News

• [Jun. 20, 2024] Two recent publications by current and former lab members:
  • SifiNet: a robust and accurate method to identify feature gene sets and annotate cells. Available here. This paper develops a new pipeline to use gene co-expression graph topology to directly call feature genes, annotate cells, and study cell type transitions.
  • DYNATE: Localizing rare-variant association regions via multiple testing embedded in an aggregation tree. Available here. This paper developes a new hierarchical aggregation method to call genic regions harboring disease-associated rare variants.
• [Feb. 19, 2024] Congratulations to Yuxia Xie, who have received the 2024 Duke Center for Human Systems Immunology (CHSI) Pilot Award.
• [Feb. 5, 2024] Congratulations to Jilin and Yaoyao – both were admitted by multiple Ph.D. programs!