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Overview

Martijn A. Huynen is a researcher affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands, specializing in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology as well as medicine. Their work spans multiple subfields, including molecular biology, epidemiology, public health, environmental and occupational health, immunology, and infectious diseases.

The scientist's research topics cover diverse areas such as mitochondrial function and pathology, malaria research and control, genomics and phylogenetic studies, cervical cancer and HPV research, gut microbiota and health, reproductive tract infections research, and mosquito-borne diseases and control.

Martijn A. Huynen has contributed to several notable publications, including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 mucosal antibody development and persistence and their relation to viral load and COVID-19 symptoms (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • Composition and stage dynamics of mitochondrial complexes in Plasmodium falciparum (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • TMEM70 functions in the assembly of complexes I and V (2020), published in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics
  • Structural and functional comparison of magnesium transporters throughout evolution (2022), published in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
  • Metabolic models predict bacterial passengers in colorectal cancer (2020), published in Cancer & Metabolism

The scientist frequently publishes in several research venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 18 publications
  • Nature Communications, 4 publications
  • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, 2 publications
  • BMC Biology, 2 publications
  • Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2 publications

Martijn A. Huynen collaborates regularly with a core group of co-authors, such as Taco W. A. Kooij (11 joint publications), Alfredo Cabrera-Orefice (10), Willem J. G. Melchers (10), Marien I. de Jonge (9), and Joeri van Strien (8).

Best Publications

  • STRING: a database of predicted functional associations between proteins.

    Christian von Mering;Martijn A. Huynen;Daniel Jaeggi;Steffen Schmidt

  • STRING: known and predicted protein-protein associations, integrated and transferred across organisms

    Christian von Mering;Lars Juhl Jensen;Berend Snel;Sean D. Hooper

  • Deciphering the evolution and metabolism of an anammox bacterium from a community genome

    Marc Strous;Eric Pelletier;Sophie Mangenot;Thomas Rattei

  • Conservation of gene order: a fingerprint of proteins that physically interact

    Thomas Dandekar;Berend Snel;Martijn Huynen;Peer Bork

  • STRING: a web-server to retrieve and display the repeatedly occurring neighbourhood of a gene

    B. Snel;G. Lehmann;P. Bork;M. A. Huynen

  • Genome phylogeny based on gene content

    Berend Snel;Berend Snel;Peer Bork;Martijn A. Huynen

  • Smoothness within ruggedness: The role of neutrality in adaptation

    Martijn A. Huynen;Peter F. Stadler;Walter Fontana

  • Neutral evolution of mutational robustness.

    Erik van Nimwegen;James P. Crutchfield;Martijn Huynen

  • Predicting disease genes using protein–protein interactions

    Martin Oti;Berend Snel;Martijn A Huynen;Han G Brunner

  • Predicting protein function by genomic context: quantitative evaluation and qualitative inferences.

    Martijn Huynen;Berend Snel;Warren Lathe;Peer Bork

  • Measuring genome evolution.

    Martijn A. Huynen;Peer Bork

  • Predicting function: from genes to genomes and back.

    Peer Bork;Thomas Dandekar;Yolande Diaz-Lazcoz;Frank Eisenhaber

  • Whole-Genome Sequencing of Bacterial Pathogens: the Future of Nosocomial Outbreak Analysis

    Scott Quainoo;Jordy P. M. Coolen;Sacha A. F. T. van Hijum;Martijn A. Huynen

  • POMT2 mutations cause alpha-dystroglycan hypoglycosylation and Walker-Warburg syndrome.

    J. van Reeuwijk;M. Janssen;C. van der Elzen;D. Beltran Valero de Bernabe

  • Genomes in Flux: The Evolution of Archaeal and Proteobacterial Gene Content

    Berend Snel;Peer Bork;Martijn A. Huynen

  • Pathway alignment: application to the comparative analysis of glycolytic enzymes.

    Thomas Dandekar;Thomas Dandekar;Stefan Schuster;Berend Snel;Berend Snel;Martijn Huynen;Martijn Huynen;Martijn Huynen

  • The identification of functional modules from the genomic association of genes

    Berend Snel;Peer Bork;Martijn A. Huynen

  • Systematic Phenomics Analysis Deconvolutes Genes Mutated in Intellectual Disability into Biologically Coherent Modules

    Korinna Kochinke;Christiane Zweier;Bonnie Nijhof;Michaela Fenckova

  • The yeast coexpression network has a small-world, scale-free architecture and can be explained by a simple model

    Vera van Noort;Berend Snel;Martijn A Huynen

  • Re-annotating the Mycoplasma pneumoniae genome sequence: adding value, function and reading frames

    Thomas Dandekar;Martijn Huynen;Jörg Thomas Regula;Barbara Ueberle

Frequent Co-Authors

Berend Snel
Berend Snel Utrecht University
Bas E. Dutilh
Bas E. Dutilh Utrecht University
Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Richard J. Rodenburg
Richard J. Rodenburg Radboud University
Leo G. Nijtmans
Leo G. Nijtmans Radboud University
Toni Gabaldón
Toni Gabaldón Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Jan A.M. Smeitink
Jan A.M. Smeitink Radboud University
Joris A. Veltman
Joris A. Veltman University of Edinburgh
Thomas Dandekar
Thomas Dandekar University of Würzburg
Ulrich Brandt
Ulrich Brandt Radboud University

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