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Austin Bird

Australian National University

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:fungi (other)· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1

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Abigail GraetziD· 2 shared Benjamin SchwessingeriD· 2 shared Jinghang Feng· 2 shared Alejandro Trujillo‐GonzáleziD· 1 shared Alex Ringeri· 1 shared Alistair R. McTaggartiD· 1 shared Amanda PadovaniD· 1 shared Camille Truong· 1 shared

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Benchmarking fungal species classification using Oxford Nanopore Technologies long-read ITS metabarcodes

Abigail Graetz, Jinghang Feng, Alex Ringeri, Austin Bird, Duong Vu, Camille Truong, Benjamin Schwessinger

This study benchmarks species classification of fungal ITS metabarcodes using ONT long-read sequencing, showing that threshold-based and machine learning classifiers outperform others in accuracy and consistency.

Fungal Genetics and Biology · Oct 25, 2025Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology

Mating-compatibility genes employed as diagnostic markers to identify novel incursions of the myrtle rust pathogen Austropuccinia psidii

Jinghang Feng, Austin Bird, Zhenyan Luo, Rita Tam, Luc Shepherd, Lydia Murphy, Lavi Singh, Abigail Graetz, Mareike Möller, Lílian Amorim, Nelson Sidnei Massola Júnior, M. Asaduzzaman Prodhan, Louise Simone Shuey, Douglas Beattie, Alejandro Trujillo‐González, , Thaís Regina Boufleur

This study develops a diagnostic method using mating-type HD locus alleles to identify new incursions of the myrtle rust pathogen Austropuccinia psidii.

bioRxiv · Feb 19, 2024 · PreprintPlant Biology