About myself
After growing up in beautiful Wachenheim (Germany) and a high school year in St.Louis (USA) with YfU/PPP I studied molecular biology and informatics at the universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg. I obtained my diploma and PhD at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg.
Working for Ensembl and then for the ENCODE project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute as a Bioinformatician brought me to Cambridge (UK). I then joined the Cambridge start-up company BlueGnome Ltd. ;which has since become part of Illumina Inc as a Bioinformatics Scientist. Currently I work as a bioinformatics consultant / freelancer (specialising on NGS / PGS data) back in Germany.
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Research interests
showGenome annotation and analysis.
The genetic make-up of many organisms, including human, has been deciphered.
One of the great tasks of our time is the interpretation and usage of this information.
Important steps in this process are the identification of functional elements and their interconnection using laboratory and computational methods.
Data management and data integration in genome research
One key to this understanding is the integration of all data available. By combining heterogeneous data from various
sources (databases, flat files, web services, literature, laboratory data) and bioinformatic analysis,
we will learn more about how life works and how to better target certain diseases.
Some older software projects
showin collaboration with Gunnar Wrobel (2001-2003)
A simple MS Access database system as an example for a laboratory data management systems for microarray facilities.
Quite old now, but a useful example of early tools of the trade using VBA programming.
in collaboration with Gunnar Wrobel (2003-2004)
Tool for the rapid generation of primer sequences for RealTime-PCR experiments.
Started out of curiosity and grown to still be used by many researchers around the world.
[source code]
in collaboration with Gunnar Wrobel and Nicolas Delhomme (2001-2005)
Flexible framework for the interpretation of data from high-throughput experiments.
Used for the explorative analysis with potential to be expanded to various data sources.
[source code]
joint project between the EMBL/EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Software system which produces and maintains automatic annotation of metazoan genomes.
A world-leading source of genome annotation and an excellent API for data extraction.
[source code and data]
Publications
showTheses
Diplomarbeit: Nachweis genomischer Imbalancen mittels DNA-Microarrays mit Ziel-Sequenzen unterschiedlicher Komplexitaet
Diploma Thesis: Detection of genomic imbalances using DNA-microarrays with probe sequences of different complexity
[Zusammenfassung] [Gesamttext]Dissertation: Verarbeitung und funktionelle Analyse von molekularen Profilen aus Microarray-Experimenten
PhD Thesis: Data management and functional analysis of molecular profiles from microarray experiments
[Abstract] [Zusammenfassung] [Gesamttext]Selected Publications
Development and validation of a next-generation sequencing-based protocol for 24-chromosome aneuploidy screening of embryos
Fiorentino F, Biricik A, Bono S, Spizzichino L, Cotroneo E, Cottone G, Kokocinski F, Michel CEFertil Steril 2014 101(5):1375-82 [Abstract]
GENCODE: The reference human genome annotation for The ENCODE Project
Harrow J, Frankish A, Gonzalez JM, Tapanari E, Diekhans M, Kokocinski F, Aken BL, Barrell D, Zadissa A, Searle S, Barnes I, Bignell A, Boychenko V, Hunt T, Kay M, Mukherjee G, Rajan J, Despacio-Reyes G, Saunders G, Steward C, Harte R, Lin M, Howald C, Tanzer A, Derrien T, Chrast J, Walters N, Balasubramanian S, Pei B, Tress M, Rodriguez JM, Ezkurdia I, van Baren J, Brent M, Haussler D, Kellis M, Valencia A, Reymond A, Gerstein M, Guigo R, Hubbard TJGenome Res. 2012 22(9):1760-74. [Abstract] [Full text]
AnnoTrack--a tracking system for genome annotation.
Kokocinski F, Harrow J, Hubbard T.BMC Genomics 2010 11:538 [Abstract] [Full text]
Ensembl's 10th year
Flicek P, Aken BL, Ballester B, Beal K, Bragin E, Brent S, Chen Y, Clapham P, Coates G, Fairley S, Fitzgerald S, Fernandez-Banet J, Gordon L, Gräf S, Haider S, Hammond M, Howe K, Jenkinson A, Johnson N, Kähäri A, Keefe D, Keenan S, Kinsella R, Kokocinski F, Koscielny G, Kulesha E, Lawson D, Longden I, Massingham T, McLaren W, Megy K, Overduin B, Pritchard B, Rios D, Ruffier M, Schuster M, Slater G, Smedley D, Spudich G, Tang YA, Trevanion S, Vilella A, Vogel J, White S, Wilder SP, Zadissa A, Birney E, Cunningham F, Dunham I, Durbin R, Fernández-Suarez XM, Herrero J, Hubbard TJ, Parker A, Proctor G, Smith J, Searle SMNucleic Acids Research 2010 38(Database issue):D557-62 [Abstract] [Full text]
The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1
S. G. Gregory, K. F. Barlow, K. E. McLay, R. Kaul, D. Swarbreck, A. Dunham, C. E. Scott, K. L. Howe, K. Woodfine, C. C. A. Spencer, M. C. Jones, C. Gillson, S. Searle, Y. Zhou, F. Kokocinski, et al.Nature 2006 441, 315-321 [Abstract] [Full text]
FACT - a framework for the functional interpretation of high-throughput experiments
Felix Kokocinski, Nicolas Delhomme, Gunnar Wrobel, Lars Hummerich, Grischa Toedt and Peter LichterBMC Bioinformatics 2005 6(1):161 [Abstract | Zusammenfassung] [Full text]
AutoPrime: Selecting Primers for Expressed Sequences
Gunnar Wrobel, Felix Kokocinski, Peter LichterGenome Research 2004 5:P11 [Abstract] [Full text]
QuickLims: Facilitating the data management for DNA-microarray production.
Felix Kokocinski , Gunnar Wrobel, Meinhard Hahn, Peter LichterBioInformatics 2003 19 (2), 283-284 [Abstract | Zusammenfassung] [Full text]
All publications, publication list at PubMed
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Museumsgesellschaft Bad Dürkheim, Singen in Lampertheim Hüttenfeld
Kokocat’s Adventures travel blog
Gene-test Bioinformatics Solutions consultancy (NGS data analysis, pipeline development, IVD, PGS work as a freelancer)
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