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Roger A. Hoskins is affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on genomics, cancer research, and bioinformatics.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields of study in which they are active include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Cancer Research

The central topics of Roger A. Hoskins' research are:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Roger A. Hoskins has contributed to several publications, particularly focused on the interpretation of genome data and its implications for cancer and rare diseases. Notable papers include:

  • "CAGI, the Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation, establishes progress and prospects for computational genetic variant interpretation methods," 2024, Genome Biology
  • "Abstract LB-250: The Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation: A community experiment that informs use of methods for germline cancer variant impact prediction," 2020, Cancer Research
  • "Abstract LB152: The Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation: A community experiment that informs use of methods for germline cancer variant impact prediction," 2022, Cancer Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Roger A. Hoskins include:

  • Constantina Bakolitsa
  • Steven E. Brenner
  • Predrag Radivojac
  • John Moult
  • Gaia Andreoletti

The prominent venues publishing their work are:

  • Cancer Research
  • Genome Biology

Best Publications

  • The genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster

    M. D. Adams;S. E. Celniker;R. A. Holt;C. A. Evans

  • Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

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

  • Comparative Genomics of the Eukaryotes

    Gerald M. Rubin;Mark D. Yandell;Jennifer R. Wortman;George L. Gabor

  • The developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster

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

  • Identification of Functional Elements and Regulatory Circuits by Drosophila modENCODE

    Sushmita Roy;Jason Ernst;Peter V. Kharchenko;Pouya Kheradpour

  • The BDGP gene disruption project: single transposon insertions associated with 40% of Drosophila genes.

    Hugo J. Bellen;Robert W. Levis;Guochun Liao;Yuchun He

  • P[acman]: A BAC Transgenic Platform for Targeted Insertion of Large DNA Fragments in D. melanogaster

    Koen J. T. Venken;Yuchun He;Roger A. Hoskins;Hugo J. Bellen

  • Diversity and dynamics of the Drosophila transcriptome

    James B. Brown;James B. Brown;Nathan Boley;Robert Eisman;Gemma E. May

  • MiMIC: a highly versatile transposon insertion resource for engineering Drosophila melanogaster genes.

    Koen J T Venken;Karen L Schulze;Nele A Haelterman;Hongling Pan

  • The Carnegie Protein Trap Library: A Versatile Tool for Drosophila Developmental Studies

    Michael Buszczak;Shelley Paterno;Daniel Lighthouse;Julia Bachman

  • The Release 6 reference sequence of the Drosophila melanogaster genome

    Roger A. Hoskins;Joseph W. Carlson;Kenneth H. Wan;Soo Park

  • Versatile P[acman] BAC libraries for transgenesis studies in Drosophila melanogaster

    Koen J T Venken;Joseph W Carlson;Karen L Schulze;Hongling Pan

  • Finishing a whole-genome shotgun: Release 3 of the Drosophila melanogaster euchromatic genome sequence

    Susan E Celniker;David A Wheeler;Brent Kronmiller;Joseph W Carlson

  • A library of MiMICs allows tagging of genes and reversible, spatial and temporal knockdown of proteins in Drosophila.

    Sonal Nagarkar-Jaiswal;Pei Tseng Lee;Megan E. Campbell;Kuchuan Chen

  • The Drosophila Gene Disruption Project: Progress Using Transposons With Distinctive Site Specificities

    Hugo J. Bellen;Robert W. Levis;Yuchun He;Joseph W. Carlson

  • Thirty-One Flavors of Drosophila Rab Proteins

    Jun Zhang;Karen L. Schulze;P. Robin Hiesinger;P. Robin Hiesinger;Kaye Suyama

  • Sequence finishing and mapping of Drosophila melanogaster heterochromatin

    Roger A. Hoskins;Joseph W. Carlson;Cameron Kennedy;David Acevedo

  • Comparative analysis of the transcriptome across distant species

    Mark B. Gerstein;Joel Rozowsky;Koon Kiu Yan;Daifeng Wang

  • Heterochromatic sequences in a Drosophila whole-genome shotgun assembly

    Roger A Hoskins;Christopher D Smith;Joseph W Carlson;A Bernardo Carvalho

  • An exploration of the sequence of a 2.9-Mb region of the genome of Drosophila melanogaster: the Adh region

    M. Ashburner;M. Ashburner;S. Misra;J. Roote;S. E. Lewis

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan E. Celniker
Susan E. Celniker Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gerald M. Rubin
Gerald M. Rubin Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hugo J. Bellen
Hugo J. Bellen Baylor College of Medicine
Norbert Perrimon
Norbert Perrimon Harvard University
Allan C. Spradling
Allan C. Spradling Carnegie Institution for Science
Steven E. Brenner
Steven E. Brenner University of California, Berkeley
Thomas C. Kaufman
Thomas C. Kaufman Indiana University
Gary H. Karpen
Gary H. Karpen University of California, Berkeley
Thomas R. Gingeras
Thomas R. Gingeras Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Brenton R. Graveley
Brenton R. Graveley University of Connecticut Health Center

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