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cgDist calculates nucleotide-level distances from cgMLST profiles to improve outbreak investigation while maintaining computational efficiency.

The paper sequenced and compared genomes of yeast species in the Pichia cactophila complex to show recurrent hybridizations and propose new species classifications.

Karyon diagnoses non-standard genomic architectures in assemblies using raw data and de novo assembly, identifying 17% of tested fungal assemblies as having unusual configurations.

The paper investigates whether loss of the mismatch repair protein Msh2 relaxes species boundaries between Cryptococcus neoformans and C. deneoformans, finding increased hybrid viability and aneuploidy but no increased recombination.