Ivan Sović has completed his doctoral studies under the supervision of mentors Mile Šikić and Karolj Skala on the topic of: "Algorithms for de novo genome assembly from third generation sequencing data" in front of the committee: 

Professor Mladen Vučić, Ph.D. and Doc. dr. sc. Mirjana Domazet-Lošo from FER, and Dr. sc. Niranjan Nagarajan, scientific advisorfrom Genome Institute of Singapore.

Results of doctoral research and thesis are published and avaiable on:

1. Sović, I., Šikić, M., Wilm, A., Fenlon, S.N., Chen, S., Nagarajan, N., "Fast and sensitive mapping of nanopore sequencing reads with GraphMap", Nature Communications, 7 (2016). http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11307
2. Sović, I., Križanović, K., Skala, K., Šikić, M., “Evaluation of hybrid and non-hybrid methods for de novo assembly of nanopore reads.”, Bioinformatics(Oxford, England), 2016. http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/17/2582 http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/11/13/030437
3. Vaser, R., Sović, I., Nagarajan, N., Šikić, M., "Fast and accurate de novo genome assembly from long uncorrected reads". bioRxiv 068122; doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/068122 http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/08/05/068122

All methods are open code and avaiable on GitHub::

https://github.com/isovic/graphmap

Congratulation to Ivan!

Ivan Sović with mentors: K. Skala i M. Šikić