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Selected Projects by Founder

Research, publications, and infrastructure built by Dr. Edwin Solares prior to and independent of EdgeConsults

Reducing Sturgeon Aquaculture Costs with AI-Assisted Phenotyping

Challenge: Determining the sex of sturgeon requires invasive, costly manual inspection. Aquaculture producers need a...

Up to 40% Reduction in Genome Assembly Error

Challenge: Redundant haplotype sequences are a persistent problem in diploid genome assembly, inflating assembly size...

Deep Learning for a Critically Endangered Species: Sex Determination in Red Abalone

Challenge: Red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) is a critically endangered species. Determining sex for breeding programs...

Tracing 11,000 Years of Avocado Domestication Through Population Genomics

Challenge: The domestication history of avocado spans thousands of years across Mesoamerica, but the genetic basis of...

Democratizing Genome Assembly: Reference-Quality for Under $1,000

Challenge: High-quality reference genome assemblies required expensive, high-coverage sequencing that put them out of...

Structural Variation Driving Grapevine Domestication

Challenge: Structural variants (inversions, duplications, translocations) shape genome architecture during...

gCluster: Research HPC Built from the Ground Up at UC Irvine

Challenge: The lab needed a high-performance computing cluster capable of handling large-scale genomic analyses,...
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