2 papers
q-bio.GN2020
Likelihood Models for Forensic Genealogy
William H. Press, John Hawkins
In the idealized Morgan model of crossover, we study the probability distributions of shared DNA (identical by descent) between individuals having a wide range of relationships (no…
q-bio.QM2018
An Indel-Resistant Error-Correcting Code for DNA-Based Information Storage
William H. Press, John A. Hawkins
Synthetic DNA can in principle be used for the archival storage of arbitrary data. Because errors are introduced during DNA synthesis, storage, and sequencing, an error-correcting…