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James A. Yorke

University of Maryland, College ParkORCID 0000-0002-9599-0136Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1 Organism:plant (other)· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Efficient evidence-based genome annotation with EviAnn

Aleksey V. Zimin, Daniela Puiu, Mihaela Pertea, James A. Yorke, Steven L. Salzberg

EviAnn improves eukaryotic genome annotation by using transcript alignments and protein homology, outperforming existing tools with less computational time.

Nature Methods · Jul 3, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Hybrid assembly of the large and highly repetitive genome of Aegilops tauschii, a progenitor of bread wheat, with the mega-reads algorithm

Aleksey V Zimin, Daniela Puiu, Ming-Cheng Luo, Tingting Zhu, Sergey Koren, James A. Yorke, Jan Dvorak, Steven Salzberg

The paper introduces a hybrid assembly method using long reads and short accurate reads to improve genome contiguity for a highly repetitive plant genome.

Genome Research · Jan 27, 2017Peer-reviewedBioinformatics