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Aranka Steyaert is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Information Technology (EA05) within the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University. She is affiliated with IMEC and focuses on bioinformatics and computational biology, particularly in modeling de Bruijn graphs and correcting sequencing errors using probabilistic graphical models. Her research spans genome assembly, variant calling, and metagenomics applications.
Her work integrates graph theory with machine learning to address challenges in next-generation sequencing data analysis. She has published extensively on methodologies for improving node and arc multiplicity estimation in de Bruijn graphs using conditional random fields. She also contributed to the development of the UMGAP metagenomics analysis pipeline.
Steyaert was supported by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as a Fellow from 2018 to 2022.
