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D-Index
69
Citations
82479
World Ranking
2299
National Ranking
1032

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
  • 2004 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Serafim Batzoglou is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States, contributing extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research has primarily focused on molecular biology, with additional work related to genetics, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, infectious diseases, and epidemiology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics centered on genomics and rare diseases, genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities, genomics and phylogenetic studies, genomics and chromatin dynamics, epigenetics and DNA methylation, prostate cancer treatment and research, and cancer-related gene regulation.

Recent publications include:

  • The DNA methylation landscape of advanced prostate cancer, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates, 2023, Science
  • Strain-resolved microbiome sequencing reveals mobile elements that drive bacterial competition on a clinical timescale, 2020, Genome Medicine
  • The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Discovery of widespread transcription initiation at microsatellites predictable by sequence-based deep neural network, 2021, Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Serafim Batzoglou include:

  • Peter Arner
  • Kyle Kai-How Farh
  • Hong Gao
  • Tobias Hamp
  • Jeffrey M. Ede

Key publication venues where Serafim Batzoglou's research appears consist of:

  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Genetics
  • Science
  • Genome Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

In recognition of their contributions, Serafim Batzoglou was named a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2020 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2004.

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

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

  • 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 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

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

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

  • ChIP-seq guidelines and practices of the ENCODE and modENCODE consortia

    Stephen G. Landt;Georgi K. Marinov;Anshul Kundaje;Pouya Kheradpour

  • Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

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

  • Identifying a high fraction of the human genome to be under selective constraint using GERP

    Eugene V. Davydov;David L. Goode;Marina Sirota;Gregory M. Cooper

  • Predicting Splicing from Primary Sequence with Deep Learning.

    Kishore Jaganathan;Sofia Kyriazopoulou Panagiotopoulou;Jeremy F. McRae;Siavash Fazel Darbandi

  • Architecture of the human regulatory network derived from ENCODE data

    Mark B Gerstein;Anshul Kundaje;Manoj Hariharan;Stephen G Landt

  • Sequencing of Aspergillus nidulans and comparative analysis with A. fumigatus and A. oryzae

    James E. Galagan;Sarah E. Calvo;Christina Cuomo;Li Jun Ma

  • Distribution and intensity of constraint in mammalian genomic sequence

    Gregory M. Cooper;Eric A. Stone;George Asimenos;Eric D. Green

  • A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)

    Richard M. Myers;John Stamatoyannopoulos;Michael Snyder;Ian Dunham

  • ProbCons: Probabilistic consistency-based multiple sequence alignment

    Chuong B. Do;Mahathi S.P. Mahabhashyam;Michael Brudno;Serafim Batzoglou

  • LAGAN and Multi-LAGAN: efficient tools for large-scale multiple alignment of genomic DNA.

    Michael Brudno;Chuong B. Do;Gregory M. Cooper;Michael F. Kim

  • Genome-wide analysis of transcription factor binding sites based on ChIP-Seq data.

    Anton Valouev;David S Johnson;Andreas Sundquist;Catherine Medina

  • ARACHNE: A Whole-Genome Shotgun Assembler

    Serafim Batzoglou;David B. Jaffe;Ken Stanley;Jonathan Butler

  • What is the expectation maximization algorithm

    Chuong B Do;Serafim Batzoglou

  • CONTRAfold: RNA secondary structure prediction without physics-based models

    Chuong B. Do;Daniel A. Woods;Serafim Batzoglou

  • Visualization and analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data by kernel-based similarity learning.

    Bo Wang;Junjie Zhu;Emma Pierson;Daniele Ramazzotti

Frequent Co-Authors

Arend Sidow
Arend Sidow Stanford University
Michael Brudno
Michael Brudno University of Toronto
Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder Stanford University
Eric S. Lander
Eric S. Lander Broad Institute
Gregory M. Cooper
Gregory M. Cooper HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Lior Pachter
Lior Pachter California Institute of Technology
Inna Dubchak
Inna Dubchak Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Richard M. Myers
Richard M. Myers HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Robert B. West
Robert B. West Stanford University

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