Gary Saunders
Genetic Variation Scientific Curator
EGA and Archive Infrastructure
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Germany
Biography
Gary moved into curation following the completion of his PhD at the University of Glasgow, where he employed a variety of phylogenomic and bioinformatic methods to investigate drug resistance in nematode parasites of human and livestock importance.
Research Interest
Gary Saunders is a curator of the European Variation Archive and related resources: the Database of Genomics Variants archive and the European Genome-phenome Archive. It is Gary’s responsibility to manage the data within these resource(s) to ensure accuracy, clarity and discoverability. Prior to holding this position, Gary was a curator of the GENCODE project, which provides the gene set for the Ensembl genome browse
Publications
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Comparative analysis of the transcriptome across distant species. Gerstein MB, Rozowsky J, Yan KK, Wang D, Cheng C, Brown JB, Davis CA, Hillier L, Sisu C, Li JJ, Pei B, Harmanci AO, Duff MO, Djebali S, Alexander RP, Alver BH, Auerbach R, Bell K, Bickel PJ, Boeck ME, Boley NP, Booth BW, Cherbas L, Cherbas P, Di C, Dobin A, Drenkow J, Ewing B, Fang G, Fastuca M, Feingold EA, Frankish A, Gao G, Good PJ, Guigó R, Hammonds A, Harrow J, Hoskins RA, Howald C, Hu L, Huang H, Hubbard TJ, Huynh C, Jha S, Kasper D, Kato M, Kaufman TC, Kitchen RR, Ladewig E, Lagarde J, Lai E, Leng J, Lu Z, MacCoss M, May G, McWhirter R, Merrihew G, Miller DM, Mortazavi A, Murad R, Oliver B, Olson S, Park PJ, Pazin MJ, Perrimon N, Pervouchine D, Reinke V, Reymond A, Robinson G, Samsonova A, Saunders GI, Schlesinger F, Sethi A, Slack FJ, Spencer WC, Stoiber MH, Strasbourger P, Tanzer A, Thompson OA, Wan KH, Wang G, Wang H, Watkins KL, Wen J, Wen K, Xue C, Yang L, Yip K, Zaleski C, Zhang Y, Zheng H, Brenner SE, Graveley BR, Celniker SE, Gingeras TR, Waterston R. Nature Volume 512 (2014) p.445-448
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Linking rare and common disease: mapping clinical disease-phenotypes to ontologies in therapeutic target validation. Sarntivijai S, Vasant D, Jupp S, Saunders G, Bento AP, Gonzalez D, Betts J, Hasan S, Koscielny G, Dunham I, Parkinson H, Malone J. J Biomed Semantics Volume 7 (2016) p.8
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Open Targets: a platform for therapeutic target identification and validation. Koscielny G, An P, Carvalho-Silva D, Cham JA, Fumis L, Gasparyan R, Hasan S, Karamanis N, Maguire M, Papa E, Pierleoni A, Pignatelli M, Platt T, Rowland F, Wankar P, Bento AP, Burdett T, Fabregat A, Forbes S, Gaulton A, Gonzalez CY, Hermjakob H, Hersey A, Jupe S, Kafkas Åž, Keays M, Leroy C, Lopez FJ, Magarinos MP, Malone J, McEntyre J, Munoz-Pomer Fuentes A, O'Donovan C, Papatheodorou I, Parkinson H, Palka B, Paschall J, Petryszak R, Pratanwanich N, Sarntivijal S, Saunders G, Sidiropoulos K, Smith T, Sondka Z, Stegle O, Tang YA, Turner E, Vaughan B, Vrousgou O, Watkins X, Martin MJ, Sanseau P, Vamathevan J, Birney E, Barrett J, Dunham I. Nucleic Acids Res Volume 45 (2017) p.D985-D994
