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Overview

Richard R. Copley is affiliated with the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics in the United Kingdom. Their research spans diverse topics within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions to environmental science.

The main fields of study for their publications include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, subfields of particular focus are:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Oceanography
  • Ecology
  • Cell Biology
  • Genetics

The primary topics covered in their work include:

  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard R. Copley are as follows:

  • Whole-animal multiplexed single-cell RNA-seq reveals transcriptional shifts across Clytia medusa cell types, 2021, Science Advances
  • Lack of support for Deuterostomia prompts reinterpretation of the first Bilateria, 2021, Science Advances
  • Analysis of the P. lividus sea urchin genome highlights contrasting trends of genomic and regulatory evolution in deuterostomes, 2023, Cell Genomics
  • Past, present and future of Clytia hemisphaerica as a laboratory jellyfish, 2022, Current Topics in Developmental Biology
  • macrosyntR: Drawing automatically ordered Oxford Grids from standard genomic files in R, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent collaboration is evident with several co-authors, including:

  • Evelyn Houliston
  • Adam Claridge-Chang
  • Didier Jollivet
  • Anna Ferraioli
  • Paschalia Kapli

The majority of publications have appeared in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Advances
  • Cell Genomics
  • Current Topics in Developmental Biology
  • eLife

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

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

  • Functional organization of the yeast proteome by systematic analysis of protein complexes

    Anne-Claude Gavin;Markus Bösche;Roland Krause;Paola Grandi

  • Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

    Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Michael L. Metzker;Donna M. Muzny

  • The InterPro Database, 2003 brings increased coverage and new features

    Nicola J Mulder;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K Attwood;Amos Marc Bairoch

  • SMART: a web-based tool for the study of genetically mobile domains

    Jörg Schultz;Richard R. Copley;Tobias Doerks;Chris P. Ponting

  • SMART 4.0: towards genomic data integration

    Ivica Letunic;Richard R. Copley;Steffen Schmidt;Francesca D. Ciccarelli

  • SMART 5: domains in the context of genomes and networks.

    Ivica Letunic;Richard R. Copley;Birgit Pils;Stefan Pinkert

  • Functional genomic analysis of cell division in C. elegans using RNAi of genes on chromosome III

    Pierre Gönczy;Pierre Gönczy;Christophe Echeverri;Christophe Echeverri;Karen Oegema;Karen Oegema;Alan Coulson

  • A RING-type ubiquitin ligase family member required to repress follicular helper T cells and autoimmunity

    Carola G. Vinuesa;Matthew C. Cook;Constanza Angelucci;Vicki Athanasopoulos

  • Recent improvements to the SMART domain-based sequence annotation resource

    Ivica Letunic;Leo Goodstadt;Nicholas J. Dickens;Tobias Doerks

  • InterPro, progress and status in 2005

    Nicola J. Mulder;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch

  • Genome-wide Association of Hypoxia-inducible Factor (HIF)-1α and HIF-2α DNA Binding with Expression Profiling of Hypoxia-inducible Transcripts

    David R. Mole;Christine Blancher;Richard R. Copley;Patrick J. Pollard

  • Systematic identification of novel protein domain families associated with nuclear functions.

    Tobias Doerks;Richard R. Copley;Jörg Schultz;Chris P. Ponting

  • Comparative genome and proteome analysis of Anopheles gambiae and Drosophila melanogaster.

    Evgeny M. Zdobnov;Christian Von Mering;Ivica Letunic;David Torrents

  • New developments in the InterPro database

    Nicola J. Mulder;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch

  • Deuterostome phylogeny reveals monophyletic chordates and the new phylum Xenoturbellida

    Sarah J. Bourlat;Thorhildur Juliusdottir;Christopher J. Lowe;Robert Freeman

  • Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella

    Hervé Philippe;Henner Brinkmann;Richard R. Copley;Leonid L. Moroz

  • Factors influencing success of clinical genome sequencing across a broad spectrum of disorders

    Jenny C. Taylor;Jenny C. Taylor;Hilary C. Martin;Stefano Lise;John Broxholme

  • InterPro--an integrated documentation resource for protein families, domains and functional sites

    Rolf Apweiler;Terri K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch;Alex Bateman

Frequent Co-Authors

Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Chris P. Ponting
Chris P. Ponting University of Edinburgh
Jörg Schultz
Jörg Schultz University of Würzburg
Richard Mott
Richard Mott University College London
Ivica Letunic
Ivica Letunic European Bioinformatics Institute
Robert B. Russell
Robert B. Russell Heidelberg University
Jonathan Flint
Jonathan Flint University of California, Los Angeles
Martin S. Taylor
Martin S. Taylor Harvard University
Maximilian J. Telford
Maximilian J. Telford University College London
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin University of Cambridge

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