Djamal Belazzougui

This study implements whole-exome sequencing in Algeria for neurodevelopmental disorders, achieving molecular diagnoses in 8/14 cases and highlighting challenges in variant interpretation and database underrepresentation.

The paper introduces a method using IBLTs and syncmers to efficiently estimate Jaccard similarity and identify differing k-mers between genomic datasets.

The paper develops faster and more memory-efficient tools for computing and analyzing matching statistics between large genomes, enabling practical applications in comparative genomics.

The paper introduces Set-Min sketch, a probabilistic data structure for representing k-mer count tables with improved accuracy over existing methods.

The paper introduces a space-efficient framework for variable-order Markov models, reducing memory usage by up to 100 times compared to previous methods.