Pilar Gallego has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 in Galicia“. This thesis aimed to examine…
Continue ReadingNew Paper: Tracing COVID-19 Dispersal in Galicia
We’re excited to share our newly published study, “Dispersal history of SARS‐CoV‐2 in Galicia, Spain,” in the Journal of Medical…
Continue ReadingCrykey: New Tool for Detecting SARS-CoV-2 Mutations in Wastewater
We have collaborated on a new paper on Nature Communications introducing Crykey, for large-scale detection of cryptic mutations in wastewater…
Continue ReadingNew paper: Detecting changes in the evolutionary rate of cell lineages
Check our new paper on changes in the evolutionary rate among somatic lineages! https://cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(23)00177-5… Here, we developed a novel phylogenetic…
Continue ReadingWe are hiring a lab tech!
We are looking for a full-time laboratory technician. Offer 1023-109593 (in Spanish and English) at https://secretaria.uvigo.gal/uv/web/convocatoria/public/show/1150. Open until June 6.…
Continue ReadingSIEVE: joint inference of single‑nucleotide
variants and cell phylogeny from single‑cell
DNA sequencing data
A very nice collaboration with the Szczurek and Beerenwinkel labs under the Computational ONcology TRaining Alliance Innovative Training (CONTRA) Network.…
Continue ReadingGenomic characterization of circulating tumor cells
Today out in Genomics! We found substantial differences in the mutational loads of CTC pools obtained using different CTC-capture methods.…
Continue ReadingOn the root of eukaryotes
We started this collaboration with the Katz lab and today is finally out! Using phylogenomics, we propose that the eukaryote…
Continue ReadingScalable single-cell phylogenies
Nice collaboration with Luay Nakhleh and Hamim Zafar labs on scalable single-cell phylogenetic inference: Phylovar: toward scalable phylogeny-aware inference of…
Continue Readingmini-review on single-cell DNA variant callers
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2022.06.013 Here, we review current approaches for single-cell variant calling, emphasizing single nucleotide variants. We highlight their potential benefits and shortcomings…
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