30/08/2026
🎉 Congratulations, Taimoor Khan
Alhamdulillah, we are proud to share and celebrate this amazing achievement by Taimoor, who participated in a 4-day hackathon organized by Baylor College of Medicine and sponsored by NVIDIA, DNAnexus, and Rice University.
In just four days, the team worked together to design, develop, execute, and present their findings—and successfully delivered some exciting results!
Their work identified 167 novel loci and around 4,400 novel motifs that were not previously referenced in the hg38/GRCh38 assembly. This opens up interesting opportunities to further explore the role of these novel tandem repeats in human diseases.
Congratulations to Taimoor and the entire team for this great achievement!
We are also happy to see the impact of collaborative learning and research support from Dr. Musharraf Jelani, Dr. Qaiser (), Fuzail Ahmad, and Waqas Khan for their support and training.
The workflow is open source: https://github.com/collaborativebioinformatics/inTRuder
Keep learning, collaborating, and making an impact!
Poster Credit: Awais Bhai