Marco Previtali
I’m a PostDoc at the department of Computer Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca (DISCo) since January 2017 where I received my PhD the same year.
I’m currently focusing my research activity on computational problems arising from bioinformatics such as genome assembly, genomes indexing, and Genomic data compression.
Contacts:
Email: marco [dot] previtali [atsymbol] disco [dot] unimib [dot] it
Address: Stanza 1001, c/o Edificio U14, Dip. di Informatica Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Viale Sarca, 336, I-20126 Milano (Italy)
Phone Number: +39 02 6448 7917
Publications:
- Bonizzoni Paola, Della Vedova Gianluca, Pirola Yuri, Previtali Marco, Rizzi, Raffaella
An External-Memory Algorithm for String Graph Construction
(2016) Algorithmica, pp. 1-31. Article in Press. - Djamal Belazzougui, Travis Gagie, Veli Mäkinen, Marco Previtali
Fully Dynamic de Bruijn Graphs. SPIRE 2016: 145-152 - Paola Bonizzoni, Gianluca Della Vedova, Yuri Pirola, Marco Previtali, Raffaella Rizzi
FSG: Fast String Graph Construction for De Novo Assembly of Reads Data. ISBRA 2016: 27-39 - Djamal Belazzougui, Travis Gagie, Veli Mäkinen, Marco Previtali, Simon J. Puglisi: Bidirectional Variable-Order de Bruijn Graphs. LATIN 2016:164-178
- Paola Bonizzoni, Gianluca Della Vedova, Yuri Pirola, Marco Previtali, Raffaella Rizzi: LSG: An External-Memory Tool to Compute String Graphs for Next-Generation Sequencing Data Assembly. Journal of Computational Biology (JCB) 23(3):137-149 (2016)
- Paola Bonizzoni, Gianluca Della Vedova, Yuri Pirola, Marco Previtali, Raffaella Rizzi: Constructing String Graphs in External Memory. WABI 2014:311-325. [doi link]
Talks:
- FSG: Fast String Graph Construction for De Novo Assembly of Reads Data
12th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA)
Minsk, Belarus
June 2016 - de Bruijn Compression
The Finnish center of Excellence in Cancer Genetics Research
Helsinki, Finland
May 2016 - Fast String Graph Construction for De Novo Assembly of NGS Data
Next Generation Sequencing Milano Meeting 2016
Milan, Italy
April 2016 - Moving backward in variable-order BOSS
University of Helsinki, Finland
September 2015 - An external memory BWT based assembler for next generation data
Workshop clustering in Big Data (PRIN Workshop)
Naples, Italy
May 2015 - An external memory BWT-based assembler for Next Generation Data
Workshop of Data Structures in Bioinformatics (DSB)
Montpellier, France
December 2014 - Constructing String Graphs in External Memory
14th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI2014)
Wrocław, Poland
September 2014 - Lightweight assembling of splicing graphs from RNA-seq data using the Burrows-Wheeler Transform
2nd NGS Milan Meeting (link in italian)
Milan, Italy
September 2013
Posters:
- Memory Efficient String Graph Construction
11th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS2014)
Rome, Italy
February 2014
Visiting Periods
- August 2016 – October 2016
Medvedev Group, Pennsylvania State University.
Supervisor: Paul Medvedev - April 2016 – June 2016
Genome-Scale algorithmics group, University of Helsinki.
Supervisor: Veli Mäkinen - August 2015 – October 2015
Genome-Scale algorithmics group, University of Helsinki.
Supervisor: Veli Mäkinen
Studies:
- October 2010 – March 2013: Master’s Degree (“Laurea Magistrale”) in Informatics (summa cum laude) from the University of Milano-Bicocca. Master’s Thesis: “Algoritmi per la predizione di eventi di splicing alternativo da dati NGS (Next Generation Sequencing)” Advisor: Prof.sa P. Bonizzoni Co-Advisors: Prof. G. Della Vedova, Dott.sa R. Rizzi
- October 2006 – November 2010: Bachelor’s Degree (“Laurea Triennale”) in Informatics from the University of Milano-Bicocca. Bachelor’s Thesis: “Strumenti testuali e grafici per la specifica delle reti di Petri” Advisor: Prof.sa L. Pomello Co-Advisor: Dott. L. Bernardinello
You can find some software I developed in the last years on my page at github.