{"id":540,"date":"2015-03-30T14:19:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T18:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=540"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:09:34","slug":"gary-benson","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/people\/profiles\/gary-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 16px;\"><a class=\"button-primary\" href=\"http:\/\/tandem.bu.edu\/benson.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lab Website<\/a><a class=\"button-primary\" href=\"\/biology\/files\/2024\/03\/Benson_CV_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CV<\/a><a class=\"button-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=E0GO0JkAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Current Research<\/h3>\n<p>Our research focuses on development of algorithms and software tools for the detection and analysis of novel patterns and repeats in DNA and RNA sequences. Our goal is to deliver tools that are effective, efficient, and easy to use. We have a number of ongoing collaborations. Please <a href=\"http:\/\/tandem.bu.edu\/benson.html\">visit our research page<\/a> for details on our most recent projects.<\/p>\n<h3>Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Rasekh, M., Y. Hernandez, S. Drinan, J. Fuxman Bass, and G. <\/span><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"marko4o35gn9z\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Benson<\/span><span>\u00a0(2021). Genome-wide characterization of human minisatellite VNTRs: population-specific alleles and gene expression differences. <em>Nucleic Acids Research <\/em>49:<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/nar\/article\/49\/8\/4308\/6225222?login=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4308\u20134324.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Gelfand, Y., Y. Hernandez, J. Loving, and G. <\/span><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"marko4o35gn9z\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Benson<\/span><span>\u00a0(2014). VNTRseek \u2013 A Computational Tool to Detect Tandem Repeat Variants in High-Throughput Sequencing Data. <em>Nucleic Acids Research <\/em>42:<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25056320\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">8884-8894.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Warburton, P., J. Giordano, F. Cheung, Y. Gelfand, and G. <\/span><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"marko4o35gn9z\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Benson<\/span><span>\u00a0(2004). Inverted Repeat Structure of the Human Genome: The X-Chromosome Contains a Preponderance of Large, Highly Homologous Inverted Repeats That Contain Testes Genes. <em>Genome Research<\/em> 14:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC524409\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1861-1869.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Le Fleche, P., Y. Hauck, L. Onteniente, A. Prieur, F. Denoeud, V. Ramisse, P. Sylvestre, G. <\/span><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"marko4o35gn9z\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Benson<\/span><span>, F. Ramisse, and G. Vergnaud (2001). A Tandem Repeats Database for Bacterial Genomes: Application to the Genotyping of Yersinia pestis and Bacillus anthracis. <em>BioMed Central Microbiology <\/em>1:<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/11299044\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2-15.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-markjs=\"true\" class=\"marko4o35gn9z\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Benson<\/span><span>, G. (1999). Tandem repeats finder: a program to analyze DNA sequences. <em>Nucleic Acids Research<\/em> 27:<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/9862982\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">573-580.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Gelfand Y., A. Rodriguez, and G. Benson (2007). TRDB &#8211; The Tandem Repeats Database. <em>Nucleic Acids Research<\/em> 35:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1781109\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">D80-D87.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Giordano J., Y.C. Ge, Y. Gelfand, G. Abrusan, G. Benson, and P.E. Warburton (2007). Evolutionary history of mammalian transposons determined by genome-wide defragmentation. <em>PLoS Computational Biology<\/em> 3:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17630829?ordinalpos=4&amp;itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1321-1334.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":8774,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8774"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23042,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/540\/revisions\/23042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}