy E, Parkin TI, Mihalynuk SE, Dema AH, Corrie L, Heilker ME, Kuecks-Winger HN, Yanai A, Birol UB, McIlwee M, de Wet K, Knipscheer M, Bowes V, Tuytel V, Ritchie L, Köster W, Berberov E, Cox WR, Kotkoff M, Thompson VC, Warren RL, Fraser E, Hoang LMN, Hof F, Birol F, Helbing CC, Birol I
AIEdit: Alignment-free genome assembly polisher trained on spaced seed match patterns.
Kazemi P, Sánchez Olivares I, Warren RL, Coombe L, Birol I
ntStat: k-mer characterization using occurrence statistics in raw sequencing data.
Kazemi P, Coombe L, Warren RL, Birol I
AMPSeek: A Workflow for Predicting Antimicrobial Peptide Activity, Three-Dimensional Structure, and Toxicity.
Zhang E, Ucar B, Salehi A, Warren RL, Birol I
A comprehensive tandem repeat catalog of the human genome.
Chiu R, Rajan-Babu IS, Friedman JM, Birol I
Concordance and divergence between self-declared ancestry and genome-derived ancestry composition in 10 250 participants from the HostSeq cohort.
Warren R, Coombe L, Birol I
ntSynt: multi-genome synteny detection using minimizer graph mappings.
Coombe L, Kazemi P, Wong J, Birol I, Warren RL
Sequence-based Ancestry Inference, Multi-genome Synteny Detection, and Interactive Visualization
Principal investigators: Birol, Inanc
Keywords: Bioinformatics; Genomic Ancestry; Genomics; Population Genetics
Bridging gastric cancer biology to prevent progression of pre-cancerous gastric lesions
Principal investigators: Tai, Isabella T; Birol, Inanc; Morin, Gregg B
Keywords: Genomic Evolution Of Normal Tissue To Intestinal Metaplasia
Using advanced genomic and computational approaches to discover and characterize novel genetic variants in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Principal investigators: Rajan Babu, Indhu Shree
Keywords: Bioinformatics; Long-Read Sequencing; Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Repeat Expansions
Assembly and annotation of genomes, transcriptomes, and metagenomes
Principal investigators: Birol, Inanc
Keywords: Assembly Assessment; Bioinformatics; De Novo Assembly; Genome Annotation
Long-read sequencing and bioinformatics analysis to identify cryptic genetic mutations in patients with undiagnosed intellectual disability
Principal investigators: Friedman, Jan M; Birol, Inanc
Keywords: Bioinformatics; Intellectual Disability; Long-Read Sequencing
Novel Data Structures And Scalable Algorithms For High Throughput Bioinformatics
Principal investigators: Birol, Inanc
Keywords: Bioinformatics; Bloom filters; Genome assembly; Physical mapping; Single cell RNA-seq; Spaced seeds; Transcriptome assembly
Improving whole genome sequencing as a clinical test for genetic causes of intellectual disability
Principal investigators: Friedman, Jan M; Birol, Inanc
Keywords: Clinical Bioinformatics; Clinical Genomics; Genetic Testing; Intellectual Disability
Large-scale comparative genomics with succinct Bloom filter data structures
Principal investigators: Yeo, Sarah
Keywords: Ics Studentship
New bioinformatics for new sequencing technologies: Genome.
Principal investigators: Birol, Inanc
Keywords: Bioinformatics
Development of an automated end-to-end next generation sequencing assay to detect all classes of genetic variant in a single diagnostic test
Principal investigators: Karsan, Aly; Marra, Marco A
Keywords: 1101 - Human Health; 5002- Molecular Genetics; 5004- Genome Analysis; 8000- Health Services; Analytical Validation; Bioinformatics; Clinical Cancer Genomics; Clinical Diagnostics; Clinical Utility; Next-Generation Sequencing
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- David Malkin and Eric Bouffet: 48 shared papers
- Nada Jabado and Eric Bouffet: 34 shared papers
- Nada Jabado and David Malkin: 17 shared papers
- Martin Hirst and Steven Jones: 15 shared papers
- Martin Hirst and Samuel Aparicio: 14 shared papers
- Samuel Aparicio and Andrew Roth: 14 shared papers
- Aly Karsan and Christian Steidl: 13 shared papers
- Inanc Birol and Joerg Bohlmann: 13 shared papers
- Marco Marra and Steven Jones: 13 shared papers
- Jean Bousquet and Joerg Bohlmann: 13 shared papers
- Samuel Aparicio and Ali Bashashati: 12 shared papers
- Martin Hirst and Aly Karsan: 11 shared papers
- Martin Hirst and Inanc Birol: 11 shared papers
- Martin Hirst and Marco Marra: 11 shared papers
- Inanc Birol and Jean Bousquet: 9 shared papers
- Aly Karsan and Marco Marra: 8 shared papers
- Christian Steidl and Andrew Roth: 8 shared papers
- David Huntsman and Samuel Aparicio: 7 shared papers
- Ali Bashashati and Jiarui Ding: 7 shared papers
- Ali Bashashati and Andrew Roth: 7 shared papers
- David Huntsman and Ali Bashashati: 6 shared papers
- Samuel Aparicio and Sohrab Shah: 6 shared papers
- Jiarui Ding and Andrew Roth: 6 shared papers
- Martin Hirst and Christian Steidl: 5 shared papers
- Martin Hirst and Jiarui Ding: 5 shared papers
- Samuel Aparicio and Steven Jones: 5 shared papers
- Sohrab Shah and Jiarui Ding: 5 shared papers
- Martin Hirst and David Huntsman: 4 shared papers
- Samuel Aparicio and Peter Watson: 4 shared papers
- Inanc Birol and Steven Jones: 4 shared papers
- Inanc Birol and Fraser Hof: 4 shared papers
- Martin Hirst and Sohrab Shah: 3 shared papers
- Aly Karsan and Inanc Birol: 3 shared papers
- Samuel Aparicio and Inanc Birol: 3 shared papers
- Sohrab Shah and Inanc Birol: 3 shared papers
- Martin Hirst and Peter Watson: 2 shared papers
- David Huntsman and Inanc Birol: 2 shared papers
- David Huntsman and Peter Watson: 2 shared papers
- Patrick Tang and Inanc Birol: 2 shared papers
- Inanc Birol and Marco Marra: 2 shared papers
- Inanc Birol and Jiarui Ding: 2 shared papers
- Inanc Birol and Andrew Roth: 2 shared papers
- Inanc Birol and Kermit Ritland: 2 shared papers
- Jean Bousquet and Nadir Erbilgin: 2 shared papers
- Jean Bousquet and Ashley Thomson: 2 shared papers
- Joerg Bohlmann and Kermit Ritland: 2 shared papers
- Joerg Bohlmann and Nadir Erbilgin: 2 shared papers
- Joerg Bohlmann and Ashley Thomson: 2 shared papers
- Martin Hirst and Nada Jabado: 1 shared paper
- Martin Hirst and David Malkin: 1 shared paper
- Christian Steidl and Inanc Birol: 1 shared paper
- Nada Jabado and Inanc Birol: 1 shared paper
- Nada Jabado and Jüri Reimand: 1 shared paper
- David Malkin and Inanc Birol: 1 shared paper
- David Malkin and Jüri Reimand: 1 shared paper
- Sohrab Shah and Eric Bouffet: 1 shared paper
- Sohrab Shah and Jüri Reimand: 1 shared paper
- Inanc Birol and Peter Watson: 1 shared paper
- Inanc Birol and Ali Bashashati: 1 shared paper
- Inanc Birol and Eric Bouffet: 1 shared paper
- Inanc Birol and Jüri Reimand: 1 shared paper
- Inanc Birol and Mathias Schuetz: 1 shared paper
- Inanc Birol and Nadir Erbilgin: 1 shared paper
- Inanc Birol and Ashley Thomson: 1 shared paper
- Jean Bousquet and Kermit Ritland: 1 shared paper
- Genome Sciences Centre
- Department of Chemistry
- Molecular Oncology
- Pediatrics
- Michael Smith Laboratories
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Sciences du bois et de la forêt
- Other
Co-authors at University of British Columbia, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Joerg Bohlmann
Michael Smith Laboratories
13 shared papers, latest 2024
Martin Hirst
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
11 shared papers, latest 2021
Jean Bousquet
Sciences du bois et de la forêt
9 shared papers, latest 2024
Steven Jones
Genetics
4 shared papers, latest 2016
Fraser Hof
Department of Chemistry
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Samuel Aparicio
Molecular Oncology
3 shared papers, latest 2021
Sohrab Shah
Faculty
3 shared papers, latest 2016
Aly Karsan
Genome Sciences Centre
3 shared papers, latest 2019
Kermit Ritland
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
2 shared papers, latest 2014
Marco Marra
Genome Sciences Centre
2 shared papers, latest 2017
Andrew Roth
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2013
Jiarui Ding
Faculty
2 shared papers, latest 2013
Patrick Tang
Department of Chemistry
2 shared papers, latest 2017
David Huntsman
Molecular Oncology
2 shared papers, latest 2019
Ashley Thomson
Natural Resources Management, Faculty of
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Xi Huang
Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Ute Bartels
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Peter Watson
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2012
Vijay Ramaswamy
Developmental Stem Cell Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Trevor Pugh
Department of Medical Biophysics
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Steven Jones
Genome Sciences Centre
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Ali Bashashati
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
1 shared papers, latest 2012
Stefan Taubert
Department of Medical Genetics
1 shared papers, latest 2017
Mathias Schuetz
Head Office
1 shared papers, latest 2024
Wei Zhang
School of Population and Public Health
1 shared papers, latest 2019
Eric Bouffet
Department of Paediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Xiaoyan Jiang
Terry Fox Laboratory
1 shared papers, latest 2020
Uri Tabori
Genetics and Genome Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Christian Steidl
Experimental Therapeutics
1 shared papers, latest 2013
Nada Jabado
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2016
David Malkin
Pediatrics
1 shared papers, latest 2016
Ryan Brinkman
Department of Medical Genetics
1 shared papers, latest 2020
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