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Estimating Gene Prevalence with Incomplete Genomes: Application to the Prochlorococcus Pangenome
Stephen Blaskowski, Louis Goldwater Christie, Yubin Raut…·E. Virginia Armbrust
The paper develops a maximum-likelihood framework to estimate gene prevalence from incomplete genomes and applies it to Prochlorococcus, revealing a pangenome dominated by rare genes.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.19.760200