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Taher Mun
Johns Hopkins UniversityORCID 0000-0002-3588-0883Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
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2019-2023 · peak 2/yrCo-Author Collaboration Network
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Pangenomic genotyping with the marker array
Taher Mun, Kavya Vaddadi, Ben Langmead
The paper introduces rowbowt, a tool for pangenomic genotyping using a marker array to improve accuracy and efficiency over existing methods.
Algorithms for Molecular Biology · May 5, 2023Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
LevioSAM: Fast lift-over of alternate reference alignments
Taher Mun, Nae-Chyun Chen, Ben Langmead
LevioSAM lifts SAM/BAM alignments between references using VCF files, achieving faster performance with multi-threading.
Bioinformatics · May 24, 2021Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Reducing reference bias using multiple population reference genomes
Nae-Chyun Chen, Brad Solomon, Taher Mun, Sheila Iyer, Ben Langmead
The paper introduces a reference flow alignment method that reduces reference bias using multiple population reference genomes, achieving similar accuracy to graph aligners with lower memory usage and faster speed.
Genome biology · Jan 4, 2021Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Efficient Construction of a Complete Index for Pan-Genomics Read Alignment
Alan Kuhnle, Taher Mun, Christina A. Boucher, Travis Gagie, Ben Langmead, Giovanni Manzini
The paper introduces an efficient method for constructing a complete index for pan-genomics read alignment, improving memory and time efficiency over existing methods.
Journal of Computational Biology · Mar 17, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Prefix-Free Parsing for Building Big BWTs
Christina A. Boucher, Travis Gagie, Alan Kuhnle, Ben Langmead, Giovanni Manzini, Taher Mun
The paper introduces a preprocessing algorithm called prefix-free parsing to efficiently build compressed Burrows-Wheeler Transform indexes for large genomic datasets.
Algorithms for Molecular Biology · May 24, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics