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Overview

Timothy T. Harkins is affiliated with Nvidia in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. Within these domains, their work further specializes in subfields such as Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Cancer Research, and Plant Science.

The scientist's recent publications address a variety of topics, including genomics, marine ecology, cancer research, and pathogen genomics. Some of the notable papers are:

  • Sequence and annotation of 42 cannabis genomes reveals extensive copy number variation in cannabinoid synthesis and pathogen resistance genes, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Population structure in a continuously distributed coastal marine species, the harbor porpoise, based on microhaplotypes derived from poor-quality samples, 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • Mitochondrial genomics reveals the evolutionary history of the porpoises (Phocoenidae) across the speciation continuum, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • de novo variant calling identifies cancer mutation signatures in the 1000 Genomes Project, 2022, Human Mutation
  • A GPU-accelerated compute framework for pathogen genomic variant identification to aid genomic epidemiology of infectious disease: a malaria case study, 2022, Briefings in Bioinformatics

Their publications have appeared most frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cancer Research, Molecular Ecology, Scientific Reports, and Human Mutation.

Harkins collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including Pankaj Vats, Mehrzad Samadi, Kelly M. Robertson, Cassie Schumacher, and Michaël C. Fontaine.

Their research covers the following main topics:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies

Best Publications

  • Detection of Circulating Tumor DNA in Early- and Late-Stage Human Malignancies

    Chetan Bettegowda;Chetan Bettegowda;Mark Sausen;Rebecca J. Leary;Isaac Kinde

  • The clonal and mutational evolution spectrum of primary triple-negative breast cancers

    Sohrab P. Shah;Andrew Roth;Rodrigo Goya;Arusha Oloumi

  • Paired-end mapping reveals extensive structural variation in the human genome.

    Jan O. Korbel;Alexander Eckehart Urban;Jason P. Affourtit;Brian Godwin

  • The genome of woodland strawberry ( Fragaria vesca )

    Vladimir Shulaev;Daniel J. Sargent;Ross N. Crowhurst;Todd C. Mockler

  • A High Quality Draft Consensus Sequence of the Genome of a Heterozygous Grapevine Variety

    Riccardo Velasco;Andrey Zharkikh;Michela Troggio;Dustin A. Cartwright

  • Spatial and temporal diversity in genomic instability processes defines lung cancer evolution

    Elza C. de Bruin;Nicholas McGranahan;Nicholas McGranahan;Richard Mitter;Max Salm

  • Sequencing of diverse mandarin, pummelo and orange genomes reveals complex history of admixture during citrus domestication

    G Albert Wu;Simon Prochnik;Jerry Jenkins;Jerome Salse

  • Genome Sequencing Highlights the Dynamic Early History of Dogs

    Adam H. Freedman;Ilan Gronau;Rena Schweizer;Diego Ortega-Del Vecchyo

  • Single-cell methylomes identify neuronal subtypes and regulatory elements in mammalian cortex

    Chongyuan Luo;Christopher L. Keown;Laurie Kurihara;Jingtian Zhou;Jingtian Zhou

  • New insights into the Tyrolean Iceman's origin and phenotype as inferred by whole-genome sequencing

    Andreas Keller;Angela Graefen;Markus Ball;Mark Matzas

  • Complete Khoisan and Bantu genomes from southern Africa

    Stephan C. Schuster;Webb Miller;Aakrosh Ratan;Lynn P. Tomsho

  • Complete mitochondrial genome phylogeographic analysis of killer whales (Orcinus orca) indicates multiple species

    Phillip A. Morin;Frederick I. Archer;Andrew D. Foote;Julia Vilstrup

  • Human β Cell Transcriptome Analysis Uncovers lncRNAs That Are Tissue-Specific, Dynamically Regulated, and Abnormally Expressed in Type 2 Diabetes

    Ignasi Morán;İldem Akerman;Martijn van de Bunt;Martijn van de Bunt;Ruiyu Xie

  • Multi-Platform Next-Generation Sequencing of the Domestic Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo): Genome Assembly and Analysis

    Rami A. Dalloul;Julie A Long;Aleksey V. Zimin;Luqman Aslam

  • Sequencing the nuclear genome of the extinct woolly mammoth

    Webb Miller;Daniela I. Drautz;Aakrosh Ratan;Barbara Pusey

  • Genome-wide characterization of simple sequence repeats in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

    Pablo F Cavagnaro;Pablo F Cavagnaro;Douglas A Senalik;Luming Yang;Philipp W Simon

  • The Cassava Genome: Current Progress, Future Directions

    Simon Prochnik;Pradeep Reddy Marri;Brian Desany;Pablo D. Rabinowicz

  • Performance Comparison of Illumina and Ion Torrent Next-Generation Sequencing Platforms for 16S rRNA-Based Bacterial Community Profiling

    Stephen J. Salipante;Toana Kawashima;Christopher Rosenthal;Daniel R. Hoogestraat

  • The landscape of C. elegans 3′UTRs

    Marco Mangone;Arun Prasad Manoharan;Danielle Thierry-Mieg;Jean Thierry-Mieg

  • Whole-genome shotgun sequencing of mitochondria from ancient hair shafts

    M. Thomas P. Gilbert;Lynn P. Tomsho;Snjezana Rendulic;Michael Packard

Frequent Co-Authors

Cameron R. Currie
Cameron R. Currie University of Wisconsin–Madison
Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante Stanford University
Phillip A. Morin
Phillip A. Morin National Marine Fisheries Service
Meredith Yeager
Meredith Yeager Hood College
Asunción Borrell
Asunción Borrell University of Barcelona
Alex Aguilar
Alex Aguilar University of Barcelona
Can Alkan
Can Alkan Bilkent University
Tomas Marques-Bonet
Tomas Marques-Bonet Pompeu Fabra University
Webb Miller
Webb Miller Pennsylvania State University
Stephan C. Schuster
Stephan C. Schuster Nanyang Technological University

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