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Citations
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World Ranking
160
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
  • 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
  • 2020 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Paul Flicek is affiliated with The Jackson Laboratory in the United States and has made significant contributions in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a total of 199 publications. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Cancer Research, and Ecology.

The scientific topics covered by their work focus notably on:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Their publication record includes papers published in venues where they frequently contribute, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Nature
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • Genome Biology

Notable recent papers include:

  • Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species, 2021, Nature
  • Ensembl 2022, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Ensembl 2021, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • GENCODE 2021, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • The IPD-IMGT/HLA Database, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Paul Flicek include:

  • Fergal J. Martin
  • Adam Frankish
  • Duncan T. Odom
  • Carlos García Girón
  • Sarah Hunt

Among recognized honors, Paul Flicek is a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology since 2020 and a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

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

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

    Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

  • Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

    Robert H. Waterston;Kerstin Lindblad-Toh;Ewan Birney;Jane Rogers

  • The Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor.

    William McLaren;Laurent Gil;Sarah E. Hunt;Harpreet Singh Riat

  • 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

  • The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

    F Aguet;AN Barbeira;R Bonazzola;A Brown

  • The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog of published genome-wide association studies, targeted arrays and summary statistics 2019.

    Annalisa Buniello;Jacqueline A. L. MacArthur;Maria Cerezo;Laura W. Harris

  • The NHGRI GWAS Catalog, a curated resource of SNP-trait associations

    Danielle Welter;Jacqueline A. L. MacArthur;Joannella Morales;Tony Burdett

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

  • Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

    Arang Rhie;Shane A. McCarthy;Shane A. McCarthy;Olivier Fedrigo;Joana Damas

  • 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

  • Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

    Ladeana W. Hillier;Webb Miller;Ewan Birney;Wesley Warren

  • The new NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published genome-wide association studies (GWAS Catalog).

    Jacqueline A. L. MacArthur;Emily Bowler;Maria Cerezo;Laurent Gil

  • 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

  • Transcriptome and genome sequencing uncovers functional variation in humans

    Tuuli Lappalainen;Michael Sammeth;Marc R. Friedländer;Peter A. C. ‘t Hoen

  • International network of cancer genome projects

    Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

  • A comparative encyclopedia of DNA elements in the mouse genome

    Feng Yue;Feng Yue;Yong Cheng;Alessandra Breschi;Jeff Vierstra

  • Deriving the consequences of genomic variants with the Ensembl API and SNP Effect Predictor

    William McLaren;Bethan Pritchard;Daniel Rios;Yuan Chen

  • The IPD and IMGT/HLA database: allele variant databases

    James Robinson;Jason A. Halliwell;James D. Hayhurst;Paul Flicek

Frequent Co-Authors

Duncan T. Odom
Duncan T. Odom University of Cambridge
Laura Clarke
Laura Clarke European Bioinformatics Institute
Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Bronwen Aken
Bronwen Aken European Bioinformatics Institute
Roderic Guigó
Roderic Guigó Pompeu Fabra University
Javier Herrero
Javier Herrero University College London
Evan E. Eichler
Evan E. Eichler University of Washington
Adam Frankish
Adam Frankish European Bioinformatics Institute
Hendrik G. Stunnenberg
Hendrik G. Stunnenberg Radboud University
Mark Gerstein
Mark Gerstein Yale University

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