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Juan M. Vaquerizas

Juan M. Vaquerizas

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
44
Citations
15202
World Ranking
2891
National Ranking
197

Overview

Juan M. Vaquerizas is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has a research focus within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, contributing principally to Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work encompasses several subfields including Plant Science, Hematology, Genetics, and Immunology. Their research topics cover areas such as Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Pluripotent Stem Cells Research, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, and Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation.

Juan M. Vaquerizas has authored various papers published in notable venues. Recent publications include:

  • FAN-C: a feature-rich framework for the analysis and visualisation of chromosome conformation capture data, 2020, Genome Biology
  • Cohesin Disrupts Polycomb-Dependent Chromosome Interactions in Embryonic Stem Cells, 2020, Cell Reports
  • Independence of chromatin conformation and gene regulation during Drosophila dorsoventral patterning, 2021, Nature Genetics
  • Heterochromatin establishment during early mammalian development is regulated by pericentromeric RNA and characterized by non-repressive H3K9me3, 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • The Transition from Quiescent to Activated States in Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells Is Governed by Dynamic 3D Genome Reorganization, 2020, Cell Stem Cell

Frequent co-authors involved in the scientist's research include Noèlia Díaz, Elizabeth Ing-Simmons, Benjamín Hernández-Rodríguez, Martin Stehling, and Kai Kruse.

Juan M. Vaquerizas commonly publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Cell Reports, and Cell Stem Cell.

Best Publications

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

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

  • A census of human transcription factors: function, expression and evolution

    Juan M. Vaquerizas;Sarah K. Kummerfeld;Sarah K. Kummerfeld;Sarah A. Teichmann;Nicholas M. Luscombe;Nicholas M. Luscombe

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

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

  • DNA-Binding Specificities of Human Transcription Factors

    Arttu Jolma;Jian Yan;Thomas Whitington;Jarkko Toivonen

  • Multiplexed massively parallel SELEX for characterization of human transcription factor binding specificities

    Arttu Jolma;Teemu Kivioja;Jarkko Toivonen;Lu Cheng

  • Chromatin Architecture Emerges during Zygotic Genome Activation Independent of Transcription

    Clemens B. Hug;Alexis G. Grimaldi;Kai Kruse;Juan M. Vaquerizas

  • BABELOMICS: a systems biology perspective in the functional annotation of genome-scale experiments

    Fátima Al-Shahrour;Pablo Minguez;Joaquín Tárraga;David Montaner

  • Early embryonic-like cells are induced by downregulating replication-dependent chromatin assembly

    Takashi Ishiuchi;Rocio Enriquez-Gasca;Eiji Mizutani;Ana Bošković

  • BABELOMICS: a suite of web tools for functional annotation and analysis of groups of genes in high-throughput experiments

    Fátima Al-Shahrour;Pablo Minguez;Juan M. Vaquerizas;Lucía Conde

  • PupasView: a visual tool for selecting suitable SNPs, with putative pathological effect in genes, for genotyping purposes

    Lucía Conde;Juan M. Vaquerizas;Carles Ferrer-Costa;Xavier de la Cruz

  • Nuclear Pore Proteins Nup153 and Megator Define Transcriptionally Active Regions in the Drosophila Genome

    Juan M. Vaquerizas;Ritsuko Suyama;Jop Kind;Kota Miura

  • PupaSuite: finding functional single nucleotide polymorphisms for large-scale genotyping purposes

    Lucía Conde;Juan M. Vaquerizas;Hernán Dopazo;Leonardo Arbiza

  • GEPAS: a web-based resource for microarray gene expression data analysis

    Javier Herrero;Fátima Al-Shahrour;Ramón Díaz-Uriarte;Álvaro Mateos

  • Cell–matrix signals specify bone endothelial cells during developmental osteogenesis

    Urs H. Langen;Mara E. Pitulescu;Jung Mo Kim;Rocio Enriquez-Gasca

  • Genome-wide analysis reveals MOF as a key regulator of dosage compensation and gene expression in Drosophila.

    Jop Kind;Juan M. Vaquerizas;Philipp Gebhardt;Marc Gentzel

  • The Nonspecific Lethal Complex Is a Transcriptional Regulator in Drosophila

    SUNILl Jayaramaiah Raja;Iryna Charapitsa;Thomas Conrad;Juan M. Vaquerizas

  • A molecular roadmap for the emergence of early-embryonic-like cells in culture.

    Diego Rodriguez-Terrones;Xavier Gaume;Takashi Ishiuchi;Amélie Weiss

  • Cohesin Disrupts Polycomb-Dependent Chromosome Interactions in Embryonic Stem Cells.

    James D.P. Rhodes;Angelika Feldmann;Benjamín Hernández-Rodríguez;Noelia Díaz

  • Next station in microarray data analysis: GEPAS.

    David Montaner;Joaquín Tárraga;Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Jordi Burguet

  • Comprehensive reanalysis of transcription factor knockout expression data in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals many new targets

    Jüri Reimand;Juan M. Vaquerizas;Annabel E. Todd;Jaak Vilo

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas M. Luscombe
Nicholas M. Luscombe The Francis Crick Institute
Joaquín Dopazo
Joaquín Dopazo Institute of Biomedicine of Seville
Asifa Akhtar
Asifa Akhtar Max Planck Society
Fatima Al-Shahrour
Fatima Al-Shahrour Spanish National Cancer Research Centre
Ralf H. Adams
Ralf H. Adams Max Planck Society
Javier Herrero
Javier Herrero University College London
Hans R. Schöler
Hans R. Schöler Max Planck Society
John E. Dick
John E. Dick Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Mathieu Lupien
Mathieu Lupien Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Bradley E. Bernstein
Bradley E. Bernstein Broad Institute

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