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Overview

Helen Parkinson is affiliated with the European Bioinformatics Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the broad discipline of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology and Genetics. They also contribute to areas involving Information Systems, Information Systems and Management, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies, Research Data Management Practices, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Genomics and Rare Diseases, and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering.

Helen Parkinson's recent publications include the following papers:

  • The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: knowledgebase and deposition resource (2022, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • The Polygenic Score Catalog as an open database for reproducibility and systematic evaluation (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • Open Targets Genetics: systematic identification of trait-associated genes using large-scale genetics and functional genomics (2020, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • Improving reporting standards for polygenic scores in risk prediction studies (2021, Nature)
  • A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci (2021, Nature Genetics)

The scientist collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Damian Smedley, Carole Goble, Michael Inouye, Ann-Marie Mallon, and Samuel A. Lambert.

Helen Parkinson's body of work has been published repeatedly in certain venues, indicating active participation in these academic platforms. These venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Cancer Research
  • Nature

Best Publications

  • The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong

    S. Carbon;E. Douglass;N. Dunn;B. Good

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

    Alvis Brazma;Pascal Hingamp;John Quackenbush;Gavin Sherlock

  • The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog of published genome-wide association studies, targeted arrays and summary statistics 2019.

    Annalisa Buniello;Jacqueline A. L. MacArthur;Maria Cerezo;Laura W. Harris

  • The NHGRI GWAS Catalog, a curated resource of SNP-trait associations

    Danielle Welter;Jacqueline A. L. MacArthur;Joannella Morales;Tony Burdett

  • The new NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (GWAS Catalog).

    Jacqueline A. L. MacArthur;Emily Bowler;Maria Cerezo;Laurent Gil

  • ArrayExpress—a public repository for microarray gene expression data at the EBI

    Helen E. Parkinson;Ugis Sarkans;Mohammadreza Shojatalab;Niran Abeygunawardena

  • ArrayExpress—a public database of microarray experiments and gene expression profiles

    Helen E. Parkinson;Misha Kapushesky;Mohammadreza Shojatalab;Niran Abeygunawardena

  • ArrayExpress update—simplifying data submissions

    Nikolay Kolesnikov;Emma Hastings;Maria Keays;Olga Melnichuk

  • The Polygenic Score Catalog as an open database for reproducibility and systematic evaluation.

    Samuel A Lambert;Laurent Gil;Laurent Gil;Laurent Gil;Simon Jupp;Scott C Ritchie

  • Open Targets Genetics: systematic identification of trait-associated genes using large-scale genetics and functional genomics.

    Maya Ghoussaini;Edward Mountjoy;Miguel Carmona;Gareth Peat

  • Expression Atlas update—an integrated database of gene and protein expression in humans, animals and plants

    Robert Petryszak;Maria Keays;Y. Amy Tang;Nuno A. Fonseca

  • Disease Ontology 2015 update: an expanded and updated database of human diseases for linking biomedical knowledge through disease data

    Warren A. Kibbe;Cesar Arze;Victor Felix;Elvira Mitraka

  • Modeling sample variables with an Experimental Factor Ontology

    James Malone;Ele Holloway;Tomasz Adamusiak;Misha Kapushesky

  • Open Targets: a platform for therapeutic target identification and validation.

    Gautier Koscielny;Peter An;Denise Carvalho-Silva;Jennifer A. Cham

  • ArrayExpress update—from an archive of functional genomics experiments to the atlas of gene expression

    Helen E. Parkinson;Misha Kapushesky;Nikolay Kolesnikov;Gabriella Rustici

  • Improving reporting standards for polygenic scores in risk prediction studies

    Hannah Wand;Samuel A Lambert;Cecelia Tamburro;Michael A Iacocca

  • ArrayExpress update—trends in database growth and links to data analysis tools

    Gabriella Rustici;Nikolay Kolesnikov;Marco Brandizi;Tony Burdett

  • A global map of human gene expression

    Margus Lukk;Misha Kapushesky;Janne Nikkilä;Helen Parkinson

  • A compendium of uniformly processed human gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci.

    Nurlan Kerimov;James D Hayhurst;Kateryna Peikova;Jonathan R Manning

  • Expression Atlas update—a database of gene and transcript expression from microarray- and sequencing-based functional genomics experiments

    Robert Petryszak;Tony Burdett;Benedetto Fiorelli;Nuno A. Fonseca

  • ArrayExpress update—an archive of microarray and high-throughput sequencing-based functional genomics experiments

    Helen E. Parkinson;Ugis Sarkans;Nikolay Kolesnikov;Niran Abeygunawardena

  • A simple spreadsheet-based, MIAME-supportive format for microarray data: MAGE-TAB

    Tim F Rayner;Philippe Rocca-Serra;Paul T Spellman;Helen C Causton

  • ArrayExpress - a public repository for microarray gene expression data at the EBI

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Frequent Co-Authors

Alvis Brazma
Alvis Brazma European Bioinformatics Institute
Paul Flicek
Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory
Philippe Rocca-Serra
Philippe Rocca-Serra University of Oxford
Christian J. Stoeckert
Christian J. Stoeckert University of Pennsylvania
Damian Smedley
Damian Smedley Queen Mary University of London
Kevin C K Lloyd
Kevin C K Lloyd University of California, Davis
Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Susanna-Assunta Sansone University of Oxford
Ugis Sarkans
Ugis Sarkans European Bioinformatics Institute
Morris A. Swertz
Morris A. Swertz University Medical Center Groningen
Steve D.M. Brown
Steve D.M. Brown Medical Research Council

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