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Warren Cheung, PhD, MSc

TitleBioinformatics Manager
InstitutionChildren's Mercy Kansas City
DepartmentGenomic Medicine Center
Address2401 Gillham Rd
Kansas City MO 64108
ORCID ORCID Icon0000-0003-0267-7464 Additional info
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    University of British Columbia, British Columbia CanadaPh.D.2012Bioinformatics
    Wasserman Laboratory, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics, British Columbia CanadaFellowship2013Bioinformatics
    McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre, Epigenetics Mapping Center, Quebec CanadaFellowship2016Genetics
    McGill University Health Centre, Quebec Canada Fellowship2017Genetics

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    Dr. Cheung’s research interests involve exploring the elegance of computational algorithms, focused in the myriad of diverse application domains of bioinformatics. His current ongoing projects involve high-throughput epigenomics datasets and associated data, interrogating the interplay between the genome, methylome, transcriptome, chromatin histone mark deposition and accessibility. Dr. Cheung previously worked on the epigenomics of pediatric glioblastomas, and his interests have also ranged as far as the inference of novel associations from medical subject annotations in the PubMed biomedical database, privacy in epigenomics and medical image analysis. He is currently focusing on simultaneous aggregate analysis of multiple single-cell transcriptomics from the 10X platforms, and bridging this with methylation and other datasets in human blood immune cell types.

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    1. Groza C, Schwendinger-Schreck C, Cheung WA, Farrow EG, Thiffault I, Lake J, Rizzo WB, Evrony G, Curran T, Bourque G, Pastinen T. Pangenome graphs improve the analysis of structural variants in rare genetic diseases. Nat Commun. 2024 Jan 22; 15(1):657. PMID: 38253606.
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    2. Smail C, Ge B, Keever-Keigher MR, Schwendinger-Schreck C, Cheung W, Johnston JJ, Barrett C, Feldman K, Cohen ASA, Farrow EG, Thiffault I, Grundberg E, Pastinen T. Complex trait associations in rare diseases and impacts on Mendelian variant interpretation. medRxiv. 2024 Jan 11. PMID: 38260377.
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    3. Dolzhenko E, English A, Dashnow H, De Sena Brandine G, Mokveld T, Rowell WJ, Karniski C, Kronenberg Z, Danzi MC, Cheung WA, Bi C, Farrow E, Wenger A, Chua KP, Mart?nez-Cerde?o V, Bartley TD, Jin P, Nelson DL, Zuchner S, Pastinen T, Quinlan AR, Sedlazeck FJ, Eberle MA. Characterization and visualization of tandem repeats at genome scale. Nat Biotechnol. 2024 Jan 02. PMID: 38168995.
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    4. Varberg KM, Dominguez EM, Koseva B, Varberg JM, McNally RP, Moreno-Irusta A, Wesley ER, Iqbal K, Cheung WA, Schwendinger-Schreck C, Smail C, Okae H, Arima T, Lydic M, Holoch K, Marsh C, Soares MJ, Grundberg E. Extravillous trophoblast cell lineage development is associated with active remodeling of the chromatin landscape. Nat Commun. 2023 08 10; 14(1):4826. PMID: 37563143.
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    5. Cheung WA, Johnson AF, Rowell WJ, Farrow E, Hall R, Cohen ASA, Means JC, Zion TN, Portik DM, Saunders CT, Koseva B, Bi C, Truong TK, Schwendinger-Schreck C, Yoo B, Johnston JJ, Gibson M, Evrony G, Rizzo WB, Thiffault I, Younger ST, Curran T, Wenger AM, Grundberg E, Pastinen T. Direct haplotype-resolved 5-base HiFi sequencing for genome-wide profiling of hypermethylation outliers in a rare disease cohort. Nat Commun. 2023 05 29; 14(1):3090. PMID: 37248219.
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    6. Fu Q, Cheung WA, Majnik AV, Ke X, Pastinen T, Lane RH. Adverse Maternal Environments Perturb Hepatic DNA Methylome and Transcriptome Prior to the Adult-Onset Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Mouse Offspring. Nutrients. 2023 Apr 30; 15(9). PMID: 37432267.
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    7. Zion TN, Berrios CD, Cohen ASA, Bartik L, Cross LA, Engleman KL, Fleming EA, Gadea RN, Hughes SS, Jenkins JL, Kussmann J, Lawson C, Schwager C, Strenk ME, Welsh H, Rush ET, Amudhavalli SM, Sullivan BR, Zhou D, Gannon JL, Heese BA, Moore R, Boillat E, Biswell RL, Louiselle DA, Puckett LMB, Beyer S, Neal SH, Sierant V, McBeth M, Belden B, Walter AM, Gibson M, Cheung WA, Johnston JJ, Thiffault I, Farrow EG, Grundberg E, Pastinen T. Insurance denials and diagnostic rates in a pediatric genomic research cohort. Genet Med. 2023 05; 25(5):100020. PMID: 36718845.
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    8. Shao X, Le Stunff C, Cheung W, Kwan T, Lathrop M, Pastinen T, Bougn?res P. Differentially methylated CpGs in response to growth hormone administration in children with idiopathic short stature. Clin Epigenetics. 2022 05 18; 14(1):65. PMID: 35585611.
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    9. Cohen ASA, Farrow EG, Abdelmoity AT, Alaimo JT, Amudhavalli SM, Anderson JT, Bansal L, Bartik L, Baybayan P, Belden B, Berrios CD, Biswell RL, Buczkowicz P, Buske O, Chakraborty S, Cheung WA, Coffman KA, Cooper AM, Cross LA, Curran T, Dang TTT, Elfrink MM, Engleman KL, Fecske ED, Fieser C, Fitzgerald K, Fleming EA, Gadea RN, Gannon JL, Gelineau-Morel RN, Gibson M, Goldstein J, Grundberg E, Halpin K, Harvey BS, Heese BA, Hein W, Herd SM, Hughes SS, Ilyas M, Jacobson J, Jenkins JL, Jiang S, Johnston JJ, Keeler K, Korlach J, Kussmann J, Lambert C, Lawson C, Le Pichon JB, Leeder JS, Little VC, Louiselle DA, Lypka M, McDonald BD, Miller N, Modrcin A, Nair A, Neal SH, Oermann CM, Pacicca DM, Pawar K, Posey NL, Price N, Puckett LMB, Quezada JF, Raje N, Rowell WJ, Rush ET, Sampath V, Saunders CJ, Schwager C, Schwend RM, Shaffer E, Smail C, Soden S, Strenk ME, Sullivan BR, Sweeney BR, Tam-Williams JB, Walter AM, Welsh H, Wenger AM, Willig LK, Yan Y, Younger ST, Zhou D, Zion TN, Thiffault I, Pastinen T. Genomic answers for children: Dynamic analyses of >1000 pediatric rare disease genomes. Genet Med. 2022 06; 24(6):1336-1348. PMID: 35305867.
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    10. Winkley K, Banerjee D, Bradley T, Koseva B, Cheung WA, Selvarangan R, Pastinen T, Grundberg E. Immune cell residency in the nasal mucosa may partially explain respiratory disease severity across the age range. Sci Rep. 2021 08 05; 11(1):15927. PMID: 34354210.
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    11. Winkley K, Koseva B, Banerjee D, Cheung W, Selvarangan R, Pastinen T, Grundberg E. High-resolution epigenome analysis in nasal samples derived from children with respiratory viral infections reveals striking changes upon SARS-CoV-2 infection. medRxiv. 2021 Mar 11. PMID: 33758880.
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    12. Cao M, Shao X, Chan P, Cheung W, Kwan T, Pastinen T, Robaire B. High-resolution analyses of human sperm dynamic methylome reveal thousands of novel age-related epigenetic alterations. Clin Epigenetics. 2020 12 14; 12(1):192. PMID: 33317634.
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    13. Madore AM, Pain L, Boucher-Lafleur AM, Morin A, Meloche J, Simon MM, Ge B, Kwan T, Cheung WA, Pastinen T, Laprise C. Asthma-associated polymorphisms in 17q12-21 locus modulate methylation and gene expression of GSDMA in na?ve CD4+ T cells. J Genet Genomics. 2020 03 20; 47(3):171-174. PMID: 32312674.
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    14. Vijay J, Gauthier MF, Biswell RL, Louiselle DA, Johnston JJ, Cheung WA, Belden B, Pramatarova A, Biertho L, Gibson M, Simon MM, Djambazian H, Staffa A, Bourque G, Laitinen A, Nystedt J, Vohl MC, Fraser JD, Pastinen T, Tchernof A, Grundberg E. Single-cell analysis of human adipose tissue identifies depot and disease specific cell types. Nat Metab. 2020 01; 2(1):97-109. PMID: 32066997.
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    15. Cheung WA, Shao X, Morin A, Siroux V, Kwan T, Ge B, A?ssi D, Chen L, Vasquez L, Allum F, Gu?nard F, Bouzigon E, Simon MM, Boulier E, Redensek A, Watt S, Datta A, Clarke L, Flicek P, Mead D, Paul DS, Beck S, Bourque G, Lathrop M, Tchernof A, Vohl MC, Demenais F, Pin I, Downes K, Stunnenberg HG, Soranzo N, Pastinen T, Grundberg E. Correction to: Functional variation in allelic methylomes underscores a strong genetic contribution and reveals novel epigenetic alterations in the human epigenome. Genome Biol. 2019 05 07; 20(1):89. PMID: 31064398.
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    16. Harutyunyan AS, Krug B, Chen H, Papillon-Cavanagh S, Zeinieh M, De Jay N, Deshmukh S, Chen CCL, Belle J, Mikael LG, Marchione DM, Li R, Nikbakht H, Hu B, Cagnone G, Cheung WA, Mohammadnia A, Bechet D, Faury D, McConechy MK, Pathania M, Jain SU, Ellezam B, Weil AG, Montpetit A, Salomoni P, Pastinen T, Lu C, Lewis PW, Garcia BA, Kleinman CL, Jabado N, Majewski J. H3K27M induces defective chromatin spread of PRC2-mediated repressive H3K27me2/me3 and is essential for glioma tumorigenesis. Nat Commun. 2019 03 19; 10(1):1262. PMID: 30890717.
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    17. Allum F, Hedman ?K, Shao X, Cheung WA, Vijay J, Gu?nard F, Kwan T, Simon MM, Ge B, Moura C, Boulier E, R?nnblom L, Bernatsky S, Lathrop M, McCarthy MI, Deloukas P, Tchernof A, Pastinen T, Vohl MC, Grundberg E. Dissecting features of epigenetic variants underlying cardiometabolic risk using full-resolution epigenome profiling in regulatory elements. Nat Commun. 2019 03 14; 10(1):1209. PMID: 30872577.
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    18. Quintana AM, Yu HC, Brebner A, Pupavac M, Geiger EA, Watson A, Castro VL, Cheung W, Chen SH, Watkins D, Pastinen T, Skovby F, Appel B, Rosenblatt DS, Shaikh TH. Mutations in THAP11 cause an inborn error of cobalamin metabolism and developmental abnormalities. Hum Mol Genet. 2017 08 01; 26(15):2838-2849. PMID: 28449119.
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    19. Cheung WA, Shao X, Morin A, Siroux V, Kwan T, Ge B, A?ssi D, Chen L, Vasquez L, Allum F, Gu?nard F, Bouzigon E, Simon MM, Boulier E, Redensek A, Watt S, Datta A, Clarke L, Flicek P, Mead D, Paul DS, Beck S, Bourque G, Lathrop M, Tchernof A, Vohl MC, Demenais F, Pin I, Downes K, Stunnenberg HG, Soranzo N, Pastinen T, Grundberg E. Functional variation in allelic methylomes underscores a strong genetic contribution and reveals novel epigenetic alterations in the human epigenome. Genome Biol. 2017 03 10; 18(1):50. PMID: 28283040.
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    20. Paul DS, Teschendorff AE, Dang MA, Lowe R, Hawa MI, Ecker S, Beyan H, Cunningham S, Fouts AR, Ramelius A, Burden F, Farrow S, Rowlston S, Rehnstrom K, Frontini M, Downes K, Busche S, Cheung WA, Ge B, Simon MM, Bujold D, Kwan T, Bourque G, Datta A, Lowy E, Clarke L, Flicek P, Libertini E, Heath S, Gut M, Gut IG, Ouwehand WH, Pastinen T, Soranzo N, Hofer SE, Karges B, Meissner T, Boehm BO, Cilio C, Elding Larsson H, Lernmark ?, Steck AK, Rakyan VK, Beck S, Leslie RD. Increased DNA methylation variability in type 1 diabetes across three immune effector cell types. Nat Commun. 2016 11 29; 7:13555. PMID: 27898055.
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    21. Chen L, Ge B, Casale FP, Vasquez L, Kwan T, Garrido-Mart?n D, Watt S, Yan Y, Kundu K, Ecker S, Datta A, Richardson D, Burden F, Mead D, Mann AL, Fernandez JM, Rowlston S, Wilder SP, Farrow S, Shao X, Lambourne JJ, Redensek A, Albers CA, Amstislavskiy V, Ashford S, Berentsen K, Bomba L, Bourque G, Bujold D, Busche S, Caron M, Chen SH, Cheung W, Delaneau O, Dermitzakis ET, Elding H, Colgiu I, Bagger FO, Flicek P, Habibi E, Iotchkova V, Janssen-Megens E, Kim B, Lehrach H, Lowy E, Mandoli A, Matarese F, Maurano MT, Morris JA, Pancaldi V, Pourfarzad F, Rehnstrom K, Rendon A, Risch T, Sharifi N, Simon MM, Sultan M, Valencia A, Walter K, Wang SY, Frontini M, Antonarakis SE, Clarke L, Yaspo ML, Beck S, Guigo R, Rico D, Martens JHA, Ouwehand WH, Kuijpers TW, Paul DS, Stunnenberg HG, Stegle O, Downes K, Pastinen T, Soranzo N. Genetic Drivers of Epigenetic and Transcriptional Variation in Human Immune Cells. Cell. 2016 11 17; 167(5):1398-1414.e24. PMID: 27863251.
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    22. Pupavac M, Watkins D, Petrella F, Fahiminiya S, Janer A, Cheung W, Gingras AC, Pastinen T, Muenzer J, Majewski J, Shoubridge EA, Rosenblatt DS. Inborn Error of Cobalamin Metabolism Associated with the Intracellular Accumulation of Transcobalamin-Bound Cobalamin and Mutations in ZNF143, Which Codes for a Transcriptional Activator. Hum Mutat. 2016 09; 37(9):976-82. PMID: 27349184.
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    23. Busche S, Shao X, Caron M, Kwan T, Allum F, Cheung WA, Ge B, Westfall S, Simon MM, Barrett A, Bell JT, McCarthy MI, Deloukas P, Blanchette M, Bourque G, Spector TD, Lathrop M, Pastinen T, Grundberg E. Population whole-genome bisulfite sequencing across two tissues highlights the environment as the principal source of human methylome variation. Genome Biol. 2015 Dec 23; 16:290. PMID: 26699896.
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    24. Zheng HF, Forgetta V, Hsu YH, Estrada K, Rosello-Diez A, Leo PJ, Dahia CL, Park-Min KH, Tobias JH, Kooperberg C, Kleinman A, Styrkarsdottir U, Liu CT, Uggla C, Evans DS, Nielson CM, Walter K, Pettersson-Kymmer U, McCarthy S, Eriksson J, Kwan T, Jhamai M, Trajanoska K, Memari Y, Min J, Huang J, Danecek P, Wilmot B, Li R, Chou WC, Mokry LE, Moayyeri A, Claussnitzer M, Cheng CH, Cheung W, Medina-G?mez C, Ge B, Chen SH, Choi K, Oei L, Fraser J, Kraaij R, Hibbs MA, Gregson CL, Paquette D, Hofman A, Wibom C, Tranah GJ, Marshall M, Gardiner BB, Cremin K, Auer P, Hsu L, Ring S, Tung JY, Thorleifsson G, Enneman AW, van Schoor NM, de Groot LC, van der Velde N, Melin B, Kemp JP, Christiansen C, Sayers A, Zhou Y, Calderari S, van Rooij J, Carlson C, Peters U, Berlivet S, Dostie J, Uitterlinden AG, Williams SR, Farber C, Grinberg D, LaCroix AZ, Haessler J, Chasman DI, Giulianini F, Rose LM, Ridker PM, Eisman JA, Nguyen TV, Center JR, Nogues X, Garcia-Giralt N, Launer LL, Gudnason V, Mellstr?m D, Vandenput L, Amin N, van Duijn CM, Karlsson MK, Ljunggren ?, Svensson O, Hallmans G, Rousseau F, Giroux S, Bussi?re J, Arp PP, Koromani F, Prince RL, Lewis JR, Langdahl BL, Hermann AP, Jensen JE, Kaptoge S, Khaw KT, Reeve J, Formosa MM, Xuereb-Anastasi A, ?kesson K, McGuigan FE, Garg G, Olmos JM, Zarrabeitia MT, Riancho JA, Ralston SH, Alonso N, Jiang X, Goltzman D, Pastinen T, Grundberg E, Gauguier D, Orwoll ES, Karasik D, Davey-Smith G, Smith AV, Siggeirsdottir K, Harris TB, Zillikens MC, van Meurs JB, Thorsteinsdottir U, Maurano MT, Timpson NJ, Soranzo N, Durbin R, Wilson SG, Ntzani EE, Brown MA, Stefansson K, Hinds DA, Spector T, Cupples LA, Ohlsson C, Greenwood CM, Jackson RD, Rowe DW, Loomis CA, Evans DM, Ackert-Bicknell CL, Joyner AL, Duncan EL, Kiel DP, Rivadeneira F, Richards JB. Whole-genome sequencing identifies EN1 as a determinant of bone density and fracture. Nature. 2015 Oct 01; 526(7571):112-7. PMID: 26367794.
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    25. Dyke SO, Cheung WA, Joly Y, Ammerpohl O, Lutsik P, Rothstein MA, Caron M, Busche S, Bourque G, R?nnblom L, Flicek P, Beck S, Hirst M, Stunnenberg H, Siebert R, Walter J, Pastinen T. Epigenome data release: a participant-centered approach to privacy protection. Genome Biol. 2015 Jul 17; 16:142. PMID: 26185018.
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    26. Joly Y, Dyke SO, Cheung WA, Rothstein MA, Pastinen T. Risk of re-identification of epigenetic methylation data: a more nuanced response is needed. Clin Epigenetics. 2015; 7:45. PMID: 25904991.
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    27. Cheung WA, Ouellette BF, Wasserman WW. Compensating for literature annotation bias when predicting novel drug-disease relationships through Medical Subject Heading Over-representation Profile (MeSHOP) similarity. BMC Med Genomics. 2013; 6 Suppl 2:S3. PMID: 23819887.
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    28. Cheung WA, Ouellette BF, Wasserman WW. Inferring novel gene-disease associations using Medical Subject Heading Over-representation Profiles. Genome Med. 2012; 4(9):75. PMID: 23021552.
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    29. Cheung WA, Ouellette BF, Wasserman WW. Quantitative biomedical annotation using medical subject heading over-representation profiles (MeSHOPs). BMC Bioinformatics. 2012 Sep 27; 13:249. PMID: 23017167.
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    30. Yusuf D, Butland SL, Swanson MI, Bolotin E, Ticoll A, Cheung WA, Zhang XY, Dickman CT, Fulton DL, Lim JS, Schnabl JM, Ramos OH, Vasseur-Cognet M, de Leeuw CN, Simpson EM, Ryffel GU, Lam EW, Kist R, Wilson MS, Marco-Ferreres R, Brosens JJ, Beccari LL, Bovolenta P, Benayoun BA, Monteiro LJ, Schwenen HD, Grontved L, Wederell E, Mandrup S, Veitia RA, Chakravarthy H, Hoodless PA, Mancarelli MM, Torbett BE, Banham AH, Reddy SP, Cullum RL, Liedtke M, Tschan MP, Vaz M, Rizzino A, Zannini M, Frietze S, Farnham PJ, Eijkelenboom A, Brown PJ, Laperri?re D, Leprince D, de Cristofaro T, Prince KL, Putker M, del Peso L, Camenisch G, Wenger RH, Mikula M, Rozendaal M, Mader S, Ostrowski J, Rhodes SJ, Van Rechem C, Boulay G, Olechnowicz SW, Breslin MB, Lan MS, Nanan KK, Wegner M, Hou J, Mullen RD, Colvin SC, Noy PJ, Webb CF, Witek ME, Ferrell S, Daniel JM, Park J, Waldman SA, Peet DJ, Taggart M, Jayaraman PS, Karrich JJ, Blom B, Vesuna F, O'Geen H, Sun Y, Gronostajski RM, Woodcroft MW, Hough MR, Chen E, Europe-Finner GN, Karolczak-Bayatti M, Bailey J, Hankinson O, Raman V, LeBrun DP, Biswal S, Harvey CJ, DeBruyne JP, Hogenesch JB, Hevner RF, H?ligon C, Luo XM, Blank MC, Millen KJ, Sharlin DS, Forrest D, Dahlman-Wright K, Zhao C, Mishima Y, Sinha S, Chakrabarti R, Portales-Casamar E, Sladek FM, Bradley PH, Wasserman WW. The transcription factor encyclopedia. Genome Biol. 2012; 13(3):R24. PMID: 22458515.
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    31. Fjell CD, Jenssen H, Cheung WA, Hancock RE, Cherkasov A. Optimization of antibacterial peptides by genetic algorithms and cheminformatics. Chem Biol Drug Des. 2011 Jan; 77(1):48-56. PMID: 20942839.
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    32. Cheung W, Hamarneh G. n-SIFT: n-dimensional scale invariant feature transform. IEEE Trans Image Process. 2009 Sep; 18(9):2012-21. PMID: 19502129.
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    33. Fjell CD, Jenssen H, Hilpert K, Cheung WA, Pant? N, Hancock RE, Cherkasov A. Identification of novel antibacterial peptides by chemoinformatics and machine learning. J Med Chem. 2009 Apr 09; 52(7):2006-15. PMID: 19296598.
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    34. Kemmer D, Podowski RM, Yusuf D, Brumm J, Cheung W, Wahlestedt C, Lenhard B, Wasserman WW. Gene characterization index: assessing the depth of gene annotation. PLoS One. 2008 Jan 23; 3(1):e1440. PMID: 18213364.
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