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Overview

Ugis Sarkans is affiliated with the European Bioinformatics Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Information Systems and Management, Information Systems, and Structural Biology.

The research topics explored by Ugis Sarkans encompass:

  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Research Data Management Practices
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Gene expression and cancer classification

Among the recent papers authored by Ugis Sarkans are:

  • "REMBI: Recommended Metadata for Biological Images-enabling reuse of microscopy data in biology," 2021, Nature Methods
  • "From ArrayExpress to BioStudies," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research

They also contributed to other publications in the field, including collaborative works such as "The BioImage Archive - Building a Home for Life-Sciences Microscopy Data" published in 2022 in the Journal of Molecular Biology, "The ELIXIR Core Data Resources: fundamental infrastructure for the life sciences" in 2020 in Bioinformatics, and "Network integration and modelling of dynamic drug responses at multi-omics levels" in 2020 in Communications Biology.

Ugis Sarkans collaborates frequently with fellow researchers including Helen Parkinson, Gerard J. Kleywegt, Jean-Marie Burel, Romain David, and Katrina Exter.

The scientist has often published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Methods
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Bioinformatics
  • F1000Research

Their work integrates elements of information systems and bioinformatics, contributing to scientific computing and data management practices. This includes advancing cell image analysis techniques and the management of research data relevant to life sciences.

Best Publications

  • Minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME)-toward standards for microarray data.

    Alvis Brazma;Pascal Hingamp;John Quackenbush;Gavin Sherlock

  • ArrayExpress—a public repository for microarray gene expression data at the EBI

    Helen E. Parkinson;Ugis Sarkans;Mohammadreza Shojatalab;Niran Abeygunawardena

  • ArrayExpress—a public database of microarray experiments and gene expression profiles

    Helen E. Parkinson;Misha Kapushesky;Mohammadreza Shojatalab;Niran Abeygunawardena

  • ArrayExpress update—simplifying data submissions

    Nikolay Kolesnikov;Emma Hastings;Maria Keays;Olga Melnichuk

  • The HUPO PSI's molecular interaction format--a community standard for the representation of protein interaction data.

    Henning Hermjakob;Luisa Montecchi-Palazzi;Gary Bader;Jérôme Wojcik

  • ArrayExpress update - from bulk to single-cell expression data.

    Awais Athar;Anja Füllgrabe;Nancy George;Haider Iqbal

  • Design and implementation of microarray gene expression markup language (MAGE-ML)

    Paul T Spellman;Michael Miller;Jason Stewart;Charles Troup

  • ArrayExpress update—from an archive of functional genomics experiments to the atlas of gene expression

    Helen E. Parkinson;Misha Kapushesky;Nikolay Kolesnikov;Gabriella Rustici

  • ArrayExpress update—trends in database growth and links to data analysis tools

    Gabriella Rustici;Nikolay Kolesnikov;Marco Brandizi;Tony Burdett

  • ArrayExpress update—an archive of microarray and high-throughput sequencing-based functional genomics experiments

    Helen E. Parkinson;Ugis Sarkans;Nikolay Kolesnikov;Niran Abeygunawardena

  • Image Data Resource: a bioimage data integration and publication platform

    Eleanor Williams;Josh Moore;Simon W Li;Gabriella Rustici

  • A simple spreadsheet-based, MIAME-supportive format for microarray data: MAGE-TAB

    Tim F Rayner;Philippe Rocca-Serra;Paul T Spellman;Helen C Causton

  • Biomarkers in autism spectrum disorder: the old and the new

    Barbara Ruggeri;Ugis Sarkans;Gunter Schumann;Antonio M. Persico

  • The BioStudies database-one stop shop for all data supporting a life sciences study.

    Ugis Sarkans;Mikhail Gostev;Awais Athar;Ehsan Behrangi

  • Discovering and linking public omics data sets using the Omics Discovery Index

    Yasset Perez-Riverol;Mingze Bai;Mingze Bai;Mingze Bai;Felipe Da Veiga Leprevost;Silvano Squizzato

  • Human metabolic profiles are stably controlled by genetic and environmental variation

    George Nicholson;Mattias Rantalainen;Anthony D Maher;Jia V Li

  • Standards for systems biology.

    Alvis Brazma;Maria Krestyaninova;Ugis Sarkans

  • Expression Profiler: next generation—an online platform for analysis of microarray data

    Misha Kapushesky;Patrick Kemmeren;Aedín C. Culhane;Steffen Durinck

  • The Functional Genomics Experiment model (FuGE): an extensible framework for standards in functional genomics.

    Andrew R. Jones;Michael Miller;Ruedi Aebersold;Rolf Apweiler

  • A call for public archives for biological image data.

    Jan Ellenberg;Jason R. Swedlow;Mary Barlow;Charles E. Cook

  • REMBI: Recommended Metadata for Biological Images-enabling reuse of microscopy data in biology.

    Ugis Sarkans;Wah Chiu;Lucy Collinson;Michele C Darrow

  • ArrayExpress: a public database of gene expression data at EBI.

    Philippe Rocca-Serra;Alvis Brazma;Helen Parkinson;Ugis Sarkans

Frequent Co-Authors

Alvis Brazma
Alvis Brazma European Bioinformatics Institute
Helen Parkinson
Helen Parkinson European Bioinformatics Institute
Philippe Rocca-Serra
Philippe Rocca-Serra University of Oxford
Jason R. Swedlow
Jason R. Swedlow University of Dundee
Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Susanna-Assunta Sansone University of Oxford
Christian J. Stoeckert
Christian J. Stoeckert University of Pennsylvania
Paul T. Spellman
Paul T. Spellman Oregon Health & Science University
Gavin Sherlock
Gavin Sherlock Stanford University
Peter Donnelly
Peter Donnelly University of Oxford

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