Author

Bayley R. McDonald

Washington State UniversityORCID 0009-0003-6148-5689Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

Biology Disciplines

Click to filter author papers

Signature Assays, Organisms & Methods

Click to filter · or open tag

Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1 Organism:mouse· 1

Frequent Co-Authors

Ashley Mae ConardiD· 1 shared Colette Lafontaine PicardiD· 1 shared Dmitry PenzariD· 1 shared Ian M. BrabbiD· 1 shared Ilya E. VorontsoviD· 1 shared Ivan KoziniD· 1 shared Ivan V. KulakovskiyiD· 1 shared Ivo GroßeiD· 1 shared

Activity by Year

2024-2026 · peak 1/yr

Co-Author Collaboration Network

10 top collaborators · 24 mutual co-author links

Click any collaborator node to inspect or filter shared papers

Focal author (center)Selected co-authorORCID co-authorUnlinked name

Curved chords = mutual co-authorship

1 shared paperBioinformatics

Ashley Mae ConardORCID

Mutual co-authors in cluster

Author profile →

2 papers

Recent·Most cited

BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintSep 24, 2026

EPIC: An open community challenge for sequence-based prediction of transcription initiation in five non-model metazoans

Ilya E. Vorontsov, Nikita Gryzunov, Bayley R. McDonald…·Sen Liu

EPIC challenges teams to predict transcription initiation from DNA sequence in non-model metazoans, aiming to assess generalizability beyond human and model species.

DOI 10.64898/2026.09.16.752171

non-human primatemouse

𝕏 PostBluesky

GenomicsNature PlantsPeer-reviewedJul 30, 2024

Enhancers associated with unstable RNAs are rare in plants

Bayley R. McDonald, Colette Lafontaine Picard, Ian M. Brabb…·Sascha H. C. Duttke

The paper identifies that unstable transcripts are rare in plants and often originate from promoters, challenging the use of genome annotations to infer enhancers.

21 citations

plant (other)bulk RNA-seq

𝕏 PostBluesky