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Overview

Alexander R. Pico is affiliated with the Gladstone Institutes in the United States and has a research profile spanning biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their work primarily focuses on molecular biology with significant contributions to cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, physiology, cancer research, and immunology.

The scientist's publication record includes notable recent papers such as:

  • WikiPathways: connecting communities, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Proteogenomic Characterization of Endometrial Carcinoma, 2020, Cell
  • Proteogenomic insights into the biology and treatment of HPV-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, 2021, Cancer Cell
  • WikiPathways 2024: next generation pathway database, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • WebGestalt 2024: faster gene set analysis and new support for metabolomics and multi-omics, 2024, Nucleic Acids Research

Their work often involves collaboration, with frequent co-authors including Kristina Hanspers, Anders Riutta, Martina Kutmon, Egon Willighagen, and Ayushi Agrawal.

Alexander R. Pico has published extensively in key venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Immunology
  • Bioinformatics

The scientist's research interests cover several main topics including:

  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Gene expression and cancer classification
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods

The body of work reflects a focus on integrative and computational approaches to biological data, aiming to link molecular pathways, gene regulation, and disease mechanisms through advanced bioinformatics tools and genomic analyses.

Best Publications

  • Integration of biological networks and gene expression data using Cytoscape

    Melissa S Cline;Michael Smoot;Ethan Cerami;Allan Kuchinsky

  • Cytoscape Automation: empowering workflow-based network analysis.

    David Otasek;John H. Morris;Jorge Bouças;Alexander R. Pico

  • A travel guide to Cytoscape plugins

    Rintaro Saito;Michael E Smoot;Keiichiro Ono;Johannes Ruscheinski

  • WikiPathways : a multifaceted pathway database bridging metabolomics to other omics research

    Denise Slenter;Martina Kutmon;Kristina Hanspers;Anders Riutta

  • WikiPathways: connecting communities.

    Marvin Martens;Ammar Ammar;Anders Riutta;Andra Waagmeester

  • WikiPathways: Pathway Editing for the People

    Alexander R Pico;Thomas Kelder;Martijn P van Iersel;Kristina Hanspers

  • The BioPAX community standard for pathway data sharing

    Emek Demir;Emek Demir;Michael P. Cary;Suzanne Paley;Ken Fukuda

  • Integrated Proteogenomic Characterization of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma.

    David J. Clark;Saravana M. Dhanasekaran;Francesca Petralia;Jianbo Pan

  • Dynamic and Coordinated Epigenetic Regulation of Developmental Transitions in the Cardiac Lineage

    Joseph A. Wamstad;Jeffrey M. Alexander;Rebecca M. Truty;Avanti Shrikumar

  • Proteogenomic and metabolomic characterization of human glioblastoma

    Liang-Bo Wang;Alla Karpova;Marina A. Gritsenko;Jennifer E. Kyle

  • WikiPathways: building research communities on biological pathways

    Thomas Kelder;Martijn P. van Iersel;Kristina Hanspers;Martina Kutmon

  • PathVisio 3: an extendable pathway analysis toolbox.

    Martina Kutmon;Martijn P. van Iersel;Anwesha Bohler;Thomas Kelder

  • WikiPathways: capturing the full diversity of pathway knowledge.

    Martina Kutmon;Anders Riutta;Nuno Nunes;Kristina Hanspers

  • Presenting and exploring biological pathways with PathVisio

    Martijn P. van Iersel;Thomas Kelder;Alexander R. Pico;Kristina Hanspers

  • GenMAPP 2: new features and resources for pathway analysis

    Nathan Salomonis;Kristina Hanspers;Alexander C. Zambon;Karen Vranizan

  • exRNA Atlas Analysis Reveals Distinct Extracellular RNA Cargo Types and Their Carriers Present across Human Biofluids

    Oscar D. Murillo;William Thistlethwaite;Joel Rozowsky;Sai Lakshmi Subramanian

  • Affinity purification-mass spectrometry and network analysis to understand protein-protein interactions

    John H Morris;Giselle M Knudsen;Erik Verschueren;Jeffrey R Johnson

  • The BridgeDb framework: standardized access to gene, protein and metabolite identifier mapping services.

    Martijn P. van Iersel;Alexander R. Pico;Thomas Kelder;Jianjiong Gao

  • Cytoscape App Store

    Samad Lotia;Jason Montojo;Yue Dong;Gary D. Bader

  • RCy3: Network biology using Cytoscape from within R.

    Julia A. Gustavsen;Shraddha Pai;Ruth Isserlin;Barry Demchak

  • Mining biological pathways using WikiPathways web services.

    Thomas Kelder;Alexander R. Pico;Kristina Hanspers;Martijn P. van Iersel

Frequent Co-Authors

Egon Willighagen
Egon Willighagen Maastricht University
Bruce R. Conklin
Bruce R. Conklin University of California, San Francisco
Gary D. Bader
Gary D. Bader University of Toronto
Falk Schreiber
Falk Schreiber University of Konstanz
Katerina Akassoglou
Katerina Akassoglou University of California, San Francisco
Henning Hermjakob
Henning Hermjakob European Bioinformatics Institute
Susan M. Chang
Susan M. Chang University of California, San Francisco
Maciej Wiznerowicz
Maciej Wiznerowicz Poznan University of Medical Sciences
Emmanuel Barillot
Emmanuel Barillot Institute Curie

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