Researcher ports dREG peak-calling tool to GPU-backed pydreg using Claude and Codex, note on bioRxiv
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-16
- @missingarib announces a successful port/rewrite of the popular dREG peak calling method for nascent transcriptomics (GRO/PRO/ChRO/mNET-seq), built with the help of Claude and Codex; code is open-sourced.
- An application note describing pydreg and benchmarking its GPU implementation is now on bioRxiv.
- A concrete example of AI coding tools being applied to accelerate established bioinformatics software.
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