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2024

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D-Index
139
Citations
178626
World Ranking
182
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Roderic Guigó is affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University in Spain and has contributed extensively to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research focuses on molecular biology, genetics, and cancer research, supported by numerous publications in these areas. They have made significant contributions to subfields including molecular biology, genetics, physiology, ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • RNA research and splicing
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Genetic associations and epidemiology
  • Genomics and chromatin dynamics

Guigó has published their work in a variety of venues, with a significant number of their papers appearing in large-scale genomic and biological data repositories and journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • ENCODE Datasets
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia

Their recent papers illustrate active involvement in the genetics and genomics community with key contributions such as:

  • The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues, 2020, Science
  • GENCODE 2021, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • The impact of sex on gene expression across human tissues, 2020, Science
  • Cell type-specific genetic regulation of gene expression across human tissues, 2020, Science
  • GENCODE: reference annotation for the human and mouse genomes in 2023, 2022, Nucleic Acids Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Guigó include Diego Garrido-Martín, François Aguet, Ferrán Reverter, Kristin Ardlie, and Manuel Muñoz-Aguirre. These professional partnerships indicate involvement in large collaborative projects within genomics and gene expression research.

Best Publications

  • The Sequence of the Human Genome

    J. Craig Venter;Mark D. Adams;Eugene W. Myers;Peter W. Li

  • The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

    John Lonsdale;Jeffrey Thomas;Mike Salvatore;Rebecca Phillips

  • Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

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

  • 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 Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans

    Kristin G. Ardlie;David S. Deluca;Ayellet V. Segrè

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

    F Aguet;AN Barbeira;R Bonazzola;A Brown

  • Landscape of transcription in human cells

    Sarah Djebali;Carrie A. Davis;Angelika Merkel;Alex Dobin

  • The GENCODE v7 catalog of human long noncoding RNAs: analysis of their gene structure, evolution, and expression.

    Thomas Derrien;Rory Johnson;Giovanni Bussotti;Andrea Tanzer

  • GENCODE: The reference human genome annotation for The ENCODE Project

    Jennifer Harrow;Adam Frankish;Jose M. Gonzalez;Electra Tapanari

  • Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues.

    Enhancing GTEx (eGTEx) groups

  • The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution

    Shusei Sato;Satoshi Tabata;Hideki Hirakawa;Erika Asamizu

  • The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

    E. A. Feingold;P. J. Good;M. S. Guyer;S. Kamholz

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

    Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

  • Characterization of Mammalian Selenoproteomes

    Gregory V. Kryukov;Sergi Castellano;Sergey V. Novoselov;Sergey V. Novoselov;Alexey V. Lobanov;Alexey V. Lobanov

  • GENCODE reference annotation for the human and mouse genomes.

    Adam Frankish;Mark Diekhans;Anne-Maud Ferreira;Rory Baldwin Johnson

  • The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Robert A. Holt;G. Mani Subramanian;Aaron Halpern;Granger G. Sutton

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

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

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

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

  • Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

    Andrew G. Clark;Michael B. Eisen;Michael B. Eisen;Douglas R. Smith;Casey M. Bergman

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

    François Aguet;Alvaro N Barbeira;Rodrigo Bonazzola;Andrew Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas R. Gingeras
Thomas R. Gingeras Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Alexandre Reymond
Alexandre Reymond University of Lausanne
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis University of Geneva
Rory Johnson
Rory Johnson University College Dublin
Paul Flicek
Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory
Stylianos E. Antonarakis
Stylianos E. Antonarakis University of Geneva
Tim Hubbard
Tim Hubbard King's College London
Adam Frankish
Adam Frankish European Bioinformatics Institute
Jennifer Harrow
Jennifer Harrow AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)

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