Data & Analytics

AI-powered circulating tumor DNA dynamics analysis for molecular residual disease detection, treatment response monitoring, and early relapse prediction using liquid biopsy.

Analyzes pooled CRISPR screens with MAGeCK (Li et al 2014), covering count generation (mageck count), the RRA two-condition workflow (mageck test using alpha-RRA over per-sgRNA negative-binomial p-values), the MLE multi-condition workflow (mageck mle with explicit design matrix and beta-score output), normalization choice (median vs total vs control-sgRNA vs spike-in), sgRNA efficiency injection, paired-sample testing, time-course design, drug-screen versus dropout-screen design matrices, MAG...

Runs JACKS (Joint Analysis of CRISPR/Cas9 Knockout Screens; Allen et al 2019 Genome Research) which models per-sgRNA log-fold-change as the product of a treatment-dependent gene-essentiality term and a treatment-independent guide-efficacy term. Covers the Bayesian decomposition math, the hierarchical efficacy prior shared across screens performed with the same library, when JACKS outperforms MAGeCK (multi-screen joint analysis, libraries with broad efficacy variance) and when it does not (sin...

Analyzes CRISPR drug-modifier (chemogenomic) screens with drugZ (Li & Hart 2019 Genome Med), a bidirectional Z-score method that identifies synthetic-lethal sensitizing genes and resistance-conferring suppressor genes from vehicle vs drug comparisons. Covers vehicle-anchored design (not Day-0), the bidirectional Z math giving 2-3x sensitivity over MAGeCK / STARS / edgeR / RIGER on drug screens, per-gene sumZ and normZ, synth (sensitizer) vs supp (suppressor) FDR, multi-dose handling, integrat...

Quantifies CRISPR editing outcomes with CRISPResso2 (Clement 2019 Nat Biotechnol) across Cas9-nuclease (indels, HDR), CBE and ABE base editors (target conversion + bystander), and prime editor (pegRNA-templated) modes. Covers single-amplicon (CRISPResso), multi-sample batch (CRISPRessoBatch), pooled-amplicon (CRISPRessoPooled), WGS off-target (CRISPRessoWGS), and sample-comparison (CRISPRessoCompare) workflows; quantification-window math that controls what is called edited; substitution-vs-in...

Designs and analyzes combinatorial CRISPR screens covering paired-Cas9 (Big Papi, Najm 2018), enhanced AsCas12a multiplex (enCas12a, DeWeirdt 2021), in4mer 4-guide-array Cas12a (Esmaeili Anvar N et al 2024 Nat Commun 15:3577) and the Inzolia paralog-pair library, paralog-buffering detection (Dede 2020 Genome Biol; Thompson 2021 Cell Reports 36:109597), genetic-interaction (GI) scoring as observed_double_LFC minus expected_additive_double_LFC, synthetic-lethal and synthetic-rescue interaction ...

Batch effect correction for CRISPR screens covering ComBat empirical-Bayes, RUV, SVA, control-sgRNA normalization, and the model-based alternative of including batch as a covariate in MAGeCK MLE or Chronos. Covers screen-specific batch sources (passage cohort, library lot, infection day, sequencing run, Cas9 lot, FBS lot), PCA + variance-decomposition diagnostic to decide if correction is needed, when correction harms biology by over-correcting condition into batch, limma removeBatchEffect fo...

Identify recurrent and driver copy number alterations across a tumor cohort with GISTIC2 (G-score, Ziggurat deconstruction, focal vs broad/arm-level analysis, q-values from permutation) and quantify copy-number signatures with the Steele 2022 COSMIC framework and the Drews 2022 CINSignatures framework. Covers driver-gene localization from recurrence peaks, distinguishing focal drivers from arm-level passengers, and the caller-sensitivity caveats of copy-number signatures. Use when finding rec...

Normalize read-depth copy-ratio profiles and segment them into copy-number regions using circular binary segmentation (CBS, DNAcopy), hidden Markov models, HaarSeg, and fused-lasso methods. Covers GC-content, mappability, and replication-timing (wave-artifact) bias correction, panel-of-normals/PCA denoising, diploid-baseline centering, and algorithm selection by sequencing depth and event size. Use when choosing a segmentation algorithm, correcting depth bias, diagnosing oversegmentation or a...

Detect syntenic blocks and structural rearrangements between genomes using MCScanX (Wang 2012), JCVI/MCScan (Tang 2008 Python), GENESPACE (Lovell 2022) for orthology-anchored riparian visualization, SyRI for structural variation, AnchorWave for sequence-level synteny, i-ADHoRe 3.0 for highly diverged species, SynNet for synteny networks, and ntSynt for multi-genome macrosynteny. Use when identifying collinear gene blocks across species, distinguishing macrosynteny from microsynteny, detecting...

Detect introgression and admixture between species or populations using Dsuite (Malinsky 2021 fast D-statistics), Patterson's D / ABBA-BABA test (Green 2010; Durand 2011), f4-ratio and f-branch statistic (Malinsky 2018), TreeMix (Pickrell & Pritchard 2012), HyDe (Blischak 2018), QuIBL (Edelman 2019), sprime (Browning 2018), Twisst (Martin 2017), PhyloNet (Solis-Lemus 2017) for explicit phylogenetic networks, and qpAdm / qpGraph (Patterson 2012; Lipson 2013). Distinguish introgression from inc...

Map N6-methyladenosine (m6A) RNA modifications at single-nucleotide resolution using miCLIP (Linder 2015), miCLIP2 + m6Aboost machine learning (Kortel 2021), GLORI (Liu 2023, antibody-free chemical conversion), DART-seq (Meyer 2019, APOBEC1-YTH fusion), m6Anet (nanopore direct RNA), or MeRIP-seq with calibration. Use when distinguishing antibody-based from antibody-free m6A detection methods, applying the DRACH motif constraint, reconciling cross-method disagreements (DART 44% in DRACH vs GLO...

Detect single-nucleotide crosslink (CL) sites in CLIP-seq data using truncation patterns (iCLIP/eCLIP CITS), crosslink-induced mutations (HITS-CLIP CIMS deletions, PAR-CLIP T-to-C), or HMM/kernel-density methods (PureCLIP, PARalyzer, CTK). Use when single-nucleotide resolution is required for motif registration (mCross), allele-specific binding (BEAPR), variant-effect prediction, or comparing crosslink chemistry across CLIP variants.

Predict RBP binding from RNA sequence using deep learning models (RBPNet sequence-to-signal, RNAProt RNN, GraphProt2 GCN with structure, DeepCLIP, DeepRiPe multi-modal CNN) for variant-effect prediction, in silico binding-site discovery, model interpretation, and transfer learning from CLIP and RBNS datasets. Use when computational prediction of RBP binding from sequence is needed, evaluating variant effects on binding without further wet-lab experiments, comparing model performance, or train...

Performs logistic regression for clinical trial outcomes (binary, ordinal, multinomial) with marginal-vs-conditional estimand reporting per FDA 2023 covariate adjustment guidance, g-computation/standardisation for marginal effects, modified Poisson for RR, Brant test for proportional odds, Firth penalty for separation, and Hauck-Donner detection. Use when modeling binary or ordinal endpoints in confirmatory or exploratory clinical trials.

Computes and interprets treatment effect measures (OR, RR, RD, HR, NNT) with calibrated confidence intervals (Wilson, Newcombe, Miettinen-Nurminen, MOVER, profile likelihood, Bender NNT) and reports marginal vs conditional estimands per FDA 2023 covariate adjustment guidance. Use when reporting treatment effects in confirmatory trials, comparing effect sizes across studies, or constructing forest plots.

Reads, validates, and prepares CDISC SDTM and ADaM clinical trial data for analysis. Covers SDTM domain joins (DM, AE, EX, VS, LB, DS), ADaM architecture (ADSL, BDS, OCCDS, ADTTE) with traceability, treatment-emergent AE conventions, baseline derivation, SUPPQUAL/NSV handling, Define-XML 2.1, and Pinnacle 21 / CORE validation. Use when working with clinical trial datasets in CDISC SDTM/ADaM format, preparing analysis-ready data, or validating for regulatory submission.

Tests associations between categorical variables in clinical data using chi-square, Fisher's exact, Boschloo, Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel, and modern McNemar variants with calibrated confidence intervals (Wilson, Newcombe, Miettinen-Nurminen). Use when analyzing categorical outcomes, paired binary endpoints, or testing treatment-outcome independence in confirmatory or exploratory clinical trials.

Shotgun metagenomics profiling — taxonomy, resistome, and functional pathways

Annotates ChIP-seq peaks to genomic features, nearest genes, ENCODE candidate cis-regulatory elements (cCREs), and regulatory domains. Uses ChIPseeker (R), HOMER annotatePeaks.pl (CLI), pyranges (Python), GREAT/rGREAT (regulatory domain gene-set enrichment), ChIP-Enrich (locus-length-adjusted), ENCODE SCREEN cCRE classification (PLS/pELS/dELS/CTCF-only/DNase-H3K4me3), and ENCODE-rE2G for cell-type-specific enhancer-gene linking. Handles nearest-TSS vs host-gene ambiguity, promoter window defi...

Identifies differentially bound ChIP-seq regions between conditions using DiffBind, csaw (sliding windows), DESeq2/edgeR/PyDESeq2 on count matrices, NormR (control-aware), or MAnorm2. Distinguishes three distinct normalization problems (composition bias, trended bias, global shifts) and matches each to its appropriate fix including spike-in scaling. Use when comparing ChIP-seq binding between experimental conditions, choosing normalization for global vs local changes, integrating spike-in dat...

Trains and applies base-resolution deep learning models on ChIP-seq / ChIP-nexus / CUT&RUN data. Uses BPNet (Avsec 2021 Nat Genet 53:354; soft motif syntax from ChIP-nexus), chromBPNet (Pampari A et al 2025 Nat Genet; bias-factorized base-resolution profiles), EnFormer (Avsec 2021 Nat Methods 18:1196; 196 kb input, ~100 kb effective receptive field), DeepSEA (Zhou 2015; multi-task CNN), and JASPAR 2026 deep-learning collection (1259 BPNet ChIP models). Performs in silico mutagenesis for varia...

Analyzes alternative splicing at single-cell resolution. The first decision is library chemistry — 10X 3' is fundamentally limited (RT primes from poly-A, R2 falls in 3' UTR, <0.1 junction read per cell per AS event). Plate-based full-length methods (Smart-seq3, FLASH-seq, VASA-seq, STORM-seq) and single-cell long-read (MAS-Iso-seq, scISOr-Seq2) are the chemistries that give per-cell isoform structure. Tools include MARVEL (R, Smart-seq integrated), BRIE2 (Bayesian PSI with regulatory feature...

Creates sashimi-style plots showing RNA-seq read coverage and splice junction counts using ggsashimi (general-purpose, condition-grouped overlays), rmats2sashimiplot (rMATS-output-aware), MAJIQ-VOILA (LSV posteriors interactive HTML), leafviz (leafcutter clusters Shiny), Jutils (tool-agnostic heatmaps and sashimi for rMATS/leafcutter/SUPPA2/MAJIQ output), or pyGenomeTracks (multi-track publication figures). Tool choice depends on the upstream differential-splicing tool's output format and the...