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Overview

Christophe Dessimoz is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Artificial Intelligence, Plant Science, and Ecology.

Their work covers a variety of topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Genetic diversity and population structure, Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies, as well as Semantic Web and Ontologies.

Frequent publication venues for Christophe Dessimoz include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), F1000Research, Bioinformatics, and Nucleic Acids Research.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Christophe Dessimoz are:

  • OMA orthology in 2021: website overhaul, conserved isoforms, ancestral gene order and more, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Quality assessment of gene repertoire annotations with OMArk, 2024, Nature Biotechnology
  • The phylogenetic range of bacterial and viral pathogens of vertebrates, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Want to track pandemic variants faster? Fix the bioinformatics bottleneck, 2021, Nature
  • The Quest for Orthologs orthology benchmark service in 2022, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Christophe Dessimoz include:

  • Yannis Nevers
  • Natasha Glover
  • Adrian Altenhoff
  • David Moi
  • Alex Warwick Vesztrocy

Best Publications

  • Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA

    Nick Goldman;Paul Bertone;Siyuan Chen;Christophe Dessimoz

  • Allele-Specific HLA Loss and Immune Escape in Lung Cancer Evolution

    Nicholas McGranahan;Rachel Rosenthal;Crispin T. Hiley;Crispin T. Hiley;Andrew J. Rowan

  • GOATOOLS: A Python library for Gene Ontology analyses.

    D. V. Klopfenstein;Liangsheng Zhang;Brent S. Pedersen;Fidel Ramírez

  • Survey of Branch Support Methods Demonstrates Accuracy, Power, and Robustness of Fast Likelihood-based Approximation Schemes

    Maria Anisimova;Manuel Gil;Manuel Gil;Jean-François Dufayard;Christophe Dessimoz;Christophe Dessimoz

  • Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast.

    Daniel C. Jeffares;Clemency Jolly;Mimoza Hoti;Doug Speed

  • Structural variant calling: the long and the short of it

    Medhat Mahmoud;Nastassia Gobet;Nastassia Gobet;Diana Ivette Cruz-Dávalos;Diana Ivette Cruz-Dávalos;Ninon Mounier

  • Approximate Bayesian computation

    Mikael Sunnåker;Alberto Giovanni Busetto;Elina Numminen;Jukka Corander

  • Phylogenetic and functional assessment of orthologs inference projects and methods.

    Adrian M. Altenhoff;Christophe Dessimoz

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

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

  • The CAFA challenge reports improved protein function prediction and new functional annotations for hundreds of genes through experimental screens

    Naihui Zhou;Yuxiang Jiang;Timothy R. Bergquist;Alexandra J. Lee

  • Inferring horizontal gene transfer.

    Matt Ravenhall;Nives Škunca;Florent Lassalle;Christophe Dessimoz

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

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

  • Current methods for automated filtering of multiple sequence alignments frequently worsen single-gene phylogenetic inference

    Ge Tan;Ge Tan;Matthieu Muffato;Christian Ledergerber;Javier Herrero;Javier Herrero

  • Resolving the Ortholog Conjecture: Orthologs Tend to Be Weakly, but Significantly, More Similar in Function than Paralogs

    Adrian M. Altenhoff;Romain A. Studer;Romain A. Studer;Romain A. Studer;Marc Robinson-Rechavi;Marc Robinson-Rechavi;Christophe Dessimoz;Christophe Dessimoz;Christophe Dessimoz

  • Base-calling for next-generation sequencing platforms

    Christian Ledergerber;Christophe Dessimoz

  • OMA 2011: orthology inference among 1000 complete genomes

    Adrian M. Altenhoff;Adrian Schneider;Gaston H. Gonnet;Christophe Dessimoz

  • Standardized benchmarking in the quest for orthologs

    Adrian M Altenhoff;Adrian M Altenhoff;Brigitte Boeckmann;Salvador Capella-Gutierrez;Daniel A Dalquen

  • The OMA orthology database in 2015: function predictions, better plant support, synteny view and other improvements

    Adrian M. Altenhoff;Nives Škunca;Nives Škunca;Nives Škunca;Natasha Glover;Clément-Marie Train

  • Phylo.io: Interactive Viewing and Comparison of Large Phylogenetic Trees on the Web

    Oscar Robinson;David Dylus;Christophe Dessimoz

  • The OMA orthology database in 2018: retrieving evolutionary relationships among all domains of life through richer web and programmatic interfaces.

    Adrian M Altenhoff;Adrian M Altenhoff;Natasha M Glover;Natasha M Glover;Clément-Marie Train;Clément-Marie Train;Klara Kaleb

  • Additional file 1 of An expanded evaluation of protein function prediction methods shows an improvement in accuracy

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Robinson-Rechavi
Marc Robinson-Rechavi University of Lausanne
Toni Gabaldón
Toni Gabaldón Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Maria Jesus Martin
Maria Jesus Martin European Bioinformatics Institute
Ioannis Xenarios
Ioannis Xenarios University of Lausanne
Nick Goldman
Nick Goldman European Bioinformatics Institute
Paul D. Thomas
Paul D. Thomas University of Southern California
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer Stockholm University
Daisuke Kihara
Daisuke Kihara Purdue University West Lafayette
David T. Jones
David T. Jones University College London

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