Search Results - "SCHONFELD, Justin"

Universal whole-sequence-based plasmid typing and its utility to prediction of host range and epidemiological surveillance by Robertson, James, Bessonov, Kyrylo, Schonfeld, Justin, Nash, John H E

“…Bacterial plasmids play a large role in allowing bacteria to adapt to changing environments and can pose a significant risk to human health if they confer…”
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Critical dynamics in population vaccinating behavior by Pananos, A. Demetri, Bury, Thomas M., Wang, Clara, Schonfeld, Justin, Mohanty, Sharada P., Nyhan, Brendan, Salathé, Marcel, Bauch, Chris T.

“…Vaccine refusal can lead to renewed outbreaks of previously eliminated diseases and even delay global eradication. Vaccinating decisions exemplify a complex,…”
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High-throughput rapid amplicon sequencing for multilocus sequence typing of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae from archived clinical DNA samples by Framst, Isaac, Wolking, Rebecca M, Schonfeld, Justin, Ricker, Nicole, Beeler-Marfisi, Janet, Chalmers, Gabhan, Kamath, Pauline L, Maboni, Grazieli

“…Spillover events of have devastating effects on the wild sheep populations. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) is used to monitor spillover events and the…”
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Debates about vaccines and climate change on social media networks: a study in contrasts by Schonfeld, Justin, Qian, Edward, Sinn, Jason, Cheng, Jeffrey, Anand, Madhur, Bauch, Chris T.

“…Vaccines and climate change have much in common. In both cases, a scientific consensus contrasts with a divided public opinion. They also exemplify coupled…”
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Challenges and opportunities for public health made possible by advances in natural language processing by Baclic, Oliver, Tunis, Matthew, Young, Kelsey, Doan, Coraline, Swerdfeger, Howard, Schonfeld, Justin

“…Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of artificial intelligence devoted to understanding and generation of language. The recent advances in NLP…”
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When species matches are unavailable are DNA barcodes correctly assigned to higher taxa? An assessment using sphingid moths by Wilson, John James, Rougerie, Rodolphe, Schonfeld, Justin, Janzen, Daniel H, Hallwachs, Winnie, Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Kitching, Ian J, Haxaire, Jean, Hebert, Paul DN

“…BACKGROUND: When a specimen belongs to a species not yet represented in DNA barcode reference libraries there is disagreement over the effectiveness of using…”
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Sequence classification with side effect machines evolved via ring optimization by McEachern, Andrew, Ashlock, Daniel, Schonfeld, Justin

“…The explosion of available sequence data necessitates the development of sophisticated machine learning tools with which to analyze them. This study introduces…”
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A global survey of Salmonella plasmids and their associations with antimicrobial resistance by Robertson, James, Schonfeld, Justin, Bessonov, Kyrylo, Bastedo, Patrick, Nash, John H E

“…Plasmids are the primary vector for horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) within bacterial populations. We applied the MOB-suite, a toolset for…”
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Rapid and accurate SNP genotyping of clonal bacterial pathogens with BioHansel by Labbé, Geneviève, Kruczkiewicz, Peter, Robertson, James, Mabon, Philip, Schonfeld, Justin, Kein, Daniel, Rankin, Marisa A, Gopez, Matthew, Hole, Darian, Son, David, Knox, Natalie, Laing, Chad R, Bessonov, Kyrylo, Taboada, Eduardo N, Yoshida, Catherine, Ziebell, Kim, Nichani, Anil, Johnson, Roger P, Van Domselaar, Gary, Nash, John H E

“…Hierarchical genotyping approaches can provide insights into the source, geography and temporal distribution of bacterial pathogens. Multiple hierarchical SNP…”
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Complete Genome Sequences for 36 Canadian Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium and I 1,4,[5],12:i:- Isolates from Clinical and Animal Sources by Schonfeld, Justin, Clark, Clifford, Robertson, James, Arya, Gitanjali, Eagle, Shannon H C, Gurnik, Simone, Johnson, Roger, Labbe, Genevieve, Liu, Kira, Kernaghan, Shaun, Mazzocco, Amanda, MacKinnon, Joanne, Ziebell, Kim, Nash, John H E

“…Here, we report the complete genome sequences for 36 Canadian isolates of subsp. serovar Typhimurium and its monophasic variant I 1,4,[5]:12:i:- from both…”
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Translation tables: A genetic code in a evolutionary algorithm by Ashlock, Daniel, Schonfeld, Justin, McNicholas, Paul D.

“…The genetic code that maps triples of DNA onto amino acids, is a central part of the biochemistry of life. In this study we incorporate an analogous code,…”
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Evolution for automatic assessment of the difficulty of sokoban boards by Ashlock, D, Schonfeld, J

“…Many games have a collection of boards with the difficulty of an instance of the game determined by the starting configuration of the board. Correctly rating…”
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A fractal representation for real optimization by Ashlock, D., Schonfeld, J.

“…The chaos game, in which a moving point is repeatedly averaged toward randomly selected vertices of a triangle, is one method of generating the fractal called…”
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A modular data analysis pipeline for the discovery of novel RNA motifs by Schonfeld, Justin

“…This dissertation presents a modular software pipeline that searches collections of RNA sequences for novel RNA motifs. In this case the motifs incorporate…”
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Evolutionary dynamics of 'the' bdelloid and monogonont rotifer life-history patterns by KING, Charles E, RICCI, Claudia, SCHONFELD, Justin, SERRA, Manuel

“…Substantial differences in both life-table characteristics and reproductive patterns distinguish bdelloid from monogonont rotifers. Bdelloids reproduce only…”
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The effect of selection on the development of mutational robustness by Schonfeld, J., Louis, S.J.

“…This paper investigates the role of selection in the acquisition of mutational robustness for two test problems: rONEMAX and SAW. Three different selection…”
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Robustness in evolved grid structures by Ashlock, D., Schonfeld, J., Humphrey, J.

“…This study explores the ability of dynamic polyominos to acquire different types of robustness in a variety of environments. A polyomino is a collection of…”
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Evaluating Distance Measures for RNA Motif Search by Schonfeld, J., Ashlock, D.

“…This paper extends an earlier study which outlined a bioinformatic pipeline for exploratory search for RNA motifs incorporating both primary and secondary…”
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Classifying Cytochrome c Oxidase subunit 1 by translation initiation mechanism using side effect machines by Schonfeld, Justin, Ashlock, Dan

“…Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) is unusual among mitochondrial genes in that instead of using AUG or one of the recognized alternative start codons it…”
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An Updated Taxonomy of Evolutionary Computation Problems using Graph-based Evolutionary Algorithms by Ashlock, D.A., Bryden, K.M., Corns, S., Schonfeld, J.

“…Graph based evolutionary algorithms use combinatorial graphs to impose a topology or "geographic structure" on an evolving population. It has been demonstrated…”
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