Computational Genomics Research Lab

The lab is located at the Data Science and AI division, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

Our Research: Our lab conduct research at the cutting edge of computational biology and bioinformatics. We aim to understand human genome variation and evolution across different genomic regions by developing interpretable and efficient methods in comparative pan-genomics, leveraging machine learning methods and statistical analysis [More].

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Data Driven Systems Biology

March 16, 2026

Sina will be presenting in the Data Driven Systems Biology Conference in Life City (Solna, Sweden) on March 24. See the full program here.

QfO-9

January 7, 2026

We are organising the 9th edition of the Quest for Orthologs meeting on August 29–30, 2026, in Lausanne, Switzerland. We also run a community-based workshop as part of the EECB in Geneva on Orthology.

YouTube Videos

January 2, 2026

Two recordings of teaching on DNA indexing with k-mers and a journal club presentation on DNABERT: pre-trained Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers model for DNA-language in genome are now available on YouTube.

Hiring PhD students and PostDocs!

January 2, 2026

The Computational Genomics Research Lab is hiring PhD students and PostDocs in the field of computational genomics. Interested candidates are welcome to send their CV and a letter of interest to Sina’ gmail (See adverts here).

Publications

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Minimizing reference bias with an imputed personalized reference

Genome Research, March 5, 2026

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Vaddadi K, Lin M, Majidian S, Mun T, Langmead B

OrthoXML-Tools: A Toolkit for Manipulating OrthoXML Files for Orthology Data

Journal of Molecular Evolution, October 26, 2025

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Yazdizadeh Kharrazi A, Altenhoff A, Romashchenko N, Dessimoz C, Majidian S

Movi Color: fast and accurate taxonomic classification with the move structure

Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB), October 12, 2025

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Tan S, Majidian S, Langmead B, Zakeri M

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Doctoral student in Computational Genomics

March 4, 2026

The Computational Genomics Research Lab is recruiting a PhD student in the field of computational genomics. Our lab conduct research at the cutting edge of computational biology and bioinformatics.

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Master's project or research visits

January 2, 2026

On some occasions, our lab accepts candidates at other levels (internships, Master’s projects, Erasmus, and research visitors), which may be remote or in person. You are welcome to contact us directly at sina.majidian[at]gmail.com to discuss opportunities further.

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A PostDoc position in Computational Genomics

January 1, 2026

The Computational Genomics Research Lab is recruiting a PostDoc Fellow in the field of computational genomics.

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