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Heather C. Manching

North Carolina State UniversityORCID 0000-0002-6348-6808Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:plant (other)· 2 Research Focus:software / tool· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Assay:imaging· 1 Approach:simulation· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Adam M. DimechiD· 1 shared Adrian F. PowelliD· 1 shared Adriane E. ThompsoniD· 1 shared Alexander KutscheraiD· 1 shared Alina ZareiD· 1 shared Allison Krill-Brown· 1 shared Anna L. CastoiD· 1 shared Annarita MarranoiD· 1 shared

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Breedbase 2.0 - expanding the functionality for traditional breeding and transgenics

Srikanth Kumar Karaikal, Ryan S Preble, David J. Waring, Christiano C. Simoes, Isaak Tecle, Naama Menda, Titima Tantikanjana, Jing Zhang, Katherine Eaton, Keo Corak, Clayton L. Birkett, Allison Krill-Brown, Mitchell J. Feldmann, Christian E. Lamm, Mercedes Thieme, , Lukas A. Mueller

Breedbase 2.0 introduces new features for managing plant breeding data, including improved data handling, user permissions, trial quality control, and tools for transgenics and field layout.

bioRxiv · Oct 3, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics

PlantCV v4: Image analysis software for high-throughput plant phenotyping

Haley Schuhl, Keely E. Brown, Hudanyun Sheng, Parag K Bhatt, Jorge Gutierrez, Dominik Schneider, Anna L. Casto, Lucia Acosta‐Gamboa, Joe G. Ballenger, Fabio Barbero, Jackson Braley, Autumn Brown, Leonardo Chavez, Shannon S Cunningham, Malinda Dilhara, , Noah Fahlgren

PlantCV v4 improves usability and functionality for plant phenotyping by adding new image types and tutorials for non-coding researchers.

The Plant Phenome Journal · Feb 16, 2026Peer-reviewedPlant Biology

SPEARS: Standard Performance Evaluation of Ancestral Reconstruction through Simulation

Heather C. Manching, Randall J. Wisser

SPEARS evaluates haplotype reconstruction accuracy by simulating ancestral haplotypes and assessing performance across genomic regions.

Bioinformatics · Aug 18, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics