Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, 2024
  • The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• M.Sc., Computer Science, 2019
  • Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
• B.Sc., Computer Engineering, 2017
  • Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

After Alkan Lab

Baraa is now a computational biologist at 10x Genomics.

Publications

• TKSM: Highly modular, user-customizable, and scalable transcriptomic sequencing long-read simulator. Fatih Karaoğlanoğlu, Baraa Orabi*, Ryan Flannigan, Cedric Chauve, Faraz Hach. Bioinformatics, 40 (2): btae051, 2024. *Co-first author. Preprint.
• Freddie: annotation-independent detection and discovery of transcriptomic alternative splicing isoforms using long-read sequencing. Baraa Orabi, Ning Xie, Brian McConeghy, Xuesen Dong, Cedric Chauve, Faraz Hach. Nucleic Acids Research, 51 (2): e11, 2023. Presented at RECOMB 2021.
• Fast and accurate matching of cellular barcodes across short-and long-reads of single-cell RNA-seq experiments. Ghazal Ebrahimi, Baraa Orabi*, Meghan Robinson, Cedric Chauve, Ryan Flannigan, Faraz Hach. iScience, 2022. *Co-first author. Presented at RECOMB-Seq 2022.
• Alignment-free clustering of UMI tagged DNA molecules. Baraa Orabi, Emre Erhan, Brian McConeghy, Stanislav V Volik, Stephane Le Bihan, Robert Bell, Colin C Collins, Cedric Chauve, and Faraz Hach. Bioinformatics, 35 (11):1829–1836, 2019. Presented at RECOMB-Seq 2018.