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Michael Hoffman
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Latest papers
DORA-compliant measures of research quality and impact to assess the performance of researchers in biomedical institutions: Review of published research, international best practice and Delphi survey.
PloS one · 2023
Latest funding
- $144,000
Computational methods for chromatin data
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $995,264
Lung cancer early detection and classification using methylome analysis of plasma cell free DNA
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
- $135,000
DNA methylation profiling in cell-free DNA: a non-invasive method to screen for pre-term birth
CIHR · 2019 · Supervisor
1 publications.
DORA-compliant measures of research quality and impact to assess the performance of researchers in biomedical institutions: Review of published research, international best practice and Delphi survey.
Gagliardi AR, Chen RHC, Boury H, Albert M, Chow J, DaCosta RS, Hoffman M, Keshavarz B, Kontos P, Liu J, McAndrews MP, Protze S
Computational methods for chromatin data
Principal investigators: Hoffman, Michael
Lung cancer early detection and classification using methylome analysis of plasma cell free DNA
Principal investigators: Bratman, Scott V; Liu, Geoffrey
Keywords: Cell-Free Dna; Ctdna; Diagnostics; Dna Methylation; Early Detection; Epigenomics; Liquid Biopsy; Lung Cancer; Machine Learning; Screening
DNA methylation profiling in cell-free DNA: a non-invasive method to screen for pre-term birth
Principal investigators: Wilson, Samantha L
Keywords: Dna Methylation; Machine Learning; Noninvasive Prenatal Screening; Prediction; Prenatal Screening; Preterm Birth
DNA methylation profiling in cell-free DNA: a non-invasive method to screen for pre-term birth
Principal investigators: Hoffman, Michael M
Keywords: Cell-Free Dna; Machine Learning; Methylation Dna Immunoprecipitation (Medip)
Semi-automated genome annotation using Gaussian mixture models and Segway
Principal investigators: Chan, Rachel C
Keywords: Genome Annotation; Ics Studentship; Machine Learning
Finding the mechanism of genetic disease variants through long-range chromatin interactions
Principal investigators: Bi, Haixin
Keywords: Ics Studentship
Motif elucidation in ChIP-seq datasets with a knockout control
Principal investigators: Denisko, Danielle
Keywords: Ics Studentship
Comprehending epigenomic changes in gene dysregulation and cancer using machine learning
Principal investigators: Hoffman, Michael M
Keywords: Bioinformatics; Chromatin; Computational Biology; Epigenomics; Functional Genomics; Gene Regulation; Machine Learning; Three-Dimensional Genome Organization; Transcription Factors
Transcription factor recognition models with modified nucleobases
Principal investigators: Hoffman, Michael
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
- Pia Kontos and Stephanie Protze: 2 shared papers
- Pia Kontos and Michael Hoffman: 1 shared paper
- Pia Kontos and James Chow: 1 shared paper
- Michael Hoffman and Stephanie Protze: 1 shared paper
- Michael Hoffman and James Chow: 1 shared paper
- Stephanie Protze and James Chow: 1 shared paper
- Department of Medical Biophysics
- Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
- Other
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