6 papers
FASTR: Reimagining FASTQ via Compact Image-inspired Representation
Adrian Tkachenko, Sepehr Salem, Ayotomiwa Ezekiel Adeniyi +7
Motivation: High-throughput sequencing (HTS) enables population-scale genomics but generates massive datasets, creating bottlenecks in storage, transfer, and analysis. FASTQ, the s…
Challenges and Recommendations in Establishing National Human Diversity Genomic Projects
Taras K. Oleksyk, Walter W. Wolfsberger, Karishma Chhugani +38
Genomic approaches have revolutionized medical research, providing valuable insights into human physiology and disease. Despite major benefits from large collections of genomes, th…
A decentralized future for the open-science databases
Gaurav Sharma, Viorel Munteanu, Nika Mansouri Ghiasi +18
Continuous and reliable access to curated biological data repositories is indispensable for accelerating rigorous scientific inquiry and fostering reproducible research. Centralize…
SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Genomic Surveillance: Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities
Viorel Munteanu, Michael A. Saldana, David Dreifuss +29
During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, wastewater-based genomic surveillance (WWGS) emerged as an efficient viral surveillance tool that takes into account asymptomatic cases and can iden…
MetaTrinity: Enabling Fast Metagenomic Classification via Seed Counting and Edit Distance Approximation
Arvid E. Gollwitzer, Mohammed Alser, Joel Bergtholdt +5
Metagenomics, the study of genome sequences of diverse organisms cohabiting in a shared environment, has experienced significant advancements across various medical and biological…
SequenceLab: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Computational Methods for Comparing Genomic Sequences
Maximilian-David Rumpf, Mohammed Alser, Arvid E. Gollwitzer +5
Computational complexity is a key limitation of genomic analyses. Thus, over the last 30 years, researchers have proposed numerous fast heuristic methods that provide computational…