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Overview

Daniel H. Haft is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular expertise in Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, and related subfields such as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The scientist's work covers key topics including Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Biochemical and Structural Characterization, Protein Structure and Dynamics, and Enzyme Structure and Function.

Daniel H. Haft has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Bacteriology
  • Scientific Reports

Selected recent papers include:

  • "InterPro in 2022," published in 2022 in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "The InterPro protein families and domains database: 20 years on," published in 2020 in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "AMRFinderPlus and the Reference Gene Catalog facilitate examination of the genomic links among antimicrobial resistance, stress response, and virulence," published in 2021 in Scientific Reports
  • "RefSeq: expanding the Prokaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline reach with protein family model curation," published in 2020 in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "InterPro: the protein sequence classification resource in 2025," published in 2024 in Nucleic Acids Research

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Michael Feldgarden, William Klimke, Arjun Prasad, Aron Marchler-Bauer, and Narmada Thanki, each contributing to multiple publications alongside Daniel H. Haft.

Best Publications

  • Reference sequence (RefSeq) database at NCBI: current status, taxonomic expansion, and functional annotation

    Nuala A. O'Leary;Mathew W. Wright;J. Rodney Brister;Stacy Ciufo

  • Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

    Malcolm J. Gardner;Neil Hall;Eula Fung;Owen White

  • Evolution and classification of the CRISPR-Cas systems

    Kira S. Makarova;Daniel H. Haft;Rodolphe Barrangou;Stan J. J. Brouns

  • Genome analysis of multiple pathogenic isolates of Streptococcus agalactiae: Implications for the microbial “pan-genome”

    Hervé Tettelin;Vega Masignani;Michael J. Cieslewicz;Claudio Donati

  • An updated evolutionary classification of CRISPR–Cas systems

    Kira S. Makarova;Yuri I. Wolf;Omer S. Alkhnbashi;Fabrizio Costa

  • InterPro: the integrative protein signature database

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

  • Evolutionary classification of CRISPR-Cas systems: a burst of class 2 and derived variants.

    Kira S. Makarova;Yuri I. Wolf;Jaime Iranzo;Sergey A. Shmakov

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

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

  • DNA sequence of both chromosomes of the cholera pathogen Vibrio cholerae

    John F. Heidelberg;Jonathan A. Eisen;William C. Nelson;Rebecca A. Clayton

  • Ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide natural products: Overview and recommendations for a universal nomenclature

    Paul G. Arnison;Mervyn J. Bibb;Gabriele Bierbaum;Albert Alexander Bowers

  • Evidence for lateral gene transfer between Archaea and Bacteria from genome sequence of Thermotoga maritima

    Karen E. Nelson;Rebecca A. Clayton;Steven R. Gill;Michelle L. Gwinn

  • The InterPro Database, 2003 brings increased coverage and new features

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

  • Complete Genome Sequence of a Virulent Isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae

    H. Tettelin;K. E. Nelson;I. T. Paulsen;Jonathan A Eisen

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

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

  • Complete Genome Sequence of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B Strain MC58

    Hervé Tettelin;Nigel J. Saunders;John Heidelberg;Alex C. Jeffries

  • The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification.

    Dawn Field;George Garrity;Tanya Gray;Norman Morrison

  • A Guild of 45 CRISPR-Associated (Cas) Protein Families and Multiple CRISPR/Cas Subtypes Exist in Prokaryotic Genomes

    Daniel Henry Haft;Jeremy Selengut;Emmanuel F. Mongodin;Karen E. Nelson

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

    Sarah Hunter;Philip Jones;Alex Mitchell;Rolf Apweiler

  • Genome sequence of the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans R1.

    O. White;J. A. Eisen;J. F. Heidelberg;E. K. Hickey

  • The TIGRFAMs database of protein families

    Daniel H. Haft;Jeremy D. Selengut;Owen White

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert J. Dodson
Robert J. Dodson Northwestern University
Claire M. Fraser
Claire M. Fraser University of Maryland, Baltimore
William C. Nelson
William C. Nelson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Ian T. Paulsen
Ian T. Paulsen Macquarie University
Robert T. DeBoy
Robert T. DeBoy J. Craig Venter Institute
Hoda Khouri
Hoda Khouri J. Craig Venter Institute
Sean C. Daugherty
Sean C. Daugherty University of Maryland, Baltimore
Karen E. Nelson
Karen E. Nelson J. Craig Venter Institute
John F. Heidelberg
John F. Heidelberg University of Southern California

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