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Overview

Christine A. Orengo is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology as indicated by the majority of their publications.

The scientist's work spans several subfields including:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Genetics

Orengo's research covers a range of topics, prominently featuring:

  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Their recent papers include:

  • "The InterPro protein families and domains database: 20 years on" (2020), Nucleic Acids Research
  • "CATH: increased structural coverage of functional space" (2020), Nucleic Acids Research
  • "SARS-CoV-2 spike protein predicted to form complexes with host receptor protein orthologues from a broad range of mammals" (2020), Scientific Reports
  • "PDBe-KB: collaboratively defining the biological context of structural data" (2021), Nucleic Acids Research
  • "The ELIXIR Core Data Resources: fundamental infrastructure for the life sciences" (2020), Bioinformatics

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Ian Sillitoe
  • Nicola Bordin
  • Neeladri Sen
  • Vaishali Waman
  • Sameer Velankar

Orengo's publications are often found in venues such as:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Molecular Biology

Best Publications

  • CATH – a hierarchic classification of protein domain structures

    CA Orengo;AD Michie;S Jones;DT Jones

  • InterPro: the integrative protein signature database

    Sarah Hunter;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch

  • The InterPro protein families and domains database: 20 years on.

    Matthias Blum;Hsin Yu Chang;Sara Chuguransky;Tiago Grego

  • InterPro in 2017-beyond protein family and domain annotations

    Robert D. Finn;Teresa K. Attwood;Patricia C. Babbitt;Alex Bateman

  • InterPro in 2019: improving coverage, classification and access to protein sequence annotations.

    Alex L. Mitchell;Teresa K. Attwood;Patricia C. Babbitt;Matthias Blum

  • The InterPro protein families database: the classification resource after 15 years

    Alex L. Mitchell;Hsin-Yu Chang;Louise C. Daugherty;Matthew Fraser

  • InterPro in 2011: new developments in the family and domain prediction database

    Sarah Hunter;Philip Jones;Alex Mitchell;Rolf Apweiler

  • A large-scale evaluation of computational protein function prediction

    Predrag Radivojac;Wyatt T Clark;Tal Ronnen Oron;Alexandra M Schnoes

  • Protein superfamilies and domain superfolds.

    Christine A. Orengo;David T. Jones;David T. Jones;Janet M. Thornton

  • Protein structure alignment.

    William R. Taylor;Christine A. Orengo

  • Evolution of function in protein superfamilies, from a structural perspective.

    Annabel E Todd;Christine A Orengo;Janet M Thornton;Janet M Thornton

  • One Fold with Many Functions: The Evolutionary Relationships between TIM Barrel Families Based on their Sequences, Structures and Functions

    Nozomi Nagano;Christine A Orengo;Janet M Thornton;Janet M Thornton

  • Predicting protein function from sequence and structure

    David Lee;Oliver Redfern;Christine Orengo

  • New developments in the InterPro database

    Nicola J. Mulder;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch

  • Transient Protein-Protein Interactions: Structural, Functional, and Network Properties

    James R. Perkins;Ilhem Diboun;Benoit H. Dessailly;Jon G. Lees

  • Microarray analysis after RNA amplification can detect pronounced differences in gene expression using limma

    Ilhem Diboun;Lorenz Wernisch;Christine Anne Orengo;Martin Koltzenburg

  • CATH: comprehensive structural and functional annotations for genome sequences

    Ian Sillitoe;Tony E. Lewis;Alison L. Cuff;Sayoni Das

  • An expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy

    Yuxiang Jiang;Tal Ronnen Oron;Wyatt T. Clark;Asma R. Bankapur

  • SSAP: sequential structure alignment program for protein structure comparison.

    Christine A. Orengo;William R. Taylor

  • Protein families and their evolution-a structural perspective.

    Christine A. Orengo;Janet M. Thornton

Frequent Co-Authors

Janet M. Thornton
Janet M. Thornton European Bioinformatics Institute
Ian Sillitoe
Ian Sillitoe University College London
David A. Lee
David A. Lee Queen Mary University of London
David T. Jones
David T. Jones University College London
Julian Gough
Julian Gough University of Bristol
Burkhard Rost
Burkhard Rost Technical University of Munich
David L.H. Bennett
David L.H. Bennett University of Oxford
Roman A. Laskowski
Roman A. Laskowski European Bioinformatics Institute
William R. Taylor
William R. Taylor The Francis Crick Institute
Christophe Dessimoz
Christophe Dessimoz University College London

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