Adrian N. Ortiz-Velez

Moisture and material shape microbial communities in the built environment through disturbance-productivity relationships

The paper tests how moisture and building materials affect microbial diversity in the built environment, finding that disturbances reduce diversity in some cases and vary by material and microbe type.

Information theoretic inference of magnitude and direction of gene flow in metapopulation networks using nyemtaay, with potential for applications in metastasizing cancer clonal cell origin analysis

AutoPhy: Automated phylogenetic identification of novel protein subfamilies

AutoPhy automatically clusters protein sequences into monophyletic subfamilies without pre-defined thresholds, resolving misannotations and identifying novel functional groups and viral strains.

Data-Driven Mathematical Approach for Removing Rare Features in Zero-Inflated Datasets

The paper introduces CurvCut, a data-driven method to remove rare features from zero-inflated datasets by analyzing curvature in feature distribution histograms.