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Kokulapalan Wimalanathan

Iowa State UniversityORCID 0000-0001-7811-935XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Organism:plant (other)· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1

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Carolyn J. Lawrence‐DilliD· 3 shared Brian ZebosiiD· 1 shared Carolyn G. RasmusseniD· 1 shared Carson M. AndorfiD· 1 shared Colleen F. YanarellaiD· 1 shared Dennis PsaroudakisiD· 1 shared Dollye C. StarriD· 1 shared Erik VollbrechtiD· 1 shared

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Plant BiologyPLANT PHYSIOLOGYPeer-reviewedAug 19, 2026

Recessive antimorph alleles reveal novel functions of the OPAQUE1 myosin XI in maize

Brian Zebosi, Stephanie E. Martinez, Kokulapalan Wimalanathan…·Erik Vollbrecht

This study identifies two new recessive alleles of the maize OPAQUE1 gene, revealing its role in plant growth and architecture through internode elongation and inflorescence development.

1 citation

zebrafishexperimental assay

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BioinformaticsGigaSciencePeer-reviewedJan 1, 2022

Standardized genome-wide function prediction enables comparative functional genomics: a new application area for Gene Ontologies in plants

Leila Fattel, Dennis Psaroudakis, Colleen F. Yanarella…·Carolyn J. Lawrence‐Dill

The paper uses GOMAP to annotate gene functions across 18 crop plant genomes, showing that these annotations can recover known phylogenetic relationships, supporting comparative functional genomics.

9 citations

plant (other)DNA methylation

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintMay 3, 2021

Gene Ontology Meta Annotator for Plants (GOMAP)

Kokulapalan Wimalanathan, Carolyn J. Lawrence-Dill

GOMAP improves genome-scale GO annotation for plants by enhancing gene annotation quality and quantity in maize and other species.

5 citations

plant (other)whole-genome sequencing

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BioinformaticsPlant DirectPeer-reviewedApr 1, 2018

Maize GO Annotation - Methods, Evaluation, and Review (maize-GAMER)

Kokulapalan Wimalanathan, Iddo Friedberg, Carson M. Andorf, Carolyn J. Lawrence‐Dill

This paper provides a high-coverage, high-confidence GO annotation for maize genes, outperforming existing annotations in accuracy using a mixed-method pipeline.

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statistical modelmixed model

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