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Evgeny M. Zdobnov is affiliated with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions in agricultural and biological sciences.

The main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these areas, they specialize in several subfields such as molecular biology, insect science, ecology, plant science, and genetics.

Key subfields of study are:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Insect Science
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Genetics

Their research covers a range of topics that include genomics and phylogenetic studies, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, microbial community ecology and physiology, gut microbiota and health, insect-plant interactions and control, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, and insect resistance and genetics.

Main topics of work include:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics

Evgeny M. Zdobnov has contributed to various publication venues, with multiple papers appearing particularly in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • BMC Biology
  • BMC Genomics

Frequent collaborators include Mosè Manni, Matthew Berkeley, Robert M. Waterhouse, Jaspreet Singh Saini, and Christel Hassler.

Representative recent publications include:

  • "BUSCO: Assessing Genomic Data Quality and Beyond," 2021, Current Protocols
  • "OrthoDB v11: annotation of orthologs in the widest sampling of organismal diversity," 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Gene content evolution in the arthropods," 2020, Genome Biology
  • "Phigaro: high-throughput prophage sequence annotation," 2020, Bioinformatics
  • "OrthoDB in 2020: evolutionary and functional annotations of orthologs," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research

Best Publications

  • BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

    Felipe A. Simão;Robert M. Waterhouse;Panagiotis Ioannidis;Evgenia V. Kriventseva

  • Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

    Robert H. Waterston;Kerstin Lindblad-Toh;Ewan Birney;Jane Rogers

  • BUSCO Update: Novel and Streamlined Workflows along with Broader and Deeper Phylogenetic Coverage for Scoring of Eukaryotic, Prokaryotic, and Viral Genomes.

    Mosè Manni;Mosè Manni;Matthew R Berkeley;Matthew R Berkeley;Mathieu Seppey;Mathieu Seppey;Felipe A Simão;Felipe A Simão

  • The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Robert A. Holt;G. Mani Subramanian;Aaron Halpern;Granger G. Sutton

  • Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

    Ladeana W. Hillier;Webb Miller;Ewan Birney;Wesley Warren

  • Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

    Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Michael L. Metzker;Donna M. Muzny

  • Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

    Andrew G. Clark;Michael B. Eisen;Michael B. Eisen;Douglas R. Smith;Casey M. Bergman

  • Human polymorphism at microRNAs and microRNA target sites.

    Liuqing Yang;Chunru Lin;Chunyu Jin;Joy C. Yang

  • BUSCO Applications from Quality Assessments to Gene Prediction and Phylogenomics.

    Robert M Waterhouse;Mathieu Seppey;Felipe A Simão;Mosè Manni

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

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

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

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

  • BUSCO: Assessing Genome Assembly and Annotation Completeness.

    Mathieu Seppey;Mosè Manni;Evgeny M Zdobnov

  • 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 ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex

    John K. Colbourne;Michael E. Pfrender;Michael E. Pfrender;Donald Gilbert;W. Kelley Thomas

  • Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector

    Vishvanath Nene;Jennifer R. Wortman;Daniel Lawson;Brian Haas

  • The InterPro database, an integrated documentation resource for protein families, domains and functional sites

    Rolf Apweiler;Terri K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch;Alex Bateman

  • Immunity-Related Genes and Gene Families in Anopheles gambiae

    George K. Christophides;Evgeny Zdobnov;Carolina Barillas-Mury;Ewan Birney

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

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

  • OrthoDB v10: sampling the diversity of animal, plant, fungal, protist, bacterial and viral genomes for evolutionary and functional annotations of orthologs.

    Evgenia V Kriventseva;Evgenia V Kriventseva;Dmitry Kuznetsov;Dmitry Kuznetsov;Fredrik Tegenfeldt;Fredrik Tegenfeldt;Mosè Manni;Mosè Manni

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert M. Waterhouse
Robert M. Waterhouse Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Kim C. Worley
Kim C. Worley Baylor College of Medicine
Hugh M. Robertson
Hugh M. Robertson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard A. Gibbs
Richard A. Gibbs Baylor College of Medicine
Donna M. Muzny
Donna M. Muzny Baylor College of Medicine
Stephen Richards
Stephen Richards South Australian Museum
Laurent Kaiser
Laurent Kaiser Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève
Christine G. Elsik
Christine G. Elsik University of Missouri
John H. Werren
John H. Werren University of Rochester
Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory

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