Mikko Rautiainen, MSc

PhD student (alum)

MPII
UDS

Mikko received his BSc and MSc from the University of Helsinki in computer science. He started his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science supervised by Tobias Marschall. His research focuses on pangenomics, graph based methods and genome assembly.

Software

MBG

Minimizer based sparse de Bruijn Graph constructor

GraphAligner

A tool to align long reads to genome graphs.
Publications
A diploid assembly-based benchmark for variants in the major histocompatibility complex
Nat Commun, September 22, 2020
Chin C, Wagner J, Zeng Q, Garrison E, Garg S, Fungtammasan A, Rautiainen M, Aganezov S, Kirsche M, Zarate S, Schatz MC, Xiao C, Rowell WJ, Markello C, Farek J, Sedlazeck FJ, Bansal V, Yoo B, Miller N, Zhou X, Carroll A, Barrio AM, Salit M, Marschall T, Dilthey AT, Zook JM

Legend: * joint first author; joint last author