Rolf Backofen: advisors and students

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Rolf Backofen

German bioinformatician and authorborn 1963

Supervised 28 doctoral students at Universidade de Sao Paulo and Technische Universität Kaiserslautern between 2006 and 2025; Wikidata names Gert Smolka as doctoral advisor and lists 2 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.

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Students28

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Teresa Müller “Advancing RNA bioinformatics: systematic benchmarking and optimization of RNA-RNA interactions, RNA alignments, and ORF-prediction approaches”
2025 · doctoral
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Anup Kumar “Workflow recommendations using deep learning and machine learning tools for exploratory and predictive data analysis in Galaxy”
2024 · doctoral
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Simon A. Bray “Developing a workflow management system for fragment-based virtual screening”
2023 · doctoral
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Joachim Wolff “Approaches to analysis of chromosome conformation capture data”
2022 · doctoral
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Florian Heyl “Standardization of CLIP-seq data analysis and optimization of related peak calling to investigate RNA-protein interactions”
2022 · doctoral
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Michael Uhl “Computational analysis and prediction of RNA-protein interactions”
2022 · doctoral
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Pavankumar Videm “Analysis of high-throughput sequencing data related to small non-coding RNAs biogenesis and function”
2021 · doctoral
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Milad Miladi “Computational analysis and annotation of structurally functional RNAs”
2020 · doctoral
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Sebastian Ohse “Integration of public high-throughput databases in quantitative biology”
2020 · doctoral
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Victor Alexandre Padilha “Machine Learning Tools for Bioinformatics Problems”
2020 · Universidade de Sao Paulo · doctoral
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Kiran Kumar Telukunta “Development and application of ligand-based cheminformatics tools for drug discovery from natural products”
2018 · doctoral
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Daniel Maticzka “Modelling binding preferences of RNA-binding proteins”
2017 · doctoral
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Omer Salem Alkhnbashi “Computational characterisation of genomic CRISPR-Cas systems in archaea and bacteria”
2017 · doctoral
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Robert Kleinkauf “Ant colony optimization based inverse folding of mono- and bistable RNA macromolecules”
2016 · doctoral
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Jan Hoinka “Aptamers in the age of big data : development and application of algorithmic solutions in the field of high-throughput systematic evolution of ligands by exponental enrichment”
2016 · doctoral
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Patrick R. Wright “Predicting small RNA targets in prokaryotes – a challenge beyond the barriers of thermodynamic models”
2016 · doctoral
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Christina Otto “Optimizing algorithms for the comparative analysis of non-coding RNAs”
2015 · doctoral
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Kousik Kundu “In Silico Prediction of Modular Domain-Peptide Interactions”
2015 · doctoral
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Sita Johanna Saunders “Computational analyses of post-transcriptional regulatory mechanisms”
2014 · doctoral
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Steffen Heyne “Using local RNA secondary structures for computational comparison and clustering of RNA molecules”
2014 · doctoral
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Andreas S. Richter “Computational analysis and prediction of RNA-RNA interactions”
2012 · doctoral
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Anika Schulz “Sampling and Approximation in the Context of RNA Secondary Structure Prediction - Algorithms and Studies Based on Stochastic Context-Free Modeling”
2012 · Technische Universität Kaiserslautern · doctoral
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Martin Mann “Computational Methods for Lattice Protein Models”
2011 · doctoral
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Anke Busch “RNA secondary structure design under simple and complex constraints”
2008 · doctoral
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Rainer Pudimat “Probabilistische Modelle zur Beschreibung und Vorhersage regulativer DNA-Sequenzen”
2008 · doctoral
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Gerd Brunner “Structure features for content-based image retrieval and classification problems”
2006 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Michael Thomas Hiller “Bioinformatics analyses of alternative splicing : non-EST based prediction, influence of secondary structures and tandem splice sites”
2006 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sven Siebert “Common sequence structure properties and stable regions in RNA secondary structures”
2006 · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Gert Smolka

Students on Wikidata2

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Anika Schulz
born 1983
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Mathias Möhl

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

1 step up
stated by WikidataGert Smolka
2 steps up
stated by WikidataJörg Siekmann
3 steps up
stated by WikidataPat Hayes
4 steps up
stated by WikidataBernard Meltzer

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 30 people: 28 cited by thesis records, 2 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career9

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1983 to 1989
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg - Technische Fakultät
studied
1990 to 1994
Saarland University
studied
1990 to 1996
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence
worked
1996 to 2000
LMU Munich
studied
1996 to 2001
LMU Munich
worked
2001 to 2005
Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena Institut für Informatik
worked
from 2005
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Institut für Informatik
worked
undated
Saarland University
studied
undated
University of Freiburg
worked

At a glance

known as: university teacher, bioinformatician, writer, computer scientist, information scientist
fields: informatics, bioinformatics

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

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identity

stated by WikidataWikidataQ2163211
cited by a thesis recordORCID0000-0001-8231-3323stated by Wikidata · on their thesis record at FreiDok plus, Freiburg
stated by WikidataVIAF77540079
cited by a thesis recordGND1037902459stated by Wikidata · on their thesis record at FreiDok plus, Freiburg
stated by WikidataISNI0000000116769226

papers

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lineage

stated by WikidataMathematics Genealogy Project101794

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