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William H. McCoy

Washington University in St. LouisORCID 0000-0001-5115-3793Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:deep learning· 2 Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:mouse· 1

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GenomicsNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedJun 26, 2026

SMURF: soft-segmentation for single-cell reconstruction and topological analysis of spatial transcriptomic data

Juanru Guo, Simona Sarafinovska, Ryan A. Hagenson…·Brian D. Muegge

SMURF improves spatial transcriptomic analysis by accurately assigning mRNAs to cells and revealing gene-expression zonation in tissues.

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MicrobiologyJournal of Investigative DermatologyPeer-reviewedMay 26, 2025

Cutibacterium adaptation to life on humans provides a novel biomarker of C. acnes infections.

Md Shafiuddin, Wen-chi Huang, Gabriel William Prather…·William H. McCoy

This study characterizes RoxP, a Cutibacterium protein essential for skin colonization and infection, and develops a sensitive ELISA to detect it in human biofluids.

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