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Recent advances in modelling VDJ recombination and subsequent selection of T and B cell receptors provide useful tools to analyze and compare immune repertoires across time, individuals, and tissues. A suite of tools--IGoR [1], OLGA [2] and…
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Understanding the molecular processes that drive cellular life is a fundamental question in biological research. Ambitious programs have gathered a number of molecular datasets on large populations. To decipher the complex cellular…
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Current metagenomic analysis algorithms require significant computing resources, can report excessive false positives (type I errors), may miss organisms (type II errors / false negatives), or scale poorly on large datasets. This paper…
Deep learning has empowered analysis for single-cell sequencing data in many ways and has generated deep understanding about a range of complex cellular systems. As the booming single-cell sequencing technologies brings the surge of high…
Clustering is a fundamental learning task widely used as a first step in data analysis. For example, biologists use cluster assignments to analyze genome sequences, medical records, or images. Since downstream analysis is typically…
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Next-generation sequencing techniques have facilitated a large scale analysis of human genetic variation. Despite the advances in sequencing speeds, the computational discovery of structural variants is not yet standard. It is likely that…