Hoffman research group
- Michael M. Hoffman
- Scientist (principal investigator)
- Research
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
- University Health Network
- Assistant Professor (status-only)
- Computational Biology Group
- Department of Computer Science
- University of Toronto
We develop machine learning techniques to better understand chromatin biology. These models and algorithms transform high-dimensional functional genomics data into interpretable patterns and lead to new biological insight.
Publications
Software
- Segway: semi-automated genomic annotation
- Segtools: segmentation analysis and graphics
- Genomedata: efficient storage and retrieval
Databases
- DNAmod: the DNA modification database
Join the lab
People
- Michael Hoffman
- Davide Chicco
- Eric Roberts
- Coby Viner
- Mehran Karimzadeh
- Jai Sood
- Mickael Mendez
- Rachel Chan
- Danielle Denisko
- Francis Nguyen
- Chang Cao
- Julie Relatado
News
- 2017-10-02: Micheal presents a seminar entitled "Identifying transcription factor binding using open chromatin, transcriptome, and methylation data" at the British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- 2017-09-26: Coby wins the Best Oral Presentation Award at the Molecular Biosystems Conference 2017 in Puerto Varas, Chile.
- 2017-09-08: Coby was awarded an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral Program (CGS-D) by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
- 2017-09-07: Vallijah Subasri joins the lab as a rotation student.
- 2017-07-14: Eric releases Segway 2.0.1.
- News archive
Contact
- Twitter: @michaelhoffman
- LinkedIn: michaelmhoffman