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Lorna Richardson

European Bioinformatics InstituteORCID 0000-0002-3655-5660Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:metagenomics· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:variant calling· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1

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Martín BeracocheaiD· 3 shared Robert D. FinniD· 3 shared Alejandra Escobar‐ZepedaiD· 1 shared Aydın BuluçiD· 1 shared Christian AtallahiD· 1 shared Daniel LundiniD· 1 shared Dattatray MongadiD· 1 shared Eleni AplakidouiD· 1 shared

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BioinformaticsGenome biologyPeer-reviewedOct 21, 2026

Biome-specific genome catalogues reveal functional potential of shallow sequencing

Alejandra Escobar‐Zepeda, Matti O. Ruuskanen, Martín Beracochea…·Leo Lahti

The paper introduces BioSIFTR, a tool that uses shallow shotgun sequencing and biome-specific databases to generate accurate taxonomic and functional profiles, validated against deep sequencing data.

DOI 10.1186/s13059-026-04303-8

humanmouse

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BioinformaticsGigaSciencePeer-reviewedJan 1, 2026

nf-core/proteinfamilies: A scalable pipeline for the generation of protein families

Evangelos Karatzas, Martín Beracochea, Fotis A. Baltoumas…·Robert D. Finn

The paper introduces a scalable pipeline for grouping protein sequences into families, showing it matches curated databases and scales linearly with input size.

DOI 10.1093/gigascience/giag009

proteomicsmetagenomics

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BioinformaticsGigaSciencePeer-reviewedJan 1, 2026

PIMENTO: A PrIMEr infereNce TOolkit to facilitate large-scale calling of amplicon sequence variants

Christian Atallah, Lorna Richardson, Martín Beracochea, Robert D. Finn

PIMENTO identifies and removes primer sequences from amplicon sequencing data to enable large-scale variant calling.

DOI 10.1093/gigascience/giag083

metagenomicsstatistical model

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