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Ahmet Ali Ay

Colgate UniversityORCID 0000-0002-0726-5461Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Organism:yeast· 1

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Alin DobraiD· 1 shared Aziz ZafariD· 1 shared Kenneth D. BelangeriD· 1 shared Tamer KahveciiD· 1 shared Yuanfang ReniD· 1 shared Zachary J. PellandiD· 1 shared

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Subconcussive head impacts sustained during American football alter gut microbiome diversity and composition

Zachary J. Pelland, Aziz Zafar, Ahmet Ali Ay, Kenneth D. Belanger

This study shows that subconcussive head impacts in American football players alter gut microbiome diversity and composition over time.

PLoS ONE · May 6, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology

Characterizing Building Blocks of Resource Constrained Biological Networks

Yuanfang Ren, Ahmet Ali Ay, Alin Dobra, Tamer Kahveci

This paper introduces a novel motif counting algorithm, POMOC, that accounts for resource constraints in biological networks, showing it provides more accurate motif counts and reveals insights into how stress factors affect network organization.

BMC Bioinformatics · Jun 1, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics