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Rafael A. Irizarry

Rafael A. Irizarry

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
104
Citations
126296
World Ranking
1224
National Ranking
724

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
  • 2009 - COPSS Presidents' Award For his wide-ranging and highly influential contributions to the theory and methodology of statistical science that underpins the analysis of time series and genomic data; for demonstrating the essential role of statistics to the advancement of modern genomic science and biotechnology; for advancing statistical practice through publication of open-source software and participation in the core development group of Bioconductor; for his leadership of multidisciplinary scientific teams; and for his outstanding contributions to statistics as an editorial board member and mentor of students and post-doctoral fellows.
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Rafael A. Irizarry is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and focuses primarily on research in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans various subfields including molecular biology, immunology, cancer research, oncology, and modeling and simulation.

Their research covers topics such as single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, gene expression and cancer classification, gut microbiota and health, cancer genomics and diagnostics, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, climate change and health impacts, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Robust decomposition of cell type mixtures in spatial transcriptomics, 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • Excess deaths associated with covid-19 pandemic in 2020: age and sex disaggregated time series analysis in 29 high income countries, 2021, BMJ
  • Progressive immune dysfunction with advancing disease stage in renal cell carcinoma, 2021, Cancer Cell
  • Detection of renal cell carcinoma using plasma and urine cell-free DNA methylomes, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Large-Scale Topological Changes Restrain Malignant Progression in Colorectal Cancer, 2020, Cell

Frequently co-authoring with Rafael A. Irizarry are Isabella N. Grabski, Dylan Cable, Fei Chen, Rolando J. Acosta, and Evan Murray.

Their publications are often featured in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Genome Biology, Biostatistics, Nature Medicine, and Cell.

Rafael's work has been recognized with several awards, including the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2009, which noted their influential contributions to statistical science related to genomic data and their role in open-source software development and multidisciplinary scientific leadership.

They were also named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2009 and 2020, respectively.

Best Publications

  • Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics

    Robert C Gentleman;Vincent J Carey;Douglas M. Bates;B.M. Bolstad

  • Salmon provides fast and bias-aware quantification of transcript expression

    Rob Patro;Geet Duggal;Michael I Love;Rafael A Irizarry

  • Exploration, normalization, and summaries of high density oligonucleotide array probe level data

    Rafael A. Irizarry;Bridget Hobbs;Francois Collin;Yasmin D. Beazer-Barclay

  • A comparison of normalization methods for high density oligonucleotide array data based on variance and bias

    Benjamin M. Bolstad;Rafael A. Irizarry;Magnus Åstrand;Terence P. Speed;Terence P. Speed

  • Summaries of Affymetrix GeneChip probe level data

    Rafael A. Irizarry;Benjamin M. Bolstad;Francois Collin;Leslie M. Cope

  • affy---analysis of Affymetrix GeneChip data at the probe level

    Laurent Gautier;Leslie Cope;Benjamin M. Bolstad;Rafael A. Irizarry

  • Minfi: A flexible and comprehensive Bioconductor package for the analysis of Infinium DNA Methylation microarrays

    Martin J. Aryee;Andrew E. Jaffe;Hector Corrada-Bravo;Christine Ladd-Acosta

  • Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor

    Wolfgang Huber;Vincent J Carey;Robert Gentleman;Simon Anders

  • Epigenetic memory in induced pluripotent stem cells

    K. Kim;A. Doi;B. Wen;K. Ng

  • The human colon cancer methylome shows similar hypo- and hypermethylation at conserved tissue-specific CpG island shores.

    Rafael A. Irizarry;Christine Ladd-Acosta;Bo Wen;Zhijin Wu

  • Tackling the widespread and critical impact of batch effects in high-throughput data

    Jeffrey T. Leek;Robert B. Scharpf;Héctor Corrada Bravo;Héctor Corrada Bravo;David Simcha

  • A Model-Based Background Adjustment for Oligonucleotide Expression Arrays

    Zhijin Wu;Rafael A. Irizarry;Robert C Gentleman;Francisco Martinez-Murillo

  • MAGeCK enables robust identification of essential genes from genome-scale CRISPR/Cas9 knockout screens.

    Wei Li;Han Xu;Tengfei Xiao;Le Cong;Le Cong

  • A framework for oligonucleotide microarray preprocessing

    Benilton S. Carvalho;Rafael A. Irizarry

  • Differential methylation of tissue- and cancer-specific CpG island shores distinguishes human induced pluripotent stem cells, embryonic stem cells and fibroblasts.

    Akiko Doi;In Hyun Park;Bo Wen;Peter Murakami

  • The Microarray Quality Control (MAQC)-II study of common practices for the development and validation of microarray-based predictive models

    Leming Shi;Gregory Campbell;Wendell D. Jones;Fabien Campagne

  • Increased methylation variation in epigenetic domains across cancer types

    Kasper Daniel Hansen;Winston Timp;Winston Timp;Héctor Corrada Bravo;Héctor Corrada Bravo;Sarven Sabunciyan

  • Multiple-laboratory comparison of microarray platforms

    Rafael A Irizarry;Daniel Warren;Forrest Spencer;Irene F Kim

  • Accounting for cellular heterogeneity is critical in epigenome-wide association studies

    Andrew E Jaffe;Rafael A Irizarry

  • Meta-analysis of gut microbiome studies identifies disease-specific and shared responses.

    Claire Duvallet;Sean M. Gibbons;Sean M. Gibbons;Thomas Gurry;Thomas Gurry;Rafael A. Irizarry

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew P. Feinberg
Andrew P. Feinberg Johns Hopkins University
Martin J. Aryee
Martin J. Aryee Harvard University
Kasper D. Hansen
Kasper D. Hansen Johns Hopkins University
Terence P. Speed
Terence P. Speed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Andrew E. Jaffe
Andrew E. Jaffe Johns Hopkins University
John Quackenbush
John Quackenbush Harvard University
Jef D. Boeke
Jef D. Boeke New York University
Leslie Cope
Leslie Cope Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jeffrey T. Leek
Jeffrey T. Leek Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

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