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Anna E. Romano

California Institute of TechnologyORCID 0000-0002-7148-0668Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:human· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1

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Natalie J. Wu-WoodsiD· 2 shared Rustem F. IsmagiloviD· 2 shared Xinyue PeiiD· 2 shared Adam C. BledsoeiD· 1 shared Anika GuptaiD· 1 shared Bana JabrìiD· 1 shared Bishoy KameliD· 1 shared Christopher R. NeimethiD· 1 shared

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Fungal microbial enrichment method enables fungal metagenomics directly from human clinical samples

Michael K. Porter, Reid Akana, Anna E. Romano, Xinyue Pei, Bishoy Kamel, Sajeet Haridas, Kurt M. LaButti, Igor V. Grigoriev, Natalie J. Wu-Woods, Omai B. Garner, David M. Underhill, Rustem F. Ismagilov

This paper introduces fMEM, a fungal microbial enrichment method that enables direct fungal metagenomic analysis from clinical samples, recovering MAGs with high completeness and resolving clinically relevant genes.

bioRxiv · Jul 17, 2026 · PreprintBioengineering

Ultra-low biomass sequencing workflow (LBV-Seq) enables de novo metagenomic reconstruction of DNA and RNA viral genomes

Natalie J. Wu-Woods, Anna E. Romano, Christopher R. Neimeth, Anika Gupta, Xinyue Pei, Adam C. Bledsoe, Joseph A. Murray, Eric Vincent Marietta, Rok Seon Choung, Sonia S. Kupfer, Bana Jabrì, Rustem F. Ismagilov

LBV-Seq enables de novo reconstruction of DNA and RNA viral genomes from low-input samples, achieving broad genome coverage and resolving strains and gene-level variation.

bioRxiv · May 30, 2026 · PreprintGenomics