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Overview

Joel Rozowsky is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on molecular biology and cancer research.

Their recent publications include:

  • An integrative ENCODE resource for cancer genomics, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Supervised enhancer prediction with epigenetic pattern recognition and targeted validation, 2020, Nature Methods
  • The EN-TEx resource of multi-tissue personal epigenomes & variant-impact models, 2023, Cell
  • Whole-genome sequencing of phenotypically distinct inflammatory breast cancers reveals similar genomic alterations to non-inflammatory breast cancers, 2021, Genome Medicine
  • Phase 2 of extracellular RNA communication consortium charts next-generation approaches for extracellular RNA research, 2022, iScience

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include:

  • Mark Gerstein
  • Jason Liu
  • Justin Chang
  • Aleksandar Milosavljevic
  • Bogdan Mateescu

Joel Rozowsky's work has been published in several notable scientific venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Methods
  • Cell
  • Genome Medicine

Their main fields of study center on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong emphasis on:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Genetics
  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Key topics within their research include:

  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • MicroRNA in disease regulation

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Landscape of transcription in human cells

    Sarah Djebali;Carrie A. Davis;Angelika Merkel;Alex Dobin

  • 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

  • Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes

    Jill E. Moore;Michael J. Purcaro;Henry E. Pratt;Charles B. Epstein

  • ChIP-seq guidelines and practices of the ENCODE and modENCODE consortia

    Stephen G. Landt;Georgi K. Marinov;Anshul Kundaje;Pouya Kheradpour

  • Architecture of the human regulatory network derived from ENCODE data

    Mark B Gerstein;Anshul Kundaje;Manoj Hariharan;Stephen G Landt

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

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

  • Global Identification of Human Transcribed Sequences with Genome Tiling Arrays

    Paul Bertone;Viktor Stolc;Viktor Stolc;Thomas E. Royce;Joel S. Rozowsky

  • Integrative analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome by the modENCODE project

    Mark B. Gerstein;Zhi John Lu;Eric L. Van Nostrand;Chao Cheng

  • What is a gene, post-ENCODE? History and updated definition

    Mark B. Gerstein;Joel S. Rozowsky;Deyou Zheng;Jiang Du

  • PeakSeq enables systematic scoring of ChIP-seq experiments relative to controls.

    Joel Rozowsky;Ghia Euskirchen;Raymond K Auerbach;Zhengdong D Zhang

  • Variation in Transcription Factor Binding Among Humans

    Maya Kasowski;Fabian Grubert;Fabian Grubert;Christopher Heffelfinger;Manoj Hariharan;Manoj Hariharan

  • Annotating non-coding regions of the genome

    Roger P. Alexander;Gang Fang;Joel Rozowsky;Michael Snyder

  • The reality of pervasive transcription

    Michael B. Clark;Paulo P. Amaral;Felix J. Schlesinger;Marcel E. Dinger

  • The real cost of sequencing: scaling computation to keep pace with data generation.

    Paul Muir;Shantao Li;Shaoke Lou;Daifeng Wang

  • Divergence of transcription factor binding sites across related yeast species

    Anthony R. Borneman;Tara A. Gianoulis;Zhengdong D. Zhang;Haiyuan Yu

  • A myelopoiesis-associated regulatory intergenic noncoding RNA transcript within the human HOXA cluster

    Xueqing Zhang;Zheng Lian;Carolyn Padden;Mark B. Gerstein

  • AlleleSeq: analysis of allele-specific expression and binding in a network framework

    Joel Rozowsky;Alexej Abyzov;Jing-jing Wang;Pedro Luz Alves

  • Comparative analysis of the transcriptome across distant species

    Mark B. Gerstein;Joel Rozowsky;Koon Kiu Yan;Daifeng Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Gerstein
Mark Gerstein Yale University
Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder Stanford University
Chao Cheng
Chao Cheng Baylor College of Medicine
Kevin Y. Yip
Kevin Y. Yip Chinese University of Hong Kong
Andrea Sboner
Andrea Sboner Cornell University
Zvi Bern
Zvi Bern University of California, Los Angeles
Sherman M. Weissman
Sherman M. Weissman Yale University
Thomas R. Gingeras
Thomas R. Gingeras Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Lance J. Dixon
Lance J. Dixon SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Michael J. MacCoss
Michael J. MacCoss University of Washington

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