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Dr. Heng Li???s research group at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Harvard Medical School invites applicants for a bioinformatics/computation biology postdoctoral position. The general research theme is to tackle biological problems with advanced computational and statistical methods. The laboratory developed algorithms fundamental to the application of high-throughput sequence data, including sequence alignment (e.g. bwa and minimap2), sequence assembly (e.g. fermi, miniasm and wtdbg2), variant calling (e.g. samtools) and data query (e.g. tabix and bgt). The laboratory also studies species and human evolution (Mallick et al, Nature 2016 on SGDP), and analyzes single-cell sequencing data to investigate mutagenesis (e.g. Chen et al, Science 2017 on the LIANTI protocol), the 3D conformation of genomes (Tan et al, Science 2018 on dip-C) and the mosaicism between cells.