About the author
Andre Kahles is a researcher at ETH Zürich and the University Hospital Zürich, working in computational genomics and transcriptomics. After his undergraduate training in Bioinformatics with stations in Jena and Stockholm, he joined the FML of the Max Planck Society in Tübingen in 2009 for his graduate training, where he worked on algorithms for genome and transcriptome analysis. He completed his graduate work at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. After graduation in 2014, he stayed in New York, working under a fellowship of the Lucille Castori Center on efficient data structures for the representation of large collections of mixed sequences. Since 2016 he is a member of the Biomedical Informatics group at ETH, headed by Prof. Dr. Gunnar Rätsch.