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56
Citations
9342
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14619
National Ranking
6121

Overview

John M. Hancock is affiliated with Norwich University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Computer Science. Within these disciplines, subfields of focus include Molecular Biology, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Management, and Computer Networks and Communications.

The scientist has contributed to several main topics including Research Data Management Practices, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, and Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting.

Recent publications by John M. Hancock include:

  • PlaToLoCo: the first web meta-server for visualization and annotation of low complexity regions in proteins, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Detecting cybersecurity attacks across different network features and learners, 2021, Journal Of Big Data
  • ELIXIR-EXCELERATE: establishing Europe's data infrastructure for the life science research of the future, 2021, The EMBO Journal
  • "Be sustainable": EOSC-Life recommendations for implementation of FAIR principles in life science data handling, 2023, The EMBO Journal
  • A community proposal to integrate structural bioinformatics activities in ELIXIR (3D-Bioinfo Community), 2020, F1000Research

John M. Hancock frequently publishes in venues such as F1000Research, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), International Journal of Internet of Things and Cyber-Assurance, and arXiv (Cornell University).

The scientist has collaborated notably with several co-authors, including Carole Goble, Niklas Blomberg, Joffrey L. Leevy, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, and Chris T. Evelo.

In addition to journal articles, John M. Hancock has contributed to book publications with the Australian Institute of Criminology eBooks. These works include "Drivers and deterrents of child sexual offending: Analysis of offender interactions on the darknet" (2024) and "Self-reported desistance and help-seeking approaches of child sexual offenders on the darknet" (2025).

Best Publications

  • Promoting coherent minimum reporting guidelines for biological and biomedical investigations: the MIBBI project

    Chris F. Taylor;Chris F. Taylor;Dawn Field;Susanna Assunta Sansone;Susanna Assunta Sansone;Jan Aerts

  • A comparative phenotypic and genomic analysis of C57BL/6J and C57BL/6N mouse strains

    Michelle M Simon;Simon Greenaway;Jacqueline K White;Helmut Fuchs

  • Complete sequences of the rRNA genes of Drosophila melanogaster.

    Diethard Tautz;John M. Hancock;David A. Webb;Christiane Tautz

  • PlantProm: a database of plant promoter sequences

    Ilham A. Shahmuradov;Alex J. Gammerman;John M. Hancock;Peter M. Bramley

  • Evolution of the cetacean mitochondrial D-loop region.

    A R Hoelzel;J M Hancock;G A Dover

  • Using ontologies to describe mouse phenotypes

    Georgios V Gkoutos;Eain C J Green;Ann-Marie Mallon;John M Hancock

  • Evolution of the secondary structures and compensatory mutations of the ribosomal RNAs of Drosophila melanogaster.

    John M. Hancock;Diethard Tautz;Gabriel A. Dover

  • The structure of vitellogenin provides a molecular model for the assembly and secretion of atherogenic lipoproteins.

    Christopher J Mann;Timothy A Anderson;Jacqueline Read;S.Ann Chester

  • The contribution of slippage-like processes to genome evolution.

    John M. Hancock

  • Krait: an ultrafast tool for genome-wide survey of microsatellites and primer design.

    Lianming Du;Chi Zhang;Qin Liu;Xiuyue Zhang

  • Post-publication sharing of data and tools

    Paul N Schofield;Tania Bubela;Thomas A Weaver;Lili Portilla

  • Tandem and cryptic amino acid repeats accumulate in disordered regions of proteins

    Michelle Simon;John M Hancock

  • Analysis of mammalian gene function through broad-based phenotypic screens across a consortium of mouse clinics.

    Martin Hrabě de Angelis;George Nicholson;Mohammed Selloum;Jacqueline K White

  • Simple sequences and the expanding genome.

    John M. Hancock

  • Molecular coevolution among cryptically simple expansion segments of eukaryotic 26S/28S rRNAs.

    John M. Hancock;Gabriel A. Dover

  • Extreme Length and Length Variation in the First Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer of Ladybird Beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

    J. Hinrich Graf von der Schulenburg;John M. Hancock;Alistair Pagnamenta;John J. Sloggett

  • SIMPLE34: an improved and enhanced implementation for VAX and Sun computers of the SIMPLE algorithm for analysis of clustered repetitive motifs in nucleotide sequences

    John M. Hancock;John S. Armstrong

  • Simple sequence repeats in proteins and their significance for network evolution.

    John M. Hancock;Michelle Simon

  • Codon repeats in genes associated with human diseases: fewer repeats in the genes of nonhuman primates and nucleotide substitutions concentrated at the sites of reiteration

    Philippe Djian;John M. Hancock;Harjinder S. Chana

  • Understanding Mammalian Genetic Systems: The Challenge of Phenotyping in the Mouse

    Steve D. M Brown;John M Hancock;Hilary Gates

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul N. Schofield
Paul N. Schofield University of Cambridge
Georgios V. Gkoutos
Georgios V. Gkoutos University of Birmingham
Gabriel A. Dover
Gabriel A. Dover University of Leicester
Damian Smedley
Damian Smedley Queen Mary University of London
Steve D.M. Brown
Steve D.M. Brown Medical Research Council
Helen Parkinson
Helen Parkinson European Bioinformatics Institute
Nadia Rosenthal
Nadia Rosenthal National Institutes of Health
Morris A. Swertz
Morris A. Swertz University Medical Center Groningen
Janan T. Eppig
Janan T. Eppig Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
Klaus Schughart
Klaus Schughart Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research

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