Scientific talks

  1. GBZ File Format for Pangenome Graphs.
    At Stanford Information Theory Forum, Stanford, CA, USA, October 6, 2023.
  2. Pangenome Graphs with Haplotype Paths.
    At Introduction to Pangenomics, Como, Italy, July 5-6, 2022.
  3. Giraffe: A Pangenomic Short Read Aligner.
    At Pangenomics Bio Hacking 2021, Milan, Italy, December 9, 2021.
  4. VG: Overview, Internals, and Short Read Mapping.
    Guest lecture in CSCI 6905: Compact Data Structures in Computational Genomics, Dalhousie University, Canada, April 9, 2021.
  5. GBWTGraph.
    At BioHackathon 2019, Fukuoka, Japan, September 1, 2019.
  6. Genome Graphs and BWT-based Data Structures.
    At 25 Years of the Burrows-Wheeler Transform, Dagstuhl, Germany, June 11, 2019.
  7. Haplotype-aware graph indexes.
    At WABI 2018, Helsinki, Finland, August 22, 2018.
    Joint work with Erik Garrison, Adam M. Novak, Benedict Paten, and Richard Durbin.
  8. Indexing Paths in Genome Graphs.
    At University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, December 13, 2017.
    Joint work with Richard Durbin, Erik Garrison, Adam M. Novak, and Benedict Paten.
  9. Relative Data Structures.
    At Data Structures in Bioinformatics 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 21, 2017.
    Joint work with Djamal Belazzougui, Christina Boucher, Alexander Bowe, Anthony J. Cox, Andrea Farruggia, Travis Gagie, Simon Gog, Giovanni Manzini, Gonzalo Navarro, and Simon J. Puglisi.
  10. Indexing Variation Graphs.
    At ALENEX 2017, Barcelona, Spain, January 17, 2017.
  11. Indexing Variation Graphs.
    At UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, December 14, 2016.
  12. Indexing Graphs for Path Queries.
    At Workshop on Graph Assembly Algorithms for omics data, Milan, Italy, November 18, 2016.
  13. GCSA2: A scalable approach to indexing population variation graphs.
    At Genome Informatics 2016, Hinxton, UK, September 20, 2016.
  14. Indexing Variation Graphs.
    At Summer School on Bioinformatics Data Structures, Helsinki, Finland, August 11, 2016.
  15. FM-Index and the Reverse Prefix Trie.
    At Summer School on Bioinformatics Data Structures, Helsinki, Finland, August 10, 2016.
  16. Burrows-Wheeler Transform for Terabases.
    At DCC 2016, Snowbird, UT, USA, March 31, 2016.
  17. Indexing Graphs for Path Queries.
    At the 2nd RDF Summit, Sendai, Japan, February 19, 2016.
  18. Indexing Graph Genomes.
    At LSD&LAW 2016, London, UK, February 5, 2016.
  19. Relative Select.
    At SPIRE 2015, London, UK, September 2, 2015.
    Joint work with Christina Boucher, Alexander Bowe, Travis Gagie, and Giovanni Manzini.
  20. Document Counting in Compressed Space.
    At DCC 2015, Snowbird, UT, USA, April 7, 2015.
    Joint work with Travis Gagie, Aleksi Hartikainen, Juha Kärkkäinen, Gonzalo Navarro, and Simon J. Puglisi.
  21. Relative Compression of Data Structures.
    At Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK, December 19, 2014.
    Joint work with Djamal Belazzougui, Travis Gagie, Simon Gog, Giovanni Manzini, Gonzalo Navarro, and Simon J. Puglisi.
  22. Data Structures Based on Relative Lempel-Ziv Parsing.
    At WCTA 2014, Ouro Preto, Brazil, October 23, 2014.
    Joint work with Djamal Belazzougui, Travis Gagie, Simon Gog, Giovanni Manzini, Gonzalo Navarro, and Simon J. Puglisi.
  23. Relative FM-indexes.
    At SPIRE 2014, Ouro Preto, Brazil, October 20, 2014.
    Joint work with Djamal Belazzougui, Travis Gagie, Simon Gog, and Giovanni Manzini.
  24. Document Retrieval on Repetitive Collections.
    At ESA 2014, Wroclaw, Poland, September 9, 2014.
    Joint work with Gonzalo Navarro and Simon J. Puglisi.
  25. Burrows-Wheeler Transform for Similar Sequences.
    At Biological Sequence Analysis and Probabilistic Models, Oxford, UK, July 17, 2014.
  26. Burrows-Wheeler Transform for Graphs.
    At the 6th Next Generation Sequencing Retreat, Hinxton, UK, December 5, 2013.
    Joint work with Niko Välimäki and Veli Mäkinen.
  27. Document Listing on Repetitive Collections.
    At CPM 2013, Bad Herrenalb, Germany, June 18, 2013.
    Joint work with Travis Gagie, Kalle Karhu, Gonzalo Navarro, and Simon J. Puglisi.
  28. Compressed Suffix Arrays for Automata.
    At WCTA 2012, Cartagena, Colombia, October 22, 2012.
    Joint work with Niko Välimäki and Veli Mäkinen.
  29. Distribution-aware compressed full-text indexes.
    At ACGO Seminar, Santiago, Chile, October 10, 2012.
    Joint work with Paolo Ferragina and Rossano Venturini.
  30. Compressed Full-Text Indexes for Highly Repetitive Collections.
    Lectio praecursoria at the public examination of the doctoral thesis, Helsinki, Finland, June 29, 2012.
  31. Indexing Finite Language Representation of Population Genotypes.
    At WABI 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 6, 2011.
    Joint work with Niko Välimäki and Veli Mäkinen.
  32. Sampled Longest Common Prefix Array.
    At CPM 2010, New York City, NY, USA, June 23, 2010.
  33. Compressed Suffix Arrays for Massive Data.
    At SPIRE 2009, Saariselkä, Finland, August 26, 2009.
  34. Täysin tiivistetyt itseindeksit (in Finnish).
    At Merkkijonopäivä 2009, Espoo, Finland, January 8, 2009.
  35. Run-Length Compressed Indexes Are Superior for Highly Repetitive Sequence Collections.
    At SPIRE 2008, Melbourne, Australia, November 11, 2008.
    Joint work with Niko Välimäki, Veli Mäkinen, and Gonzalo Navarro.