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Molly Murray

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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An open imaging and AI resource enabling unbiased quantification of extrachromosomal DNA at scale

Poorya Behnamie, River Summers, Jingting Chen, Aarav Mehta, Adesuwa Igbinigie, Qin Liu, Molly Murray, Damien Guilbaud, Marc Niethammer, Elizabeth Brunk

The paper provides an open resource for automated ecDNA quantification, comparing methods and introducing ecCount to reduce count bias.

bioRxiv · Sep 24, 2026 · PreprintGenetics

Extrachromosomal DNA Gives Cancer a New Evolutionary Pathway

Yue Wang, Oliver Cope, Jingting Chen, Aarav Mehta, Dalia Fleifel, Christina Ford, Poorya Behnamie, Molly Murray, Santiago Haase, Saygin Gulec, Logan Slade, Tim C. Elston, Philip M. Spanheimer, Caroline A Tomblin, Alison M. Rojas, , Elizabeth Brunk

The paper shows that ecDNA allows tumors to adapt rapidly by maintaining a spectrum of gene expression levels across cells, rather than relying on clonal expansion.

bioRxiv · Apr 26, 2025 · PreprintGenomics