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Damon-Lee B Pointon

Wellcome Sanger InstituteORCID 0000-0003-2949-6719Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Genomics· 2 Bioinformatics· 1 Evolutionary Biology· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:genome assembly· 3 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 3 Assay:long-read sequencing· 2 Organism:multiple species· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Approach:comparative / phylogenetic analysis· 1

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Jonathan M. D. WoodiD· 4 shared Alan TraceyiD· 2 shared James TorranceiD· 2 shared Kerstin HoweiD· 2 shared Sarah E. PelaniD· 2 shared Ying SimsiD· 2 shared ABDOULAYE A. DJIMDÉiD· 1 shared Alex MakuniniD· 1 shared

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GenomicsPLoS PathogensPeer-reviewedOct 30, 2026

High quality chromosomal genome assemblies of three human Plasmodium species directly from natural infections

Sunil Kumar Dogga, Jesse Rop, Alex Makunin…·Mara Lawniczak

The paper generates high-quality chromosome-level genomes for three Plasmodium species from natural infections, improving understanding of their biology and evolution.

1 citation

humanlong-read sequencing

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintMar 13, 2025

A chromosome-level genome of the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus): a resource for linking genotype to fitness in a long-lived vertebrate

Josephine R. Paris, Flávia A. N. Fernandes, Camilla A. Santos…·Emiliano Trucchi

The paper presents a high-quality chromosome-level genome of the king penguin, improving assembly contiguity and annotation for studying genotype-fitness relationships.

1 citation

non-human primatewhole-genome sequencing

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprintFeb 26, 2025

Insights into the Evolution of Ancient Shark and Ray Sex Chromosomes

Szu-Hsuan Lee, Olivier D. Fedrigo, Léa Soler-Clavel…·Gavin J. P. Naylor

The paper examines sex chromosomes in 14 elasmobranch species, identifying conserved X chromosomes and a shared candidate gene for sex determination.

8 citations

multiple specieswhole-genome sequencing

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BioinformaticsGigaSciencePeer-reviewedJan 1, 2021

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Significantly improving the quality of genome assemblies through curation

Kerstin Howe, William Chow, Joanna Collins…·Jonathan M. D. Wood

gEVAL-assisted manual curation of 111 VGP and DToL assemblies averaged 221 interventions per Gb, raising mean scaffold N50 by 40% and cutting scaffold counts by 29%.

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