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Overview

Tim Hubbard is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional work spanning medicine. Their research focuses on various subfields including molecular biology, genetics, cancer research, pathology and forensic medicine, and pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • RNA Modifications and Cancer
  • Genetic Factors in Colorectal Cancer
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Tim Hubbard has published research in notable venues such as:

  • Genetics in Medicine
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • Scientific Reports
  • Brain

Selected recent papers include:

  • GENCODE 2021, 2020, published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • Mutational signature in colorectal cancer caused by genotoxic pks+ E. coli, 2020, published in Nature
  • GENCODE: reference annotation for the human and mouse genomes in 2023, 2022, published in Nucleic Acids Research
  • Substitution mutational signatures in whole-genome-sequenced cancers in the UK population, 2022, published in Science
  • A systematic CRISPR screen defines mutational mechanisms underpinning signatures caused by replication errors and endogenous DNA damage, 2021, published in Nature Cancer

Among frequent collaborators are Nirupa Murugaesu, D. Perez-Gil, Marta Bleda, Melis Kayikci, and S. E. A. Leigh, each having multiple coauthored publications with Tim Hubbard.

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

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

  • Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

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

  • SCOP: a structural classification of proteins database for the investigation of sequences and structures.

    Alexey G. Murzin;Steven E. Brenner;Tim Hubbard;Cyrus Chothia

  • 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

  • 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

  • The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome.

    Kerstin Howe;Matthew D. Clark;Carlos F. Torroja;Carlos F. Torroja;James Torrance

  • A census of human cancer genes

    P. Andrew Futreal;Lachlan Coin;Mhairi Marshall;Thomas Down

  • 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

  • GENCODE reference annotation for the human and mouse genomes.

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

  • International network of cancer genome projects

    Thomas J. Hudson;Thomas J. Hudson;Warwick Anderson;Axel Aretz;Anna D. Barker

  • The Ensembl genome database project

    T. Hubbard;D. Barker;E. Birney;G. Cameron

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

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

  • The DNA sequence of human chromosome 22

    I. Dunham;N. Shimizu;B. A. Roe;S. Chissoe

  • The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome

    Mark T Ross;Darren V Grafham;Alison J Coffey;Steven Scherer

  • SCOP Database in 2004: Refinements Integrate Structure and Sequence Family Data

    Antonina Andreeva;Dave Howorth;Steven E. Brenner;Tim J. P. Hubbard

  • Data growth and its impact on the SCOP database: new developments.

    Antonina Andreeva;Dave Howorth;John-Marc Chandonia;Steven E. Brenner

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer Harrow
Jennifer Harrow AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Thomas A. Down
Thomas A. Down Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
Roderic Guigó
Roderic Guigó Pompeu Fabra University
Adam Frankish
Adam Frankish European Bioinformatics Institute
Paul Flicek
Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory
Alexandre Reymond
Alexandre Reymond University of Lausanne
Mark Gerstein
Mark Gerstein Yale University
Jane Rogers
Jane Rogers Earlham Institute
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin University of Cambridge

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