The January 2007 issue of Genome Technology magazine named Center for Computational Molecular Biology Assistant Professor Ben Raphael to their annual "Tomorrow's PIs" list.
Raphael received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2002 and joined the Brown faculty in September. In the past year Raphael and his colleagues published a paper in Genome Research titled, “Decoding the fine-scale structure of a breast cancer genome and transcriptome.” The study demonstrated advantages of end sequence profiling to map the rearrangements of tumor genomes using the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line; those include the ability ...