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Stein Aerts

Stein Aerts

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Genetics

D-Index
65
Citations
28070
World Ranking
2655
National Ranking
41

Overview

Stein Aerts is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has a body of work primarily focused on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields including molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, biophysics, cancer research, and immunology. The main topics in their work involve single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, genomics and chromatin dynamics, CRISPR and genetic engineering, neurobiology and insect physiology research, cancer genomics and diagnostics, cell image analysis techniques, and RNA research and splicing.

Recent publications by Stein Aerts include notable papers such as:

  • "A scalable SCENIC workflow for single-cell gene regulatory network analysis," 2020, Nature Protocols
  • "Fly Cell Atlas: A single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of the adult fruit fly," 2022, Science
  • "SCENIC+: single-cell multiomic inference of enhancers and gene regulatory networks," 2023, Nature Methods
  • "Robust gene expression programs underlie recurrent cell states and phenotype switching in melanoma," 2020, Nature Cell Biology
  • "Mitochondria metabolism sets the species-specific tempo of neuronal development," 2023, Science

Stein Aerts commonly publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), with 27 publications, followed by eLife (6 publications), Nature (5 publications), Science (4 publications), and Nature Communications (4 publications).

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Regular co-authors include:

  • Gert Hulselmans (37 co-publications)
  • Suresh Poovathingal (31 co-publications)
  • Valerie Christiaens (24 co-publications)
  • Kristofer Davie (19 co-publications)
  • Carmen Bravo González-Blas (19 co-publications)

Best Publications

  • SCENIC: single-cell regulatory network inference and clustering.

    Sara Aibar;Carmen Bravo González-Blas;Thomas Moerman;Vân Anh Huynh-Thu

  • Phenotype molding of stromal cells in the lung tumor microenvironment.

    Diether Lambrechts;Els Wauters;Bram Boeckx;Sara Aibar

  • Gene prioritization through genomic data fusion.

    Stein Aerts;Diether Lambrechts;Sunit Maity;Peter Van Loo

  • A Single-Cell Transcriptome Atlas of the Aging Drosophila Brain

    Kristofer Davie;Jasper Janssens;Duygu Koldere;Maxime De Waegeneer

  • A scalable SCENIC workflow for single-cell gene regulatory network analysis.

    Bram Van de Sande;Christopher Flerin;Kristofer Davie;Maxime De Waegeneer

  • iRegulon: from a gene list to a gene regulatory network using large motif and track collections.

    Rekin's Janky;Annelien Verfaillie;Hana Imrichová;Bram Van de Sande

  • Discovery of functional elements in 12 Drosophila genomes using evolutionary signatures

    Alexander Stark;Michael F Lin;Pouya Kheradpour;Jakob Skou Pedersen;Jakob Skou Pedersen

  • Toward Minimal Residual Disease-Directed Therapy in Melanoma.

    Florian Rambow;Aljosja Rogiers;Oskar Marin-Bejar;Sara Aibar

  • GRNBoost2 and Arboreto: efficient and scalable inference of gene regulatory networks.

    Thomas Moerman;Thomas Moerman;Sara Aibar Santos;Carmen Bravo González-Blas;Jaak Simm;Jaak Simm

  • Melanoma addiction to the long non-coding RNA SAMMSON.

    Eleonora Leucci;Roberto Vendramin;Marco Spinazzi;Patrick Laurette

  • Alteration of the microRNA network during the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

    Pierre Lau;Koen Bossers;Rekin's Janky;Evgenia Salta

  • Exome sequencing identifies mutation in CNOT3 and ribosomal genes RPL5 and RPL10 in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Kim De Keersmaecker;Zeynep Kalender Atak;Ning Li;Carmen Vicente

  • p53 induces formation of NEAT1 lncRNA-containing paraspeckles that modulate replication stress response and chemosensitivity

    Carmen Adriaens;Laura Standaert;Jasmine Barra;Mathilde Latil

  • Decoding the regulatory landscape of melanoma reveals TEADS as regulators of the invasive cell state

    Annelien Verfaillie;Hana Imrichova;Zeynep Kalender Atak;Michael Dewaele

  • cisTopic: cis-regulatory topic modeling on single-cell ATAC-seq data

    Carmen Bravo González-Blas;Liesbeth Minnoye;Dafni Papasokrati;Sara Aibar

  • ORegAnno: an open-access community-driven resource for regulatory annotation.

    Obi L. Griffith;Stephen B. Montgomery;Bridget Bernier;Bryan Chu

  • Endeavour update: a web resource for gene prioritization in multiple species

    Léon-Charles Tranchevent;Roland Barriot;Shi Yu;Steven Van Vooren

  • Toucan: deciphering the cis‐regulatory logic of coregulated genes

    Stein Aerts;Gert Thijs;Bert Coessens;Mik Staes

  • Comparison and meta-analysis of microarray data: from the bench to the computer desk.

    Yves Moreau;Stein Aerts;Bart De Moor;Bart De Strooper

  • Mapping gene regulatory networks from single-cell omics data.

    Mark W E J Fiers;Liesbeth Minnoye;Sara Aibar;Carmen Bravo González-Blas

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