Isaac Turner

The paper develops a Bayesian method to detect host influences on pathogen evolution using large datasets, demonstrating improved precision in identifying HLA-induced selection in HIV-1.

The paper introduces a new data structure called the Linked de Bruijn Graph (LdBG) that integrates long-range connectivity information into de Bruijn graphs, improving performance in genome assembly and variant calling.

The paper identifies recombination hotspots in two bird species, finding they are shared between species and enriched near CpG islands and transcription start sites.