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Boris Lenhard is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and works primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research publication record comprises 126 contributions exploring various subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Plant Science, Genetics, and Surgery.

The main research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

Lenhard's frequent collaborators include:

  • Damir Baranašić
  • Anthony Mathelier
  • Ieva Rauluševičiūtė
  • Albin Sandelin
  • Wyeth W. Wasserman

The scientist has published extensively in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Notable recent papers include:

  • JASPAR 2022: the 9th release of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles (2021, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • JASPAR 2024: 20th anniversary of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles (2023, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • RADICL-seq identifies general and cell type-specific principles of genome-wide RNA-chromatin interactions (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods (2020, PLoS Genetics)
  • Conservative route to genome compaction in a miniature annelid (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)

Best Publications

  • The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

    P. Carninci;T. Kasukawa;S. Katayama;J. Gough

  • The accessible chromatin landscape of the human genome

    Robert E. Thurman;Eric Rynes;Richard Humbert;Jeff Vierstra

  • JASPAR: an open‐access database for eukaryotic transcription factor binding profiles

    Albin Sandelin;Wynand Alkema;Pär G. Engström;Wyeth W. Wasserman

  • Analysis of the mouse transcriptome based on functional annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs

    Y. Okazaki;M. Furuno;T. Kasukawa;J. Adachi

  • A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

    Alistair R.R. Forrest;Hideya Kawaji;Michael Rehli;J. Kenneth Baillie

  • Antisense Transcription in the Mammalian Transcriptome

    S. Katayama;Y. Tomaru;T. Kasukawa;K. Waki

  • JASPAR 2020: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

    Oriol Fornes;Jaime Abraham Castro-Mondragón;Aziz Khan;Robin van der Lee

  • Genome-wide analysis of mammalian promoter architecture and evolution

    Piero Carninci;Albin Sandelin;Boris Lenhard;Boris Lenhard;Shintaro Katayama

  • JASPAR 2018: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles and its web framework

    Aziz Khan;Oriol Fornes;Arnaud Stigliani;Marius Gheorghe

  • JASPAR 2022: the 9th release of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles.

    Jaime A Castro-Mondragon;Rafael Riudavets-Puig;Ieva Rauluseviciute;Roza Berhanu Lemma

  • JASPAR 2014: an extensively expanded and updated open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles.

    Anthony Mathelier;Xiaobei Zhao;Allen W. Zhang;François Parcy

  • JASPAR 2016: a major expansion and update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

    Anthony Mathelier;Oriol Fornes;David J. Arenillas;Chih-Yu Chen

  • An Atlas of Combinatorial Transcriptional Regulation in Mouse and Man

    Timothy Ravasi;Harukazu Suzuki;Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci;Shintaro Katayama

  • JASPAR, the open access database of transcription factor-binding profiles: new content and tools in the 2008 update

    Jan Christian Bryne;Eivind Valen;Man-Hung Eric Tang;Troels Torben Marstrand

  • JASPAR 2010: the greatly expanded open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

    Elodie Portales-Casamar;Supat Thongjuea;Andrew T. Kwon;David J. Arenillas

  • Mammalian RNA polymerase II core promoters: insights from genome-wide studies

    Albin Sandelin;Piero Carninci;Boris Lenhard;Jasmina Ponjavic

  • Metazoan promoters: emerging characteristics and insights into transcriptional regulation

    Boris Lenhard;Boris Lenhard;Albin Sandelin;Piero Carninci

  • ConSite: web-based prediction of regulatory elements using cross-species comparison

    Albin Sandelin;Wyeth W. Wasserman;Boris Lenhard

  • The transcriptional network that controls growth arrest and differentiation in a human myeloid leukemia cell line

    Harukazu Suzuki;Alistair R.R. Forrest;Erik Van Nimwegen;Carsten O. Daub

  • Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones

    Tadashi Imanishi;Takeshi Itoh;Yutaka Suzuki;Claire O'Donovan

Frequent Co-Authors

Albin Sandelin
Albin Sandelin University of Copenhagen
Wyeth W. Wasserman
Wyeth W. Wasserman University of British Columbia
Claes Wahlestedt
Claes Wahlestedt University of Miami
David A. Hume
David A. Hume University of Queensland
Alistair R. R. Forrest
Alistair R. R. Forrest Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research

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