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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Dan Graur is affiliated with the University of Houston in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology with a focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work encompasses multiple topics, including Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, Cellular Transport and Secretion, Fractal and DNA Sequence Analysis, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior.

Dan Graur has contributed several research papers published across various venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • Slaying (Yet Again) the Brain-Eating Zombie Called the "Isochore Theory": A Segmentation Algorithm Used to "Confirm" the Existence of Isochores Creates "Isochores" Where None Exist, 2022, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • On the Unfounded Enthusiasm for Soft Selective Sweeps III: The Supervised Machine Learning Algorithm That Isn't, 2021, Genes
  • On the Inapplicability of Supervised Machine Learning to Evolutionary Studies, 2020, Preprints.org
  • On the Inapplicability of Supervised Machine Learning to Studying the Driving Forces of Evolution, 2021, Preprints.org
  • Stop using 'master-slave' terminology in biology, 2021, Nature

The frequent coauthor with whom Dan Graur has published is Eran Elhaik.

Among publication venues where Dan Graur's work appears most is Preprints.org, with additional publications in International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Genes, and Nature.

In recognition of their contributions, Dan Graur was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Fundamentals of molecular evolution

    Dan Graur;Wen-Hsiung Li

  • Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera

    George M. Weinstock;Gene E. Robinson;Richard A. Gibbs;Kim C. Worley

  • The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum.

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Susan J. Brown

  • The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution

    Christine G. Elsik;Christine G. Elsik;Christine G. Elsik;Ross L. Tellam;Kim C. Worley;Kim C. Worley;Richard A. Gibbs

  • The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus.

    Erica Sodergren;George M. Weinstock;Eric H. Davidson;R. Andrew Cameron

  • Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species.

    John H. Werren;Stephen Richards;Christopher A. Desjardins;Oliver Niehuis

  • Reading the entrails of chickens: molecular timescales of evolution and the illusion of precision.

    Dan Graur;William Martin

  • GUIDANCE: a web server for assessing alignment confidence scores

    Osnat Penn;Eyal Privman;Haim Ashkenazy;Giddy Landan

  • Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle

    Ewen F. Kirkness;Brian J. Haas;Brian J. Haas;Weilin Sun;Henk R. Braig

  • Alu-containing exons are alternatively spliced

    Rotem Sorek;Gil Ast;Dan Graur

  • ConSurf: an algorithmic tool for the identification of functional regions in proteins by surface mapping of phylogenetic information.

    Aharon Armon;Dan Graur;Nir Ben-Tal

  • On the immortality of television sets: "function" in the human genome according to the evolution-free gospel of ENCODE.

    Dan Graur;Yichen Zheng;Nicholas Price;Ricardo B.R. Azevedo

  • Patterns of Nucleotide Substitution in Pseudogenes and Functional Genes

    Takashi Gojobori;Wen-Hsiung Li;Dan Graur

  • Comparison of Site-Specific Rate-Inference Methods for Protein Sequences: Empirical Bayesian Methods Are Superior

    Itay Mayrose;Dan Graur;Nir Ben-Tal;Tal Pupko

  • Finding the missing honey bee genes: Lessons learned from a genome upgrade

    Christine G Elsik;Christine G Elsik;Kim C Worley;Anna K Bennett;Martin Beye

  • A Fast Algorithm for Joint Reconstruction of Ancestral Amino Acid Sequences

    Tal Pupko;Itsik Pe;Ron Shamir;Dan Graur

  • Is the Guinea-Pig a Rodent?

    Dan Graur;Dan Graur;Winston A. Hide;Winston A. Hide;Wen-Hsiung Li

  • Extent of protein polymosphism and the neutral mutation theory

    M Nei;D Graur

  • An Alignment Confidence Score Capturing Robustness to Guide Tree Uncertainty

    Osnat Penn;Eyal Privman;Giddy Landan;Dan Graur

  • Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution, 2nd Edition

    D. Graur;W. H. Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine G. Elsik
Christine G. Elsik University of Missouri
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Tal Pupko
Tal Pupko Tel Aviv University
Donna M. Muzny
Donna M. Muzny Baylor College of Medicine
Christie L. Kovar
Christie L. Kovar Baylor College of Medicine
Tal Dagan
Tal Dagan Kiel University
Kim C. Worley
Kim C. Worley Baylor College of Medicine
Wen-Hsiung Li
Wen-Hsiung Li Academia Sinica
Lora Lewis
Lora Lewis Baylor College of Medicine
George M. Weinstock
George M. Weinstock The Jackson Laboratory

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