Tony Håndstad

  • Deputy group leader | Senior engineer; PhD
  • +47 906 09 379

Tony Håndstad has a PhD in Medical Technology (Bioinformatics and gene regulation). He is the coordinator of the diagnostic bioinformatics team at Department of Medical Genetics. Tony also manages the genomics and data sharing work package (WP3) in BigMed, and is co-lead of the Bioinformatics tool development work stream in the Nordic Alliance for Clinical Genomics.

 

Publications 2012

Håndstad T, Rye M, Močnik R, Drabløs F, Sætrom P (2012)
Cell-type specificity of ChIP-predicted transcription factor binding sites
BMC Genomics, 13, 372
DOI 10.1186/1471-2164-13-372, PubMed 22863112

Kornacker K, Rye MB, Håndstad T, Drabløs F (2012)
The Triform algorithm: improved sensitivity and specificity in ChIP-Seq peak finding
BMC Bioinformatics, 13, 176
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-13-176, PubMed 22827163

Publications 2011

Håndstad T, Rye MB, Drabløs F, Sætrom P (2011)
A ChIP-Seq benchmark shows that sequence conservation mainly improves detection of strong transcription factor binding sites
PLoS One, 6 (4), e18430
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0018430, PubMed 21533218

Rye M, Sætrom P, Håndstad T, Drabløs F (2011)
Clustered ChIP-Seq-defined transcription factor binding sites and histone modifications map distinct classes of regulatory elements
BMC Biol, 9, 80
DOI 10.1186/1741-7007-9-80, PubMed 22115494

Publications 2007

Handstad T, Hestnes AJH, Saestrom P (2007)
Motif kernel generated by genetic programming improves remote homology and fold detection
BMC Bioinformatics, 8, 23
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-8-23

Håndstad T, Hestnes AJ, Saetrom P (2007)
Motif kernel generated by genetic programming improves remote homology and fold detection
BMC Bioinformatics, 8, 23
DOI 10.1186/1471-2105-8-23, PubMed 17254344

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