Heng Li
Heng Li | |
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| Known for | Bioinformatics Burrows–Wheeler transform Samtools TreeFam |
| Awards | Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Broad Institute Beijing Genomics Institute |
| Thesis | Constructing the TreeFam database (2006) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wei-Mou Zheng |
| Website | hlilab |
Heng Li is a Chinese bioinformatics scientist. He is an associate professor at the department of Biomedical Informatics of Harvard Medical School and the department of Data Science of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He was previously a research scientist working at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts with David Reich and David Altshuler. Li's work has made several important contributions in the field of next generation sequencing.