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Noah Alexander

UCLA
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[HTML][HTML] Extensive sequencing of seven human genomes to characterize benchmark reference materials

…, A Sidow, Z Weng, Y Liu, CE Mason, N Alexander… - Scientific data, 2016 - nature.com
The Genome in a Bottle Consortium, hosted by the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) is creating reference materials and data for human genome sequencing, as …

A robust benchmark for detection of germline large deletions and insertions

…, V Huang, A Rouette, N Alexander… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
New technologies and analysis methods are enabling genomic structural variants (SVs) to
be detected with ever-increasing accuracy, resolution and comprehensiveness. To help …

[HTML][HTML] Nanopore DNA sequencing and genome assembly on the International Space Station

…, S Federman, D Stryke, S Somasekar, N Alexander… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We evaluated the performance of the MinION DNA sequencer in-flight on the International
Space Station (ISS), and benchmarked its performance off-Earth against the MinION, Illumina …

[PDF][PDF] Geospatial resolution of human and bacterial diversity with city-scale metagenomics

…, S Dhanraj, T Nawrin, Y Saletore, N Alexander… - Cell systems, 2015 - cell.com
The panoply of microorganisms and other species present in our environment influence human
health and disease, especially in cities, but have not been profiled with metagenomics at …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehensive benchmarking and ensemble approaches for metagenomic classifiers

…, E Afshinnekoo, RJ Prill, E Hénaff, N Alexander… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Background One of the main challenges in metagenomics is the identification of microorganisms
in clinical and environmental samples. While an extensive and heterogeneous set of …

[HTML][HTML] Single-molecule sequencing detection of N6-methyladenine in microbial reference materials

ABR McIntyre, N Alexander, K Grigorev… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The DNA base modification N6-methyladenine (m 6 A) is involved in many pathways related
to the survival of bacteria and their interactions with hosts. Nanopore sequencing offers a …

A robust benchmark for germline structural variant detection

…, SME Sahraeian, V Huang, A Rouette, N Alexander… - BioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
New technologies and analysis methods are enabling genomic structural variants (SVs) to
be detected with ever-increasing accuracy, resolution, and comprehensiveness. Translating …

[HTML][HTML] Nanopore sequencing in microgravity

ABR McIntyre, L Rizzardi, AM Yu, N Alexander… - npj …, 2016 - nature.com
Rapid DNA sequencing and analysis has been a long-sought goal in remote research and
point-of-care medicine. In microgravity, DNA sequencing can facilitate novel astrobiological …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic methods and microbiological technologies for profiling novel and extreme environments for the extreme microbiome project (XMP)

…, TM Rock, K McGrath, N Alexander… - Journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Extreme Microbiome Project (XMP) is a project launched by the Association of Biomolecular
Resource Facilities Metagenomics Research Group (ABRF MGRG) that focuses on …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid antigen diversification through mitotic recombination in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

X Zhang, N Alexander, I Leonardi, C Mason… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Malaria parasites possess the remarkable ability to maintain chronic infections that fail to
elicit a protective immune response, characteristics that have stymied vaccine development …