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Incorporating indel channels into average-case analysis of seed-chain-extend
Spencer Gibson, Yun William Yu
Given a sequence of letters drawn i.i.d. from an alphabet of size and a mutated substring of length , we often want to recover the mutation history that…
skandiver: a divergence-based analysis tool for identifying intercellular mobile genetic elements
Xiaolei Brian Zhang, Grace Oualline, Jim Shaw +1
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are as ubiquitous in nature as they are varied in type, ranging from viral insertions to transposons to incorporated plasmids. Horizontal transfer of…
Privacy-accuracy trade-offs in noisy digital exposure notifications
Abbas Hammoud, Yun William Yu
Since the global spread of Covid-19 began to overwhelm the attempts of governments to conduct manual contact-tracing, there has been much interest in using the power of mobile phon…
Severability of mesoscale components and local time scales in dynamical networks
Yun William Yu, Jean-Charles Delvenne, Sophia N. Yaliraki +1
A major goal of dynamical systems theory is the search for simplified descriptions of the dynamics of a large number of interacting states. For overwhelmingly complex dynamical sys…
COVI White Paper
Hannah Alsdurf, Edmond Belliveau, Yoshua Bengio +21
The SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) pandemic has caused significant strain on public health institutions around the world. Contact tracing is an essential tool to change the course of the Co…
Contact Tracing Mobile Apps for COVID-19: Privacy Considerations and Related Trade-offs
Hyunghoon Cho, Daphne Ippolito, Yun William Yu
Contact tracing is an essential tool for public health officials and local communities to fight the spread of novel diseases, such as for the COVID-19 pandemic. The Singaporean gov…