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World Ranking
2933
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Arend Sidow is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, and Plant Science. The primary focus of Sidow's research has been in Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Gene expression and cancer classification, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications, as well as Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Sidow has published research in various peer-reviewed journals and preprint archives. Notable papers include:

  • Benchmarking challenging small variants with linked and long reads, 2022, Cell Genomics
  • Benchmarking challenging small variants with linked and long reads, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • De novo mutational signature discovery in tumor genomes using SparseSignatures, 2021, PLoS Computational Biology
  • Aquila enables reference-assisted diploid personal genome assembly and comprehensive variant detection based on linked reads, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Aquila_stLFR: diploid genome assembly based structural variant calling package for stLFR linked-reads, 2021, Bioinformatics Advances

Sidow has frequently collaborated with other researchers including Xin Zhou, Lu Zhang, David L. Dill, Yichen Henry Liu, and Griffin L. Grubbs.

Their work has been published notably in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Cell Genomics
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Nature Communications

Among awards, Sidow was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

    Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

  • The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

    E. A. Feingold;P. J. Good;M. S. Guyer;S. Kamholz

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

    Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

  • Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

    Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Michael L. Metzker;Donna M. Muzny

  • ChIP-seq guidelines and practices of the ENCODE and modENCODE consortia

    Stephen G. Landt;Georgi K. Marinov;Anshul Kundaje;Pouya Kheradpour

  • Identifying a high fraction of the human genome to be under selective constraint using GERP

    Eugene V. Davydov;David L. Goode;Marina Sirota;Gregory M. Cooper

  • Architecture of the human regulatory network derived from ENCODE data

    Mark B Gerstein;Anshul Kundaje;Manoj Hariharan;Stephen G Landt

  • Distribution and intensity of constraint in mammalian genomic sequence

    Gregory M. Cooper;Eric A. Stone;George Asimenos;Eric D. Green

  • A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)

    Richard M. Myers;John Stamatoyannopoulos;Michael Snyder;Ian Dunham

  • LAGAN and Multi-LAGAN: efficient tools for large-scale multiple alignment of genomic DNA.

    Michael Brudno;Chuong B. Do;Gregory M. Cooper;Michael F. Kim

  • Gene duplications and the origins of vertebrate development

    Peter W. H. Holland;Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez;Nic A. Williams;Arend Sidow

  • Genome-wide analysis of transcription factor binding sites based on ChIP-Seq data.

    Anton Valouev;David S Johnson;Andreas Sundquist;Catherine Medina

  • A high-resolution, nucleosome position map of C. elegans reveals a lack of universal sequence-dictated positioning

    Anton Valouev;Jeffrey Ichikawa;Thaisan Tonthat;Jeremy Stuart

  • SHRiMP: Accurate Mapping of Short Color-space Reads

    Stephen M. Rumble;Phil Lacroute;Adrian V. Dalca;Marc Fiume

  • Extensive sequencing of seven human genomes to characterize benchmark reference materials

    Justin M. Zook;David Catoe;Jennifer McDaniel;Lindsay Vang

  • Determinants of nucleosome organization in primary human cells

    Anton Valouev;Steven M. Johnson;Scott D. Boyd;Cheryl L. Smith

  • Jarid2/Jumonji Coordinates Control of PRC2 Enzymatic Activity and Target Gene Occupancy in Pluripotent Cells

    Jamy C. Peng;Anton Valouev;Tomek Swigut;Junmei Zhang

  • Global genomic profiling reveals an extensive p53-regulated autophagy program contributing to key p53 responses

    Daniela Kenzelmann Broz;Stephano Spano Mello;Kathryn T. Bieging;Dadi Jiang

  • Physicochemical constraint violation by missense substitutions mediates impairment of protein function and disease severity.

    Eric A. Stone;Arend Sidow

  • The origin, evolution, and functional impact of short insertion–deletion variants identified in 179 human genomes

    Stephen B. Montgomery;Stephen B. Montgomery;David L. Goode;Erika Kvikstad;Erika Kvikstad;Cornelis A. Albers;Cornelis A. Albers

Frequent Co-Authors

Serafim Batzoglou
Serafim Batzoglou Stanford University
Gregory M. Cooper
Gregory M. Cooper HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Eric A. Stone
Eric A. Stone North Carolina State University
Michael Brudno
Michael Brudno University of Toronto
Robert B. West
Robert B. West Stanford University
Justin M. Zook
Justin M. Zook National Institute of Standards and Technology
Richard M. Myers
Richard M. Myers HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder Stanford University
Mark Gerstein
Mark Gerstein Yale University
Eric D. Green
Eric D. Green National Institutes of Health

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