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Claire Menard

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PhD Candidate studying “jumping genes” in maize 🌽 | Hirsch Lab | Bioinformatics & Genomics | she/her

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Claire Menard @clairecodes.bsky.social · Aug 2

My first first author manuscript has posted! I’m very excited to share SWIF-TE with yall. It is a fast, memory efficient tool to identify novel TE insertions from short-read data. 🧬 #TEworldwide #transposons

bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · Aug 2

SWIF-TE: identifying novel transposable element insertions from short read data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667279v1

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Claire Menard @clairecodes.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you!! 😊

Claire Menard @clairecodes.bsky.social · Aug 3

Absolutely 😉

Claire Menard @clairecodes.bsky.social · Aug 2

Here is the GitHub link too. github.com/HirschLabUMN... #TEsky

GitHub - HirschLabUMN/SWIFTE

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Claire Menard @clairecodes.bsky.social · Aug 2

bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · Aug 2

SWIF-TE: identifying novel transposable element insertions from short read data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.30.667279v1

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Reposted by Claire Menard

Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · Jan 29

New Resource: "Transposon proliferation drives genome architecture and regulatory evolution in wild and domesticated peppers" rdcu.be/d7YSt

11 genomes of wild and domesticated pepper: transposable elements have shaped the evolution of genome structure.

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