Heebal Kim

This study shows that while spinal somatosensory circuit organization is conserved in skates, molecular programs specifying sensory neuron subtypes are distinct from mammals.

The paper characterizes promoter methylation patterns across 82 vertebrate species using long-read sequencing data, revealing conserved and lineage-specific epigenetic features.

This study compares the accuracy of species-level classification and microbial community analysis using rRNA operon versus 16S rRNA gene and V3-V4 regions, finding the rRNA operon more accurate.

PaGeSearch identifies pathway genes in unannotated genomes using sequence similarity and neural networks, outperforming GeMoMa in sensitivity and positive predictive value.

The paper presents a scalable pipeline for reference genome assembly and evaluation, demonstrating its effectiveness across 51 vertebrate species using Galaxy.

The paper quantifies false duplications in genome assemblies of platypus, zebra finch, and Anna's hummingbird, showing they lead to overestimated gene family expansions.

The paper evaluates new vertebrate genome assemblies from the VGP against previous references, finding significant improvements in completeness and accuracy.

The paper summarizes methods and lessons from assembling 16 vertebrate genomes, highlights the importance of long-read sequencing, and introduces the Vertebrate Genomes Project to generate complete reference genomes for all vertebrate species.