WABI 2025

WABI 2025 Poster presentations

Poster presenters, please place your posters on the board marked by the number listed here for your poster.

Make the posters at most 4 ft wide and 3 ft high.

Poster numberAuthorsTitle
1Rossie S. Luo, Ellen E. Vaughan, Justin R. Clark, Anthony W. Maresso, Michael G. Nute and Todd J. TreangenStrainify: Strain-Level Abundance Estimation for Short-read Metagenomics
2Steven Tan, Sina Majidian, Ben Langmead and Mohsen ZakeriMovi Color: fast and accurate long-read classification with the move structure
3Peter Heringer and Daniel DoerrEfficient data structures for coverage-based pangenome statistics
4Sina Majidian and Ben LangmeadMetaKpick: machine learning–based metagenomic classification with multi k-mer-based pangenome indexes information on submission
5Ryan Doughty, Michael Tisza and Todd Treangenbronko: ultra-rapid mapping-free detection of intrahost variation from viral amplicon sequencing data
6Anning Cui, Mihai Pop and Manasa AnnavaramExploring structural variants in microbiome communities through simplified graph representations
7Michael X. Wang, Bryce Kille, Michael G. Nute and Todd J. TreangenSeqwin: Identifying strain-specific signature sequences via minimizer graphs in 10s of thousands of microbial genomes
8Mao-Jan Lin, Ben Langmead and Yana Safonova Extending IGLoo to light chains: High-resolution analysis and assembly of IGK and IGL loci in lymphoblastoid cell lines with PacBio HiFi reads
9Md Hasin Abrar, Paul Medvedev and Giorgio VinciguerraEfficiency of Learned Indexes on Genome Spectra
10Nathaniel K. Brown, Lore Depuydt, Mohsen Zakeri, Anas Alhadi, Nour Allam, Dove Degleiter, Nithin Bharathi, Suchith Sridhar, Hamza Wahed, Travis Gagie and Benjamin LangmeadKeBaB: k-mer based breaking for finding long MEMs
11Haonan Wu, Antonio Blanca and Paul MedvedevA k-mer-based estimator of the substitution rate between repetitive sequences
12Rachel Parsons, Jessica M. Storer and Erin K. MolloyA novel pipeline for calling transposable elements presence/absence in repetitive regions from whole genome alignments
13Elizabeth Hunter and Rob PatroQuantifying uncertainty in metagenomic analysis: the impact of phylogenetic representation on classification entropy with Kraken2
14Nakyung Lee and Mihai PopAssessing the Impact of Database Quality on the Performance of Alignment-Based Sequence Search Tools
15Sina Majidian, Stephen Hwang, Mohsen Zakeri and Ben LangmeadEvANI benchmarking workflow for evolutionary distance estimation
16Yunzhuo Liu, Wesley Demontigny, Seyed Mohammad Saleh Ghaemi, Stratis Aloimonos, Jenan El-Hifnawi and Erin K. MolloyEvaluating the impact of species tree shape on new and old methods for species tree estimation
17Parth Dua, Rachel Parsons, Yunzhuo Liu and Erin K. MolloyEvaluating gene tree-based methods for orthology inference and their impact on species tree estimation
18Luiz Mata Lopez, Junyan Dai and Erin K. MolloyEvaluating tumor phylogeny methods under single nucleotide and copy number changes
19Nathalie Bonin, Rain Haworth and Mihai PopAn Evaluation of DeepARG – Does Deep Learning Really Provide a Significant Improvement Over the Best Hit Approach?
20Zahra Zare Jousheghani, Noor Pratap Singh and Rob PatroOarfish improves long-read RNA-seq quantification through enhanced probabilistic modeling of transcript abundance
21Rain Haworth, Seth Commichaux and Mihai PopTowards adversarial robustness in biological sequence databases: identifying random mutations in 16S rRNA
22Zhezhen Wang and Rob PatroSpatial Data Structures for Representing and Compressing Spatial Transcriptomics data
23Bunsho Koyano and Tetsuo ShibuyaFast and Accurate Comparison of Protein Conformational Ensembles