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Wing Yui Ngan

University of CambridgeORCID 0000-0002-8722-8942Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 1 Evolutionary Biology· 1 Genomics· 1

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Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 3 Organism:bacteria (other)· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:variant calling· 2 Research Focus:chromatin & epigenetic regulation· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1

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Ewan St. John SmithiD· 2 shared Alexander NateriD· 1 shared Alison J. BarkeriD· 1 shared Alyssa M. FontanillaiD· 1 shared Archana Lal Erdmann· 1 shared Cadia ChaniD· 1 shared Christoph H. BorchersiD· 1 shared Cláudia CamposiD· 1 shared

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Decoding the naked mole-rat genome, telomere to telomere

Dustin Sokolowski, Alexander Nater, Mihai Miclăuș, Wenjian Meng, Simon Monis, Wing Yui Ngan, Runjia Qu, Jason Erdmann, Alyssa M. Fontanilla, Vladimir A. Trifonov, DongAhn Yoo, Sana Akhtar Alvi, Alison J. Barker, Odei Barreñada, Jonathan Bayerl, , Gabriel Balmus

The paper presents a telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the naked mole-rat and compares it with a related species to identify gene losses and duplications associated with unique traits.

bioRxiv · Oct 16, 2026 · PreprintGenomics

Tandem: a bioinformatics tool for detection, mechanism classification, and population quantification of bacterial tandem gene duplications

Wing Yui Ngan, Ewan St. John Smith

Tandem detects, classifies, and quantifies bacterial tandem gene duplications in reference genomes and population samples with high accuracy.

bioRxiv · May 26, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics

Empirical evidence of a role for insertion sequences in the repair of DNA breaks in bacterial genomes

Wing Yui Ngan, Lavisha Parab, Frederic Bertels, Jenna Gallie

The paper provides empirical evidence that some insertion sequences (ISs) can repair DNA breaks in bacterial genomes by inserting without generating target site duplications (TSDs) during large-scale genome rearrangements.

mBio · Dec 5, 2024Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology