Bioinformatician / Computer Scientist developing algorithms and tools to analyze sequencing data.

Currently working on:
- Tools to analyze chromosome conformation capture data
- Pangenome assembly

Links

Orcid
Github
Google Scholar
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Email: markus.schmidt@lmu.de

Key Publications

Schmidt MR*, Barcons-Simon A, Rabuffo C, Siegel TN* (2024)
Smoother: on-the-fly processing of interactome data using prefix sums.
Nucleic Acids Research 52: e23 doi: 10.1093/nar/gkae008

Schmidt MR, Heese K, & Kutzner A* (2019)
Accurate high throughput alignment via line sweep-based seed processing.
Nature Communications 10: 1939. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09977-2

Rabuffo C, Schmidt MR, Yadav P, Tong P, Carloni R, Barcons-Simon A, Cosentino RO, Krebs S, Matthews KR, Allshire RC, Siegel TN* (2024)
Inter-chromosomal transcription hubs shape the 3D genome architecture of African trypanosomes.
Nature Communications 15: 10716 doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-55285-9

Schmidt MR, Kutzner A* (2023)
MSV: a modular structural variant caller that reveals nested and complex rearrangements by unifying breakends inferred directly from reads.
Genome Biology 24: 170. doi: 10.1186/s13059-023-03009-5

Education

PhD and Master
in Information Systems
at Hanyang University, South Korea

Bachelor
in Computer Science
at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germanny