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Computational biology postdoc at JHU

Joined August 2011
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Bioinformatics advancements unleash the full potential of long-read sequencing in various areas of genomics. A Comment from Michael Schatz (@mike_schatz) and colleagues highlights this thriving domain of active methods development. @JohnsHopkins nature.com/articles/s41592-0…
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Thank you! So happy to finally (pretty much) be a doctor. Also excited to announce that I'll be staying at Hopkins as a postdoc with @mike_schatz!
Congratulations to @samkovaka for defending his thesis on Computational Methods for Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Epi-Omic Analysis with Long-Read Sequencing! @timp0, @elapertea and I are so proud! @nanopore @PacBio @JHUCompSci @HopkinsEngineer
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Come to my talk on December 2nd! Despite being in the adaptive sampling session, I'll be talking more about general analysis and visualization of nanopore signal. If you think that's uncalled for, well...
At #nanoporeconf, @Samkovaka will present UNCALLED4: an adaptive sampling toolkit for nanopore signal alignment & analysis. UNCALLED4 features interactive alignment visualisations & comparisons, & epigenetic modification detection stats: bit.ly/3Gy20sX
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Pan-genomic Matching Statistics for Targeted Nanopore Sequencing biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_bioinfo
DNA SEQUENCING: Complex targeted sequencing in real time go.nature.com/3rSXVbe #ResearchHighlight
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Want to find out about how a class project turned into an @NatureBiotech paper? Read this "Behind the Paper" blog post I wrote about the UNCALLED paper! bioengineeringcommunity.natu…
A nice way to end two weeks of quarantine!
Excited to announce: Targeted nanopore sequencing by real-time mapping of raw electrical signal with UNCALLED. Awesome work with @samkovaka, Yunfan Fan, @bohan_ni & @timp0 that will forever change how sequencing is done. @JHUCompSci @JHUBME @nanopore nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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Targeted nanopore sequencing by real-time mapping of raw electrical signal with UNCALLED biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #bioRxiv
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StringTie2 from @samkovaka, @elapertea and co. An update of the popular reference-guided transcriptome assembler, now includes the ability to assemble long reads. It's more accurate than other assemblers, while being quicker with lower memory requirements genomebiology.biomedcentral.…
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