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2024
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2024

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116
Citations
75944
World Ranking
435
National Ranking
70

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Matthew Berriman is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in Immunology and Microbiology, Environmental Science, and Medicine. Their work spans a variety of subfields including Parasitology, Ecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Molecular Biology, and Small Animals.

Their research primarily focuses on topics related to Parasites and Host Interactions, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, and Helminth infection and control. Additional areas of study include Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, Malaria Research and Control, Research on Leishmaniasis Studies, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Matthew Berriman has published papers in several prominent venues, with a frequent presence in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PLoS neglected tropical diseases
  • Nature Communications

Recent significant papers include:

  • Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • WormBase in 2022-data, processes, and tools for analyzing Caenorhabditis elegans, 2022, Genetics
  • Genomic and transcriptomic variation defines the chromosome-scale assembly of Haemonchus contortus, a model gastrointestinal worm, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Global genome diversity of the Leishmania donovani complex, 2020, eLife
  • Genomic reconstruction of the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in England, 2021, Nature

Frequent collaborators in their research include Nancy Holroyd, James A. Cotton, Alan Tracey, Gabriel Rinaldi, and Stephen R. Doyle.

Best Publications

  • The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still GOing strong

    S. Carbon;E. Douglass;N. Dunn;B. Good

  • Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

    Malcolm J. Gardner;Neil Hall;Eula Fung;Owen White

  • The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource.

    Harris Ma;Clark J;Ireland A;Lomax J

  • The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine

    Seth Carbon;Eric Douglass;Benjamin M Good

  • The Genome of the African Trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei

    Matthew Berriman;Elodie Ghedin;Elodie Ghedin;Christiane Hertz-Fowler;Gaelle Blandin

  • ACT: the Artemis comparison tool

    Tim J. Carver;Kim M. Rutherford;Matthew Berriman;Marie-Adele Rajandream

  • The genome of the kinetoplastid parasite, Leishmania major.

    Alasdair C. Ivens;Christopher S. Peacock;Elizabeth A. Worthey;Lee Murphy

  • Genomic sequence of the pathogenic and allergenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

    William C. Nierman;William C. Nierman;Arnab Pain;Michael J. Anderson;Jennifer R. Wortman;Jennifer R. Wortman

  • The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

    L. Eichinger;J. A. Pachebat;J. A. Pachebat;G. Glöckner;M.-A. Rajandream

  • Artemis: an integrated platform for visualization and analysis of high-throughput sequence-based experimental data

    Tim Carver;Simon R. Harris;Matthew Berriman;Julian Parkhill

  • The genome of the blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni

    Matthew Berriman;Brian J. Haas;Brian J. Haas;Philip T. LoVerde;R. Alan Wilson

  • Evolution of pathogenicity and sexual reproduction in eight Candida genomes.

    Geraldine Butler;Matthew D. Rasmussen;Michael F. Lin;Michael F. Lin;Manuel A. S. Santos

  • TriTrypDB: a functional genomic resource for the Trypanosomatidae

    Martin Aslett;Cristina Aurrecoechea;Matthew Berriman;John Brestelli

  • Comparative genomics of trypanosomatid parasitic protozoa.

    Najib M. El-Sayed;Peter J. Myler;Peter J. Myler;Gaëlle Blandin;Matthew Berriman

  • A Comprehensive Survey of the Plasmodium Life Cycle by Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Proteomic Analyses

    Neil Hall;Marianna Karras;J. Dale Raine;Jane M. Carlton;Jane M. Carlton;Jane M. Carlton

  • The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica

    Brendan Loftus;Iain Anderson;Rob Davies;U. Cecilia M. Alsmark

  • DNAPlotter: circular and linear interactive genome visualization.

    Tim J. Carver;Nick R. Thomson;Alan J. Bleasby;Matthew Berriman

  • Comparative genomic analysis of three Leishmania species that cause diverse human disease

    Christopher S Peacock;Kathy Seeger;David Harris;Lee Murphy

  • Artemis and ACT

    Tim Carver;Matthew Berriman;Adrian Tivey;Chinmay Patel

  • The Gene Ontology project in 2008

    Midori A Harris;Jennifer I. Deegan;Amelia Ireland;Jane Lomax

Frequent Co-Authors

Mandy Sanders
Mandy Sanders Wellcome Sanger Institute
Chris I. Newbold
Chris I. Newbold Wellcome Sanger Institute
Thomas D. Otto
Thomas D. Otto University of Glasgow
James Cotton
James Cotton University of Glasgow
Michael A. Quail
Michael A. Quail Wellcome Sanger Institute
Arnab Pain
Arnab Pain King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Neil Hall
Neil Hall Norwich Research Park
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford
Jean-Claude Dujardin
Jean-Claude Dujardin Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Bart Barrell
Bart Barrell Wellcome Sanger Institute

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