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Rebecca Egger

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (United States)

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IDseq - An Open Source Cloud-based Pipeline and Analysis Service for Metagenomic Pathogen Detection and Monitoring

Katrina Kalantar, Tiago Rodrigues De Carvalho, Charles F. A. de Bourcy, Boris Dimitrov, Greg Dingle, Rebecca Egger, Julie Han, Olivia Holmes, Yun-Fang Juan, Ryan King, Andrey O. Kislyuk, Michael F. Lin, Maria Mariano, Todd Morse, Lucia Reynoso, , Joseph L. DeRisi

IDseq provides a cloud-based metagenomics pipeline for pathogen detection, enabling analysis of mNGS data with tools for taxonomic assignment and novel pathogen identification.

GigaScience · Oct 1, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Unbiased metagenomic sequencing for pediatric meningitis in Bangladesh reveals neuroinvasive Chikungunya virus outbreak and other unrealized pathogens

Senjuti Saha, Akshaya Ramesh, Katrina Kalantar, Roly Malaker, Md Hasanuzzaman, Lillian M. Khan, Madeline Y. Mayday, Mohammad Saiful Islam Sajib, Lucy M. Li, Charles Langelier, Hafizur Rahman, Emily D. Crawford, Cristina M. Tato, Maksuda Islam, Yun-Fang Juan, , Joseph L. DeRisi

This study uses metagenomic sequencing to identify pathogens in pediatric meningitis cases in Bangladesh, revealing a Chikungunya virus outbreak and other previously undetected causes.

mBio · Dec 16, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics

Etiology of fever in Ugandan children: identification of microbial pathogens using metagenomic next-generation sequencing and IDseq, a platform for unbiased metagenomic analysis

Akshaya Ramesh, Sara Nakielny, Jennifer Hsu, Mary Kyohere, Oswald Byaruhanga, Charles F. A. de Bourcy, Rebecca Egger, Boris Dimitrov, Yun-Fang Juan, Jonathan Sheu, James Wang, Katrina Kalantar, Charles Langelier, Theodore Ruel, Arthur Mpimbaza, , Joseph L. DeRisi

This study uses metagenomic sequencing and the IDseq platform to identify microbial pathogens in Ugandan children with fever, revealing common pathogens and novel viruses.

bioRxiv · Aug 6, 2018 · PreprintGenomics