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Ian Dunham is affiliated with the European Bioinformatics Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on genetics and molecular biology as key subfields. The scientist's work covers a range of topics including genetic associations and epidemiology, bioinformatics and genomic networks, genomics and rare diseases, computational drug discovery methods, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, genomics and chromatin dynamics, and COVID-19 clinical research studies.

Ian Dunham's recent publications reflect their research interests and span from 2020 to 2022. Notable papers include:

  • Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19 (2021, Nature)
  • Open Targets Genetics: systematic identification of trait-associated genes using large-scale genetics and functional genomics (2020, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • An open approach to systematically prioritize causal variants and genes at all published human GWAS trait-associated loci (2021, Nature Genetics)
  • Open Targets Platform: supporting systematic drug-target identification and prioritisation (2020, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • The next-generation Open Targets Platform: reimagined, redesigned, rebuilt (2022, Nucleic Acids Research)

The scientist often collaborates with frequent co-authors including David Ochoa, Jeremy Schwartzentruber, Maya Ghoussaini, Mohd Anisul Karim, and Ellen M. McDonagh.

Ian Dunham's work is commonly published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Nature Genetics
  • Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

    Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

  • The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

    E. A. Feingold;P. J. Good;M. S. Guyer;S. Kamholz

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

    Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

  • Applications of machine learning in drug discovery and development.

    Jessica Vamathevan;Dominic Clark;Paul Czodrowski;Ian Dunham

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

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

  • The Human Cell Atlas

    Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Aviv Regev;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Sarah A Teichmann;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Eric S Lander;Ido Amit

  • The DNA sequence of human chromosome 22

    I. Dunham;N. Shimizu;B. A. Roe;S. Chissoe

  • A gene map of the human genome

    G. D. Schuler;M. S. Boguski;E. A. Stewart;L. D. Stein

  • The COSMIC Cancer Gene Census: describing genetic dysfunction across all human cancers

    Zbyslaw Sondka;Sally Bamford;Charlotte G. Cole;Sari A. Ward

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • An anthropoid-specific locus of orphan C to U RNA-editing enzymes on chromosome 22.

    Adam Jarmuz;Ann Chester;Jayne Bayliss;Jane Gisbourne

  • Defining functional DNA elements in the human genome

    Manolis Kellis;Barbara Wold;Michael P. Snyder;Bradley E. Bernstein

  • Integrative annotation of chromatin elements from ENCODE data

    Michael M. Hoffman;Jason Ernst;Jason Ernst;Jason Ernst;Steven P. Wilder;Anshul Kundaje;Anshul Kundaje

  • Comparative host-coronavirus protein interaction networks reveal pan-viral disease mechanisms.

    David E. Gordon;Joseph Hiatt;Mehdi Bouhaddou;Veronica V. Rezelj

  • DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 9

    A J Mungall;S A Palmer;S K Sims;C A Edwards

  • Mutations in a gene encoding a novel protein tyrosine phosphatase cause progressive myoclonus epilepsy.

    Berge A. Minassian;R. Lee Jeffrey;Jo Anne Herbrick;Jack Huizenga

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

  • DNA sequence of human chromosome 22

    Huaqin Pan;S Chissoe;B Roe

Frequent Co-Authors

Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Andrew J. Mungall
Andrew J. Mungall BC Cancer Agency
Jane Rogers
Jane Rogers Earlham Institute
Nigel P. Carter
Nigel P. Carter Wellcome Sanger Institute
Stephan Beck
Stephan Beck University College London
Tim Hubbard
Tim Hubbard King's College London
Paul Flicek
Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin University of Cambridge
Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute
Sarah Hunt
Sarah Hunt European Bioinformatics Institute

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