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Januka S. Athukoralage

Anthropic (United States)ORCID 0000-0002-1666-0180Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 1 Genetics· 1 Molecular Biology· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1 Approach:large language model· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1

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Matthew G. DurrantiD· 3 shared Nicholas Thomas PerryiD· 3 shared Peter H. YooniD· 2 shared Aditya R. JangidiD· 1 shared Amir ShanehsazzadehiD· 1 shared April PawlukiD· 1 shared Emmanuel Ameisen· 1 shared Eric Kauderer-AbramsiD· 1 shared

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Prokaryotic homologs of the major vault protein form engineerable vault nanocapsules

Januka S Athukoralage, Peter H Yoon, Amir Shanehsazzadeh, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Nicholas Perry, Matthew G Durrant

The paper identifies prokaryotic homologs of the major vault protein that assemble into vault nanocapsules, revealing structural and size variability.

bioRxiv · Nov 5, 2026 · PreprintMolecular Biology

Autonomous AI agents discover reverse transcriptases with tandem repeat arrays

Peter H. Yoon, Januka S. Athukoralage, Emmanuel Ameisen, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Nicholas Thomas Perry, Matthew G. Durrant

The paper uses large language models to discover a novel family of reverse transcriptases with tandem repeat arrays from metagenomic data.

bioRxiv · Oct 11, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics

Bridge RNAs direct modular and programmable recombination of target and donor DNA

Matthew G. Durrant, Nicholas Thomas Perry, James J. Pai, Aditya R. Jangid, Januka S. Athukoralage, Masahiro Hiraizumi, John P. McSpedon, April Pawluk, Hiroshi Nishimasu, Silvana Konermann, Patrick D. Hsu

The paper demonstrates that IS110 insertion sequences use a structured RNA to direct sequence-specific DNA recombination, enabling modular genome editing.

bioRxiv · Jan 24, 2024 · PreprintGenetics