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Overview

Kevin Y. Yip is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China. Their research spans several fields within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on molecular biology, oncology, cancer research, immunology, and genetics.

The primary topics covered in their work include:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Kevin Y. Yip's frequent publication venues indicate a focus on biomedical and genomic research. These venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Gigabyte
  • Nature Communications
  • Genome Biology

Collaboration is a consistent feature of their research, with frequent co-authors including Ting-Fung Chan, Qin Cao, Wenyan Nong, Jerome H. L. Hui, and Siu Gin Cheung.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Kevin Y. Yip, highlighting the scope and focus of their research, include:

  • "An integrative ENCODE resource for cancer genomics," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "A selective HDAC8 inhibitor potentiates antitumor immunity and efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade in hepatocellular carcinoma," 2021, Science Translational Medicine
  • "Whole-genome profiling of nasopharyngeal carcinoma reveals viral-host co-operation in inflammatory NF-κB activation and immune escape," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Supervised enhancer prediction with epigenetic pattern recognition and targeted validation," 2020, Nature Methods
  • "Jellyfish genomes reveal distinct homeobox gene clusters and conservation of small RNA processing," 2020, Nature Communications

Their work demonstrates engagement with cancer genomics, immune mechanisms in oncology, epigenetics, and genome-wide investigations in molecular biology. The combination of topics and publication history reflects a multidisciplinary approach to understanding genomic and immunological processes at the molecular level within biomedical contexts.

Best Publications

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

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

  • 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

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

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

  • Decision Trees for Uncertain Data

    Smith Tsang;Ben Kao;Kevin Y Yip;Wai-Shing Ho

  • FunSeq2: a framework for prioritizing noncoding regulatory variants in cancer.

    Yao Fu;Zhu Liu;Shaoke Lou;Jason Bedford

  • Efficient Clustering of Uncertain Data

    Wang Ngai;Ben Kao;Chun Chui;Reynold Cheng

  • Comparative analysis of the transcriptome across distant species

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

  • Classification of human genomic regions based on experimentally determined binding sites of more than 100 transcription-related factors.

    Kevin Y. Yip;Chao Cheng;Nitin Bhardwaj;James B. Brown

  • Reconstruction of enhancer–target networks in 935 samples of human primary cells, tissues and cell lines

    Qin Cao;Christine Anyansi;Christine Anyansi;Xihao Hu;Liangliang Xu

  • HARP: a practical projected clustering algorithm

    K.Y. Yip;D.W. Cheung;M.K. Ng

  • Understanding transcriptional regulation by integrative analysis of transcription factor binding data

    Chao Cheng;Roger Alexander;Rengqiang Min;Jing Leng

  • Mining periodic patterns with gap requirement from sequences

    Minghua Zhang;Ben Kao;David W. Cheung;Kevin Y. Yip

  • An integrative ENCODE resource for cancer genomics

    Jing Zhang;Donghoon Lee;Vineet Dhiman;Peng Jiang;Peng Jiang

  • A statistical framework for modeling gene expression using chromatin features and application to modENCODE datasets

    Chao Cheng;Koon-Kiu Yan;Kevin Y Yip;Kevin Y Yip;Joel Rozowsky

  • YeastHub: a semantic web use case for integrating data in the life sciences domain

    Kei-Hoi Cheung;Kevin Y. Yip;Andrew Smith;Remko Deknikker

  • Genome-Wide Structural Variation Detection by Genome Mapping on Nanochannel Arrays.

    Angel C. Y. Mak;Yvonne Y. Y. Lai;Ernest T. Lam;Tsz-Piu Kwok

  • Improved reconstruction of in silico gene regulatory networks by integrating knockout and perturbation data.

    Kevin Y. Yip;Roger P. Alexander;Koon-Kiu Yan;Mark Gerstein

  • Machine learning and genome annotation: a match meant to be?

    Kevin Y Yip;Chao Cheng;Mark Gerstein

  • An integrated system for studying residue coevolution in proteins

    Kevin Y. Yip;Prianka Patel;Philip M. Kim;Donald M. Engelman

  • An integrative ENCODE resource for cancer genomics

    Jing Zhang;Donghoon Lee;Vineet Dhiman;Peng Jiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Gerstein
Mark Gerstein Yale University
Chao Cheng
Chao Cheng Baylor College of Medicine
David W. Cheung
David W. Cheung University of Hong Kong
Joel Rozowsky
Joel Rozowsky Yale University
Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder Stanford University
Ben Kao
Ben Kao University of Hong Kong
Kei-Hoi Cheung
Kei-Hoi Cheung Yale University
Michael K. Ng
Michael K. Ng Hong Kong Baptist University
Philip M. Kim
Philip M. Kim University of Toronto
Pui-Yan Kwok
Pui-Yan Kwok University of California, San Francisco

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