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Robert “Dennie” Patton, PhD

Computational biologist developing machine learning methods for translational genomics and precision oncology.

My work focuses on extracting clinically meaningful regulatory and phenotypic signals from complex biological data, with a current emphasis on cell-free DNA, liquid biopsy, and multi-omic inference. I am especially interested in methods that are mechanistically grounded, uncertainty-aware, and useful in real-world translational settings.

Current Focus

  • Regulatory-state inference from minimally invasive assays
  • Machine learning for tumor phenotyping, expression inference, and treatment-response monitoring
  • Multi-omic modeling with an emphasis on rigor, interpretability, and translational relevance
  • Open and reproducible research software for computational oncology

Selected Projects

Fragmentomic and phased-nucleosome analysis of cfDNA from BAM/CRAM data, with region-level feature extraction and signal profiling for downstream biomarker discovery and modeling.

Cancer subtype classification and heterogeneous phenotype fraction estimation from cfDNA-derived features using reference models built from biologically anchored training data.

Deep learning framework for predicting tumor gene-expression and regulatory programs from cfDNA-derived signal profiles, with emphasis on interpretability, robustness, and uncertainty calibration.

Selected Publications

Research Interests

I aim to build computational methods that move beyond static biomarker detection toward dynamic, mechanistically informed inference of tumor and tissue state. Long term, I am interested in scalable models that connect genomics, epigenomics, and transcriptomics in ways that are both scientifically rigorous and clinically actionable, with the power to reveal new insights around fundamental biology.

Links

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  1. Triton Triton Public

    As a cell-free DNA (cfDNA) processing pipeline, Triton conducts fragmentomic and phased-nucleosome coverage analyses on individual or composite genomic regions and outputs both region-level biomark…

    Python 1 1

  2. Keraon Keraon Public

    As a tool for cancer subtype prediction, Keraon uses features derived from cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in conjunction with PDX reference models to perform both classification and heterogenous phenotype f…

    Python 5 2