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
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People
- Michael Hoffman
- Davide Chicco
- Eric Roberts
- Coby Viner
- Mehran Karimzadeh
- Jai Sood
- Mickael Mendez
- Rachel Chan
- Danielle Denisko
- Francis Nguyen
- Chang Cao
- Lee Zamparo
- Samantha Wilson
- Marc Asenjo
- Winnie Xu
- Matthew McNeil
- Flora (Yufang) Liu
News
- 2018-07-31: Michael is a session organizer, speaker, and chair at the 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His talk covers: "Inference of transcription factor binding sites in new cell types from open chromatin and gene expression data".
- 2018-07-25: Michael is an invited speaker at BioC 2018 in Toronto, Ontario.
- 2018-06-08: Eric releases Genomedata 1.4.1
- 2018-06-08: Flora was awarded a Summer Undergraduate Studentship from the University of Toronto's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
- 2018-06-06: Davide publishes a paper on "Novelty indicator for enhanced prioritization of predicted Gene Ontology annotations" in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
- 2018-06-05: Michael is an invited speaker at the Department of Cellular & Molecular Physiology Seminar Series at the Penn State College of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA.
- News archive
Contact
- Twitter: @michaelhoffman
- LinkedIn: michaelmhoffman