Ruslan Kalendar

Professional Profiles

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University of Helsinki Nazarbayev University Google Scholar ORCID Scopus Web of Science

Research interests

General evolution, genetics, biology of retrotransposons, the role of viruses in genome evolution and adaptation, biodiversity and genetic markers, synthetic biology, bioinformatics string search, complexity analysis, repeat detection, DNA alignment and assembly, PCR primer design and projective geometry.

Current Appointments

University of Helsinki Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Biotechnology, Helsinki Institute of Life Science (HiLIFE)	Finland
Nazarbayev University Leading Researcher, National Laboratory Astana (NLA)	Kazakhstan

Editorial contributions

Current	Frontiers in Plant Science Specialty Chief Editor — Technical Advances in Plant Science
Current	Heliyon Associate Editor — Plant Genetics
Current	Hereditas Associate Editor — Data Mining and Genome Technology
Current	PLoS Computational Biology Editorial Board — Genomics, Epigenomics, and Proteomics
Current	BMC Biology Editorial Board — Genetics and Genomics
Current	BMC Genomics Editorial Board Member
Current	BMC Plant Biology Editorial Board Member
Current	BMC Genomic Data Editorial Board Member
Current	Frontiers in Bioscience — Elite Editorial Board Member
Current	BioTech Editorial Board Member
Past	PLoS One Academic Editor
Past	PeerJ Academic Editor

Software

FastPCR — All-in-one tool for PCR primer/probe design, in silico PCR, oligonucleotide analysis, and repeat detection
GitHub — Open-source Java tools
WebTools — Molecular biology toolbox
Thermo Scientific — Web tools for PCR and qPCR
Horizon Discovery — Primer design and analysis tools and qPCR

Publications