Faith Okamoto

The paper introduces Centrolign, a tool for aligning centromeric regions, revealing mutation dynamics and enabling variant calling in human centromeres.

The paper updates Giraffe to map both long and short reads to large pangenome graphs, showing improved speed and accuracy compared to existing tools.

The paper describes a cost-effective, high-throughput genotyping method for heterogeneous stock rats using low-coverage sequencing data, achieving high accuracy comparable to high-coverage sequencing.

The paper genotypes Y and mitochondrial chromosomes in heterogeneous stock rats and finds no significant associations with complex traits, except for gene expression on these chromosomes.