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Joseph B McWhirter

Boston UniversityORCID 0000-0002-0186-8472Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 2 Approach:genetic perturbation / CRISPR· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Assay:long-read sequencing· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1

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Manish SagariD· 2 shared Andrés A. Quiñones-MolinaiD· 1 shared Andrew A. LealiD· 1 shared Andrew J. HendersoniD· 1 shared Chenlin LuiD· 1 shared Daniel L. Bryant· 1 shared Ignaty LeshchineriD· 1 shared Maria AndradeiD· 1 shared

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintApr 27, 2026

Bloom syndrome helicase is required for efficient HIV-1 reverse transcription in macrophages

Andrew A. Leal, Samantha Tafrate, Xianbao He…·Andrew J. Henderson

This study identifies Bloom syndrome helicase (BLM) as a host factor that promotes HIV-1 reverse transcription and integration in macrophages through CRISPR screening and functional assays.

DOI 10.64898/2026.04.26.720894

humangenetic perturbation / CRISPR

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintFeb 19, 2026

NanoHIVSeq: A Long-Read Bioinformatics Pipeline for High-Throughput Processing of HIV Env Sequences

Zizhang Sheng, Qin Xiao, Yujie Qiao…·Xueling Wu

NanoHIVSeq is a UMI-free pipeline for processing HIV Env sequences from ONT data, achieving high accuracy and efficiency in variant recovery.

DOI 10.64898/2026.02.17.706429

humanlong-read sequencing

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