Departament de Genètica 


DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS
 AND BIOLOGY


Josep Francesc Abril
David Bueno
Francesc Cebrià
Montserrat Corominas
Rafael Romero
Emili Saló
Florenci Serras
Joan Antoni Vela

JOSEP FRANCESC ABRIL


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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS



Articles

R. Guigó, P. Flicek, J.F. Abril, A. Reymond, J. Lagarde, F. Denoeud, S. Antonarakis, M. Ashburner, V.B. Bajic, E. Birney, R. Castelo, E. Eyras, C. Ucla, T.R. Gingeras, J. Harrow, T. Hubbard, S. Lewis and M.G. Reese
"EGASP: The human ENCODE GENOME ANNOTATION ASSESSMENT PROJECT."
Genome Biology, 7(Suppl 1):S2, 2006.
[Full Text]  [PDF]  [Datasets]

R. Guigó, F. Morán, A. Valencia and J.F. Abril
EDITORIAL: "ECCB/JBI 2005."
Bioinformatics, 21(Suppl2):ii1-ii2, 2005.
[ECCB/JBI - Computational Biology 2005]  [Proceedings Table of Contents]
[Editorial PDF]  [PubMed]  [Organization PDF]  [PubMed]

J.F. Abril, R. Castelo and R. Guigó.
"Comparison of splice sites in mammals and chicken."
Genome Research, 15(1):111-119, 2005.
[PubMed]  [Abstract]  [Full Text]  [Datasets]
[Published online before print in Dec 2004]

International Chicken Genome Sequencing Consortium
(inclosos E. Eyras, R. Castelo, J.F. Abril, S. Castellano, F. Câmara, G. Parra and R. Guigó)
"Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution."
Nature, 432(7018):695-716, 2004.
[PubMed]  [Abstract]  [Full Text]

Rat Genome Sequencing Project Consortium (inclòs J.F. Abril).
"Genome sequence of the brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution."
Nature, 428(6982):493-521, 2004.
[PubMed]  [Abstract]  [Full text]

J.F. Abril, R. Guigó and T. Wiehe.
"gff2aplot: Plotting sequence comparisons."
Bioinformatics 19(18):2477-2479, 2003.
[PubMed]  [Abstract]  [gff2aplot]

Guigó, E.T. Dermitzakis, P. Agarwal, C.P. Ponting, G. Parra, A. Reymond, J.F. Abril, E. Keibler, R. Lyle, C. Ucla, S.E. Antonarakis and M.R. Brent.
"Comparison of mouse and human genomes followed by experimental verification yields an estimated 1,019 additional genes."
Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 100(3):1140-1145, 2003.
[ PubMed ]  [ Abstract ]  [Datasets]

G. Parra, P. Agarwal, J.F. Abril, T. Wiehe, J.W. Fickett and R. Guigó.
"Comparative gene prediction in human and mouse."
Genome Research 13(1):108-117, 2003.
[Abstract]  [Datasets]  [sgp2]

Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium (inclòs J.F. Abril).
"Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome."
Nature 420(6915):520-562, 2002.
[PubMed]  [Abstract]  [Full text]

R.A. Holt et al (inclòs J.F. Abril).
"The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae."
Science 298(5591):129-149, 2002.
[PubMed]  [Abstract]  [2.9Mb gzipped PDF file genome map]  [gff2ps]

G. Glökner, L. Eichinger, K. Szafranski, J.A. Pachebat, A.T. Bankier, P.H. Dear, R. Lehmann, C. Baumgart, G. Parra, J.F. Abril, R. Guigó, K. Kumpf, B. Tunggal, the Dictyostelium Genome Sequencing Consortium, E. Cox, M.A. Quail, M. Platzer, A. Rosenthal and A.A. Noegel.
"Sequence and Analysis of Chromosome 2 of Dictyostelium discoideum."
Nature 418(6893):79-85, 2002.
[PubMed]  [Abstract]  [Datasets]

J.C. Venter et al (inclòs J.F. Abril).
"The Sequence of the Human Genome."
Science 291(5507):1304-1351, 2001.
[PubMed]  [Abstract]  [10Mb gzipped PDF file genome map]  [gff2ps]

T. Thomson, J.J. Lozano, R. Carrió, F. Serras, N. Loukili, M. Valeri, B. Cormand, M.P. del Río, J.F. Abril, M. Burset, E. Sancho, J. Merino, A. Macaya, M. Corominas and R. Guigó.
"Fusion of the human gene for the polyubiquitination co-effector uev-1 with kua, a newly identified gene."
Genome Research 10(11):1743-1756, 2000. [PubMed]  [Abstract]

J.F. Abril and R. Guigó.
"gff2ps: visualizing genomic annotations."
Bioinformatics 16(8):743-744, 2000.
[PubMed]  [Abstract]  [gff2ps]

R. Guigó, P. Agarwal, J.F. Abril, M. Burset and J.W. Fickett.
"An Assessment of Gene Prediction Accuracy in Large DNA Sequences."
Genome Research 10(10):1631-1642, 2000.
[PubMed]  [Abstract]

M.G. Reese, G. Hartzell, N.L. Harris, U. Ohler, J.F. Abril and S.E. Lewis.
"Genome Annotation Assesment in Drosophila melanogaster."
Genome Research 10(4):483-501, 2000.
[PubMed]  [Abstract]  [Datasets]  [2.2Mb gzipped PDF file GASP poster]

Adams et al (inclòs J.F. Abril).
"The Genome Sequence of Drosophila melanogaster."
Science 287(5461):2185-2195, 2000.
[PubMed]  [Abstract]  [2.2Mb gzipped PDF file genome map]  [gff2ps]



Books and book chapters

J.F. Abril.
"Comparative Analysis of Eukaryotic Gene Sequence Features."
PhD Thesis, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2005.

R. Guigó, M. Burset, P. Agarwal, J.F. Abril, R.F. Smith and J.W. Fickett.
"Sequence Similarity Based Gene Prediction."
In S. Suhai editor:
Genomics and Proteomics: Functional and Computational Aspects.
Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000. ISBN: 0-306-46312-1.
[Table of Contents]