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Placide Mbala

University of Kinshasa

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Evolutionary Biology· 1 Genomics· 1

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Approach:deep learning· 2 Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:variant calling· 2 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1

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Aine Niamh O’TooleiD· 1 shared Alex L Greninger· 1 shared Ana T. DugganiD· 1 shared Andrew RambautiD· 1 shared Bradley Schneider· 1 shared Charles Y Chiu· 1 shared Chris KentiD· 1 shared Connor Chato· 1 shared

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Human outbreak detection and best practice MPXV analysis and interpretation with squirrel

Aine Niamh O’Toole, Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki, Rachel Colquhoun, Connor Chato, Emily Scher, Chris Kent, Sam Wilkinson, Joshua Quick, Nicholas Loman, Ana T. Duggan, Placide Mbala, Andrew Rambaut

This paper introduces squirrel, a tool for analyzing MPXV genomes to detect outbreaks and classify APOBEC3 mutations, aiding public health responses.

Virus Evolution · Dec 10, 2025Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology

Rapid metagenomic identification of viral pathogens in clinical samples by real-time nanopore sequencing analysis

Alex L Greninger, Samia N Naccache, Scot Federman, Guixia Yu, Placide Mbala, Vanessa Bres, Jerome Bouquet, Doug Stryke, Sneha Somasekar, Jeffrey Linnen, Roger Dodd, Prime Mulembakani, Bradley Schneider, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Susan Stramer, Charles Y Chiu

This study uses real-time nanopore sequencing and a new pipeline to rapidly detect viral pathogens in clinical samples with high accuracy.

Genome Medicine · Sep 29, 2015Peer-reviewedGenomics