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  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in United States Leader Award
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  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Mark Gerstein is a researcher affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their work centers primarily around the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Artificial Intelligence, Cancer Research, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main research topics Mark Gerstein has contributed to include:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Some of their recent scientific papers are:

  • "GENCODE 2021" (2020), published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes" (2020), published in Nature
  • "High-coverage whole-genome sequencing of the expanded 1000 Genomes Project cohort including 602 trios" (2022), published in Cell
  • "Haplotype-resolved diverse human genomes and integrated analysis of structural variation" (2021), published in Science
  • "Comprehensive analysis of chromothripsis in 2,658 human cancers using whole-genome sequencing" (2020), published in Nature Genetics

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Mark Gerstein include:

  • Jan O. Korbel
  • Jason Liu
  • Gamze Gürsoy
  • Donghoon Lee
  • Shaoke Lou

The researcher's work has been published extensively in several academic venues, with notable contributions in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Science
  • Nature

Mark Gerstein has been recognized with the following distinctions:

  • Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (2015)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2009)

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • RNA-Seq: a revolutionary tool for transcriptomics

    Zhong Wang;Mark Gerstein;Michael Snyder

  • Table S2: Trans-factors and trinucleotide repeat instability Trans-factor

    Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

  • 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

  • Functional profiling of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome.

    Guri Giaever;Angela M. Chu;Li Ni;Carla Connelly

  • GENCODE: The reference human genome annotation for The ENCODE Project

    Jennifer Harrow;Adam Frankish;Jose M. Gonzalez;Electra Tapanari

  • Global landscape of protein complexes in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Nevan J. Krogan;Gerard Cagney;Gerard Cagney;Haiyuan Yu;Gouqing Zhong

  • The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

    E. A. Feingold;P. J. Good;M. S. Guyer;S. Kamholz

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • The Transcriptional Landscape of the Yeast Genome Defined by RNA Sequencing

    Ugrappa Nagalakshmi;Zhong Wang;Karl Waern;Chong Shou

  • The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer

    Adam Abeshouse;Jaeil Ahn;Rehan Akbani;Adrian Ally

  • Global analysis of protein activities using proteome chips

    Michael Snyder;Heng Zhu;Paul Bertone;Scott M. Bidlingmaier

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

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

  • GENCODE reference annotation for the human and mouse genomes.

    Adam Frankish;Mark Diekhans;Anne-Maud Ferreira;Rory Baldwin Johnson

  • 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

  • An integrated map of structural variation in 2,504 human genomes

    Peter H. Sudmant;Tobias Rausch;Eugene J. Gardner;Robert E. Handsaker;Robert E. Handsaker

  • A Map of the Interactome Network of the Metazoan C. elegans

    Siming Li;Christopher M. Armstrong;Nicolas Bertin;Hui Ge

  • Comparing protein abundance and mRNA expression levels on a genomic scale

    Dov Greenbaum;Christopher M. Colangelo;Christopher M. Colangelo;Kenneth Williams;Kenneth Williams;Mark B. Gerstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder Stanford University
Joel Rozowsky
Joel Rozowsky Yale University
Chao Cheng
Chao Cheng Baylor College of Medicine
Sherman M. Weissman
Sherman M. Weissman Yale University
Andrea Sboner
Andrea Sboner Cornell University
Kevin Y. Yip
Kevin Y. Yip Chinese University of Hong Kong
Alexej Abyzov
Alexej Abyzov Mayo Clinic
Haiyuan Yu
Haiyuan Yu Cornell University
Paul Bertone
Paul Bertone University of Cambridge
Jan O. Korbel
Jan O. Korbel European Molecular Biology Laboratory

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