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9425
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Overview

Sean Davis is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology as a subfield. Other subfields of study include cancer research, information systems and management, public health, environmental and occupational health, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's work covers a variety of research topics, including:

  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Bioinformatics and genomic networks
  • Biomedical text mining and ontologies
  • Molecular biology techniques and applications
  • Scientific computing and data management
  • Genetics, bioinformatics, and biomedical research

Sean Davis has contributed to multiple publications in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • F1000Research
  • Nature Communications
  • PLoS Computational Biology

They have authored and coauthored significant papers, including:

  • "Melanoblast transcriptome analysis reveals pathways promoting melanoma metastasis," published in 2020 in Nature Communications
  • "Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome," published in 2025 in Cell
  • "HGNChelper: identification and correction of invalid gene symbols for human and mouse," published in 2020 in F1000Research
  • "HGNChelper: identification and correction of invalid gene symbols for human and mouse," published in 2022 in F1000Research
  • "BugSigDB captures patterns of differential abundance across a broad range of host-associated microbial signatures," published in 2023 in Nature Biotechnology

Frequent collaborators of Sean Davis include Levi Waldron, Ludwig Geistlinger, Marcel Ramos, Casey S. Greene, and Sehyun Oh.

Best Publications

  • NCBI GEO: archive for functional genomics data sets—update

    Tanya Barrett;Stephen E. Wilhite;Pierre Ledoux;Carlos Evangelista

  • 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

  • Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor

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

  • GEOquery: a bridge between the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and BioConductor

    Sean R. Davis;Paul S. Meltzer

  • BioMart and Bioconductor: a powerful link between biological databases and microarray data analysis

    Steffen Durinck;Yves Moreau;Arek Kasprzyk;Sean Davis

  • Rare Structural Variants Disrupt Multiple Genes in Neurodevelopmental Pathways in Schizophrenia

    Tom Walsh;Jon M. McClellan;Shane E. McCarthy;Anjené M. Addington

  • High-Resolution Mapping and Characterization of Open Chromatin across the Genome

    Alan P. Boyle;Sean Davis;Hennady P. Shulha;Paul Meltzer

  • Pan-cancer genome and transcriptome analyses of 1,699 paediatric leukaemias and solid tumours

    Xiaotu Ma;Yu Liu;Yanling Liu;Ludmil B. Alexandrov

  • A single IGF1 allele is a major determinant of small size in dogs.

    Nathan B. Sutter;Carlos D. Bustamante;Kevin Chase;Melissa M. Gray

  • RCircos: an R package for Circos 2D track plots

    Hongen Zhang;Paul S. Meltzer;Sean R. Davis

  • Genome-wide mapping of DNase hypersensitive sites using massively parallel signature sequencing (MPSS)

    Gregory E. Crawford;Ingeborg E. Holt;James Whittle;Bryn D. Webb

  • Exome sequencing identifies GRIN2A as frequently mutated in melanoma

    Xiaomu Wei;Vijay Walia;Jimmy C Lin;Jamie K Teer

  • Gene Expression Profiling of Human Sarcomas: Insights into Sarcoma Biology

    Kristin Baird;Sean Davis;Cristina R. Antonescu;Ursula L. Harper

  • Super-enhancers delineate disease-associated regulatory nodes in T cells

    Golnaz Vahedi;Yuka Kanno;Yasuko Furumoto;Kan Jiang

  • Interaction of the glucocorticoid receptor with the chromatin landscape.

    Sam John;Peter J. Sabo;Thomas A. Johnson;Myong Hee Sung

  • Epigenomic alterations and gene expression profiles in respiratory epithelia exposed to cigarette smoke condensate

    F Liu;J K Killian;M Yang;R L Walker

  • The Exomes of the NCI-60 Panel: a Genomic Resource for Cancer Biology and Systems Pharmacology

    Ogan D. Abaan;Eric C. Polley;Sean R. Davis;Yuelin J. Zhu

  • Interferon-γ links ultraviolet radiation to melanomagenesis in mice

    M. Raza Zaidi;Sean Davis;Frances P. Noonan;Cari Graff-Cherry

  • DNase-chip: A high-resolution method to identify DNase I hypersensitive sites using tiled microarrays

    Gregory E Crawford;Sean Davis;Peter C Scacheri;Gabriel Renaud

  • High prevalence of MAP2K1 mutations in variant and IGHV4-34-expressing hairy-cell leukemias

    Joshua J Waterfall;Evgeny Arons;Robert L Walker;Marbin Pineda

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul S. Meltzer
Paul S. Meltzer National Institutes of Health
Daniel E. Weeks
Daniel E. Weeks University of Pittsburgh
Martin Morgan
Martin Morgan Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Vincent J. Carey
Vincent J. Carey Harvard Medical School
William C. Reinhold
William C. Reinhold National Institutes of Health
Glenn Merlino
Glenn Merlino National Institutes of Health
Heinz Arnheiter
Heinz Arnheiter National Institutes of Health
Gregory E. Crawford
Gregory E. Crawford Duke University
Yves Pommier
Yves Pommier National Institutes of Health
Electron Kebebew
Electron Kebebew Stanford University

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