Chris Ponting

Chris Ponting
Born
Christopher Paul Ponting
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known forSMART[1]
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
ThesisStructural Studies of Plasminogen and Related Proteins (1992)
Websitewww.ed.ac.uk/mrc-human-genetics-unit/research/ponting-group

Christopher Paul Ponting is a British computational biologist, specializing in the evolution and function of genes and genomes. He is currently Chair of Medical Bioinformatics at the University of Edinburgh and group leader in the MRC Human Genetics Unit. He is also an Associate Faculty member of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[2] His research focuses on long noncoding RNA function and evolution, on single cell biology and on disease genomics.[3][4][5][6][7][8] Outside of science, Chris is an amateur novelist and wrote an unpublished, science fiction novel about engineered viruses.[9]

  1. ^ Schultz, J.; Milpetz, F.; Bork, P.; Ponting, C. (1998). "SMART, a simple modular architecture research tool: Identification of signaling domains". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 95 (11): 5857–5864. Bibcode:1998PNAS...95.5857S. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.11.5857. PMC 34487. PMID 9600884.
  2. ^ "Professor Christopher Paul Ponting FMedSci FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  3. ^ Chris Ponting's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. ^ Sims, David (2014). "Sequencing depth and coverage: key considerations in genomic analyses". Nature Reviews Genetics. 15 (2): 121–132. doi:10.1038/nrg3642. PMID 24434847. S2CID 13325739.
  5. ^ Rands, Chris M. (2014). "8.2% of the Human Genome Is Constrained: Variation in Rates of Turnover across Functional Element Classes in the Human Lineage". PLOS Genetics. 10 (7): e1004525. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1004525. PMC 4109858. PMID 25057982.
  6. ^ Gibbs, R. A.; Weinstock, G. M.; Metzker, M. L.; Muzny, D. M.; Sodergren, E. J.; Scherer, S; Scott, G; Steffen, D; Worley, K. C.; Burch, P. E.; Okwuonu, G; Hines, S; Lewis, L; Deramo, C; Delgado, O; Dugan-Rocha, S; Miner, G; Morgan, M; Hawes, A; Gill, R; Celera; Holt, R. A.; Adams, M. D.; Amanatides, P. G.; Baden-Tillson, H; Barnstead, M; Chin, S; Evans, C. A.; Ferriera, S; et al. (2004). "Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution". Nature. 428 (6982): 493–521. Bibcode:2004Natur.428..493G. doi:10.1038/nature02426. PMID 15057822.
  7. ^ Drosophila 12 Genomes, Consortium; Clark, A. G.; Eisen, M. B.; Smith, D. R.; Bergman, C. M.; Oliver, B; Markow, T. A.; Kaufman, T. C.; Kellis, M; Gelbart, W; Iyer, V. N.; Pollard, D. A.; Sackton, T. B.; Larracuente, A. M.; Singh, N. D.; Abad, J. P.; Abt, D. N.; Adryan, B; Aguade, M; Akashi, H; Anderson, W. W.; Aquadro, C. F.; Ardell, D. H.; Arguello, R; Artieri, C. G.; Barbash, D. A.; Barker, D; Barsanti, P; Batterham, P; et al. (2007). "Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny". Nature. 450 (7167): 203–18. Bibcode:2007Natur.450..203C. doi:10.1038/nature06341. PMID 17994087.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Mulder, N. J.; Apweiler, R; Attwood, T. K.; Bairoch, A; Barrell, D; Bateman, A; Binns, D; Biswas, M; Bradley, P; Bork, P; Bucher, P; Copley, R. R.; Courcelle, E; Das, U; Durbin, R; Falquet, L; Fleischmann, W; Griffiths-Jones, S; Haft, D; Harte, N; Hulo, N; Kahn, D; Kanapin, A; Krestyaninova, M; Lopez, R; Letunic, I; Lonsdale, D; Silventoinen, V.; Orchard, S. E.; Pagni, M.; Pagni, Marco; Peyruc, D.; Ponting, C.P.; Selengut, J.D.; Servant, F.; Sigrist, C.J.A.; Vaughan, R.; Zdobnov, E.M. (2003). "The InterPro Database, 2003 brings increased coverage and new features". Nucleic Acids Research. 31 (1): 315–8. doi:10.1093/nar/gkg046. PMC 165493. PMID 12520011.
  9. ^ The Bioinformatics CRO Podcast. Episode 2, 2020.