Dr.-Ing. Jan Voges
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Institut für Informationsverarbeitung
Appelstr. 9A
30167 Hannover
Germany
phone: +49 511 762-5313
fax: +49 511 762-5333
office location: room 1305

Jan Voges studied electrical engineering at Leibniz University Hannover, specializing in communications engineering, and received his Dipl.-Ing. degree in 2015. After graduation, he joined the Institute for Information Processing at Leibniz University Hannover as a Research Assistant, where he pioneered the compression and standardization of genomic data. In 2018, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, contributing to a collaborative project with the Mayo Clinic aimed at automating and accelerating DNA sequencing data analysis. He was awarded his Dr.-Ing. degree with distinction in 2022 from Leibniz University Hannover for his doctoral thesis on the Compression of DNA Sequencing Data. From 2022–2024, he was Research Group Leader of the Genomic Data Science group (3 PhD students) at the Institute for Information Processing and the L3S Research Center at Leibniz University Hannover, focusing on DNA sequencing data compression, DNA data storage, high-throughput nanopore sequencing data processing, and 3D genome reconstruction. From 2024–2025, he was Senior Research Scientist at CIMA University of Navarra and Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra, where he expanded his research to include modeling of single-cell RNA sequencing data. Since 2024, he has also been a Visiting Scientist at the Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School. In 2025, he returned to the Institute for Information Processing and the L3S Research Center at Leibniz University Hannover as Research Group Leader of the BioAI Lab (3 PhD students), where his research focuses on developing AI methods for multi-omics data analysis and their application in biomedicine. He has a special interest in international standardization, proposal writing, project management, IP generation, and software engineering.

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  • Conference Contributions
    • Hamidreza Maharlou, Nicole Bössel-Debbert, Michael Lucht, Hannah B. Maier, Stefanie Mücke, Fabian Müntefering, Barbara Neuhaus, Jana Prokein, Christine Reif-Leonhard, Jan Voges, Heike Weber, Antoine Weihs, Helge Frieling, Steffen Oeltze-Jafra
      Cooperative Design of a Dashboard for Monitoring the P4D Cohort Study on Major Depression
      EuroVisPosters2024, May 2024
    • Christian Rohlfing, Thibaut Meyer, Jens Schneider, Jan Voges
      Python Wrapper for Context-based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding
      2023 IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), December 2023
    • Fabian Müntefering, Jörn Ostermann, Jan Voges
      BACON: Bacterial Clone Recognition from Metagenomic Sequencing Data
      AICPM 2023, Hannover (DE), September 2023
    • Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Jan Voges, Jörn Ostermann
      PEKORA: High-Performance 3D Genome Reconstruction Using K-th Order Spearman's Rank Correlation Approximation
      ISMB/ECCB 2023, Lyon (FR), July 2023
    • Idoia Ochoa, Hongyi Li, Florian Baumgarte, Charles Hergenrother, Jan Voges, Mikel Hernaez
      AliCo: A New Efficient Representation for SAM Files
      2019 Data Compression Conference (DCC), pp. 93-102, March 2019
    • Thorsten Laude, Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Jan Voges, Marco Munderloh, Jörn Ostermann
      A Comparison of JEM and AV1 with HEVC: Coding Tools, Coding Efficiency and Complexity
      2018 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), pp. 36-40, June 2018
    • Ana A. Hernandez-Lopez, Jan Voges, Claudio Alberti, Marco Mattavelli, Jörn Ostermann
      Lossy Compression of Quality Scores in Differential Gene Expression: A First Assessment and Impact Analysis
      2018 Data Compression Conference (DCC), pp. 167-176, March 2018
    • Ana A. Hernandez-Lopez, Jan Voges, Claudio Alberti, Marco Mattavelli, Jörn Ostermann
      Differential Gene Expression with Lossy Compression of Quality Scores in RNA-Seq Data
      2017 Data Compression Conference (DCC), p. 444, April 2017
    • Claudio Alberti, Noah Daniels, Mikel Hernaez, Jan Voges, Rachel L. Goldfeder, Ana A. Hernandez-Lopez, Marco Mattavelli, Bonnie Berger
      An Evaluation Framework for Lossy Compression of Genome Sequencing Quality Values
      2016 Data Compression Conference (DCC), pp. 221-230, March 2016
    • Jan Voges, Marco Munderloh, Jörn Ostermann
      Predictive Coding of Aligned Next-Generation Sequencing Data
      2016 Data Compression Conference (DCC), pp. 241-250, March 2016
  • Journals
    • Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Tim Körner, Fabian Müntefering, Jörn Ostermann, Jan Voges
      HiCMC: High-Efficiency Contact Matrix Compressor
      BMC Bioinformatics, September 2024
    • Fabian Müntefering, Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Shubham Chandak, Jörn Ostermann, Mikel Hernaez, Jan Voges
      Genie: the first open-source ISO/IEC encoder for genomic data
      Communications Biology, Vol. 7, No. 553, May 2024, edited by Akhtar, Anam; Inglis, George; Grinham, Luke R.
    • Hannah Benedictine Maier, Alexandra Neyazi, Gabriel L. Bundies, Fiona Meyer-Bockenkamp, Stefan Bleich, Hansi Pathak, Yvonne Ziert, Barbara Neuhaus, Franz-Josef Müller, Iris Pollmann, Thomas Illig, Stefanie Mücke, Meike Müller, Brinja Kira Möller, Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, Tim Kacprowski, Jan Voges, Fabian Müntefering, Josef Scheiber, Andreas Reif, Mareike Aichholzer, Christine Reif-Leonhard, Maren Schmidt-Kassow, Ulrich Hegerl, Hanna Reich, Stefan Unterecker, Heike Weber, Jürgen Deckert, Nicole Bössel-Debbert, Hans J. Grabe, Michael Lucht, Helge Frieling
      Validation of the predictive value of BDNF -87 methylation for antidepressant treatment success in severely depressed patients—a randomized rater-blinded trial
      Trials, Vol. 25, No. 247, April 2024
    • Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Jan Voges, Christian Rohlfing, Viktor Tunev, Jens-Rainer Ohm, Jörn Ostermann
      GVC: efficient random access compression for gene sequence variations
      BMC Bioinformatics, Vol. 24, No. 1, p. 121, March 2023
    • Jan Voges, Mikel Hernaez, Marco Mattavelli, Jörn Ostermann
      An Introduction to MPEG-G: The First Open ISO/IEC Standard for the Compression and Exchange of Genomic Sequencing Data
      Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 109, No. 9, pp. 1607-1622, September 2021
    • Jan Voges, Tom Paridaens, Fabian Müntefering, Liudmila S. Mainzer, Brian Bliss, Mingyu Yang, Idoia Ochoa, Jan Fostier, Jörn Ostermann, Mikel Hernaez
      GABAC: an arithmetic coding solution for genomic data
      Bioinformatics, Vol. 36, No. 7, pp. 2275-2277, April 2020
    • Thorsten Laude, Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Jan Voges, Marco Munderloh, Jörn Ostermann
      A Comprehensive Video Codec Comparison
      APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, Vol. 8, No. 1, November 2019
    • Jan Voges, Ali Fotouhi, Jörn Ostermann, M. Oguzhan Külekci
      A Two-level Scheme for Quality Score Compression
      Journal of Computational Biology, Vol. 25, No. 10, pp. 1141-1151, October 2018
    • Jan Voges, Jörn Ostermann, Mikel Hernaez
      CALQ: compression of quality values of aligned sequencing data
      Bioinformatics, Vol. 34, No. 10, pp. 1650-1658, May 2018
    • Ibrahim Numanagic, James K. Bonfield, Faraz Hach, Jan Voges, Jörn Ostermann, Claudio Alberti, Marco Mattavelli, S. Cenk Sahinalp
      Comparison of high-throughput sequencing data compression tools
      Nature Methods, Vol. 13, No. 12, pp. 1005-1008, December 2016
  • Books
    • Jan Voges
      Compression of DNA Sequencing Data
      VDI Verlag, 2022
  • Standardisation Contributions
    • Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Patrick Cheung, Ünsal Öztürk, Mikel Hernaez, Ray Krasinski, Fabian Müntefering, Jan Voges
      Recommendations of the AHG on MPEG-G Profiles - m68661
      ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 8 , July 2024
    • Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Patrick Cheung, Ünsal Öztürk, Mikel Hernaez, Ray Krasinski, Fabian Müntefering, Jan Voges
      Recommendations of the AHG on MPEG-G Profiles - m67350
      ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 8 , April 2024
    • Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Jan Voges
      Cross-check of M62859 Results on Updated CE Results for Annotation Data Indexing Using B-Tree
      ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 8, April 2023
    • Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Christian Rohlfing, Jan Voges, Jörn Ostermann
      Extension to method for the coding of genomic variants m55355
      ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 8 , October 2020
    • Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Christian Rohlfing, Jan Voges, Jörn Ostermann
      Method for the coding of genotype likelihood of variant m55356
      ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 8 , October 2020
    • Yeremia Gunawan Adhisantoso, Viktor Tunev, Jan Voges, Christian Rohlfing,
      MPEG-G Part 6 CE3 Results Leibniz University Hannover, RWTH Aachen University m53496
      ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, April 2020
    • Jörn Ostermann, Berend Denkena, Benjamin Bergmann, Alexander Schmidt, Thomas Krause, Jan Voges
      Compression of Machine Tool Data
      ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11, July 2019