Stuart M. Brown

The paper assembles and annotates the genome of the singing mouse, using single nuclei sequencing to identify cell types in a brain region involved in song coordination.

This study identifies a Barentsz function in neuromuscular synapse growth independent of the exon junction complex, showing its role in mitochondrial distribution and regulation of the Activin ligand Dawdle.

The paper assesses HPViewer's performance on RNA-seq data for HPV strain detection and evaluates p16INK4a as a biomarker for cervical cancer using RNA-seq data from multiple sources.

HPViewer detects HPV types in metagenomic data with high sensitivity and specificity by masking shared sequences and using short reads instead of assembled contigs.

The paper introduces a fast method for functional annotation of metagenomic shotgun data using DNA-DNA alignment to a microbial gene catalog, enabling efficient detection of differentially abundant gene functions.