Anton Bankevich

The paper shows that avian immunoglobulin loci use gene conversion instead of V(D)J recombination, with rapid evolution of inversions that generate pseudogenes as donors for antibody diversity.

The paper identifies a disrupted CCR5-like immunoglobulin gene in black-footed ferrets linked to increased susceptibility to plague caused by Yersinia pestis.

GnnDebugger uses Graph Neural Networks to correct errors in De Bruijn Graphs, improving genome assembly accuracy for diploid genomes with low coverage.

The paper compares IG/TR loci across 44 mammalian species, finding correlations in gene counts, structural patterns linked to population bottlenecks, and haplotype diversity suggesting limited recombination potential.

The paper presents haplotype-resolved genomes of six ape species with high accuracy and provides comparative analyses to study evolutionary diversity and gene family evolution.

The paper evaluates long-read genome assemblies of immunoglobulin loci across 74 vertebrates, identifies assembly errors, and demonstrates methods to correct them using a new pipeline called CloseRead.

This paper introduces LJA, an algorithm that improves genome assembly using long accurate reads by constructing multiplex de Bruijn graphs and reducing error rates.

mosaicFlye improves genome assemblies by resolving unbridged repeats in human, bacterial, and metagenomic datasets.