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Palash Sashittal

Princeton University
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Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 viral diversity within and across hosts

P Sashittal, Y Luo, J Peng, M El-Kebir - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, there is an urgent need to accurately infer the
evolutionary and transmission history of the virus to inform real-time outbreak management, …

[HTML][HTML] Application of high-throughput single-nucleus DNA sequencing in pancreatic cancer

…, I Masilionis, CA McIntyre, P Sashittal… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Despite insights gained by bulk DNA sequencing of cancer it remains challenging to
resolve the admixture of normal and tumor cells, and/or of distinct tumor subclones; high-throughput …

Design of SARS-CoV-2 variant-specific pcr assays considering regional and temporal characteristics

C Oh, P Sashittal, A Zhou, L Wang… - Applied and …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Monitoring the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 variants is necessary to make informed public
health decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. PCR assays have received global attention, …

[HTML][HTML] ConDoR: tumor phylogeny inference with a copy-number constrained mutation loss model

P Sashittal, H Zhang, CA Iacobuzio-Donahue… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
A tumor contains a diverse collection of somatic mutations that reflect its past evolutionary
history and that range in scale from single nucleotide variants (SNVs) to large-scale copy-…

doubletD: detecting doublets in single-cell DNA sequencing data

LL Weber, P Sashittal, M El-Kebir - Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation While single-cell DNA sequencing (scDNA-seq) has enabled the study of intratumor
heterogeneity at an unprecedented resolution, current technologies are error-prone and …

Data-driven sensor placement for fluid flows

P Sashittal, DJ Bodony - Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
Optimal sensor placement for fluid flows is an important and challenging problem. In this
study, we propose a completely data-driven and computationally efficient method for sensor …

Startle: a star homoplasy approach for crispr-cas9 lineage tracing

P Sashittal, H Schmidt, M Chan, BJ Raphael - Cell Systems, 2023 - cell.com
CRISPR-Cas9-based genome editing combined with single-cell sequencing enables the
tracing of the history of cell divisions, or cellular lineage, in tissues and whole organisms. …

[HTML][HTML] Jumper enables discontinuous transcript assembly in coronaviruses

P Sashittal, C Zhang, J Peng, M El-Kebir - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Genes in SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses in the order of Nidovirales are expressed by a
process of discontinuous transcription which is distinct from alternative splicing in eukaryotes …

[HTML][HTML] Parsimonious clone tree integration in cancer

P Sashittal, S Zaccaria, M El-Kebir - Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Every tumor is composed of heterogeneous clones, each corresponding to a
distinct subpopulation of cells that accumulated different types of somatic mutations, ranging …

Sampling and summarizing transmission trees with multi-strain infections

P Sashittal, M El-Kebir - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The combination of genomic and epidemiological data holds the potential to
enable accurate pathogen transmission history inference. However, the inference of outbreak …