Computational Biology Group Members
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Benilton S. Carvalho
Oncology
| Telephone: | +44 1223 40 4293 |
| Fax: | +44 1223 40 4199 |
| email: | bc344 at cam dot ac dot uk |
| Office Location: | Room 130H, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0RE |
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| Background |
Benilton graduated from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Campinas, SP - Brasil) with a BSc and a MSc in Statistics and from Johns Hopkins University with a PhD in Biostatistics.
He was an intern at Affymetrix (Algorithms and Data Analysis) and a consultant for NimbleGen. Benilton is an active developer on the BioConductor Project and joined the Computational Biology Group in 2010.
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| Research |
Benilton's interests are the development of statistical methodologies and their efficient implementation as computational tools to support the analysis of high-throughput experimental data.
He is the developer and maintainer of a number of BioConductor packages, including:
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oligo: package to preprocess oligonucleotide microarrays (Affymetrix and NimbleGen);
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crlmm: efficient implementation of CRLMM (Carvalho et. at. 2007) - genotyping algorithm for SNP arrays (Affymetrix and Illumina); also implements Copy Number tool for the same arrays;
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pdInfoBuilder: annotation builder.
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