Di (Bruce) Chen
Ph.D. student
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Education
Biography
Born and raised up in Nanjing, China. Trained as a computational biologist and amateur violinist. Big fan of backpacking, sci-fi, and research. Current work leverages bioinformatics tools and statistics in comparative genomics, with special interest in the regional variation of mutation rate in human genome.
Publications
WM Guiblet, MA Cremona, RS Harris, D Chen, KA Eckert, F Chiaromonte, Y Huang, KD Makova.
Non-B DNA: A major contributor to small- and large-scale variation in nucleotide substitution frequencies across the genome.
NUCLEIC ACIDS RES,
2021.
M Cechova, R Vegesna, M Tomaszkiewicz, RS Harris, D Chen, S Rangavittal, P Medvedev, KD Makova.
Dynamic evolution of great ape Y chromosomes.
P NATL ACAD SCI USA,
2020.
D Chen, MA Cremona, Z Qi, RD Mitra, F Chiaromonte, KD Makova.
Human L1 Transposition Dynamics Unraveled with Functional Data Analysis.
MOL BIOL EVOL,
2020.