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Deepika Gunasekaran

San Diego State UniversityORCID 0000-0002-8227-7892Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 1 Genomics· 1 Microbiology· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:plant (other)· 1

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Afif ElghraouiiD· 2 shared Faramarz ValafariD· 2 shared Alyssa M. ZlotnickiiD· 1 shared Anthony D. BaughniD· 1 shared Beryl Ngabirano ArindaiD· 1 shared Carmela K. Chan· 1 shared Cassidy RobinholdiD· 1 shared Clarissa J. NobileiD· 1 shared

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MicrobiologyJournal of Visualized ExperimentsPeer-reviewedApr 17, 2026

An optimized protocol for Candida albicans infection in Schmidtea mediterranea to study fungal pathogenesis and host defense

Nora M. Shamoon, Beryl Ngabirano Arinda, Simriya Sandhu…·Clarissa J. Nobile

The paper presents an optimized protocol for infecting planarians with Candida albicans to study fungal pathogenesis and host defense mechanisms.

DOI 10.3791/70500

plant (other)experimental assay

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintNov 9, 2022

Hybran: Hybrid Reference Transfer and ab initio Prokaryotic Genome Annotation

Afif Elghraoui, Deepika Gunasekaran, Sarah M. Radecke…·Faramarz Valafar

Hybran combines reference-based and ab initio methods to annotate prokaryotic genomes, improving accuracy by leveraging conserved features and filling gaps with predictions.

4 citations

bacteria (other)whole-genome sequencing

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintJun 30, 2021

Structure-aware M. tuberculosis functional annotation uncloaks resistance, metabolic, and virulence genes

Samuel J. Modlin, Afif Elghraoui, Deepika Gunasekaran…·Faramarz Valafar

The paper updates functional annotations for Mycobacterium tuberculosis genes using literature curation and structural modeling, identifying resistance, metabolic, and virulence genes.

3 citations

humanwhole-genome sequencing

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