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68
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90

Overview

Berend Snel is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and specializes in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology with a primary focus on molecular biology as a subfield. Their research contributions include detailed studies in genetics, cell biology, plant science, and ecology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to the study of genomics and phylogenetic studies, protist diversity and phylogeny, mechanisms of RNA and protein synthesis, RNA modifications related to cancer, RNA research and splicing, dynamics of microtubules and mitosis, as well as microbial community ecology and physiology.

Berend Snel has published a notable number of articles in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Communications Biology
  • PLoS Biology
  • Genome Biology and Evolution

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Berend Snel feature prominent topics across evolutionary biology and molecular mechanisms. Examples include:

  • Timing the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity with ancient duplications, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Evolutionary Dynamics of the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint in Eukaryotes, 2020, Current Biology
  • Evolution and implications of de novo genes in humans, 2023, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Chromosomal instability by mutations in the novel minor spliceosome component CENATAC, 2021, The EMBO Journal
  • The Sugar Metabolic Model of Aspergillus niger Can Only Be Reliably Transferred to Fungi of Its Phylum, 2022, Journal of Fungi

Berend Snel collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Samuel H. A. von der Dunk
  • Geert J.P.L. Kops
  • Eelco C. Tromer
  • Paulien Hogeweg
  • Julian Vosseberg

The body of Berend Snel's work reflects comprehensive investigations into molecular biological processes, evolutionary patterns, and genomic structures, contributing to a better understanding of cellular complexity and genetic regulatory mechanisms across diverse biological systems.

Best Publications

  • Comparative assessment of large-scale data sets of protein-protein interactions.

    Christian von Mering;Roland Krause;Berend Snel;Michael Cornell

  • STRING: a database of predicted functional associations between proteins.

    Christian von Mering;Martijn A. Huynen;Daniel Jaeggi;Steffen Schmidt

  • STRING: known and predicted protein-protein associations, integrated and transferred across organisms

    Christian von Mering;Lars Juhl Jensen;Berend Snel;Sean D. Hooper

  • Toward Automatic Reconstruction of a Highly Resolved Tree of Life

    Francesca D. Ciccarelli;Tobias Doerks;Christian von Mering;Christopher J. Creevey

  • Deciphering the evolution and metabolism of an anammox bacterium from a community genome

    Marc Strous;Eric Pelletier;Sophie Mangenot;Thomas Rattei

  • Conservation of gene order: a fingerprint of proteins that physically interact

    Thomas Dandekar;Berend Snel;Martijn Huynen;Peer Bork

  • STRING: a web-server to retrieve and display the repeatedly occurring neighbourhood of a gene

    B. Snel;G. Lehmann;P. Bork;M. A. Huynen

  • The genome sequence of Bifidobacterium longum reflects its adaptation to the human gastrointestinal tract

    Mark A. Schell;Maria Karmirantzou;Berend Snel;David Vilanova

  • Genome phylogeny based on gene content

    Berend Snel;Berend Snel;Peer Bork;Martijn A. Huynen

  • STRING 7—recent developments in the integration and prediction of protein interactions

    Christian von Mering;Lars Juhl Jensen;Michael Kuhn;Samuel Chaffron

  • Predicting disease genes using protein–protein interactions

    Martin Oti;Berend Snel;Martijn A Huynen;Han G Brunner

  • Predicting protein function by genomic context: quantitative evaluation and qualitative inferences.

    Martijn Huynen;Berend Snel;Warren Lathe;Peer Bork

  • Genomes in Flux: The Evolution of Archaeal and Proteobacterial Gene Content

    Berend Snel;Peer Bork;Martijn A. Huynen

  • The Arabidopsis bZIP transcription factor family-an update.

    Wolfgang Dröge-Laser;Basten L Snoek;Berend Snel;Christoph Weiste

  • Pathway alignment: application to the comparative analysis of glycolytic enzymes.

    Thomas Dandekar;Thomas Dandekar;Stefan Schuster;Berend Snel;Berend Snel;Martijn Huynen;Martijn Huynen;Martijn Huynen

  • The identification of functional modules from the genomic association of genes

    Berend Snel;Peer Bork;Martijn A. Huynen

  • The yeast coexpression network has a small-world, scale-free architecture and can be explained by a simple model

    Vera van Noort;Berend Snel;Martijn A Huynen

  • Large-Scale Genetic Perturbations Reveal Regulatory Networks and an Abundance of Gene-Specific Repressors

    Patrick Kemmeren;Katrin Sameith;Loes A L. van de Pasch;Joris Joris J Benschop

  • The R-spondin protein family.

    Wim B M de Lau;Berend Snel;Hans C Clevers

  • Re-annotating the Mycoplasma pneumoniae genome sequence: adding value, function and reading frames

    Thomas Dandekar;Martijn Huynen;Jörg Thomas Regula;Barbara Ueberle

Frequent Co-Authors

Martijn A. Huynen
Martijn A. Huynen Radboud University Medical Center
Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Geert J. P. L. Kops
Geert J. P. L. Kops Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Johannes Hanson
Johannes Hanson Umeå University
Jos Boekhorst
Jos Boekhorst Wageningen University & Research
Francine Govers
Francine Govers Wageningen University & Research
Thomas Dandekar
Thomas Dandekar University of Würzburg
Bas E. Dutilh
Bas E. Dutilh Utrecht University
Guido Van den Ackerveken
Guido Van den Ackerveken Utrecht University
Toni Gabaldón
Toni Gabaldón Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats

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