Peter Park

Peter Park, PhD

Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Director, Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) PhD Track

10 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115

Park Lab

Dr. Park is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and the director of its Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics PhD program. His research group specializes in computational and statistical analysis of large-scale DNA sequencing data to understand genetic and epigenetic mechanisms related to disease processes. Originally trained in applied mathematics (B.A., Harvard; Ph.D., Caltech), he was introduced to molecular biology and genetics during his postdoctoral studies in biostatistics. His laboratory has developed several algorithms for genome analysis, especially for identification of structural alterations from whole-genome sequencing data, and has made substantial contributions to consortium projects such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), and Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network, and 4D Nucleome (4DN).


DBMI Research Areas
DBMI Courses
Prevalence and detection of low-allele-fraction variants in clinical cancer samples.
Authors: Shin HT, Choi YL, Yun JW, Kim NKD, Kim SY, Jeon HJ, Nam JY, Lee C, Ryu D, Kim SC, Park K, Lee E, Bae JS, Son DS, Joung JG, Lee J, Kim ST, Ahn MJ, Lee SH, Ahn JS, Lee WY, Oh BY, Park YH, Lee JE, Lee KH, Kim HC, Kim KM, Im YH, Park K, Park PJ, Park WY.
Nat Commun
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Bivalent complexes of PRC1 with orthologs of BRD4 and MOZ/MORF target developmental genes in Drosophila.
Authors: Kang H, Jung YL, McElroy KA, Zee BM, Wallace HA, Woolnough JL, Park PJ, Kuroda MI.
Genes Dev
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Clinical Application of Targeted Deep Sequencing in Solid-Cancer Patients and Utility for Biomarker-Selected Clinical Trials.
Authors: Kim ST, Kim KM, Kim NKD, Park JO, Ahn S, Yun JW, Kim KT, Park SH, Park PJ, Kim HC, Sohn TS, Choi DI, Cho JH, Heo JS, Kwon W, Lee H, Min BH, Hong SN, Park YS, Lim HY, Kang WK, Park WY, Lee J.
Oncologist
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The 4D nucleome project.
Authors: Dekker J, Belmont AS, Guttman M, Leshyk VO, Lis JT, Lomvardas S, Mirny LA, O'Shea CC, Park PJ, Ren B, Politz JCR, Shendure J, Zhong S.
Nature
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Clonal History and Genetic Predictors of Transformation Into Small-Cell Carcinomas From Lung Adenocarcinomas.
Authors: Lee JK, Lee J, Kim S, Kim S, Youk J, Park S, An Y, Keam B, Kim DW, Heo DS, Kim YT, Kim JS, Kim SH, Lee JS, Lee SH, Park K, Ku JL, Jeon YK, Chung DH, Park PJ, Kim J, Kim TM, Ju YS.
J Clin Oncol
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VEGF amplifies transcription through ETS1 acetylation to enable angiogenesis.
Authors: Chen J, Fu Y, Day DS, Sun Y, Wang S, Liang X, Gu F, Zhang F, Stevens SM, Zhou P, Li K, Zhang Y, Lin RZ, Smith LEH, Zhang J, Sun K, Melero-Martin JM, Han Z, Park PJ, Zhang B, Pu WT.
Nat Commun
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Engineering and Functional Characterization of Fusion Genes Identifies Novel Oncogenic Drivers of Cancer.
Authors: Lu H, Villafane N, Dogruluk T, Grzeskowiak CL, Kong K, Tsang YH, Zagorodna O, Pantazi A, Yang L, Neill NJ, Kim YW, Creighton CJ, Verhaak RG, Mills GB, Park PJ, Kucherlapati R, Scott KL.
Cancer Res
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NGSCheckMate: software for validating sample identity in next-generation sequencing studies within and across data types.
Authors: Lee S, Lee S, Ouellette S, Park WY, Lee EA, Park PJ.
Nucleic Acids Res
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A Pan-Cancer Proteogenomic Atlas of PI3K/AKT/mTOR Pathway Alterations.
Authors: Zhang Y, Kwok-Shing Ng P, Kucherlapati M, Chen F, Liu Y, Tsang YH, de Velasco G, Jeong KJ, Akbani R, Hadjipanayis A, Pantazi A, Bristow CA, Lee E, Mahadeshwar HS, Tang J, Zhang J, Yang L, Seth S, Lee S, Ren X, Song X, Sun H, Seidman J, Luquette LJ, Xi R, Chin L, Protopopov A, Westbrook TF, Shelley CS, Choueiri TK, Ittmann M, Van Waes C, Weinstein JN, Liang H, Henske EP, Godwin AK, Park PJ, Kucherlapati R, Scott KL, Mills GB, Kwiatkowski DJ, Creighton CJ.
Cancer Cell
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A molecular portrait of microsatellite instability across multiple cancers.
Authors: Cortes-Ciriano I, Lee S, Park WY, Kim TM, Park PJ.
Nat Commun
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