R. C. Wilson

Detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistant genes from urine within 5 hours using Nanopore sequencing

This study demonstrates rapid detection of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes in urine using Nanopore sequencing within five hours.

T-cell cellular stress and reticulocyte signatures, but not loss of naive T lymphocytes, characterize severe COVID-19 in older adults

The paper identifies T-cell stress and reticulocyte signatures as markers of severe COVID-19 in older adults, while showing naive T-cell decline is age-related, not disease-specific.

Heterotrimeric PCNA Increases the Activity and Fidelity of Dbh, a Y-family Translesion DNA Polymerase Prone to Creating Single-Base Deletion Mutations

This paper shows that PCNA-123 increases the fidelity and activity of Dbh, a DNA polymerase prone to deletions, by promoting correct nucleotide incorporation and requiring a minimal DNA duplex length.

HumGut: A comprehensive Human Gut prokaryotic genomes collection filtered by metagenome data

The paper creates a comprehensive human gut prokaryotic genome collection, HumGut, which outperforms existing databases in metagenomic read classification.

Path integration in large-scale space and with novel geometries: Comparing Vector Addition and Encoding-Error Models

This study compares vector addition and encoding-error models of path integration by analyzing human navigation errors in triangle-shaped paths, finding vector addition models better capture error patterns.

Rats exhibit similar biases in foraging and intertemporal choice tasks

This study shows rats display similar time preferences in foraging and intertemporal choice tasks, supported by a quasi-hyperbolic discounting model.

The Eighty Five Percent Rule for Optimal Learning

The paper identifies an optimal training error rate of 15.87% (85% accuracy) for learning algorithms in binary classification tasks, applicable to both AI and biological neural networks.