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Johnathan Wong
BC Cancer AgencyORCID 0000-0002-1687-8972Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
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2018-2026 · peak 2/yrCo-Author Collaboration Network
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aaKomp: Alignment-free amino acid k-mer matching for genome completeness assessment at scale
Johnathan Wong, Lauren Coombe, René L. Warren, İnanç Birol
aaKomp provides a fast, memory-efficient, alignment-free method for genome completeness assessment, outperforming existing tools in speed and scalability.
bioRxiv · Mar 22, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
Multi-genome synteny detection using minimizer graph mappings
Lauren Coombe, Parham Kazemi, Johnathan Wong, İnanç Birol, René L. Warren
The paper introduces ntSynt, a tool for detecting multi-genome synteny blocks using minimizer graphs, showing high coverage and efficiency across diverse genomes.
BMC Biology · Dec 29, 2025Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
GoldPolish-Target: Targeted long-read genome assembly polishing
Emily Rong Zhang, Lauren Coombe, Johnathan Wong, René L. Warren, İnanç Birol
GoldPolish-Target polishes targeted regions of genome assemblies, reducing errors and improving accuracy with lower computational demands.
BMC Bioinformatics · Mar 7, 2025Peer-reviewedGenomics
ntRoot: Computational Inference of Human Ancestry at Scale from Genomic Data
René L. Warren, Lauren Coombe, Johnathan Wong, Parham Kazemi, İnanç Birol
ntRoot infers human super-population ancestry from genomic data with high accuracy and efficiency, outperforming traditional methods on large datasets.
Bioinformatics Advances · Dec 26, 2024Peer-reviewedGenetics
GoldRush: A de novo long read genome assembler with linear time complexity
Johnathan Wong, Lauren Coombe, Vladimir Nikolić, Emily Rong Zhang, Ka Ming Nip, Puneet Sidhu, René L. Warren, İnanç Birol
GoldRush is a de novo long read genome assembler with linear time complexity, achieving efficient assembly of large genomes with high contiguity and low memory usage.
Nature Communications · May 22, 2023Peer-reviewedGenomics
aaHash: recursive amino acid sequence hashing
Johnathan Wong, Parham Kazemi, Lauren Coombe, René L. Warren, İnanç Birol
aaHash is a recursive amino acid sequence hashing algorithm that improves speed and sensitivity for protein sequence analysis.
Bioinformatics Advances · Jan 1, 2023Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
LongStitch: High-quality genome assembly correction and scaffolding using long reads
Lauren Coombe, Janet X. Li, Theodora Lo, Johnathan Wong, Vladimir Nikolić, René L. Warren, İnanç Birol
LongStitch improves draft genome assemblies using long reads, significantly increasing contiguity and accuracy compared to existing methods.
BMC Bioinformatics · Oct 30, 2021Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Pan-cancer analysis reveals complex tumor-specific alternative polyadenylation
Zhuyi Xue, René L. Warren, Ewan A. Gibb, Daniel MacMillan, Johnathan Wong, Readman Chiu, S. Austin Hammond, Chen Yang, Ka Ming Nip, Catherine A. Ennis, Abigail Hahn, Sheila M. Reynolds, İnanç Birol
The paper analyzes APA patterns in 114 cancer-related genes across 33 cancer types to show complex 3 UTR cleavage changes in tumors.
BMC Genomics · Jul 13, 2018Peer-reviewedGenomics