Paul Julian Kersey

The paper analyzes DNA degradation in herbarium specimens over time and environments, finding faster decay rates compared to archaeological samples and highlighting environmental factors as key drivers.

The paper develops an AI model to predict successful genomic DNA sequencing from herbarium specimens using morphological, metadata, and DNA quantity features.

The paper curates and presents a collection of long-read genome assemblies for Arabidopsis thaliana accessions to enhance plant genome research.

The paper analyzes whole-genome polymorphism data from 27 Arabidopsis thaliana genomes to highlight challenges and insights in unbiased genetic variation characterization.

MitoHiFi assembles mitochondrial genomes from PacBio HiFi reads, identifying heteroplasmy variants and excluding nuclear contaminants, and has been used to assemble 374 mitochondrial genomes.

The paper presents the genome of Lepeophtheirus salmonis, revealing copepod-specific features and parasitic adaptations, including gene expression shifts and loss of peroxisomes.

COPO provides a metadata platform to enable FAIR data sharing in life sciences by standardizing metadata description and repository integration.

This paper sequences the genome of Culicoides sonorensis and identifies differentially expressed genes associated with Bluetongue virus vector competence.

The paper integrates transcriptome data to annotate the Phaeodactylum tricornutum genome, identifies novel genes and alternative splicing, and explores the evolutionary origins of diatoms.