Dr. István Albert

Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics

Institute for Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics
Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences

• Ph. D., Physics, University of Notre Dame (2001)
• Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform 1.4 (2002)
• IBM Certified Developer for XML and Related Technologies (2003)
• Bioinformatics Certificate, Stanford University (2004)

Expertise

• computational infrastructure development, data sharing, analysis and management techniques - Bioinformatics Director of the Penn State Genome Cartography Project
• large scale biological data analysis, microarrays and sequence analysis
• scientific programming, algorithm development, modern web applications
• programming languages: expert in Python - (see Python vs Perl), various LISP-like languages and Java
• see Research & Publications for more details.

Recent Software

• GeneTrack - (2008) - bioinformatics software package for storing, querying and visualizing interval oriented data.

• BooleanNet - (2008) - boolean network modeling software for life sciences

Recent Publications - See all

• GeneTrack – a genomic data processing and visualization framework
  Istvan Albert, Shinichiro Wachi, Cizhong Jiang, and B. Franklin Pugh
  Bioinformatics ( 2008 ) - software website

• Nucleosome organization in the Drosophila genome,
  Travis N. Mavrich,, Cizhong Jiang, Ilya P. Ioshikhes, Xiaoyong Li, Bryan J. Venters, Sara J. Zanton, Lynn P. Tomsho, Ji Qi, Robert Glaser, Stephan C. Schuster, David S. Gilmour, Istvan Albert, and B. Franklin Pugh
  Nature (2008)

• A barrier nucleosome model for statistical positioning of nucleosomes throughout the yeast genome
  Travis N. Mavrich, Ilya P. Ioshikhes, Bryan J. Venters, Cizhong Jiang, Lynn P. Tomsho, Ji Qi, Stephan C. Schuster, Istvan Albert, and B. Franklin Pugh
  Genome Research (2008)

• Translational and rotational settings of H2A.Z nucleosomes across the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome
  Istvan Albert, Travis N. Mavrich, Lynn P. Tomsho, Ji Qi, Sara J. Zanton , Stephan C. Schuster, and B. Franklin Pugh
  Nature 446, 572-576, (2007) - supporting website

• Nucleosome positions predicted by comparative genomics
  Ilya P. Ioshikhes, Istvan Albert, Sara J. Zanton, and B. Franklin Pugh,
  Nature Genetics 38, 1210 - 1215 (2006) - supporting website