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Bahar Behsaz

University of California San Diego

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Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Assay:metagenomics· 2 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:long-read sequencing· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1

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Interpretable adenylation domain specificity prediction using protein language models

Abhinav Adduri, Andrew T. McNutt, Caleb N. Ellington, Krish Suraparaju, Nan Fang, Donghui Yan, Benjamin Krummenacher, Sitong Li, Camilla Bodden, Eric P. Xing, Bahar Behsaz, David Ryan Koes, Hosein Mohimani

The paper introduces MASPR, a machine learning method using protein language models to predict adenylation domain substrate specificities, enabling the prediction of hybrid NRP-PK natural products.

bioRxiv · Jan 13, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics

metaFlye: scalable long-read metagenome assembly using repeat graphs

Mikhail Kolmogorov, Derek M. Bickhart, Bahar Behsaz, Alexey A. Gurevich, Mikhail Rayko, Sung Bong Shin, Kristen L. Kuhn, Jeffrey Yuan, Evgeny Polevikov, Timothy P. L. Smith, Pavel A. Pevzner

metaFlye improves metagenome assembly using long-read sequencing, producing more contiguous and accurate assemblies with better reconstruction of 16S RNA genes and novel plasmids/viruses.

Nature Methods · Oct 5, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

De Novo Peptide Sequencing Reveals a Vast Cyclopeptidome in Human Gut and Other Environments

Bahar Behsaz, Hosein Mohimani, Alexey A. Gurevich, Andrey D. Prjibelski, Mark F. Fisher, Fernando Vargas, Larry L. Smarr, Pieter C. Dorrestein, Joshua S. Mylne, Pavel A. Pevzner

The paper introduces CycloNovo, a de novo cyclopeptide sequencing algorithm, revealing a vast hidden cyclopeptidome in the human gut and other environments.

Cell Systems · Dec 18, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics