Cole Trapnell

For the American television producer, see Coles 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]

Cole Trapnell
Cole Trapnell at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in 2018
Born	Bruce Colston Trapnell Jr. 1982 (age 42–43)[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
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.