jakobheinz.bsky.social
@jakobheinz.bsky.social
Ph.D student @ Harvard BIG
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If you’re in Liverpool, stop by my poster A217 at ISMB/EECB 2025, and chat about all things pangenomes, MUMs, and alignment (and the Beatles or Oasis-mania)
July 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Excited to share our new preprint on detecting foldback artifacts in long reads with my advisors Matthew Meyerson and @lh3lh3.bsky.social ! Stop by poster C-180 on Wednesday at ISMB/ECCB2025 to learn more and chat!
July 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Our pre-print on investigating variation in South Asian genomes is now out!

Thank you to @mikeschatz.bsky.social, @rajivmccoy.bsky.social and @aabiddanda.bsky.social for all their work on this.

🧵 A thread on the key results and takeaways from our work:
Assembling unmapped reads reveals hidden variation in South Asian genomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653340v1
May 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Friends, LiftOn is now published in @genomeresearch.bsky.social! LiftOn maps genes across genomes using a protein-centric, homology-based approach with both DNA & protein alignments
@stevensalzberg.bsky.social Mihaela Pertea, Jakob Heinz, Alaina Shumate, Celine Hoh, Alan Mao
doi.org/10.1101/gr.2...
Combining DNA and protein alignments to improve genome annotation with LiftOn
An international, peer-reviewed genome sciences journal featuring outstanding original research that offers novel insights into the biology of all organisms
doi.org
March 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM