Outreach

  • Wattam, A.R., K.P. Williams, E.E. Snyder, N.F. Almeida Jr., M. Shukla, A.W. Dickerman, O.R. Crasta, R. Kenyon, J. Lu, J.M. Shallom, H. Yoo, T.A. Ficht, R.M. Tsolis, C. Munk, R. Tapia, C.S. Han, J.C. Detter, D. Bruce, T.S. Brettin, B.W. Sobral, S.M. Boyle, J.C. Setubal. (2009) Analysis of ten Brucella genomes reveals evidence for horizontal gene transfer despite a preferred intracellular lifestyle. Journal of Bacteriology. (Abstract)
  • Joseph J. Gillespie, Nicole C. Ammerman, Sheila M. Dreher-Lesnick, M. Sayeedur Rahman, Micah J. Worley, Joao C. Setubal, Bruno S. Sobral, and Abdu F. Azad. (2009) An Anomalous Type IV Secretion System in Rickettsia Is Evolutionarily Conserved. PLoS ONE, (Full Text)
  • Paul A. Beare, Nathan Unsworth, Masako Andoh, Daniel E. Voth, Anders Omsland, Stacey D. Gilk, Kelly P. Williams, Bruno W. Sobral, John J. Kupko III, Stephen F. Porcella, James E. Samuel, Robert A. Heinzen (2009) Comparative Genomics Reveal Extensive Transposon-Mediated Genomic Plasticity and Diversity among Potential Effector Proteins within the Genus Coxiella. Infect. Immun., 77: 642-656 (Abstract)
  • Gillespie JJ, Ammerman NC, Beier-Sexton M, Sobral BS, Azad AF. (2009) Louse- and flea-borne rickettsioses: biological and genomic analyses. Vet Res. 40:12. (Full Text)
  • Matthew D. Dyer, T. M. Murali, Bruno W. Sobral (2008) The Landscape of Human Proteins Interacting with Viruses and Other Pathogens. PLoS Pathogens, (Full Text).
  • Oswald R. Crasta, Otto Folkerts, Zhangjun Fei, Shrinivasrao P. Mane, Clive Evans, Susan Martino-Catt, Betsy Bricker, GongXin Yu, Lei Du, Bruno W. Sobral. (2008) Genome Sequence of Brucella abortus Vaccine Strain S19 Compared to Virulent Strains Yields Candidate Virulence Genes. PLoS One, (Full Text).
  • Gillespie, J.J., Williams, K., Shukla, M., Snyder, E.E., Nordberg, E., Ceraul, S.M., Dharmanolla, C., Rainey, D., Soneja, J., Vishnubhat, N.D., Wattam, R., Purkayastha, A., Shallom, J.M., Czar, M., Crasta, O., Setubal, J., Azad, A., Sobral, B. (2008) Rickettsia phylogenomics: unwinding the intricacies of obligate intracellular life. PLoS One, (Full Text). (Supplementary Material 1, 2)
  • Greene JM, Collins F, Lefkowitz EJ, Roos D, Scheuermann RH, Sobral B, Stevens R, White O, Di Francesco V. (2007) NIAID Bioinformatics Resource Centers - New Assets for Pathogen Informatics. Infect. Immun., 75: 3212-3219 (Abstract)
  • Yu GX, Snyder EE, Boyle SM, Crasta OR, Czar M, Mane SP, Purkayastha A, Sobral B and Setubal JC. (2007) A Versatile Computational Pipeline for Bacterial Genome Annotation Improvement and Comparative Analysis, with Brucella as a Use Case. Nucleic Acids Research In Press (Abstract)
  • Gillespie JJ, Beier MS, Rahman S, Ammerman NC, Shallom JM, Purkayastha A, Sobral BS, Azad AF. (2007) Plasmids and Rickettsial Evolution: Insight from Rickettsia felis. PLoS One, Vol. 2. (Abstract)
  • Crasta OR, Yu GX, Snyder EE, Williams K, Sobral BW. (2007) Comparative Genomics of Brucella. Animal Associated Microbes In Cole C, Nene V (eds.), Genome Mapping in Animals and Microbes Springer Verlag, Vol. 8. In press.
  • Crasta OR, Wattam AR, Purkayastha A, Sobral BW. (2007) Genome sequencing and bioinformatics resources. Animal associated microbes. In Cole C, Nene V (eds.), Genome Mapping in Animals and Microbes Springer, Vol. 8. In press.
  • Ceraul SM, Dreher-Lesnick SM, Gillespie JJ, Rahman MS, Azad AF. (2007) A New Tick Defensin Isoform and Antimicrobial Gene Expression in Response to Rickettsia montanensis Challenge. Infection and Immunity, 74: 1973-1983. (Abstract)
  • Snyder EE, Kampanya N, Lu J, Nordberg EK, Rajasimha HK, Shukla M, Soneja J, Tian Y, Xue T, Yoo H, Zhang F, Dharmanolla C, Dongre NV, Gillespie J, Hamelius J, Hance M, Huntington KI, Jukneliene D, Koziski J, Mackasmiel L, Mane SP, Nguyen V, Purkayastha A, Shallom J, Yu G, Guo Y, Gabbard J, Hix D, Azad A, Baker SC, Boyle SM, Khudyakov Y, Meng XJ, Rupprecht C, Vinje J, Crasta OR, Czar MJ, Dickerman A, Eckart JD, Kenyon R, Will R, Setubal JC, Sobral BW (2007) PATRIC: The VBI PathoSystems Resource Integration Center. Nucleic Acids Research 35: D401-D406. URL: http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/35/suppl_1/D401
  • He, Y. Q., S. Reichow, S. Ramamoorthy, X. C. Ding, R. Lathigra, J. C. Craig, B. W. S. Sobral, G. G. Schurig, N. Sriranganathan, and S. M. Boyle. (2006) Brucella melitensis triggers time-dependent modulation of apoptosis and down-regulation of mitochondrion-associated gene expression in mouse macrophages. Infection and Immunity 74:5035-5046 (Abstract)
  • Shallom JM, Dongre N, Dharmanolla C, Purkayastha A, Czar M, Crasta O, Setubal J, Sobral B (2006) The pathosystems resource integration center: implications for viral pathogens. Journal of Clinical Virology 36: S205-S205. (Abstract)
  • Purkayastha A, Crasta OR, Eckart JD, Czar M, Meng XJ, Setubal JC, Sobral BW (2006) Bioinformatics resources for the study of viruses at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. In: Structure-based Study of Virus Infection. World Scientific Publishing Company, Stockholm, Sweden. in press (Abstract)
  • Baker SC, Jukneliene D, Purkayastha A, Crasta OR, Czar M, Setubal JC, Sobral BW (2005) Developing bioinformatics resources for coronaviruses. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2006;581:395-398. (Abstract)
  • Hance ME, Czar MJ, Azad A, Purkayastha A, Snyder EE, Crasta OR, Setubal JC, Sobral BW (2005) The pathogen resource integration center: implications for Rickettsial research. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1063:459-65. (Abstract, PubMed: 16481560)
  • Sobral BWS (2005) Cyberinfrastructure for PathoSystems Biology. In JC Setubal and S Verjovski-Almeida (Eds.), Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2005. Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, v. 3594. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. (Abstract)