Cameron M. Nugent

KinformR provides scoring metrics to evaluate pedigrees and prioritize variants in family-based genetic studies, improving efficiency and accuracy in identifying disease-associated rare variants.

The paper evaluates SNP and SSR marker panels for detecting European introgression in North American Atlantic salmon and develops a machine learning tool for admixture estimation.

The paper uses whole genome sequencing to identify climate-associated adaptive divergence in cunner fish across Atlantic Canada, revealing genomic regions linked to environmental variables.

debar is an R package that denoises COI-5P DNA barcode data using a profile hidden Markov model, reducing indel errors by 75-94% with a low false correction rate.

Alfie is a Python package that classifies COI DNA barcode sequences into taxonomic kingdoms using k-mer frequencies and a neural network classifier with over 99% accuracy.

The paper introduces the coil R package for cleaning, translating, and evaluating errors in COI-5P DNA barcode data, showing high accuracy in identifying technical errors but limitations in detecting biological contaminants.