Dr. Osvaldo Zagordi

Research Interests

Analysis of deep sequencing data for haplotype inference.

Selected Publications

Papers

• Beerenwinkel N, Zagordi O
  Ultra-deep sequencing for the analysis of viral populations
  Current Opinion in Virology (2011) doi:10.1016/j.coviro.2011.07.008, in press
• Zagordi O, Bhattacharya A, Eriksson N, Beerenwinkel N
  ShoRAH: estimating the genetic diversity of a mixed sample from next-generation sequencing data
  BMC Bioinformatics (2011) 12:119, Highly accessed
• Zagordi O, Klein R, Däumer M, Beerenwinkel N.
  Error correction of next-generation sequencing data and reliable estimation of HIV quasispecies.
  Nucleic Acids Research (2010) vol. 38 pp. 7400-7409
• Zagordi O, Geyrhofer L, Roth V, Beerenwinkel N (2009). Deep sequencing of a genetically heterogeneous sample: local haplotype reconstruction and read error correction. RECOMB 2009, LNCS5541, pp. 345-358 PDF
  also appeared in Journal of Computational Biology (2010) Volume 17 (3) pp.417-428
• Leone M, Pagnani A, Parisi G, Zagordi O (2006). Finite size corrections to random Boolean networks. J. Stat. Mech., P12012 (BibTeX arXiv)
• Zagordi O, Lobry J R (2005). Forcing reversibility in the no strand-bias substitution model allows for the theoretical and practical identifiability of its 5 parameters from pairwise DNA sequence comparisons. Gene, Volume 347 (2) 175-182 (BibTeX arXiv on-line reproducibility)

Talks

• Deep Sequencing of a Genetically Heterogeneous Sample: Haplotype Reconstruction and Read Error Correction, RECOMB 2009, 18th May, Tucson USA
• Estimating viral quasispecies by deep sequencing, VIII Jornada de Virologia 2008, 17th November, Barcelona
• Ultra-deep sequencing of genetically heterogeneous samples, BCI 2008, 9th September, Trieste

Posters

• Ultra-deep sequencing of genetically heterogeneous samples, RECOMB 2008, 30th March - 2nd April

Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D at SISSA (Trieste, Italy) in the Statistical Biological Physics Sector (July 2007)
PhD thesis

Master (laurea) in physics cum laude at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (October 2002)
Master thesis

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