Gerardo Pepe

The paper uses whole genome sequencing to analyze the genetic structure of a Greek-speaking community in Southern Italy, finding no strong evidence for external origins and supporting a model of continuous gene flow.

The paper introduces CORAL, a deep learning framework for RNA-protein interaction prediction that improves generalization and interpretability through cross-attention mechanisms.

The paper integrates transcriptomic data from 10 autoimmune diseases to identify core immune mechanisms and disease-specific signatures, revealing shared and distinct immunopathological patterns through 15 immune modules.

The paper identifies conserved modular exonic regions in human lncRNAs, showing evidence of purifying selection and suggesting functional units similar to protein-coding genes.