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Nicolás Ayala

University of California, Santa CruzORCID 0009-0002-6494-9875Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:statistical model· 2 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Russell B Corbett-DetigiD· 2 shared Alan Zhang· 1 shared Alexander KrameriD· 1 shared Angie S. HinrichsiD· 1 shared Bianca De SanctisiD· 1 shared Lily KarimiD· 1 shared Maximilian GenettiiD· 1 shared Sumit WaliaiD· 1 shared

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintMar 30, 2026

Panmap: Scalable phylogeny-guided alignment, genotyping, and placement on pangenomes

Alexander Kramer, Alan Zhang, Nicolás Ayala…·Russell B Corbett-Detig

Panmap efficiently aligns, genotypes, and places reads on large pangenomes using phylogenetic compression, enabling rapid analysis of up to 8 million genomes.

DOI 10.64898/2026.03.29.711974

whole-genome sequencingstatistical model

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BioinformaticsPLoS GeneticsPeer-reviewedNov 28, 2023

Inferring multi-locus selection in admixed populations

Nicolás Ayala, Maximilian Genetti, Russell B Corbett-Detig

The paper develops a method to identify and quantify the effects of multiple linked selected sites in admixed populations, finding that linkage impacts selection estimates.

5 citations

Drosophilastatistical model

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