Lost Caller

Accurate DNA Base Caller

Extracting Caller Information from Voicemail

In this paper we address the problem of extracting the identities and phone numbers of the callers in voicemail messages. Previous work in information extraction from speech includes spoken document retrieval and named entity detection. This task differs from the named entity task in that the information we are interested in is a subset of the named entities in the message, and consequently, th...

avocado: A Variant Caller, Distributed

In this paper, we present avocado, a distributed variant caller built on top of ADAM and Spark. avocado’s goal is to provide both high performance and high accuracy in an open source variant calling framework. To achieve this, we implement both local assembly and pileup-based single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) calling. A key innovation presented in our work involves the development of heurist...

Caller Number Five : Timing Games

There are two varieties of timing games in economics: Having more predecessors helps in a war of attrition and hurts in a pre-emption game. This paper introduces and explores a spanning class with rank-order payoffs that subsumes both as special cases. Given unobserved actions and complete information, we identify equilibria with a rich enough structure to capture a wide array of economic and s...

Ococo: an online consensus caller

Motivation: The usual approach to variant calling from NGS data consists in inferring single nucleotide variants (SNVs) or more complex differences from read alignments. Consequently, variant calling is performed after all reads have been mapped to a reference genome and all read alignments are available. Existing variant callers usually operate by first sorting the alignments in increasing ord...