Adrian Altenhoff

I'm a PhD student in the Computational Biochemistry Research Group at ETH Zurich. My supervisor is Prof. Gaston Gonnet.

Contact

ETH Zurich
Adrian Altenhoff
Institute for Computational Science
CAB H 86.2 (map)
Universitätstrasse 6
8092 Zürich
Phone: +41 44 632 89 72
adrian.altenhoff@inf.ethz.ch (PGP-Key: A470A039)

Research Fields

Publications

Adrian M. Altenhoff, Romain Studer, Marc Robinson-Rechavi and Christophe Dessimoz (2012): Resolving the ortholog conjecture: orthologs tend to be weakly, but significantly, more similar in function than paralogs PLoS Computational Biology, in press

Nives Škunca, Adrian M. Altenhoff and Christophe Dessimoz (2012): Quality of Computationally Inferred Gene Ontology Annotations PLoS Computational Biology, in press

Adrian M. Altenhoff and Christophe Dessimoz (2012): Inferring Orthology and Paralogy Evolutionary Genomics: Statistical and Computational methods (M Anisimova, Editor), Methods in Molecular Biology, Springer Humana, Vol. 855. [Springer]

Adrian M. Altenhoff, Adrian Schneider, Gaston Gonnet and Christophe Dessimoz (2011): OMA 2011: Orthology Inference Among 1,000 Complete Genomes Nucleic Acids Research 39 (suppl 1): D289-D294 NAR

Marc Wüest, Christoph Frei, Adrian Altenhoff, Martin Hagen, Michael Litschi and Christoph Schär (2010): A gridded hourly precipitation dataset for Switzerland using rain-gauge analysis and radar-based disaggregation Int. J. Climatol. 30(12): 1764-1775 JOC

Adrian M. Altenhoff and Christophe Dessimoz (2009): Phylogenetic and Functional Assessment of Orthologs Inference Projects and Methods PLoS Computational Biology,5(1): e1000262 PLoS

Christina Pöpper and Adrian M. Altenhoff (2009): What Drives Young Women to Study Computer Science in Switzerland? Experiences on Promoting Computer Science Studies for Female High School Graduates In Proceedings of the 5th European Symposium on Gender & ICT,Bremen GICT

Adrian M. Altenhoff, Olivia Martius, Mischa Croci-Maspoli, Cornelia Schwierz and Huw C. Davies (2008): Linkage of Atmospheric Blocks and Synoptic-scale Rossby Waves Tellus, 60A: 1053-1063 Tellus

Adrian M. Altenhoff, Jens H. Walther and Petros Koumoutsakos (2007) A stochastic boundary forcing for dissipative particle dynamics J Comput Phys, 225(1): 1125-1136 Elsevier

Forum for Women in Computer Science

Since September 2007 I'm co-heading the Forum for Women in Computer Science (Frauenförderung). Its primary goal is to increase the number of female CS-students.

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