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D-Index
77
Citations
37868
World Ranking
1736
National Ranking
61

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Wyeth W. Wasserman is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Cancer Research, and Oncology.

Their work covers a range of topics primarily focused on genomics and related areas such as:

  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Wasserman has published numerous papers in notable venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Blood
  • Genetics in Medicine
  • Nucleic Acids Research

Selected recent papers feature:

  • "JASPAR 2022: the 9th release of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles," 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "JASPAR 2024: 20th anniversary of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles," 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Obtaining genetics insights from deep learning via explainable artificial intelligence," 2022, Nature Reviews Genetics
  • "ExpansionHunter Denovo: a computational method for locating known and novel repeat expansions in short-read sequencing data," 2020, Genome Biology
  • "Human germline heterozygous gain-of-function STAT6 variants cause severe allergic disease," 2023, The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Oriol Fornés (37 coauthored papers)
  • Phillip A. Richmond (19 coauthored papers)
  • Anthony Mathelier (18 coauthored papers)
  • Albin Sandelin (16 coauthored papers)
  • Boris Lenhard (16 coauthored papers)

Wasserman received the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2020. This recognition highlights their engagement in advancing scientific knowledge.

Best Publications

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

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

  • JASPAR: an open‐access database for eukaryotic transcription factor binding profiles

    Albin Sandelin;Wynand Alkema;Pär G. Engström;Wyeth W. Wasserman

  • A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

    Alistair R.R. Forrest;Hideya Kawaji;Michael Rehli;J. Kenneth Baillie

  • JASPAR 2020: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

    Oriol Fornes;Jaime Abraham Castro-Mondragón;Aziz Khan;Robin van der Lee

  • JASPAR 2018: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles and its web framework

    Aziz Khan;Oriol Fornes;Arnaud Stigliani;Marius Gheorghe

  • Applied bioinformatics for the identification of regulatory elements

    Wyeth W. Wasserman;Albin Sandelin

  • JASPAR 2022: the 9th release of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles.

    Jaime A Castro-Mondragon;Rafael Riudavets-Puig;Ieva Rauluseviciute;Roza Berhanu Lemma

  • JASPAR 2014: an extensively expanded and updated open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles.

    Anthony Mathelier;Xiaobei Zhao;Allen W. Zhang;François Parcy

  • JASPAR 2016: a major expansion and update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

    Anthony Mathelier;Oriol Fornes;David J. Arenillas;Chih-Yu Chen

  • VPS35 Mutations in Parkinson Disease

    Carles Vilariño-Güell;Christian Wider;Owen A. Ross;Justus C. Dachsel

  • Functional antioxidant responsive elements

    Wyeth W. Wasserman;William E. Fahl

  • Global mapping of binding sites for Nrf2 identifies novel targets in cell survival response through ChIP-Seq profiling and network analysis

    Deepti Malhotra;Elodie Portales-Casamar;Anju Singh;Siddhartha Srivastava

  • JASPAR 2010: the greatly expanded open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles

    Elodie Portales-Casamar;Supat Thongjuea;Andrew T. Kwon;David J. Arenillas

  • Structure and function of adenosine receptors and their genes

    Bertil B. Fredholm;Giulia Arslan;Linda Halldner;Björn Kull

  • Human-mouse genome comparisons to locate regulatory sites.

    Wyeth W. Wasserman;Michael Palumbo;William Thompson;James W. Fickett

  • ConSite: web-based prediction of regulatory elements using cross-species comparison

    Albin Sandelin;Wyeth W. Wasserman;Boris Lenhard

  • Identification of regulatory regions which confer muscle-specific gene expression

    Wyeth W Wasserman;James W Fickett

  • oPOSSUM: identification of over-represented transcription factor binding sites in co-expressed genes

    Shannan J. Ho Sui;James R. Mortimer;David J. Arenillas;Jochen Brumm

  • Arrays of ultraconserved non-coding regions span the loci of key developmental genes in vertebrate genomes

    Albin Sandelin;Peter Bailey;Sara Bruce;Pär G Engström

  • Identification of conserved regulatory elements by comparative genome analysis

    Boris Lenhard;Albin Sandelin;Luis Mendoza;Pär Engström

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth M. Simpson
Elizabeth M. Simpson University of British Columbia
Robert A. Holt
Robert A. Holt BC Cancer Research Institute
Steven J.M. Jones
Steven J.M. Jones University of British Columbia
Dan Goldowitz
Dan Goldowitz University of British Columbia
Boris Lenhard
Boris Lenhard Imperial College London
Albin Sandelin
Albin Sandelin University of Copenhagen
Ron A. Wevers
Ron A. Wevers Radboud University
Timo Lassmann
Timo Lassmann Telethon Kids Institute

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