scverse Conference 2024

Rob Patro is an associate professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, and a member of the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CBCB). His main research interests are in the design of algorithms and data structures for processing, organizing, indexing and querying high-throughput genomics data and in the intersection between efficient algorithms and statistical inference. A current research focus of his lab is the development of computational methods for accurate, efficient and uncertainty-aware transcriptome analysis using RNA-seq (both bulk and single-cell with both long and short reads) as well as on the design of scalable (often succinct) data structures for indexing and querying genomes and raw sequencing data. He is a core developer and maintainer of the salmon, alevin, alevin-fry and simpleaf software tools, and his lab develops a number of open-source tools for high-throughput genomic and transcriptomic analysis, most of which are available from GitHub at https://github.com/COMBINE-lab.