Jason Ernst* – Molecular Biology Institute

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Li CZ, Haghani A, Yan Q, Lu AT, Zhang J, Fei Z, Ernst J, Yang XW, Gladyshev VN, Robeck TR, Chavez AS, Cook JA, Dunnum JL, Raj K, Seluanov A, Gorbunova V, Horvath S. Epigenetic predictors of species maximum life span and other life-history traits in mammals. Sci Adv. 2024 Jun 07; 10(23):eadm7273. view on PubMed

Nazim M, Lin CH, Feng AC, Xiao W, Yeom KH, Li M, Daly AE, Tan X, Vu H, Ernst J, Carey MF, Smale ST, Black DL. Alternative splicing of a chromatin modifier alters the transcriptional regulatory programs of stem cell maintenance and neuronal differentiation. Cell Stem Cell. 2024 May 02; 31(5):754-771.e6. view on PubMed

Chen PB, Chen R, LaPierre N, Chen Z, Mefford J, Marcus E, Heffel MG, Soto DC, Ernst J, Luo C, Flint J. Complementation testing identifies genes mediating effects at quantitative trait loci underlying fear-related behavior. Cell Genom. 2024 May 08; 4(5):100545. view on PubMed

Li R, Ernst J. Identifying associations of de novo noncoding variants with autism through integration of gene expression, sequence and sex information. bioRxiv. 2024 Mar 21. view on PubMed

Chen PB, Chen R, LaPierre N, Chen Z, Mefford J, Marcus E, Heffel MG, Soto DC, Ernst J, Luo C, Flint J. Complementation testing identifies causal genes at quantitative trait loci underlying fear related behavior. bioRxiv. 2024 Jan 04. view on PubMed

Flint J, Heffel MG, Chen Z, Mefford J, Marcus E, Chen PB, Ernst J, Luo C. Single-cell methylation analysis of brain tissue prioritizes mutations that alter transcription. Cell Genom. 2023 Dec 13; 3(12):100454. view on PubMed

Maciejewski E, Horvath S, Ernst J. Cross-species and tissue imputation of species-level DNA methylation samples across mammalian species. bioRxiv. 2023 Nov 27. view on PubMed

Jaroszewicz A, Ernst J. ChromGene: gene-based modeling of epigenomic data. Genome Biol. 2023 09 07; 24(1):203. view on PubMed

Haghani A, Li CZ, Robeck TR, Zhang J, Lu AT, Ablaeva J, Acosta-Rodríguez VA, Adams DM, Alagaili AN, Almunia J, Aloysius A, Amor NMS, Ardehali R, Arneson A, Baker CS, Banks G, Belov K, Bennett NC, Black P, Blumstein DT, Bors EK, Breeze CE, Brooke RT, Brown JL, Carter G, Caulton A, Cavin JM, Chakrabarti L, Chatzistamou I, Chavez AS, Chen H, Cheng K, Chiavellini P, Choi OW, Clarke S, Cook JA, Cooper LN, Cossette ML, Day J, DeYoung J, Dirocco S, Dold C, Dunnum JL, Ehmke EE, Emmons CK, Emmrich S, Erbay E, Erlacher-Reid C, Faulkes CG, Fei Z, Ferguson SH, Finno CJ, Flower JE, Gaillard JM, Garde E, Gerber L, Gladyshev VN, Goya RG, Grant MJ, Green CB, Hanson MB, Hart DW, Haulena M, Herrick K, Hogan AN, Hogg CJ, Hore TA, Huang T, Izpisua Belmonte JC, Jasinska AJ, Jones G, Jourdain E, Kashpur O, Katcher H, Katsumata E, Kaza V, Kiaris H, Kobor MS, Kordowitzki P, Koski WR, Krützen M, Kwon SB, Larison B, Lee SG, Lehmann M, Lemaître JF, Levine AJ, Li X, Li C, Lim AR, Lin DTS, Lindemann DM, Liphardt SW, Little TJ, Macoretta N, Maddox D, Matkin CO, Mattison JA, McClure M, Mergl J, Meudt JJ, Montano GA, Mozhui K, Munshi-South J, Murphy WJ, Naderi A, Nagy M, Narayan P, Nathanielsz PW, Nguyen NB, Niehrs C, Nyamsuren B, O'Brien JK, Ginn PO, Odom DT, Ophir AG, Osborn S, Ostrander EA, Parsons KM, Paul KC, Pedersen AB, Pellegrini M, Peters KJ, Petersen JL, Pietersen DW, Pinho GM, Plassais J, Poganik JR, Prado NA, Reddy P, Rey B, Ritz BR, Robbins J, Rodriguez M, Russell J, Rydkina E, Sailer LL, Salmon AB, Sanghavi A, Schachtschneider KM, Schmitt D, Schmitt T, Schomacher L, Schook LB, Sears KE, Seifert AW, Shafer ABA, Shindyapina AV, Simmons M, Singh K, Sinha I, Slone J, Snell RG, Soltanmohammadi E, Spangler ML, Spriggs M, Staggs L, Stedman N, Steinman KJ, Stewart DT, Sugrue VJ, Szladovits B, Takahashi JS, Takasugi M, Teeling EC, Thompson MJ, Van Bonn B, Vernes SC, Villar D, Vinters HV, Vu H, Wallingford MC, Wang N, Wilkinson GS, Williams RW, Yan Q, Yao M, Young BG, Zhang B, Zhang Z, Zhao Y, Zhao P, Zhou W, Zoller JA, Ernst J, Seluanov A, Gorbunova V, Yang XW, Raj K, Horvath S. DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits. Science. 2023 08 11; 381(6658):eabq5693. view on PubMed

Horvath S, Haghani A, Zoller JA, Lu AT, Ernst J, Pellegrini M, Jasinska AJ, Mattison JA, Salmon AB, Raj K, Horvath M, Paul KC, Ritz BR, Robeck TR, Spriggs M, Ehmke EE, Jenkins S, Li C, Nathanielsz PW. Pan-primate studies of age and sex. Geroscience. 2023 Dec; 45(6):3187-3209. view on PubMed

Dincer TU, Ernst J. Integrative epigenomic and functional characterization assay based annotation of regulatory activity across diverse human cell types. bioRxiv. 2023 Jul 15. view on PubMed

Vu H, Ernst J. Universal chromatin state annotation of the mouse genome. Genome Biol. 2023 06 27; 24(1):153. view on PubMed

Sarkar A, Liu NQ, Magallanes J, Tassey J, Lee S, Shkhyan R, Lee Y, Lu J, Ouyang Y, Tang H, Bian F, Tao L, Segil N, Ernst J, Lyons K, Horvath S, Evseenko D. STAT3 promotes a youthful epigenetic state in articular chondrocytes. Aging Cell. 2023 02; 22(2):e13773. view on PubMed

Vu H, Koch Z, Fiziev P, Ernst J. A framework for group-wise summarization and comparison of chromatin state annotations. Bioinformatics. 2023 01 01; 39(1). view on PubMed

Arneson A, Haghani A, Thompson MJ, Pellegrini M, Kwon SB, Vu H, Maciejewski E, Yao M, Li CZ, Lu AT, Morselli M, Rubbi L, Barnes B, Hansen KD, Zhou W, Breeze CE, Ernst J, Horvath S. A mammalian methylation array for profiling methylation levels at conserved sequences. Nat Commun. 2022 02 10; 13(1):783. view on PubMed

Vu H, Ernst J. Universal annotation of the human genome through integration of over a thousand epigenomic datasets. Genome Biol. 2022 01 06; 23(1):9. view on PubMed

Pezhouman A, Nguyen NB, Sercel AJ, Nguyen TL, Daraei A, Sabri S, Chapski DJ, Zheng M, Patananan AN, Ernst J, Plath K, Vondriska TM, Teitell MA, Ardehali R. Transcriptional, Electrophysiological, and Metabolic Characterizations of hESC-Derived First and Second Heart Fields Demonstrate a Potential Role of TBX5 in Cardiomyocyte Maturation. Front Cell Dev Biol. 2021; 9:787684. view on PubMed

Jasinska AJ, Haghani A, Zoller JA, Li CZ, Arneson A, Ernst J, Kavanagh K, Jorgensen MJ, Mattison JA, Wojta K, Choi OW, DeYoung J, Li X, Rao AW, Coppola G, Freimer NB, Woods RP, Horvath S. Epigenetic clock and methylation studies in vervet monkeys. Geroscience. 2022 04; 44(2):699-717. view on PubMed

Horvath S, Zoller JA, Haghani A, Jasinska AJ, Raj K, Breeze CE, Ernst J, Vaughan KL, Mattison JA. Epigenetic clock and methylation studies in the rhesus macaque. Geroscience. 2021 10; 43(5):2441-2453. view on PubMed

Kwon SB, Ernst J. Single-nucleotide conservation state annotation of the SARS-CoV-2 genome. Commun Biol. 2021 06 03; 4(1):698. view on PubMed

Carraro G, Langerman J, Sabri S, Lorenzana Z, Purkayastha A, Zhang G, Konda B, Aros CJ, Calvert BA, Szymaniak A, Wilson E, Mulligan M, Bhatt P, Lu J, Vijayaraj P, Yao C, Shia DW, Lund AJ, Israely E, Rickabaugh TM, Ernst J, Mense M, Randell SH, Vladar EK, Ryan AL, Plath K, Mahoney JE, Stripp BR, Gomperts BN. Transcriptional analysis of cystic fibrosis airways at single-cell resolution reveals altered epithelial cell states and composition. Nat Med. 2021 05; 27(5):806-814. view on PubMed

Kwon SB, Ernst J. Learning a genome-wide score of human-mouse conservation at the functional genomics level. Nat Commun. 2021 05 03; 12(1):2495. view on PubMed

Palmer RHC, Johnson EC, Won H, Polimanti R, Kapoor M, Chitre A, Bogue MA, Benca-Bachman CE, Parker CC, Verma A, Reynolds T, Ernst J, Bray M, Kwon SB, Lai D, Quach BC, Gaddis NC, Saba L, Chen H, Hawrylycz M, Zhang S, Zhou Y, Mahaffey S, Fischer C, Sanchez-Roige S, Bandrowski A, Lu Q, Shen L, Philip V, Gelernter J, Bierut LJ, Hancock DB, Edenberg HJ, Johnson EO, Nestler EJ, Barr PB, Prins P, Smith DJ, Akbarian S, Thorgeirsson T, Walton D, Baker E, Jacobson D, Palmer AA, Miles M, Chesler EJ, Emerson J, Agrawal A, Martone M, Williams RW. Integration of evidence across human and model organism studies: A meeting report. Genes Brain Behav. 2021 Apr 23; e12738. view on PubMed

Arneson A, Felsheim B, Chien J, Ernst J. ConsHMM Atlas: conservation state annotations for major genomes and human genetic variation. NAR Genom Bioinform. 2020 Dec; 2(4):lqaa104. view on PubMed

Grujic O, Phung TN, Kwon SB, Arneson A, Lee Y, Lohmueller KE, Ernst J. Identification and characterization of constrained non-exonic bases lacking predictive epigenomic and transcription factor binding annotations. Nat Commun. 2020 12 02; 11(1):6168. view on PubMed

Kwon SB, Ernst J. Single-nucleotide conservation state annotation of the SARS-CoV-2 genome. bioRxiv. 2020 Nov 02. view on PubMed

Zekavat SM, Ruotsalainen S, Handsaker RE, Alver M, Bloom J, Poterba T, Seed C, Ernst J, Chaffin M, Engreitz J, Peloso GM, Manichaikul A, Yang C, Ryan KA, Fu M, Johnson WC, Tsai M, Budoff M, Vasan RS, Cupples LA, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Post W, Mitchell BD, Correa A, Metspalu A, Wilson JG, Salomaa V, Kellis M, Daly MJ, Neale BM, McCarroll S, Surakka I, Esko T, Ganna A, Ripatti S, Kathiresan S, Natarajan P, NHLBI TOPMed Lipids Working Group. Publisher Correction: Deep coverage whole genome sequences and plasma lipoprotein(a) in individuals of European and African ancestries. Nat Commun. 2020 Apr 01; 11(1):1715. view on PubMed

Jaroszewicz A, Ernst J. An integrative approach for fine-mapping chromatin interactions. Bioinformatics. 2020 03 01; 36(6):1704-1711. view on PubMed

Zou J, Hormozdiari F, Jew B, Castel SE, Lappalainen T, Ernst J, Sul JH, Eskin E. Leveraging allelic imbalance to refine fine-mapping for eQTL studies. PLoS Genet. 2019 12; 15(12):e1008481. view on PubMed

Arneson A, Ernst J. Systematic discovery of conservation states for single-nucleotide annotation of the human genome. Commun Biol. 2019; 2:248. view on PubMed

Ferguson GB, Van Handel B, Bay M, Fiziev P, Org T, Lee S, Shkhyan R, Banks NW, Scheinberg M, Wu L, Saitta B, Elphingstone J, Larson AN, Riester SM, Pyle AD, Bernthal NM, Mikkola HK, Ernst J, van Wijnen AJ, Bonaguidi M, Evseenko D. Mapping molecular landmarks of human skeletal ontogeny and pluripotent stem cell-derived articular chondrocytes. Nat Commun. 2018 09 07; 9(1):3634. view on PubMed

Natarajan P, Peloso GM, Zekavat SM, Montasser M, Ganna A, Chaffin M, Khera AV, Zhou W, Bloom JM, Engreitz JM, Ernst J, O'Connell JR, Ruotsalainen SE, Alver M, Manichaikul A, Johnson WC, Perry JA, Poterba T, Seed C, Surakka IL, Esko T, Ripatti S, Salomaa V, Correa A, Vasan RS, Kellis M, Neale BM, Lander ES, Abecasis G, Mitchell B, Rich SS, Wilson JG, Cupples LA, Rotter JI, Willer CJ, Kathiresan S, NHLBI TOPMed Lipids Working Group. Deep-coverage whole genome sequences and blood lipids among 16,324 individuals. Nat Commun. 2018 08 23; 9(1):3391. view on PubMed

Kwon SB, Ernst J. Investigating enhancer evolution with massively parallel reporter assays. Genome Biol. 2018 08 14; 19(1):114. view on PubMed

Fiziev P, Ernst J. ChromTime: modeling spatio-temporal dynamics of chromatin marks. Genome Biol. 2018 08 10; 19(1):109. view on PubMed

Zekavat SM, Ruotsalainen S, Handsaker RE, Alver M, Bloom J, Poterba T, Seed C, Ernst J, Chaffin M, Engreitz J, Peloso GM, Manichaikul A, Yang C, Ryan KA, Fu M, Johnson WC, Tsai M, Budoff M, Vasan RS, Cupples LA, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Post W, Mitchell BD, Correa A, Metspalu A, Wilson JG, Salomaa V, Kellis M, Daly MJ, Neale BM, McCarroll S, Surakka I, Esko T, Ganna A, Ripatti S, Kathiresan S, Natarajan P, NHLBI TOPMed Lipids Working Group. Deep coverage whole genome sequences and plasma lipoprotein(a) in individuals of European and African ancestries. Nat Commun. 2018 07 04; 9(1):2606. view on PubMed

Sereti KI, Nguyen NB, Kamran P, Zhao P, Ranjbarvaziri S, Park S, Sabri S, Engel JL, Sung K, Kulkarni RP, Ding Y, Hsiai TK, Plath K, Ernst J, Sahoo D, Mikkola HKA, Iruela-Arispe ML, Ardehali R. Analysis of cardiomyocyte clonal expansion during mouse heart development and injury. Nat Commun. 2018 02 21; 9(1):754. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Kellis M. Chromatin-state discovery and genome annotation with ChromHMM. Nat Protoc. 2017 Dec; 12(12):2478-2492. view on PubMed

Liu Y, Sarkar A, Kheradpour P, Ernst J, Kellis M. Evidence of reduced recombination rate in human regulatory domains. Genome Biol. 2017 10 20; 18(1):193. view on PubMed

Fiziev P, Akdemir KC, Miller JP, Keung EZ, Samant NS, Sharma S, Natale CA, Terranova CJ, Maitituoheti M, Amin SB, Martinez-Ledesma E, Dhamdhere M, Axelrad JB, Shah A, Cheng CS, Mahadeshwar H, Seth S, Barton MC, Protopopov A, Tsai KY, Davies MA, Garcia BA, Amit I, Chin L, Ernst J, Rai K. Systematic Epigenomic Analysis Reveals Chromatin States Associated with Melanoma Progression. Cell Rep. 2017 04 25; 19(4):875-889. view on PubMed

Chronis C, Fiziev P, Papp B, Butz S, Bonora G, Sabri S, Ernst J, Plath K. Cooperative Binding of Transcription Factors Orchestrates Reprogramming. Cell. 2017 01 26; 168(3):442-459.e20. view on PubMed

Won H, de la Torre-Ubieta L, Stein JL, Parikshak NN, Huang J, Opland CK, Gandal MJ, Sutton GJ, Hormozdiari F, Lu D, Lee C, Eskin E, Voineagu I, Ernst J, Geschwind DH. Chromosome conformation elucidates regulatory relationships in developing human brain. Nature. 2016 10 27; 538(7626):523-527. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Melnikov A, Zhang X, Wang L, Rogov P, Mikkelsen TS, Kellis M. Genome-scale high-resolution mapping of activating and repressive nucleotides in regulatory regions. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Nov; 34(11):1180-1190. view on PubMed

Rakshit K, Qian J, Ernst J, Matveyenko AV. Circadian variation of the pancreatic islet transcriptome. Physiol Genomics. 2016 09 01; 48(9):677-87. view on PubMed

Duong D, Zou J, Hormozdiari F, Sul JH, Ernst J, Han B, Eskin E. Using genomic annotations increases statistical power to detect eGenes. Bioinformatics. 2016 06 15; 32(12):i156-i163. view on PubMed

Roadmap Epigenomics Consortium, Kundaje A, Meuleman W, Ernst J, Bilenky M, Yen A, Heravi-Moussavi A, Kheradpour P, Zhang Z, Wang J, Ziller MJ, Amin V, Whitaker JW, Schultz MD, Ward LD, Sarkar A, Quon G, Sandstrom RS, Eaton ML, Wu YC, Pfenning AR, Wang X, Claussnitzer M, Liu Y, Coarfa C, Harris RA, Shoresh N, Epstein CB, Gjoneska E, Leung D, Xie W, Hawkins RD, Lister R, Hong C, Gascard P, Mungall AJ, Moore R, Chuah E, Tam A, Canfield TK, Hansen RS, Kaul R, Sabo PJ, Bansal MS, Carles A, Dixon JR, Farh KH, Feizi S, Karlic R, Kim AR, Kulkarni A, Li D, Lowdon R, Elliott G, Mercer TR, Neph SJ, Onuchic V, Polak P, Rajagopal N, Ray P, Sallari RC, Siebenthall KT, Sinnott-Armstrong NA, Stevens M, Thurman RE, Wu J, Zhang B, Zhou X, Beaudet AE, Boyer LA, De Jager PL, Farnham PJ, Fisher SJ, Haussler D, Jones SJ, Li W, Marra MA, McManus MT, Sunyaev S, Thomson JA, Tlsty TD, Tsai LH, Wang W, Waterland RA, Zhang MQ, Chadwick LH, Bernstein BE, Costello JF, Ecker JR, Hirst M, Meissner A, Milosavljevic A, Ren B, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Wang T, Kellis M. Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes. Nature. 2015 Feb 19; 518(7539):317-30. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Kellis M. Large-scale imputation of epigenomic datasets for systematic annotation of diverse human tissues. Nat Biotechnol. 2015 Apr; 33(4):364-76. view on PubMed

De Jager PL, Srivastava G, Lunnon K, Burgess J, Schalkwyk LC, Yu L, Eaton ML, Keenan BT, Ernst J, McCabe C, Tang A, Raj T, Replogle J, Brodeur W, Gabriel S, Chai HS, Younkin C, Younkin SG, Zou F, Szyf M, Epstein CB, Schneider JA, Bernstein BE, Meissner A, Ertekin-Taner N, Chibnik LB, Kellis M, Mill J, Bennett DA. Alzheimer's disease: early alterations in brain DNA methylation at ANK1, BIN1, RHBDF2 and other loci. Nat Neurosci. 2014 Sep; 17(9):1156-63. view on PubMed

Rajagopal N, Ernst J, Ray P, Wu J, Zhang M, Kellis M, Ren B. Distinct and predictive histone lysine acetylation patterns at promoters, enhancers, and gene bodies. G3 (Bethesda). 2014 Aug 12; 4(11):2051-63. view on PubMed

Mortazavi A, Pepke S, Jansen C, Marinov GK, Ernst J, Kellis M, Hardison RC, Myers RM, Wold BJ. Integrating and mining the chromatin landscape of cell-type specificity using self-organizing maps. Genome Res. 2013 Dec; 23(12):2136-48. view on PubMed

Denholtz M, Bonora G, Chronis C, Splinter E, de Laat W, Ernst J, Pellegrini M, Plath K. Long-range chromatin contacts in embryonic stem cells reveal a role for pluripotency factors and polycomb proteins in genome organization. Cell Stem Cell. 2013 Nov 07; 13(5):602-16. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Kellis M. Interplay between chromatin state, regulator binding, and regulatory motifs in six human cell types. Genome Res. 2013 Jul; 23(7):1142-54. view on PubMed

Kheradpour P, Ernst J, Melnikov A, Rogov P, Wang L, Zhang X, Alston J, Mikkelsen TS, Kellis M. Systematic dissection of regulatory motifs in 2000 predicted human enhancers using a massively parallel reporter assay. Genome Res. 2013 May; 23(5):800-11. view on PubMed

Rajagopal N, Xie W, Li Y, Wagner U, Wang W, Stamatoyannopoulos J, Ernst J, Kellis M, Ren B. RFECS: a random-forest based algorithm for enhancer identification from chromatin state. PLoS Comput Biol. 2013; 9(3):e1002968. view on PubMed

Hoffman MM, Ernst J, Wilder SP, Kundaje A, Harris RS, Libbrecht M, Giardine B, Ellenbogen PM, Bilmes JA, Birney E, Hardison RC, Dunham I, Kellis M, Noble WS. Integrative annotation of chromatin elements from ENCODE data. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jan; 41(2):827-41. view on PubMed

Jin B, Ernst J, Tiedemann RL, Xu H, Sureshchandra S, Kellis M, Dalton S, Liu C, Choi JH, Robertson KD. Linking DNA methyltransferases to epigenetic marks and nucleosome structure genome-wide in human tumor cells. Cell Rep. 2012 Nov 29; 2(5):1411-24. view on PubMed

Schulz MH, Devanny WE, Gitter A, Zhong S, Ernst J, Bar-Joseph Z. DREM 2.0: Improved reconstruction of dynamic regulatory networks from time-series expression data. BMC Syst Biol. 2012 Aug 16; 6:104. view on PubMed

Wiggs JL, Yaspan BL, Hauser MA, Kang JH, Allingham RR, Olson LM, Abdrabou W, Fan BJ, Wang DY, Brodeur W, Budenz DL, Caprioli J, Crenshaw A, Crooks K, Delbono E, Doheny KF, Friedman DS, Gaasterland D, Gaasterland T, Laurie C, Lee RK, Lichter PR, Loomis S, Liu Y, Medeiros FA, McCarty C, Mirel D, Moroi SE, Musch DC, Realini A, Rozsa FW, Schuman JS, Scott K, Singh K, Stein JD, Trager EH, Vanveldhuisen P, Vollrath D, Wollstein G, Yoneyama S, Zhang K, Weinreb RN, Ernst J, Kellis M, Masuda T, Zack D, Richards JE, Pericak-Vance M, Pasquale LR, Haines JL. Common variants at 9p21 and 8q22 are associated with increased susceptibility to optic nerve degeneration in glaucoma. PLoS Genet. 2012; 8(4):e1002654. view on PubMed

Ernst J. Mapping enhancer and promoter interactions. Cell Res. 2012 May; 22(5):789-90. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Kellis M. ChromHMM: automating chromatin-state discovery and characterization. Nat Methods. 2012 Feb 28; 9(3):215-6. view on PubMed

Ram O, Goren A, Amit I, Shoresh N, Yosef N, Ernst J, Kellis M, Gymrek M, Issner R, Coyne M, Durham T, Zhang X, Donaghey J, Epstein CB, Regev A, Bernstein BE. Combinatorial patterning of chromatin regulators uncovered by genome-wide location analysis in human cells. Cell. 2011 Dec 23; 147(7):1628-39. view on PubMed

Lindblad-Toh K, Garber M, Zuk O, Lin MF, Parker BJ, Washietl S, Kheradpour P, Ernst J, Jordan G, Mauceli E, Ward LD, Lowe CB, Holloway AK, Clamp M, Gnerre S, Alföldi J, Beal K, Chang J, Clawson H, Cuff J, Di Palma F, Fitzgerald S, Flicek P, Guttman M, Hubisz MJ, Jaffe DB, Jungreis I, Kent WJ, Kostka D, Lara M, Martins AL, Massingham T, Moltke I, Raney BJ, Rasmussen MD, Robinson J, Stark A, Vilella AJ, Wen J, Xie X, Zody MC, Broad Institute Sequencing Platform and Whole Genome Assembly Team, Baldwin J, Bloom T, Chin CW, Heiman D, Nicol R, Nusbaum C, Young S, Wilkinson J, Worley KC, Kovar CL, Muzny DM, Gibbs RA, Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center Sequencing Team, Cree A, Dihn HH, Fowler G, Jhangiani S, Joshi V, Lee S, Lewis LR, Nazareth LV, Okwuonu G, Santibanez J, Warren WC, Mardis ER, Weinstock GM, Wilson RK, Genome Institute at Washington University, Delehaunty K, Dooling D, Fronik C, Fulton L, Fulton B, Graves T, Minx P, Sodergren E, Birney E, Margulies EH, Herrero J, Green ED, Haussler D, Siepel A, Goldman N, Pollard KS, Pedersen JS, Lander ES, Kellis M. A high-resolution map of human evolutionary constraint using 29 mammals. Nature. 2011 Oct 12; 478(7370):476-82. view on PubMed

Wu W, Cheng Y, Keller CA, Ernst J, Kumar SA, Mishra T, Morrissey C, Dorman CM, Chen KB, Drautz D, Giardine B, Shibata Y, Song L, Pimkin M, Crawford GE, Furey TS, Kellis M, Miller W, Taylor J, Schuster SC, Zhang Y, Chiaromonte F, Blobel GA, Weiss MJ, Hardison RC. Dynamics of the epigenetic landscape during erythroid differentiation after GATA1 restoration. Genome Res. 2011 Oct; 21(10):1659-71. view on PubMed

Zinman G, Brower-Sinning R, Emeche CH, Ernst J, Huang GT, Mahony S, Myers AJ, O'Dee DM, Flynn JL, Nau GJ, Ross TM, Salter RD, Benos PV, Bar Joseph Z, Morel PA. Large scale comparison of innate responses to viral and bacterial pathogens in mouse and macaque. PLoS One. 2011; 6(7):e22401. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Kheradpour P, Mikkelsen TS, Shoresh N, Ward LD, Epstein CB, Zhang X, Wang L, Issner R, Coyne M, Ku M, Durham T, Kellis M, Bernstein BE. Mapping and analysis of chromatin state dynamics in nine human cell types. Nature. 2011 May 05; 473(7345):43-9. view on PubMed

Kharchenko PV, Alekseyenko AA, Schwartz YB, Minoda A, Riddle NC, Ernst J, Sabo PJ, Larschan E, Gorchakov AA, Gu T, Linder-Basso D, Plachetka A, Shanower G, Tolstorukov MY, Luquette LJ, Xi R, Jung YL, Park RW, Bishop EP, Canfield TK, Sandstrom R, Thurman RE, MacAlpine DM, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Kellis M, Elgin SC, Kuroda MI, Pirrotta V, Karpen GH, Park PJ. Comprehensive analysis of the chromatin landscape in Drosophila melanogaster. Nature. 2011 Mar 24; 471(7339):480-5. view on PubMed

modENCODE Consortium, Roy S, Ernst J, Kharchenko PV, Kheradpour P, Negre N, Eaton ML, Landolin JM, Bristow CA, Ma L, Lin MF, Washietl S, Arshinoff BI, Ay F, Meyer PE, Robine N, Washington NL, Di Stefano L, Berezikov E, Brown CD, Candeias R, Carlson JW, Carr A, Jungreis I, Marbach D, Sealfon R, Tolstorukov MY, Will S, Alekseyenko AA, Artieri C, Booth BW, Brooks AN, Dai Q, Davis CA, Duff MO, Feng X, Gorchakov AA, Gu T, Henikoff JG, Kapranov P, Li R, MacAlpine HK, Malone J, Minoda A, Nordman J, Okamura K, Perry M, Powell SK, Riddle NC, Sakai A, Samsonova A, Sandler JE, Schwartz YB, Sher N, Spokony R, Sturgill D, van Baren M, Wan KH, Yang L, Yu C, Feingold E, Good P, Guyer M, Lowdon R, Ahmad K, Andrews J, Berger B, Brenner SE, Brent MR, Cherbas L, Elgin SC, Gingeras TR, Grossman R, Hoskins RA, Kaufman TC, Kent W, Kuroda MI, Orr-Weaver T, Perrimon N, Pirrotta V, Posakony JW, Ren B, Russell S, Cherbas P, Graveley BR, Lewis S, Micklem G, Oliver B, Park PJ, Celniker SE, Henikoff S, Karpen GH, Lai EC, MacAlpine DM, Stein LD, White KP, Kellis M. Identification of functional elements and regulatory circuits by Drosophila modENCODE. Science. 2010 Dec 24; 330(6012):1787-97. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Kellis M. Discovery and characterization of chromatin states for systematic annotation of the human genome. Nat Biotechnol. 2010 Aug; 28(8):817-25. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Plasterer HL, Simon I, Bar-Joseph Z. Integrating multiple evidence sources to predict transcription factor binding in the human genome. Genome Res. 2010 Apr; 20(4):526-36. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Ghanem L, Bar-Joseph Z, McNamara M, Brown J, Steinman RA. IL-3 and oncogenic Abl regulate the myeloblast transcriptome by altering mRNA stability. PLoS One. 2009 Oct 15; 4(10):e7469. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Beg QK, Kay KA, Balázsi G, Oltvai ZN, Bar-Joseph Z. A semi-supervised method for predicting transcription factor-gene interactions in Escherichia coli. PLoS Comput Biol. 2008 Mar 28; 4(3):e1000044. view on PubMed

Vazquez A, Beg QK, Demenezes MA, Ernst J, Bar-Joseph Z, Barabási AL, Boros LG, Oltvai ZN. Impact of the solvent capacity constraint on E. coli metabolism. BMC Syst Biol. 2008 Jan 23; 2:7. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Vainas O, Harbison CT, Simon I, Bar-Joseph Z. Reconstructing dynamic regulatory maps. Mol Syst Biol. 2007; 3:74. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Bar-Joseph Z. STEM: a tool for the analysis of short time series gene expression data. BMC Bioinformatics. 2006 Apr 05; 7:191. view on PubMed

Simon I, Siegfried Z, Ernst J, Bar-Joseph Z. Combined static and dynamic analysis for determining the quality of time-series expression profiles. Nat Biotechnol. 2005 Dec; 23(12):1503-8. view on PubMed

Ernst J, Nau GJ, Bar-Joseph Z. Clustering short time series gene expression data. Bioinformatics. 2005 Jun; 21 Suppl 1:i159-68. view on PubMed

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