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Yun S. Song
University of California, BerkeleyORCID 0000-0002-0734-9868Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
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2014-2026 · peak 8/yrCo-Author Collaboration Network
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- GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
A fast machine-learning-guided primer design pipeline for selective whole genome amplification
Jane A. Yu, Zachary J. Oppler, Matthew W. Mitchell…·Dustin Brisson
The paper introduces swga2.0, a machine-learning-guided pipeline for designing selective whole genome amplification primers, significantly reducing runtime and improving amplification performance for microbial DNA.
- GenomicseLifePeer-reviewed
Robust and annotation-free analysis of alternative splicing across diverse cell types in mice
Gonzalo Benegas, Jonathan Fischer, Yun S Song
The paper analyzes alternative splicing across diverse mouse cell types using two large-scale single-cell datasets, identifying novel isoforms and splicing regulation patterns.
- BioinformaticsPacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB)Peer-reviewed
Single Layers of Attention Suffice to Predict Protein Contacts
Nicholas Bhattacharya, Neil Thomas, Roshan Rao…·Sergey Ovchinnikov
The paper shows that a single attention layer can predict protein contacts as well as Potts models and pretrained Transformers, suggesting attention models can capture meaningful protein features from unlabeled data.
20 citationstop 1% - GenomicsGenome ResearchPeer-reviewed
A likelihood-based deconvolution of bulk gene expression data using single-cell references
Dan D. Erdmann-Pham, Jonathan D. Fischer, Justin Hong, Yun S. Song
This paper introduces RNA-Sieve, a likelihood-based method to deconvolve bulk RNA-seq data using single-cell references, providing accurate cell type proportion estimates and confidence intervals.
47 citations - GenomicsNature MethodsPeer-reviewed
SCITO-seq: single-cell combinatorial indexed cytometry sequencing
Byungjin Hwang, David S. Lee, Whitney Tamaki…·Chun Ye
SCITO-seq enables cost-effective profiling of over 10^5 cells using combinatorial indexing with dsc-seq, demonstrating feasibility in mixed cell lines and human lymphocytes.
- BioinformaticsGenome ResearchPeer-reviewed
Transporter genes in biosynthetic gene clusters predict metabolite characteristics and siderophore activity
Alexander Crits‐Christoph, Nicholas Bhattacharya, Matthew R. Olm…·Jillian F. Banfield
The paper uses transporter gene frequencies to predict metabolite characteristics and identifies siderophore-like BGCs in gut microbiomes.
- GenomicsGigaSciencePeer-reviewed
Accurate assembly of the olive baboon (Papio anubis) genome using long-read and Hi-C data
Sanjit Singh Batra, Michal Levy‐Sakin, Jacqueline A. Robinson…·Jeffrey D. Wall
This paper presents a de novo genome assembly of the olive baboon using long-read and Hi-C data, significantly improving contig size and chromosome scaffolding compared to the previous reference genome.
- GenomicsJournal of Biological ChemistryPeer-reviewed
Cytoplasmic mRNA decay factors modulate RNA polymerase II processivity in 5’ and 3’ gene regions in yeast
Jonathan D. Fischer, Yun S. Song, Nir Yosef…·Mordechai Choder
The paper shows Xrn1, a decay factor, modulates RNA polymerase II processivity in yeast genes, affecting transcription initiation, elongation, and termination.
37 citations - GenomicsCell SystemsPeer-reviewed
The key parameters that govern translation efficiency
Dan D. Erdmann-Pham, Khanh Dao Duc, Yun S. Song
The paper develops a stochastic model of translation dynamics to identify key parameters governing translation efficiency and validates findings with ribosome profiling data from yeast.
66 citations - Synthetic BiologybioRxivPreprint✦ In-depth digest
Evaluating Protein Transfer Learning with TAPE
Roshan Rao, Nicholas Bhattacharya, Neil Thomas…·Yun S. Song
Across five protein tasks with evolution-aware splits, self-supervised pretraining helped nearly every model on every task, yet alignment-based features still beat learned embeddings on secondary structure and contact prediction.
719 citations - GenomicsLife Science AlliancePeer-reviewed
Worldwide genetic variation of the IGHV and TRBV immune receptor gene families in humans
Shishi Luo, Jane A. Yu, Heng Li, Yun S. Song
The paper analyzes genetic variation in IGHV and TRBV immune receptor gene families across diverse human populations, finding distinct patterns of copy number and mutation.
30 citations - Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
A Likelihood-Free Inference Framework for Population Genetic Data using Exchangeable Neural Networks
Jeffrey Chan, Valerio Perrone, Jeffrey P. Spence…·Yun S. Song
This paper introduces an exchangeable neural network framework for likelihood-free inference in population genetics, demonstrating superior performance on recombination hotspot testing.
DOI 10.1101/267211 - GeneticsNature GeneticsPeer-reviewed
High-throughput inference of pairwise coalescence times identifies signals of selection and enriched disease heritability
Pier Francesco Palamara, Jonathan Terhorst, Yun S. Song, Alkes L. Price
The paper develops ASMC, a fast method to estimate coalescence times from SNP data, detects selection signals and finds enrichment of disease heritability in regions of background selection.
76 citationstop 5% - GenomicsPLoS GeneticsPeer-reviewed
The impact of ribosomal interference, codon usage, and exit tunnel interactions on translation elongation rate variation
The paper quantifies factors affecting translation elongation rates using ribosome profiling data and shows exit tunnel interactions and nascent polypeptide hydropathy are key determinants.
100 citationstop 4% - GenomicsPhysical review. EPeer-reviewed
Theoretical analysis of the distribution of isolated particles in the TASEP: Application to mRNA translation rate estimation
Khanh Dao Duc, Zain H. Saleem, Yun S. Song
The paper analyzes the distribution of isolated particles in the TASEP model to estimate mRNA translation rates and identifies potential biases in ribosome profiling data.
18 citations - GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
Three-way clustering of multi-tissue multi-individual gene expression data using constrained tensor decomposition
Miaoyan Wang, Jonathan D. Fischer, Yun S. Song
The paper introduces MultiCluster, a tensor decomposition method for analyzing multi-tissue gene expression data, showing improved accuracy and speed over existing methods.
8 citations - GeneticsPLOS Computational BiologyPeer-reviewed
Genotyping Allelic and Copy Number Variation in the Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Locus
Shishi Luo, Jane A Yu, Yun S. Song
This study develops a method to genotype allelic and copy number variation in the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus using whole-genome sequencing data.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005117 - bioRxiv
Multi-locus analysis of genomic time series data from experimental evolution
Jonathan Terhorst, Yun S. Song
This paper develops a Gaussian process method to analyze genomic time series data from experimental evolution, enabling accurate detection and estimation of selection parameters.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005069