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Richard C. Burhans

Pennsylvania State University

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KegAlign: Optimizing pairwise alignments with diagonal partitioning

Ahmed Burak Gulhan, Richard C. Burhans, Robert Harris, Mahmut Kandemir, Maximilian Haeussler, Anton Nekrutenko

KegAlign improves pairwise genome alignment speed using GPU acceleration and diagonal partitioning, achieving 150x faster alignment than lastZ for human/mouse genomes.

Genome biology · Nov 17, 2025Peer-reviewedGenomics

Evaluation of sequencing reads at scale using rdeval

Giulio Formenti, Bonhwang Koo, Marco Sollitto, Jennifer Balacco, Nadolina Brajuka, Richard C. Burhans, Erick Duarte, Alice Maria Giani, Kirsty McCaffrey, Jack A Medico, Eugene Wimberly Myers, Patrik Smeds, Anton Nekrutenko, Erich David Jarvis

The paper introduces rdeval, a tool for efficiently evaluating and visualizing sequencing read metrics, showing improvements in read quality and genome assembly with PacBio data.

Bioinformatics · Jul 19, 2025Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Genomic variants among threatened Acropora corals

Sheila A. Kitchen, Aakrosh Ratan, Oscar C. Bedoya-Reina, Richard C. Burhans, Nicole D. Fogarty, Webb Miller, Iliana B. Baums

The paper develops genomic resources and workflows for two threatened Acropora corals, identifies genetic differences in key pathways, and provides candidate loci for genotyping.

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Mar 26, 2019Peer-reviewedGenomics