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Vanessa Molin Paynter

UiT The Arctic University of NorwayORCID 0000-0002-9944-8096Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 2 Evolutionary Biology· 1 Genomics· 1

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Approach:statistical model· 4 Research Focus:database / resource· 3 Assay:DNA methylation· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Organism:human· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Organism:rat· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2

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Bastian FrommiD· 3 shared Sinan U. UmuiD· 3 shared Kevin J. PetersoniD· 2 shared Ajay Kumar ParidaiD· 1 shared Alessandro FormaggioniiD· 1 shared Alexander W. Clarke· 1 shared Alexandra Pierce· 1 shared Anju Angelina HembromiD· 1 shared

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MirMachine 2: a scalable, evolutionarily informed pipeline for microRNA annotation and comparative genomics across thousands of animal genomes

Vanessa Molin Paynter, Sinan U. Umu, Jack A. S. Tierney, Francesca Floriana Tricomi, Leanne S. Haggerty, Bastian Fromm

MirMachine 2 annotates microRNAs across thousands of animal genomes, revealing methodological biases in apparent microRNA absence.

bioRxiv · May 21, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics

MirGeneDB 3.0: Improved taxonomic sampling, uniform nomenclature of novel conserved microRNA families, and updated covariance models.

Alexander W. Clarke, Eirik Høye, Anju Angelina Hembrom, Vanessa Molin Paynter, Jakob Vinther, Łukasz Wyrożemski, Inna Biryukova, Alessandro Formaggioni, Vladimir Y. Ovchinnikov, Holger Herlyn, Alexandra Pierce, Charles Wu, Morteza Aslanzadeh, Jeanne Chèneby, Pedro Martı́nez, , Bastian Fromm

MirGeneDB 3.0 updates the microRNA gene database with expanded species coverage, refined nomenclature, and improved covariance models for phylogenetic analysis.

Nucleic Acids Research · Nov 30, 2024Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology

Accurate microRNA annotation of animal genomes using trained covariance models of curated microRNA complements in MirMachine

Sinan U. Umu, Vanessa Molin Paynter, Håvard Trondsen, Tilo Buschmann, Trine B. Rounge, Kevin J. Peterson, Bastian Fromm

The paper introduces MirMachine, a tool that uses trained covariance models to annotate microRNA complements in genomes, enabling annotation of large and extinct genomes and assessing genome assembly completeness.

Cell Genomics · Jun 24, 2023Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

PAN-INDIA 1000 SARS-CoV-2 RNA Genome Sequencing Reveals Important Insights into the Outbreak

Arindam Maitra, Sunil K. Raghav, Ashwin Bhikaji Dalal, Farhan Ali, Vanessa Molin Paynter, Dhiraj Paul, Nidhan K. Biswas, Arup Ghosh, Kunal Jani, Sreedhar Chinnaswamy, Sanghamitra Pati, Arvind Sahu, Debashis Mitra, Manoj Kumar Bhat, Satyajit Mayor, , Saumitra Das

The paper sequences 1000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes from India, revealing multiple circulating lineages, predominant A2a haplotype with D614G mutation, and geographic mutation clustering.

bioRxiv · Aug 3, 2020 · PreprintGenomics