Alexander Dilthey, PhD

Guest Researcher

Alexander.Dilthey

med.uni-duesseldorf.de

Alexander studied Computer Science in Germany and Switzerland and has a DPhil in Statistical Genetics from the University of Oxford (2012). He co-founded two companies, Peptide Groove LLP and Lighthouse Cancer Diagnostics Ltd. Since 2016 he is back in academia, first as a visiting fellow at NIH/NHGRI and now leading his own research group at the Institute of Medical Microbiology at the University Hospital of Dusseldorf. His research interests include assembly of the human genome's most complex regions (rDNA, KIR, HLA), immunogenetics and the development of "digital" approaches to detecting and treating disease. He maintains a guest researcher position with the Genome Informatics Section.

Projects

HLA*PRG:LA

Fast and efficient HLA typing from whole-genome sequencing data

MashMap

A fast and approximate long read mapper

News posts

Fast and highly accurate HLA typing by linearly-seeded graph alignment

March 22, 2017

Publications

see all 18 publications with Alexander Dilthey

A fast approximate algorithm for mapping long reads to large reference databases

RECOMB 2017, May 3, 2017

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Jain C, Dilthey A, Koren S, Aluru S, Phillippy AM

Nanopore sequencing and assembly of a human genome with ultra-long reads

bioRxiv, April 20, 2017

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Jain M, Koren S … Dilthey AT … Rhie A … Phillippy AM … Loose M

High-Accuracy HLA Type Inference from Whole-Genome Sequencing Data Using Population Reference Graphs

PloS Comput Biol, October 28, 2016

Dilthey A, Gourraud PA, Mentzer AJ, Cereb N, Iqbal Z, McVean G

Comprehensive genome-wide evaluation of lapatinib-induced liver injury yields a single genetic signal centered on known risk allele HLA-DRB1*07:01

Pharmacogenomics J., April 16, 2016

Parham LR, Briley LP, Li L, Shen J, Newcombe PJ, King KS, Slater AJ, Dilthey A, Iqbal Z, McVean G, Cox CJ, Nelson MR, Spraggs CF