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David Lougheed

@davidlougheed.bsky.social

Bioinformatics software developer at the Canadian Centre for Computational Genomics @ McGill University, Montreal. dlougheed.com

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David Lougheed @davidlougheed.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I'm a bit disappointed to learn that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social lacks a policy on clearly hallucinated references in preprints, unlike arXiv (www.nature.com/articles/d41...) – meaning bioRxiv preprints can mis-cite my/others' work with an invented author list & the wrong journal, DOI, and title...

A hallucinated reference to the STRkit tandem repeat caller

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David Lougheed @davidlougheed.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Work from my M.Sc. with @guilbourque.bsky.social is in this month's issue of Genome Research, detailing my short tandem repeat (STR) genotyping tool for long-read data! Article: genome.cshlp.org/content/36/3... STRkit: github.com/davidloughee...

genome.cshlp.org

Read-level genotyping of short tandem repeats using long reads and single-nucleotide variation with STRkit

An international, peer-reviewed genome sciences journal featuring outstanding original research that offers novel insights into the biology of all organisms

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bioRxiv Genetics @biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Long-read sequencing reveals telomere inheritance patterns from human trios www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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David Lougheed @davidlougheed.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I’m happy to (finally!) share STRkit, a short tandem repeat genotyping tool for long reads that I've developed in @guilbourque.bsky.social's group over the past few years. Here we describe STRkit & demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in some benchmarks – long reads are great for resolving STRs!

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