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Overview

Gavin Sherlock is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans key areas within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Ecology, and Infectious Diseases.

Their work covers main topics including:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Sherlock are:

  • "Acquisition, transmission and strain diversity of human gut-colonizing crAss-like phages," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Adaptation is influenced by the complexity of environmental change during evolution in a dynamic environment," 2021, PLoS Genetics
  • "Quantifying rapid bacterial evolution and transmission within the mouse intestine," 2021, Cell Host & Microbe
  • "Updates to the Alliance of Genome Resources central infrastructure," 2024, Genetics
  • "Saccharomyces Genome Database: advances in genome annotation, expanded biochemical pathways, and other key enhancements," 2024, Genetics

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Sherlock include:

  • Yuping Li
  • Fangfei Li
  • Ami S. Bhatt
  • Suzi Aleksander
  • J. Michael Cherry

Publishing outlets where Sherlock has contributed multiple times include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Genetics
  • Cell Host & Microbe
  • PLoS Genetics

The research profile demonstrates strong engagement in molecular evolution, genetic variation, and microbial genetics, supported by a consistent presence in several high-impact journals.

Best Publications

  • Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    M Ashburner;C A Ball;J A Blake;D Botstein

  • Distinct types of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma identified by gene expression profiling

    Ash A. Alizadeh;Michael B. Eisen;R. Eric Davis;Izidore S. Lossos

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

    D. Bell;A. Berchuck;M. Birrer;J. Chien

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization defines human glioblastoma genes and core pathways

    Roger McLendon;Allan Friedman;Darrell Bigner;Erwin G. Van Meir

  • Comprehensive Identification of Cell Cycle–regulated Genes of the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Microarray Hybridization

    Paul T. Spellman;Gavin Sherlock;Gavin Sherlock;Michael Q. Zhang;Vishwanath R. Iyer

  • Missing value estimation methods for DNA microarrays.

    Olga G. Troyanskaya;Michael N. Cantor;Gavin Sherlock;Patrick O. Brown

  • Minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME)-toward standards for microarray data.

    Alvis Brazma;Pascal Hingamp;John Quackenbush;Gavin Sherlock

  • GO: :TermFinder---open source software for accessing Gene Ontology information and finding significantly enriched Gene Ontology terms associated with a list of genes

    Elizabeth I. Boyle;Shuai Weng;Jeremy Gollub;Heng Jin

  • Identification of Genes Periodically Expressed in the Human Cell Cycle and Their Expression in Tumors

    Michael L. Whitfield;Gavin Sherlock;Alok J. Saldanha;John I. Murray

  • A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)

    Richard M. Myers;John Stamatoyannopoulos;Michael Snyder;Ian Dunham

  • Evolution of pathogenicity and sexual reproduction in eight Candida genomes.

    Geraldine Butler;Matthew D. Rasmussen;Michael F. Lin;Michael F. Lin;Manuel A. S. Santos

  • The Prognostic Role of a Gene Signature from Tumorigenic Breast-Cancer Cells

    Rui Liu;Xinhao Wang;Grace Y. Chen;Piero Dalerba;Piero Dalerba

  • GC-content normalization for RNA-Seq data.

    Davide Risso;Katja Schwartz;Gavin Sherlock;Sandrine Dudoit

  • A whole-genome microarray reveals genetic diversity among Helicobacter pylori strains

    Nina Salama;Karen Guillemin;Timothy K. McDaniel;Gavin Sherlock

  • Molecular characterisation of soft tissue tumours: a gene expression study

    Torsten O Nielsen;Rob B West;Sabine C Linn;Orly Alter

  • Analysis of large-scale gene expression data

    Gavin Sherlock

  • Design and implementation of microarray gene expression markup language (MAGE-ML)

    Paul T Spellman;Michael Miller;Jason Stewart;Charles Troup

  • The Stanford Microarray Database

    Gavin Sherlock;Tina Hernandez-Boussard;Andrew Kasarskis;Gail Binkley

  • Comparison of the Complete Protein Sets of Worm and Yeast: Orthology and Divergence

    Stephen A. Chervitz;L. Aravind;Gavin Sherlock;Catherine A. Ball

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

    D. Bell;A. Berchuck;M. Birrer;J. Chien

Frequent Co-Authors

David Botstein
David Botstein Princeton University
Paul T. Spellman
Paul T. Spellman Oregon Health & Science University
Jennifer R. Wortman
Jennifer R. Wortman Broad Institute
Gustavo C. Cerqueira
Gustavo C. Cerqueira Broad Institute
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Patrick O. Brown
Patrick O. Brown Stanford University
Claudio Scazzocchio
Claudio Scazzocchio Imperial College London
Alla Lapidus
Alla Lapidus Saint Petersburg State University
Alvis Brazma
Alvis Brazma European Bioinformatics Institute
Alan Kuo
Alan Kuo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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