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Catalina Lagos

Universidad Andrés BelloORCID 0000-0003-1541-4815Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:fungi (other)· 2 Assay:long-read sequencing· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1

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Aaron O’BrieniD· 2 shared Barbara OjedaiD· 2 shared Kiara FernandeziD· 2 shared Pilar ParadaiD· 2 shared

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintMay 25, 2026

EMITS: expectation-maximization abundance estimation for fungal ITS communities from long-read sequencing

Aaron O’Brien, Catalina Lagos, Kiara Fernandez…·Pilar Parada

EMITS improves fungal ITS abundance estimation using expectation-maximization, outperforming naive counting and EMU in resolving closely related species and reducing errors.

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fungi (other)long-read sequencing

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintFeb 27, 2026

ITSxRust: ITS region extraction with partial-chain recovery and structured diagnostics for long-read amplicon sequencing

Aaron O’Brien, Catalina Lagos, Kiara Fernandez…·Pilar Parada

ITSxRust improves ITS region extraction from long-read amplicon sequencing by increasing accuracy and speed, with additional recovery of partial sequences.

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fungi (other)long-read sequencing

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