Aleksey Zimin is an associate research scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and a member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Computational Biology (CCB). His work is focused on two main research areas: development of algorithms and software for de novo genome assembly of the latest generation sequencing data, and application of the software to produce de novo assemblies for the most challenging genomes.
Zimin has been working in the field of bioinformatics since 2002, beginning his career on collaborations with the Institute for Genomic Research and the Celera Corporation. As part of his work for the CCB Zimin led the development of the MaSuRCA genome assembly package, and his current research focuses on continuing that project with the goal of creating assemblies of large, challenging genomes from hybrid (short and long) data sets.
He has been published in Nature, Bioinformatics, and Genetics, among others.