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Ewan Birney

Director, EMBL-EBI
Verified email at ebi.ac.uk
Cited by 203967

Comparative genomics of the eukaryotes

…, MP Skupski, S Misra, M Ashburner, E Birney… - Science, 2000 - science.org
A comparative analysis of the genomes ofDrosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis
elegans, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae—and the proteins they are predicted to encode—was …

Defining functional DNA elements in the human genome

…, GK Marinov, LD Ward, E Birney… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
With the completion of the human genome sequence, attention turned to identifying and
annotating its functional DNA elements. As a complement to genetic and comparative genomics …

The BioPAX community standard for pathway data sharing

…, U Dogrusoz, S McWeeney, M Aladjem, E Birney… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Biological Pathway Exchange (BioPAX) is a standard language to represent biological
pathways at the molecular and cellular level and to facilitate the exchange of pathway data. The …

Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

…, X Zhang, M Xu, JNS Haidar, Y Yu, E Birney*… - nature, 2007 - nature.com
We report the generation and analysis of functional data from multiple, diverse experiments
performed on a targeted 1% of the human genome as part of the pilot phase of the ENCODE …

A draft sequence of the Neandertal genome

…, PLF Johnson, EE Eichler, D Falush, E Birney… - science, 2010 - science.org
Neandertals, the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans, lived in large parts of
Europe and western Asia before disappearing 30,000 years ago. We present a draft …

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models

…, N Hobbs, P Kohli, G Kleywegt, E Birney… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AlphaFold DB, https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk ) is an
openly accessible, extensive database of high-accuracy protein-structure predictions. …

[HTML][HTML] Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome

…, S Petersen, AW Senior, K Kavukcuoglu, E Birney… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Protein structures can provide invaluable information, both for reasoning about biological
processes and for enabling interventions such as structure-based drug development or …

Patterns of somatic mutation in human cancer genomes

…, MF Greaves, AR Green, P Campbell, E Birney… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
Cancers arise owing to mutations in a subset of genes that confer growth advantage. The
availability of the human genome sequence led us to propose that systematic resequencing of …

The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) project

…, MG Rosenfeld, R Guigo, SE Antonarakis, E Birney… - Science, 2004 - scholarworks.bwise.kr
The ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project aims to identify all functional elements
in the human genome sequence. The pilot phase of the Project is focused on a specified …

The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

…, HO Smith, S Broder, MJ Gardner, CM Fraser, E Birney… - science, 2002 - science.org
Anopheles gambiae is the principal vector of malaria, a disease that afflicts more than 500
million people and causes more than 1 million deaths each year. Tenfold shotgun sequence …