Johannes Köster
Scholar

Johannes Köster

Google Scholar ID: PlKkYIgAAAAJ
University of Duisburg-Essen
Computer ScienceAlgorithmsBioinformatics
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Publications:
  • - June 6, 2024, 'Neoadjuvant nivolumab with or without relatlimab in resectable non-small-cell lung cancer: a randomized phase 2 trial' published in Nature Medicine.
  • - January 18, 2024, 'NCBench: providing an open, reproducible, transparent, adaptable, and continuous benchmark approach for DNA-sequencing-based variant calling' published in F1000.
  • - May 25, 2023, Johannes was interviewed for a Nature technology feature about reproducibility of computational environments.
  • - January 18, 2021, 'Sustainable data analysis with Snakemake' published in F1000.
  • - April 28, 2020, 'Varlociraptor: enhancing sensitivity and controlling false discovery rate in somatic indel discovery' published in Genome Biology.
  • - February 7, 2020, 'Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science' published in Genome Biology.
  • Awards:
  • - November 14, 2019, Bioconda project received funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
  • - September 24, 2019, Johannes received the Friedmund-Neumann-Prize 2019 from the Schering Foundation.
Research Experience
  • Current Position: Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Oncology at the Institute for AI in Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen; Responsible for projects such as Bioconda, Snakemake, Datavzrd, Rust-Bio, and Varlociraptor.
Background
  • Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Computational Oncology, Reproducible Data Analysis, Algorithm Engineering, and Bayesian Statistics. Profile: Leads the Köster lab, focusing on developing sustainable, well-maintained open-source products.