Steven Solar, BS
Bioinformatics Scientist
steven.solar
nih.gov
Steven earned his B.S. from Johns Hopkins University with majors in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science. Before starting at the NIH, he interned as a software engineer at Google and Tesla, worked to build a device for partial-thickness corneal transplants with Treyetech, and performed genomics research at JHU with Dr. Ben Langmead, investigating the use of lifting aligned reads from GRCh38 to CHM13 to predict alignment accuracy. He is excited to develop new tools and methods to improve assembly, sequence analysis, and all things genomics, and is drawn to the potential for patient impact of this work. He plans to pursue MD or MD/PhD programs after his time with the NHGRI.
Verkko2: Integrating proximity ligation data with long-read De Bruijn graphs for efficient telomere-to-telomere genome assembly, phasing, and scaffolding
bioRxiv, December 22, 2024
The formation and propagation of human Robertsonian chromosomes
bioRxiv, September 26, 2024
de Lima LG, Guarracino A, Koren S, Potapova TA, McKinney SA, Rhie A, Solar SJ, Seidel C, Fagen B, Walenz BP, Bouffard GG, Brooks SY, Peterson M, Hall KE, Crawford J, Young AC, Pickett BD, Garrison E, Phillippy AM, Gerton JL
Epigenetic control and inheritance of rDNA arrays
bioRxiv, September 16, 2024
Potapova TA, Kostos P, McKinney SA, Borchers M, Haug JS, Guarracino A, Solar S, Gogol MM, Anez GM, de Lima LG, Wang Y, Hall KE, Hoffman S, Garrison E, Phillippy AM, Gerton JL
Complete sequencing of ape genomes