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Olivier Anoufa

European Bioinformatics InstituteORCID 0009-0007-1520-2800Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 1 Evolutionary Biology· 1

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

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Nick GoldmaniD· 2 shared Nicola De MaioiD· 2 shared Kyle SmithiD· 1 shared Nhan Ly-TrongiD· 1 shared Yatish TurakhiaiD· 1 shared

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintAug 7, 2026

Phylogeny-aided detection of contamination in nearly 5 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes

Olivier Anoufa, Nhan Ly-Trong, Nick Goldman, Nicola De Maio

The paper develops PhyCD to detect contamination in SARS-CoV-2 genomes, identifying 10,942 putative contamination events across nearly 5 million genomes.

DOI 10.64898/2026.08.07.743473

viruswhole-genome sequencing

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Evolutionary BiologyMolecular Biology and EvolutionPeer-reviewedOct 23, 2025

Highly recurrent multi-nucleotide mutations in SARS-CoV-2

Nicola De Maio, Olivier Anoufa, Kyle Smith…·Nick Goldman

The paper identifies highly recurrent multi-nucleotide mutations in SARS-CoV-2 and shows they are linked to transcription regulatory sequences, affecting computational evolutionary biology analyses.

3 citations

viruswhole-genome sequencing

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