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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology

Overview

Vineet Bafna is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their scholarly work is situated primarily at the intersection of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a substantial number of publications addressing molecular biology and cancer research.

The main fields of study in Bafna's research portfolio include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Bafna's work spans several subfields, particularly:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cancer Research
  • Genetics
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology

Their research covers a range of topics such as:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment

Recent published papers authored or co-authored by Bafna include:

  • Extrachromosomal DNA is associated with oncogene amplification and poor outcome across multiple cancers, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • ecDNA hubs drive cooperative intermolecular oncogene expression, 2021, Nature
  • Extrachromosomal DNA in the cancerous transformation of Barrett's oesophagus, 2023, Nature
  • The evolutionary dynamics of extrachromosomal DNA in human cancers, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Mapping clustered mutations in cancer reveals APOBEC3 mutagenesis of ecDNA, 2022, Nature

Vineet Bafna frequently collaborates with several researchers, with multiple co-authorships documented with:

  • Jens Luebeck
  • Paul S. Mischel
  • Howard Y. Chang
  • King L. Hung
  • Ivy Tsz-Lo Wong

Bafna's research has been published most often in several notable venues, illustrating the distribution of their scholarly output:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • Pediatric Hematology Oncology Journal

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Vineet Bafna was named a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2019.

Best Publications

  • The Sequence of the Human Genome

    J. Craig Venter;Mark D. Adams;Eugene W. Myers;Peter W. Li

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

    Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

  • The Diploid Genome Sequence of an Individual Human

    Samuel Levy;Granger Sutton;Pauline C Ng;Lars Feuk

  • The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition: expanding the universe of protein families.

    Shibu Yooseph;Granger Sutton;Douglas B. Rusch;Aaron L Halpern

  • Integrated Proteogenomic Characterization of Human High-Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer

    Hui Zhang;Tao Liu;Zhen Zhang;Samuel H. Payne

  • A global reference for human genetic variation

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • Genome Rearrangements and Sorting by Reversals

    Vineet Bafna;Pavel A. Pevzner

  • Human beta-defensin 2 is a salt-sensitive peptide antibiotic expressed in human lung

    R. Bals;Xiaorong Wang;Zhongren Wu;T. Freeman

  • Sequence and structural variation in a human genome uncovered by short-read, massively parallel ligation sequencing using two-base encoding

    Kevin Judd McKernan;Heather E. Peckham;Gina L. Costa;Stephen F. McLaughlin

  • De novo somatic mutations in components of the PI3K-AKT3-mTOR pathway cause hemimegalencephaly

    Jeong Ho Lee;My Huynh;Jennifer L Silhavy;Jennifer L Silhavy;Sangwoo Kim

  • InsPecT: identification of posttranslationally modified peptides from tandem mass spectra.

    Stephen Tanner;Hongjun Shu;Ari Frank;Ling-Chi Wang

  • The dog genome: Survey sequencing and comparative analysis

    Ewen F. Kirkness;Vineet Bafna;Aaron L. Halpern;Samuel Levy

  • Extrachromosomal oncogene amplification drives tumour evolution and genetic heterogeneity

    Kristen M. Turner;Viraj Deshpande;Doruk Beyter;Tomoyuki Koga

  • A Multidimensional Chromatography Technology for In-depth Phosphoproteome Analysis

    Claudio P. Albuquerque;Claudio P. Albuquerque;Marcus B. Smolka;Samuel H. Payne;Vineet Bafna

  • Sorting by Transpositions

    Vineet Bafna;Pavel A. Pevzner

  • Global DNA hypomethylation coupled to repressive chromatin domain formation and gene silencing in breast cancer

    Gary C. Hon;R. David Hawkins;Otavia L. Caballero;Christine Lo

  • Circular ecDNA promotes accessible chromatin and high oncogene expression

    Sihan Wu;Kristen M. Turner;Nam Nguyen;Ramya Raviram

  • Extrachromosomal DNA is associated with oncogene amplification and poor outcome across multiple cancers.

    Hoon Kim;Nam-Phuong Nguyen;Kristen Turner;Sihan Wu

  • Age-related changes in human crystallins determined from comparative analysis of post-translational modifications in young and aged lens: does deamidation contribute to crystallin insolubility?

    P A Wilmarth;S Tanner;S Dasari;S R Nagalla

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul S. Mischel
Paul S. Mischel Stanford University
Pavel A. Pevzner
Pavel A. Pevzner University of California, San Diego
Gabriel G. Haddad
Gabriel G. Haddad University of California, San Diego
Kelly A. Frazer
Kelly A. Frazer University of California, San Diego
Sorin Istrail
Sorin Istrail Brown University
Frank B. Furnari
Frank B. Furnari University of California, San Diego
Shibu Yooseph
Shibu Yooseph University of Central Florida
andrew g clark
andrew g clark Cornell University
Bjarni V. Halldorsson
Bjarni V. Halldorsson Reykjavík University
J. Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter Institute

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