Cole Trapnell

Bruce Colston Trapnell Jr. (born 1982)[1] is an assistant professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington.[4] He was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) for “outstanding accomplishment in the early to mid stage of his career” in 2018.[5]

For the american television producer, see Coles Trapnell.

Cole Trapnell
Cole Trapnell at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in 2018
Born	Bruce Colston Trapnell Jr. 1982 (age 37–38)[1]
Alma mater	University of Maryland, College Park (BS, PhD)
Known for	Bowtie[2] TopHat[3]
Awards	Overton Prize (2018)
Scientific career
Fields	Transcriptomics Cell differentiation Non-coding RNA[4]
Institutions	University of Washington Harvard University[5]
Thesis	Transcript assembly and abundance estimation with high-throughput RNA sequencing (2010)
Doctoral advisor	Steven Salzberg Lior Pachter
Website	www.gs.washington.edu/faculty/trapnell.htm

References

1. Trapnell, Bruce C. (Bruce Colston), 1982 at Library of Congress Authorities
2. Langmead, Ben; Cole Trapnell; Mihai Pop; Steven L Salzberg (2009). "Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome". Genome Biology. 10 (3): 10:R25. doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-3-r25. PMC 2690996. PMID 19261174.
3. Trapnell, Cole; Pachter, Lior; Salzberg, Steven L. (2009). "TopHat: discovering splice junctions with RNA-Seq". Bioinformatics. 25 (9): 1105–1111. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp120. ISSN 1460-2059. PMC 2672628. PMID 19289445.
4. Cole Trapnell publications indexed by Google Scholar
5. Fogg, Christiana N.; Kovats, Diane E.; Shamir, Ron (2018). "2018 ISCB Overton Prize awarded to Cole Trapnell". PLOS Computational Biology. 14 (6): e1006163. Bibcode:2018PLSCB..14E6163F. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006163. ISSN 1553-7358. PMC 5991640. PMID 29879112.