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Daniel C. Richter

Background

• 10/1999 - 03/2005 study of Bioinformatics at University of Tübingen, Germany.
  Diploma in Computer Science (Bioinformatics)
  Thesis: Optimal syntenic layout assembly of two related genomes
• 12/2000 - 11/2001 Student assistant at the NMI (Natural and Medical Sciences Institute), Reutlingen, Germany
• 10/2002 - 09/2004 Student assistant at the MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
• since 04/2005 PhD student and research assistant at the Department Algorithms in Bioinformatics, Tübingen University, Germany
• 02/2006 - 05/2006 Exchange research assistant at Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA (Schuster Lab)

Research Interest

• Comparative genome analysis
• Sequence assembly: algorithms for genome finishing
• Comparison of metagenomic data sets
• New Sequencing Technologies
  

Teaching

• Seminar Genomics (WS 08/09)
  
• Seminar/Practical Course for the lecture Software Engineering (SS 08)
• Practical Course "Bioinformatics Software Tools" (WS 07/08)
• Seminar Genomics and Metagenomics (WS 07/08)
  
• Seminar/Practical Course for the lecture Software Engineering (SS 07)
  
• Practical Course "Bioinformatics Software Tools" (WS 06/07)
• Proseminar Grundlagen der Bioinformatik (SS 06)
• Seminar Gene Genealogies, Variation and Evolution (WS 05/06)
• Exercises for the lecture Algorithms in Bioinformatics 2 (SS 05)

Publications

• D.C. Richter. S.C. Schuster, D.H. Huson.
  OSLay: optimal syntenic layout of unfinished assemblies,
  Bioinformatics. 2007 Jul 1;23(13):1573-9. Epub 2007 Apr 26 Paper   Software
  
• D.H Huson, T. Dezulian, M. Franz, C. Rausch, D.C Richter and R. Rupp.
  Dendroscope: An interactive viewer for large phylogenetic trees,
  BMC Bioinformatics. 2007 Nov 22;8(1):460 Paper   Software
• D.H Huson, D.C. Richter, S. Mitra and A.F. Auch and S.C. Schuster.
  Methods for Comparative Metagenomics,
  (APBC 2009)
  

  BMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 1):S12, doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S1-S12 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/S1/S12 
  

• D.C. Richter, F. Ott, A.F. Auch, R. Schmid, D.H. Huson,
  MetaSim - A Sequencing Simulator for Genomics and Metagenomics,
  PLoS ONE 3(10): e3373. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003373 http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0003373

Posters

• OSLay - Layout of unfinished assemblies of two related genomes using synteny (pdf)
  
  D.C. Richter, S.C. Schuster, D. Huson
  3rd RECOMB Comparative Genomics Satellite Workshop, 18th-20th September 2005, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland