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Quaid Morris is affiliated with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Genetics, Oncology, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, RNA Research and Splicing, RNA modifications and cancer, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Genetic factors in colorectal cancer, Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and Gene expression and cancer classification.

Quaid Morris has contributed to multiple research papers, including the following notable recent publications:

  • The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers, 2020, Nature
  • Characterizing genetic intra-tumor heterogeneity across 2,658 human cancer genomes, 2021, Cell
  • Colorectal Cancer Cells Enter a Diapause-like DTP State to Survive Chemotherapy, 2021, Cell
  • A deep learning system accurately classifies primary and metastatic cancers using passenger mutation patterns, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A practical guide to cancer subclonal reconstruction from DNA sequencing, 2021, Nature Methods

Their frequent collaborators include Jeff Wintersinger, Paul C. Boutros, Gad Getz, David J. Adams, and Stefan C. Dentro.

Publication venues where Quaid Morris regularly publishes include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Research, Nature Communications, arXiv (Cornell University), and Blood.

Best Publications

  • The GeneMANIA prediction server: biological network integration for gene prioritization and predicting gene function.

    David Warde-Farley;Sylva L. Donaldson;Ovi Comes;Khalid Zuberi

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

  • The genetic landscape of a cell.

    Michael Costanzo;Anastasia Baryshnikova;Jeremy Bellay;Yungil Kim

  • A compendium of RNA-binding motifs for decoding gene regulation

    Debashish Ray;Hilal Kazan;Kate B. Cook;Matthew T. Weirauch;Matthew T. Weirauch

  • The human splicing code reveals new insights into the genetic determinants of disease

    Hui Y. Xiong;Babak Alipanahi;Babak Alipanahi;Leo J. Lee;Leo J. Lee;Hannes Bretschneider

  • Diversity and Complexity in DNA Recognition by Transcription Factors

    Gwenael Badis;Michael F. Berger;Michael F. Berger;Anthony A. Philippakis;Anthony A. Philippakis;Anthony A. Philippakis;Shaheynoor Talukder

  • GeneMANIA: a real-time multiple association network integration algorithm for predicting gene function

    Sara Mostafavi;Debajyoti Ray;David Warde-Farley;Chris Grouios

  • The evolutionary history of 2,658 cancers

    Moritz Gerstung;Moritz Gerstung;Clemency Jolly;Ignaty Leshchiner;Stefan C Dentro;Stefan C Dentro;Stefan C Dentro

  • GeneMANIA update 2018.

    Max Franz;Harold Rodriguez;Christian Tannus Lopes;Khalid Zuberi

  • Cytoscape Web

    Christian T. Lopes;Max Franz;Farzana Kazi;Sylva L. Donaldson

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

    Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

  • Dynamic modularity in protein interaction networks predicts breast cancer outcome

    Ian W Taylor;Rune Linding;David Warde-Farley;Yongmei Liu

  • GeneMANIA Cytoscape plugin

    J. Montojo;K. Zuberi;H. Rodriguez;F. Kazi

  • Exploration of essential gene functions via titratable promoter alleles

    Sanie Mnaimneh;Armaity P Davierwala;Jennifer Haynes;Jason Moffat

  • Variation in Homeodomain DNA Binding Revealed by High-Resolution Analysis of Sequence Preferences

    Michael F. Berger;Gwenael Badis;Andrew R. Gehrke;Shaheynoor Talukder

  • High-Density Proximity Mapping Reveals the Subcellular Organization of mRNA-Associated Granules and Bodies

    Ji-Young Youn;Wade H. Dunham;Seo Jung Hong;James D.R. Knight

  • RBPDB: a database of RNA-binding specificities

    Kate B. Cook;Hilal Kazan;Khalid Zuberi;Quaid Morris

  • Global survey of organ and organelle protein expression in mouse: combined proteomic and transcriptomic profiling.

    Thomas Kislinger;Brian Cox;Anitha Kannan;Clement Chung

  • Rapid and systematic analysis of the RNA recognition specificities of RNA-binding proteins.

    Debashish Ray;Hilal Kazan;Esther T Chan;Lourdes Peña Castillo

  • Probing microRNAs with microarrays: Tissue specificity and functional inference

    Tomas Babak;Wen Zhang;Quaid Morris;Benjamin J. Blencowe

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul C. Boutros
Paul C. Boutros University of California, Los Angeles
Brendan J. Frey
Brendan J. Frey University of Toronto
Benjamin J. Blencowe
Benjamin J. Blencowe University of Toronto
David C. Wedge
David C. Wedge University of Manchester
Peter Van Loo
Peter Van Loo The Francis Crick Institute
Lincoln Stein
Lincoln Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Gary D. Bader
Gary D. Bader University of Toronto
Moritz Gerstung
Moritz Gerstung German Cancer Research Center
Paul T. Spellman
Paul T. Spellman Oregon Health & Science University

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