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Victor Lin

Fred Hutch Cancer CenterORCID 0000-0002-8670-3377Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:database / resource· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Organism:human· 1 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1

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Allison W LiiD· 1 shared Anderson Fernandes BritoiD· 1 shared Anton KorobeynikoviD· 1 shared Artem BabaianiD· 1 shared Basem Al-ShayebiD· 1 shared Benjamin BuchfinkiD· 1 shared Brie Taylor· 1 shared Cornelius RoemeriD· 1 shared

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2022-2026 · peak 1/yr

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Nextstrain automates real-time phylogenetic analysis of open data for endemic and emerging pathogens

Kimberly R. Andrews, Jennifer Chang, Cornelius Roemer, James Hadfield, Victor Lin, Anderson Fernandes Brito, Richard Olumide Daodu, I. A. Joia, Kathryn E. Kistler, Allison W Li, Louise H. Moncla, Miguel I. Paredes, Denise Kühnert, Laura Marcela Torres, Laura Voitl, , Trevor Bedford

Standardized Snakemake pipelines on GitHub Actions fetch open sequence data, curate it, and publish daily or weekly updated phylogenies for 21 viruses and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

bioRxiv · Jul 17, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics✦ In-depth digest

Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery

R. C. Edgar, Brie Taylor, Victor Lin, Tomer Altman, Pierre Barbera, Dmitry Meleshko, Dan Lohr, Gherman Novakovsky, Benjamin Buchfink, Basem Al-Shayeb, Jillian F. Banfield, Marcos de la Peña, Anton Korobeynikov, Rayan Chikhi, Artem Babaian

The paper develops a cloud computing infrastructure for petabase-scale sequence alignment, identifying over 105 novel RNA viruses and expanding known species by an order of magnitude.

Nature · Jan 26, 2022Peer-reviewedBioinformatics