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Overview

John W. S. Brown is affiliated with the James Hutton Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several areas within medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with particular emphasis on molecular biology techniques, RNA biology, and cardiovascular medicine.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics such as RNA modifications and cancer, RNA research and splicing, cardiac valve diseases and treatments, congenital heart disease studies, cardiac structural anomalies and repair, molecular biology techniques and applications, and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms.

They have published research in multiple venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
  • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • UNC Libraries
  • BMC Genomics

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Runxuan Zhang
  • Wenbin Guo
  • Jeremy L. Herrmann
  • Mark W. Turrentine
  • Nikoleta A. Τzioutziou

Recent papers authored or coauthored by John W. S. Brown include:

  • "Illuminating the dark side of the human transcriptome with long read transcript sequencing," 2020, published in BMC Genomics
  • "3D RNA-seq: a powerful and flexible tool for rapid and accurate differential expression and alternative splicing analysis of RNA-seq data for biologists," 2020, published in RNA Biology
  • "A high-resolution single-molecule sequencing-based Arabidopsis transcriptome using novel methods of Iso-seq analysis," 2022, published in Genome Biology
  • "Nonsense-Mediated RNA Decay Factor UPF1 Is Critical for Posttranscriptional and Translational Gene Regulation in Arabidopsis," 2020, published in The Plant Cell
  • "BaRTv2: a highly resolved barley reference transcriptome for accurate transcript-specific RNA-seq quantification," 2022, published in The Plant Journal

Best Publications

  • A physical, genetic and functional sequence assembly of the barley genome

    Klaus F.X. Mayer;Robbie Waugh;Peter Langridge;Timothy J. Close

  • Transcriptome survey reveals increased complexity of the alternative splicing landscape in Arabidopsis

    Yamile Marquez;John Ws Brown;Craig G Simpson;Andrea Barta

  • Filtering of deep sequencing data reveals the existence of abundant Dicer-dependent small RNAs derived from tRNAs

    Christian Cole;Andrew Sobala;Cheng Lu;Shawn R. Thatcher

  • Alternative Splicing at the Intersection of Biological Timing, Development, and Stress Responses

    Dorothee Staiger;John W.S. Brown

  • Alternative splicing in plants--coming of age.

    Naeem H. Syed;Maria Kalyna;Yamile Marquez;Andrea Barta

  • Alternative splicing and nonsense-mediated decay modulate expression of important regulatory genes in Arabidopsis

    Maria Kalyna;Craig G. Simpson;Naeem H. Syed;Dominika Lewandowska

  • A catalogue of splice junction and putative branch point sequences from plant introns.

    John W.S. Brown

  • Proteomic Analysis of the Arabidopsis Nucleolus Suggests Novel Nucleolar Functions

    Alison F. Pendle;Gillian P. Clark;Reinier A. Boon;Dominika Lewandowska

  • Alternative Splicing Mediates Responses of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock to Temperature Changes

    Allan B. James;Naeem Hasan Syed;Simon Bordage;Jacqueline Marshall

  • A methyl transferase links the circadian clock to the regulation of alternative splicing

    Sabrina E. Sanchez;Ezequiel Petrillo;Esteban J. Beckwith;Xu Zhang

  • Long Noncoding RNA Modulates Alternative Splicing Regulators in Arabidopsis

    Florian Bardou;Federico Ariel;Craig G. Simpson;Natali Romero-Barrios

  • Exome sequencing of geographically diverse barley landraces and wild relatives gives insights into environmental adaptation

    Joanne Russell;Martin Mascher;Ian K Dawson;Stylianos Kyriakidis

  • Molecular analysis of resveratrol synthase. cDNA, genomic clones and relationship with chalcone synthase.

    Gudrun Schröder;John W. S. Brown;Joachim Schröder

  • Rapid and Dynamic Alternative Splicing Impacts the Arabidopsis Cold Response Transcriptome

    Cristiane P.G. Calixto;Wenbin Guo;Wenbin Guo;Allan B. James;Nikoleta A. Tzioutziou

  • A high quality Arabidopsis transcriptome for accurate transcript-level analysis of alternative splicing

    Runxuan Zhang;Cristiane P. G. Calixto;Yamile Marquez;Peter Venhuizen

  • SPLICE SITE SELECTION IN PLANT PRE-mRNA SPLICING

    J. W. S. Brown;C. G. Simpson

  • A chloroplast retrograde signal regulates nuclear alternative splicing

    Ezequiel Petrillo;Micaela Amalia Godoy Herz;Armin Fuchs;Dominik Reifer

  • Interaction of a plant virus-encoded protein with the major nucleolar protein fibrillarin is required for systemic virus infection

    Sang Hyon Kim;Stuart MacFarlane;Natalia O. Kalinina;Daria V. Rakitina

  • Cajal bodies and the nucleolus are required for a plant virus systemic infection

    Sang Hyon Kim;Eugene V Ryabov;Natalia O Kalinina;Natalia O Kalinina;Daria V Rakitina;Daria V Rakitina

  • Arabidopsis consensus intron sequences.

    John W. S. Brown;Philip Smith;Craig G. Simpson

Frequent Co-Authors

Robbie Waugh
Robbie Waugh James Hutton Institute
Peter Shaw
Peter Shaw Norwich Research Park
Andrea Barta
Andrea Barta Medical University of Vienna
Hugh G. Nimmo
Hugh G. Nimmo University of Glasgow
James W. McNicol
James W. McNicol University of Dundee
Michael E. Taliansky
Michael E. Taliansky James Hutton Institute
David Marshall
David Marshall James Hutton Institute
Dorothee Staiger
Dorothee Staiger Bielefeld University
Alberto R. Kornblihtt
Alberto R. Kornblihtt University of Buenos Aires
Pete E. Hedley
Pete E. Hedley James Hutton Institute

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