Daniel Paiva Agustinho

This paper identifies and characterizes two β-1,2-xylosyltransferases in Cryptococcus neoformans, showing they differentially impact glycan synthesis and capsule formation.

Omni2Tree directly analyzes raw sequencing reads to reconstruct viral phylogenies and identify diversification, outperforming assembly and reference-based methods in low-coverage scenarios.

This study analyzes RSV evolutionary dynamics across pre-pandemic, pandemic, and post-pandemic periods in Houston, finding reduced diversity during the pandemic and increased non-synonymous mutations in RSV/B.

This paper presents a probe-based capture enrichment method to obtain full-length genomes of RSV and HuNoV from clinical samples, achieving high completeness and improving variant tracking.

Assembling the Sequence Read Archive (27.3 million accessions) with over 100-fold compression enables minutes-scale k-mer search and mining of enzymes, plasmids, proteins and viral reactivation.