Nicolas Rohner
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Nicolas Rohner
@rohner.bsky.social
Professor of Animal Physiology @uni-muenster. Cavefish enthusiast, EvoDevo aficionado. Exploring starvation resistance & overeating in cavefish (and myself: intermittent fasting devotee and food lover).
Yeah! Welcome (back - kinda) to Europe! Let me know when you are there. I will visit!
September 2, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Excellent choice! Congratulations
July 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reposted by Nicolas Rohner
We developed CrossFilt, a read-level, cross-species filtering approach that avoids these errors without sacrificing usable data. It outperforms all existing strategies and exposes just how much signal in comparative genomics has been misread.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...
CrossFilt: A Cross-species Filtering Tool that Eliminates Alignment Bias in Comparative Genomics Studies
Comparative functional genomic studies are often affected by biased read mapping across species due to inter-species differences in genome structure, sequence composition, and annotation quality. We d...
doi.org
June 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM