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Todd J. Treangen

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Rice University
Verified email at rice.edu
Cited by 23684

Repetitive DNA and next-generation sequencing: computational challenges and solutions

TJ Treangen, SL Salzberg - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Repetitive DNA sequences are abundant in a broad range of species, from bacteria to
mammals, and they cover nearly half of the human genome. Repeats have always presented …

[HTML][HTML] Current progress and open challenges for applying deep learning across the biosciences

…, CR Wolfe, Z Yan, V Yao, TJ Treangen - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Deep Learning (DL) has recently enabled unprecedented advances in one of the grand
challenges in computational biology: the half-century-old problem of protein structure prediction. …

Genesis, effects and fates of repeats in prokaryotic genomes

TJ Treangen, AL Abraham, M Touchon… - FEMS microbiology …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
DNA repeats are causes and consequences of genome plasticity. Repeats are created by
intrachromosomal recombination or horizontal transfer. They are targeted by recombination …

[HTML][HTML] Mash: fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using MinHash

BD Ondov, TJ Treangen, P Melsted, AB Mallonee… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Mash extends the MinHash dimensionality-reduction technique to include a pairwise
mutation distance and P value significance test, enabling the efficient clustering and search of …

[HTML][HTML] The Harvest suite for rapid core-genome alignment and visualization of thousands of intraspecific microbial genomes

TJ Treangen, BD Ondov, S Koren, AM Phillippy - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Whole-genome sequences are now available for many microbial species and clades,
however existing whole-genome alignment methods are limited in their ability to perform …

GAGE: A critical evaluation of genome assemblies and assembly algorithms

…, D Puiu, T Magoc, S Koren, TJ Treangen… - Genome …, 2012 - genome.cshlp.org
New sequencing technology has dramatically altered the landscape of whole-genome
sequencing, allowing scientists to initiate numerous projects to decode the genomes of previously …

[HTML][HTML] Horizontal transfer, not duplication, drives the expansion of protein families in prokaryotes

TJ Treangen, EPC Rocha - PLoS genetics, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Gene duplication followed by neo- or sub-functionalization deeply impacts the evolution of
protein families and is regarded as the main source of adaptive functional novelty in …

[HTML][HTML] Deep sequencing of the oral microbiome reveals signatures of periodontal disease

…, M Ghodsi, DD Sommer, TR Gibbons, TJ Treangen… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The oral microbiome, the complex ecosystem of microbes inhabiting the human mouth, harbors
several thousands of bacterial types. The proliferation of pathogenic bacteria within the …

Next generation sequence assembly with AMOS

TJ Treangen, DD Sommer, FE Angly… - Current Protocols in …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A Modular Open‐Source Assembler (AMOS) was designed to offer a modular approach to
genome assembly. AMOS includes a wide range of tools for assembly, including the …

[HTML][HTML] MetAMOS: a modular and open source metagenomic assembly and analysis pipeline

TJ Treangen, S Koren, DD Sommer, B Liu… - Genome biology, 2013 - Springer
We describe MetAMOS, an open source and modular metagenomic assembly and analysis
pipeline. MetAMOS represents an important step towards fully automated metagenomic …