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Christian J. Stoeckert

Christian J. Stoeckert

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Genetics

D-Index
71
Citations
33955
World Ranking
2150
National Ranking
977

Overview

Christian J. Stoeckert is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and computer science domains. The scientist's work includes contributions to molecular biology, artificial intelligence, genetics, information systems, and ecology.

Their principal research topics cover a range of areas including biomedical text mining and ontologies, bioinformatics and genomic networks, semantic web and ontologies, genomics and phylogenetic studies, genomics and rare diseases, research data management practices, and pancreatic function and diabetes.

Recent scholarly publications include:

  • VEuPathDB: the eukaryotic pathogen, vector and host bioinformatics resource center (2021), published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • OBO Foundry in 2021: operationalizing open data principles to evaluate ontologies (2021), published in Database
  • Modelling kidney disease using ontology: insights from the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (2020), published in Nature Reviews Nephrology
  • ClinEpiDB: an open-access clinical epidemiology database resource encouraging online exploration of complex studies (2020), published in Gates Open Research
  • NIAGADS Alzheimer's GenomicsDB: A resource for exploring Alzheimer's disease genetic and genomic knowledge (2023), published in Alzheimer's & Dementia

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Emily Greenfest-Allen
  • Jie Zheng
  • Otto Valladares
  • Amanda B Kuzma
  • Yuk Yee Leung

The scientist often publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Alzheimer's & Dementia, Database, Nucleic Acids Research, and Nature Reviews Nephrology. Their most frequent publication venue is bioRxiv, where they have six publications, followed by Alzheimer's & Dementia with five.

Best Publications

  • OrthoMCL: identification of ortholog groups for eukaryotic genomes.

    Li Li;Christian J. Stoeckert;David S. Roos

  • Minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME)-toward standards for microarray data.

    Alvis Brazma;Pascal Hingamp;John Quackenbush;Gavin Sherlock

  • PlasmoDB: a functional genomic database for malaria parasites

    Cristina Aurrecoechea;John Brestelli;Brian P. Brunk;Jennifer Dommer

  • TriTrypDB: a functional genomic resource for the Trypanosomatidae

    Martin Aslett;Cristina Aurrecoechea;Matthew Berriman;John Brestelli

  • Comparative genomics of the neglected human malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax

    Jane M. Carlton;Jane M. Carlton;John H. Adams;Joana C. Silva;Shelby L. Bidwell

  • OrthoMCL-DB: querying a comprehensive multi-species collection of ortholog groups

    Feng Chen;Aaron J. Mackey;Christian J. Stoeckert;David S. Roos

  • PPARγ and C/EBP factors orchestrate adipocyte biology via adjacent binding on a genome-wide scale

    Martina I. Lefterova;Yong Zhang;David J. Steger;Michael Schupp

  • Promoting coherent minimum reporting guidelines for biological and biomedical investigations: the MIBBI project

    Chris F. Taylor;Chris F. Taylor;Dawn Field;Susanna Assunta Sansone;Susanna Assunta Sansone;Jan Aerts

  • Design and implementation of microarray gene expression markup language (MAGE-ML)

    Paul T Spellman;Michael Miller;Jason Stewart;Charles Troup

  • Prevention of Islet Allograft Rejection with Engineered Myoblasts Expressing FasL in Mice

    Henry T. Lau;Ming Yu;Adriano Fontana;Christian J. Stoeckert

  • ToxoDB: an integrated Toxoplasma gondii database resource.

    Bindu Gajria;Amit Bahl;John Brestelli;Jennifer Dommer

  • Promoter features related to tissue specificity as measured by Shannon entropy

    Jonathan Schug;Winfried-Paul Schuller;Claudia Kappen;J Michael Salbaum

  • Using OrthoMCL to assign proteins to OrthoMCL-DB groups or to cluster proteomes into new ortholog groups.

    Steve Fischer;Brian P. Brunk;Feng Chen;Xin Gao

  • PlasmoDB: the Plasmodium genome resource. A database integrating experimental and computational data

    Amit Bahl;Brian P. Brunk;Jonathan Crabtree;Martin J. Fraunholz

  • Coexisting proinflammatory and antioxidative endothelial transcription profiles in a disturbed flow region of the adult porcine aorta.

    Anthony G. Passerini;Denise C. Polacek;Congzhu Shi;Nadeene M. Francesco

  • Comparative analysis of RNA-Seq alignment algorithms and the RNA-Seq unified mapper (RUM)

    Gregory R. Grant;Michael H. Farkas;Angel D. Pizarro;Nicholas F. Lahens

  • Defining the mammalian CArGome

    Qiang Sun;Guang Chen;Jeffrey W. Streb;Xiaochun Long

  • VEuPathDB: the eukaryotic pathogen, vector and host bioinformatics resource center.

    Beatrice Amos;Cristina Aurrecoechea;Matthieu Barba;Ana Barreto

  • FungiDB: an integrated functional genomics database for fungi

    Jason E. Stajich;Todd W. Harris;Brian P. Brunk;John Brestelli

  • A simple spreadsheet-based, MIAME-supportive format for microarray data: MAGE-TAB

    Tim F Rayner;Philippe Rocca-Serra;Paul T Spellman;Helen C Causton

Frequent Co-Authors

David S. Roos
David S. Roos University of Pennsylvania
Jessica C. Kissinger
Jessica C. Kissinger University of Georgia
Helen Parkinson
Helen Parkinson European Bioinformatics Institute
Jonathan Schug
Jonathan Schug University of Pennsylvania
Peter F. Davies
Peter F. Davies University of Pennsylvania
Alvis Brazma
Alvis Brazma European Bioinformatics Institute
John Quackenbush
John Quackenbush Harvard University
Li-San Wang
Li-San Wang University of Pennsylvania
Gavin Sherlock
Gavin Sherlock Stanford University
Philippe Rocca-Serra
Philippe Rocca-Serra University of Oxford

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