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Niranjan Nagarajan is affiliated with the Genome Institute of Singapore in Singapore. Their research spans key areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with substantial contributions to medicine. Nagarajan's work focuses on several subfields including molecular biology, ecology, infectious diseases, molecular medicine, and epidemiology.

The scientist has concentrated on topics such as gut microbiota and health, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, genomics and phylogenetic studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, probiotics and fermented foods, dermatology and skin diseases, and research related to Mycobacterium diagnosis.

Their recent papers demonstrate engagement with metagenomics, microbial surveillance, and antimicrobial resistance, published in prominent journals:

  • Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation: the second round of challenges (2022, Nature Methods)
  • A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance (2021, Cell)
  • Metagenomics-enabled microbial surveillance (2022, Nature Microbiology)
  • Cartography of opportunistic pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in a tertiary hospital environment (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • Metagenome-wide association analysis identifies microbial determinants of post-antibiotic ecological recovery in the gut (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)

Frequent co-authors in Nagarajan's publications include:

  • Chayaporn Suphavilai
  • Aarthi Ravikrishnan
  • Denis Bertrand
  • Amanda Hui Qi Ng
  • Jean-Sébastien Gounot

Publication venues regularly featuring Nagarajan's work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Microbiology
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • Microbiology Spectrum

Nagarajan has also contributed to book literature, including a publication titled Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Diversity In Medicinal Plants Of Sirumalai Hills, Eastern Ghats And Their Role In Melia Dubia Cav (2021) through Royal Book Publishing.

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations.

    Matthew H Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • Fast and accurate de novo genome assembly from long uncorrected reads

    Robert Vaser;Ivan Sović;Niranjan Nagarajan;Mile Šikić

  • Statistical methods for detecting differentially abundant features in clinical metagenomic samples.

    James Robert White;Niranjan Nagarajan;Mihai Pop

  • LoFreq: a sequence-quality aware, ultra-sensitive variant caller for uncovering cell-population heterogeneity from high-throughput sequencing datasets

    Andreas Wilm;Pauline Poh Kim Aw;Denis Bertrand;Grace Hui Ting Yeo

  • The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus)

    Ray Ming;Shaobin Hou;Yun Feng;Qingyi Yu

  • The draft genome of sweet orange (Citrus sinensis).

    Qiang Xu;Ling Ling Chen;Xiaoan Ruan;Dijun Chen

  • Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation - A benchmark of metagenomics software

    Alexander Sczyrba;Peter Hofmann;Peter Hofmann;Peter Belmann;David Koslicki

  • Genome mapping on nanochannel arrays for structural variation analysis and sequence assembly

    Ernest T Lam;Alex Hastie;Chin Lin;Dean Ehrlich

  • Exome sequencing of gastric adenocarcinoma identifies recurrent somatic mutations in cell adhesion and chromatin remodeling genes

    Zhi Jiang Zang;Ioana Cutcutache;Song Ling Poon;Shen Li Zhang

  • A common BIM deletion polymorphism mediates intrinsic resistance and inferior responses to tyrosine kinase inhibitors in cancer.

    King Pan Ng;Axel M Hillmer;Charles T H Chuah;Charles T H Chuah;Wen Chun Juan

  • Erratum: Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations (ARTICLE (2018) 173(2) (371–385), (S009286741830237X), (10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.060))

    Matthew H. Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • Sequence assembly demystified

    Niranjan Nagarajan;Mihai Pop

  • Fast and sensitive mapping of nanopore sequencing reads with GraphMap

    Ivan Sović;Mile Šikić;Andreas Wilm;Shannon Nicole Fenlon;Shannon Nicole Fenlon

  • Whole metagenome profiling reveals skin microbiome-dependent susceptibility to atopic dermatitis flare.

    Kern Rei Chng;Angeline Su Ling Tay;Chenhao Li;Amanda Hui Qi Ng

  • Perspective on Oncogenic Processes at the End of the Beginning of Cancer Genomics

    Li Ding;Matthew H Bailey;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Vesteinn Thorsson

  • In Vivo Mapping of Eukaryotic RNA Interactomes Reveals Principles of Higher-Order Organization and Regulation.

    Jong Ghut Ashley Aw;Yang Shen;Andreas Wilm;Miao Sun

  • A Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Trial of Balapiravir, a Polymerase Inhibitor, in Adult Dengue Patients

    Nguyet Minh Nguyen;Chau Nguyen Bich Tran;Lam Khanh Phung;Kien Thi Hue Duong

  • Hybrid metagenomic assembly enables high-resolution analysis of resistance determinants and mobile elements in human microbiomes

    Denis Bertrand;Jim Shaw;Manesh Kalathiyappan;Amanda Hui Qi Ng

  • Genus-Wide Comparative Genomics of Malassezia Delineates Its Phylogeny, Physiology, and Niche Adaptation on Human Skin.

    Guangxi Wu;He Zhao;Chenhao Li;Menaka Priyadarsani Rajapakse

  • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations (vol 173, 371.e1, 2018)

    Matthew H Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

Frequent Co-Authors

Mihai Pop
Mihai Pop University of Maryland, College Park
Patrick Tan
Patrick Tan Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Martin L. Hibberd
Martin L. Hibberd London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Axel M. Hillmer
Axel M. Hillmer University of Cologne
Yijun Ruan
Yijun Ruan University of Connecticut Health Center
Wing-Kin Sung
Wing-Kin Sung Chinese University of Hong Kong
Barnaby Young
Barnaby Young National Centre for Infectious Diseases
Chiea Chuen Khor
Chiea Chuen Khor Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Timothy D. Read
Timothy D. Read Emory University
Bin Tean Teh
Bin Tean Teh National University of Singapore

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