Cole Trapnell

{{Short description|Assistant Professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington}}

{{For|the American television producer|Coles Trapnell}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Cole Trapnell

| image = Cole Trapnell ISMB 2018.jpg

| alt = Cole Trapnell

| caption = Cole Trapnell at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in 2018

| birth_name = Bruce Colston Trapnell Jr.

| birth_date = {{birth year and age |1982}}{{LCAuth|no2010162201|Trapnell, Bruce C. (Bruce Colston), 1982||}}

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| fields = Transcriptomics
Cell differentiation
Non-coding RNA

| workplaces = University of Washington
Harvard University

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| alma_mater = University of Maryland, College Park (BS, PhD)

| thesis_title = Transcript assembly and abundance estimation with high-throughput RNA sequencing

| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/725751445

| thesis_year = 2010

| doctoral_advisor = Steven Salzberg
Lior Pachter

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| known_for = {{Plainlist|

• Bowtie{{cite journal|last=Langmead|first=Ben|author2=Cole Trapnell |author3=Mihai Pop |author4=Steven L Salzberg |title=Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome|journal=Genome Biology|year= 2009|volume=10|issue=3|page=10:R25 |doi=10.1186/gb-2009-10-3-r25 |pmid=19261174 |pmc=2690996 |doi-access=free }}
• TopHat{{cite journal|last1=Trapnell|first1=Cole|last2=Pachter|first2=Lior|last3=Salzberg|first3=Steven L.|title=TopHat: discovering splice junctions with RNA-Seq|journal=Bioinformatics|volume=25|issue=9|year=2009|pages=1105–1111|issn=1460-2059|doi=10.1093/bioinformatics/btp120|pmid=19289445 |pmc=2672628 }}}}

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| awards = Overton Prize (2018)

| website = {{URL|http://www.gs.washington.edu/faculty/trapnell.htm}}}}

Bruce Colston Trapnell Jr. (born 1982) is an assistant professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington.{{Google scholar id}} He was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) for “outstanding accomplishment in the early to mid stage of his career” in 2018.{{cite journal|last1=Fogg|first1=Christiana N.|last2=Kovats|first2=Diane E.|last3=Shamir|first3=Ron|title=2018 ISCB Overton Prize awarded to Cole Trapnell|journal=PLOS Computational Biology|volume=14|issue=6|year=2018|pages=e1006163|pmid=29879112|pmc=5991640|issn=1553-7358|doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006163|bibcode=2018PLSCB..14E6163F |doi-access=free }}