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  • 2011 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Richard E. Green is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 83 publications. Within this broad field, the scientist focuses on subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Ecology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

The scientist's work explores a range of topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

Frequent collaborators include Beth Shapiro, Arang Rhie, Samuel Sacco, Sergey Koren, and Mark Diekhans.

The scientist has contributed frequently to several publication venues, including:

  • Journal of Heredity
  • Nature
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Nature Biotechnology

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Richard E. Green include:

  • Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species, 2021, Nature
  • A draft human pangenome reference, 2023, Nature
  • Nanopore sequencing and the Shasta toolkit enable efficient de novo assembly of eleven human genomes, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
  • Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging, 2023, Cell
  • Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Richard E. Green received the distinction of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2011.

Best Publications

  • AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models.

    Mihaly Varadi;Stephen Anyango;Mandar Deshpande;Sreenath Nair

  • The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centres

    John Magorrian;Scott Tremaine;Douglas Richstone;Ralf Bender

  • The Demography of massive dark objects in galaxy centers

    John Magorrian;Scott Tremaine;Scott Tremaine;Douglas Richstone;Ralf Bender

  • A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

    Richard E. Green;Johannes Krause;Adrian W. Briggs;Tomislav Maricic

  • The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

    P. Carninci;T. Kasukawa;S. Katayama;J. Gough

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

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

  • The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

    Kay Prüfer;Fernando Racimo;Nick Patterson;Flora Jay

  • Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

    David Reich;Richard E. Green;Martin Kircher;Johannes Krause

  • A high-coverage genome sequence from an archaic Denisovan individual

    Matthias Meyer;Martin Kircher;Marie Theres Gansauge;Heng Li

  • Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

    Erich D. Jarvis;Siavash Mirarab;Andre J. Aberer;Bo Li;Bo Li;Bo Li

  • The developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster

    Brenton R. Graveley;Angela N. Brooks;Joseph W. Carlson;Michael O. Duff

  • Evidence for the widespread coupling of alternative splicing and nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in humans

    Benjamin P. Lewis;Richard E. Green;Steven E. Brenner

  • Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation.

    Guojie Zhang;Guojie Zhang;Cai Li;Qiye Li;Bo Li

  • Analysis of one million base pairs of Neanderthal DNA

    Richard E. Green;Johannes Krause;Susan E. Ptak;Adrian W. Briggs

  • Patterns of damage in genomic DNA sequences from a Neandertal

    Adrian W. Briggs;Udo Stenzel;Philip L. F. Johnson;Richard E. Green

  • The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neandertals

    Johannes Krause;Carles Lalueza-Fox;Ludovic Orlando;Wolfgang Enard

  • Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

    David Haussler;Stephen J. O'Brien;Oliver A. Ryder;F. Keith Barker

  • Chromosome-scale shotgun assembly using an in vitro method for long-range linkage

    Nicholas H. Putnam;Brendan L. O'Connell;Jonathan C. Stites;Brandon J. Rice

  • A complete Neandertal mitochondrial genome sequence determined by high-throughput sequencing

    Richard E. Green;Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas;Johannes Krause;Adrian W. Briggs

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Beth Shapiro
Beth Shapiro University of California, Santa Cruz
Svante Pääbo
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Steven E. Brenner
Steven E. Brenner University of California, Berkeley
David Haussler
David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz
Janet Kelso
Janet Kelso Max Planck Society
Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society
David A. Ray
David A. Ray Texas Tech University
Warren E. Johnson
Warren E. Johnson Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer Max Planck Society
Evan E. Eichler
Evan E. Eichler University of Washington

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