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Overview

Mihaela Pertea is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly work spans 117 publications in this main field with notable focus areas including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Surgery, Plant Science, and Infectious Diseases.

Them research interests encompass several core topics such as:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • RNA Modifications and Cancer
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • Cancer-related Molecular Mechanisms Research
  • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
  • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

Mihaela Pertea has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Steven L. Salzberg (32 coauthored works)
  • Ales Varabyou (16 coauthored works)
  • Kuan-Hao Chao (13 coauthored works)
  • Alaina Shumate (10 coauthored works)
  • Daniela Puiu (9 coauthored works)

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in key venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 20 publications
  • Genome Biology - 4 publications
  • Hand Surgery & Rehabilitation - 4 publications
  • F1000Research - 3 publications
  • eLife - 3 publications

Recent scholarly papers by Mihaela Pertea include:

  • "GFF Utilities: GffRead and GffCompare," 2020, F1000Research
  • "GFF Utilities: GffRead and GffCompare," 2020, F1000Research
  • "Improved transcriptome assembly using a hybrid of long and short reads with StringTie," 2022, PLoS Computational Biology
  • "Major data analysis errors invalidate cancer microbiome findings," 2023, mBio
  • "Systematic assessment of long-read RNA-seq methods for transcript identification and quantification," 2024, Nature Methods

Best Publications

  • StringTie enables improved reconstruction of a transcriptome from RNA-seq reads

    Mihaela Pertea;Geo M. Pertea;Corina M. Antonescu;Tsung Cheng Chang

  • Transcript-level expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with HISAT, StringTie and Ballgown

    Mihaela Pertea;Daehwan Kim;Geo M Pertea;Jeffrey T Leek

  • Genome sequence of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum

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

  • Automated eukaryotic gene structure annotation using EVidenceModeler and the Program to Assemble Spliced Alignments

    Brian J Haas;Brian J Haas;Steven L Salzberg;Wei Zhu;Mihaela Pertea

  • The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

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

  • 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

  • TigrScan and GlimmerHMM: two open source ab initio eukaryotic gene-finders

    W. H. Majoros;M. Pertea;S. L. Salzberg

  • Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector

    Vishvanath Nene;Jennifer R. Wortman;Daniel Lawson;Brian Haas

  • Transcriptome assembly from long-read RNA-seq alignments with StringTie2

    Sam Kovaka;Aleksey V. Zimin;Geo M. Pertea;Roham Razaghi

  • The genome of the blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni

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

  • Draft genome sequence of the sexually transmitted pathogen Trichomonas vaginalis

    Jane M. Carlton;Robert . Hirt;Joana C. Silva;Arthur L. Delcher

  • Genome sequence and comparative analysis of the model rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii yoelii

    Jane M. Carlton;Samuel V. Angiuoli;Bernard B. Suh;Taco W. Kooij

  • The Genome of the Basidiomycetous Yeast and Human Pathogen Cryptococcus Neoformans

    Brendan J. Loftus;Eula Fung;Paola Roncaglia;Don Rowley

  • Draft Genome of the Filarial Nematode Parasite Brugia malayi

    Elodie Ghedin;Elodie Ghedin;Shiliang Wang;David Spiro;Elisabet Caler

  • GeneSplicer: a new computational method for splice site prediction

    Mihaela Pertea;Xiaoying Lin;Steven L. Salzberg

  • Chromosome 2 Sequence of the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum

    Malcolm J. Gardner;Hervé Tettelin;Daniel J. Carucci;Leda M. Cummings

  • Broad CTL response is required to clear latent HIV-1 due to dominance of escape mutations

    Kai Deng;Mihaela Pertea;Anthony Rongvaux;Leyao Wang

  • Genome sequence of Theileria parva, a bovine pathogen that transforms lymphocytes.

    Malcolm J. Gardner;Richard Bishop;Trushar Shah;Etienne P. de Villiers

  • Defective HIV-1 Proviruses Are Expressed and Can Be Recognized by Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes, which Shape the Proviral Landscape.

    Ross A. Pollack;R. Brad Jones;Mihaela Pertea;Katherine M. Bruner

  • In-depth view of structure, activity, and evolution of rice chromosome 10

    Y. Yu;T. Rambo;J. Currie;C. Saski

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven L. Salzberg
Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University
Jennifer R. Wortman
Jennifer R. Wortman Broad Institute
Brian J. Haas
Brian J. Haas Broad Institute
Claire M. Fraser
Claire M. Fraser University of Maryland, Baltimore
Owen White
Owen White University of Maryland, Baltimore
Ian T. Paulsen
Ian T. Paulsen Macquarie University
Arthur L. Delcher
Arthur L. Delcher University of Maryland, College Park
Neil Hall
Neil Hall Norwich Research Park
Matthew Berriman
Matthew Berriman University of Glasgow
J. Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter Institute

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