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Nicole A. Vasilevsky

Associate Director of Data Science, Critical Path Institute

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Semantic Phenotyping of Diseases

  • Callahan, TJ, Tripodi, IJ, Stefanski, AL, Cappelletti L, Taneja SB, Wyrwa JM, Casiraghi E, Matentzoglu NA, Reese J, Silverstein JC, Hoyt CT, Boyce RD, Malec SA, Unni DR, Joachimiak MP, Robinson PN, Mungall CJ, Cavalleri E, Fontana T, Valentini G, Mesiti M, Gillenwater LA, Santangelo B, Vasilevsky NA, Hoehndorf R, Bennett TD, Ryan PB, Hripcsak G, Kahn MG, Bada M, Baumgartner Jr WA, Hunter LE. An open source knowledge graph ecosystem for the life sciences. Sci Data 11, 363 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03171-w
  • Tim E Putman, Kevin Schaper, Nicolas Matentzoglu, Vincent P Rubinetti, Faisal S Alquaddoomi, Corey Cox, J Harry Caufield, Glass Elsarboukh, Sarah Gehrke, Harshad Hegde, Justin T Reese, Ian Braun, Richard M Bruskiewich, Luca Cappelletti, Seth Carbon, Anita R Caron, Lauren E Chan, Christopher G Chute, Katherina G Cortes, Vinícius De Souza, Tommaso Fontana, Nomi L Harris, Emily L Hartley, Eric Hurwitz, Julius O B Jacobsen, Madan Krishnamurthy, Bryan J Laraway, James A McLaughlin, Julie A McMurry, Sierra A T Moxon, Kathleen R Mullen, Shawn T O’Neil, Kent A Shefchek, Ray Stefancsik, Sabrina Toro, Nicole A Vasilevsky, Ramona L Walls, Patricia L Whetzel, David Osumi-Sutherland, Damian Smedley, Peter N Robinson, Christopher J Mungall, Melissa A Haendel, Monica C Munoz-Torres. The Monarch Initiative in 2024: an analytic platform integrating phenotypes, genes and diseases across species. Nucleic Acids Research, 2023;, gkad1082, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad1082. Link here.
  • Leigh C. Carmody, Michael A. Gargano, Sabrina Toro, Nicole A. Vasilevsky, Margaret P. Adam, Hannah Blau, Lauren E. Chan, David Gomez-Andres, Rita Horvath, Megan L. Kraus, Markus S. Ladewig, David Lewis-Smith, Hanns Lochmüller, Nicolas A. Matentzoglu, Monica C. Munoz-Torres, Catharina Schuetz, Berthold Seitz, Morgan N. Similuk, Teresa N. Sparks, Timmy Strauss, Emilia M. Swietlik, Rachel Thompson, Xingmin Aaron Zhang, Christopher J. Mungall, Melissa A. Haendel, Peter N. Robinson. The Medical Action Ontology: A tool for annotating and analyzing treatments and clinical management of human disease. Med, 2023,ISSN 2666-6340, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2023.10.003. Link here
  • Michael A Gargano, Nicolas Matentzoglu, Ben Coleman, …, Nicole A Vasilevsky, Markéta Vlčková, Anita Walden, Kai Wang, Ron Wapner, James S Ware, Addo A Wiafe, Samuel A Wiafe, Lisa D Wiggins, Andrew E Williams, Chen Wu, Margot J Wyrwoll, Hui Xiong, Nefize Yalin, Yasunori Yamamoto, Lakshmi N Yatham, Anastasia K Yocum, Allan H Young, Zafer Yüksel, Peter P Zandi, Andreas Zankl, Ignacio Zarante, Miroslav Zvolský, Sabrina Toro, Leigh C Carmody, Nomi L Harris, Monica C Munoz-Torres, Daniel Danis, Christopher J Mungall, Sebastian Köhler, Melissa A Haendel, Peter N Robinson. The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2024: phenotypes around the world. Nucleic Acids Research, gkad1005, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad1005. Link here
  • Ferdinand Dhombres, Patricia Morgan, Bimal P Chaudhari, Isabel Filges, Teresa N Sparks, Pablo Lapunzina, Tony Roscioli, Umber Agarwal, Shagun Aggarwal, Claire Beneteau, Pilar Cacheiro, Leigh C Carmody, Sophie Collardeau-Frachon, Esther A Dempsey, Andreas Dufke, Michael Henri Duyzend, Mirna El Ghosh, Jessica L Giordano, Ragnhild Glad, Ieva Grinfelde, Dominic G Iliescu, Markus S Ladewig, Monica C Munoz-Torres, Marzia Pollazzon, Francesca Clementina Radio, Carlota Rodo, Raquel Gouveia Silva, Damian Smedley, Jagadish Chandrabose Sundaramurthi, Sabrina Toro, Irene Valenzuela, Nicole A Vasilevsky, Ronald J Wapner, Roni Zemet, Melissa A Haendel, Peter N Robinson. Prenatal phenotyping: a community effort to enhance the Human Phenotype Ontology, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.c.31989 Link here
  • Julius O. B. Jacobsen, Michael Baudis, Gareth S. Baynam, Jacques S. Beckmann, Sergi Beltran, Orion J. Buske, Tiffany J. Callahan, Christopher G. Chute, Mélanie Courtot, Daniel Danis, Olivier Elemento, Andrea Essenwanger, Robert R. Freimuth, Michael A. Gargano, Tudor Groza, Ada Hamosh, Nomi L. Harris, Rajaram Kaliyaperumal, Kevin C. Kent Lloyd, Aly Khalifa, Peter M. Krawitz, Sebastian Köhler, Brian J. Laraway, Heikki Lehväslaiho, Leslie Matalonga, Julie A. McMurry, Alejandro Metke-Jimenez, Christopher J. Mungall, Monica C. Munoz-Torres, Soichi Ogishima, Anastasios Papakonstantinou, Davide Piscia, Nikolas Pontikos, Núria Queralt-Rosinach, Marco Roos, Julian Sass, Paul N. Schofield, Dominik Seelow, Anastasios Siapos, Damian Smedley, Lindsay D. Smith, Robin Steinhaus, Jagadish Chandrabose Sundaramurthi, Emilia M. Swietlik, Sylvia Thun, Nicole A. Vasilevsky, Alex H. Wagner, Jeremy L. Warner, Claus Weiland, The GAGH Phenopacket Modeling Consortium, Melissa A. Haendel & Peter N. Robinson. The GA4GH Phenopacket schema defines a computable representation of clinical data. Nature Biotechnology, Vol 40, June 2022, 815–820 (2022). Preprint available here. Paper available here.
  • Deer RR, Rock MA, Vasilevsky N, Carmody L, Rando H, Anzalone AJ, Basson MD, Bennett TD, Bergquist T, Boudreau EA, Bramante CT, Byrd JB, Callahan TJ, Chan LE, Chu H, Chute CG, Coleman BD, Davis HE, Gagnier J, Greene CS, Hillegass WB, Kavuluru R, Kimble WD, Koraishy FM, Köhler S, Liang C, Liu F, Liu H, Madhira V, Madlock-Brown CR, Matentzoglu N, Mazzotti DR, McMurry JA, McNair DS, Moffitt RA, Monteith TS, Parker AM, Perry MA, Pfaff E, Reese JT, Saltz J, Schuff RA, Solomonides AE, Solway J, Spratt H, Stein GS, Sule AA, Topaloglu U, Vavougios GD, Wang L, Haendel MA, Robinson PN, Characterizing Long COVID: Deep Phenotype of a Complex Condition, EBioMedicine. 2021 Nov 25;74:103722. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103722. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34839263; PMCID: PMC8613500. Preprint available here, Paper available here
  • Sebastian Köhler, Michael Gargano, Nicolas Matentzoglu, Leigh C Carmody, David Lewis-Smith, Nicole A Vasilevsky, Daniel Danis, Ganna Balagura, Gareth Baynam, Amy M Brower, Tiffany J Callahan, Christopher G Chute, Johanna L Est, Peter D Galer, Shiva Ganesan, Matthias Griese, Matthias Haimel, Julia Pazmandi, Marc Hanauer, Nomi L Harris, Michael J Hartnett, Maximilian Hastreiter, Fabian Hauck, Yongqun He, Tim Jeske, Hugh Kearney, Gerhard Kindle, Christoph Klein, Katrin Knoflach, Roland Krause, David Lagorce, Julie A McMurry, Jillian A Miller, Monica C Munoz-Torres, Rebecca L Peters, Christina K Rapp, Ana M Rath, Shahmir A Rind, Avi Z Rosenberg, Michael M Segal, Markus G Seidel, Damian Smedley, Tomer Talmy, Yarlalu Thomas, Samuel A Wiafe, Julie Xian, Zafer Yüksel, Ingo Helbig, Christopher J Mungall, Melissa A Haendel, Peter N Robinson (2020) The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2021 Nucleic Acids Research, gkaa1043, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa1043 Link here
  • Anne E. Thessen, Cynthia J. Grondin, Resham D. Kulkarni, Susanne Brander, Lisa Truong, Nicole A. Vasilevsky, Tiffany J. Callahan, Lauren E. Chan, Brian Westra, Mary Willis, Sarah E. Rothenberg, Annie M. Jarabek, Lyle Burgoon, Susan A. Korrick, and Melissa A. Haendel. (2020) Community Approaches for Integrating Environmental Exposures into Human Models of Disease Environmental Health Perspectives Vol. 128, No. 12 Link here, Preprint here
  • Leigh C. Carmody, Hannah Blau, Daniel Danis, Xingman A. Zhang, Jean-Philippe Gourdine, Nicole Vasilevsky, Peter Krawitz, Miles D. Thompson, Peter N. Robinson. Significantly different clinical phenotypes associated with mutations in synthesis and transamidase+remodeling glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchor biosynthesis genes. Orphanet J Rare Dis (2020) 15: 40. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-020-1313-0 Link here
  • Melissa Haendel, Nicole Vasilevsky, Deepak Unni, Cristian Bologa, Nomi Harris, Heidi Rehm, Ada Hamosh, Gareth Baynam, Tudor Groza, Julie McMurry, Hugh Dawkins, Ana Rath, Courtney Thaxon, Giovanni Bocci, Marcin P. Joachimiak, Sebastian Köhler, Peter N. Robinson, Chris Mungall & Tudor I. Oprea. How many rare diseases are there? Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 05 November 2019 Link here
  • Jean-Philippe F Gourdine, Matthew H Brush, Nicole A Vasilevsky, Kent Shefchek, Sebastian Köhler, Nicolas Matentzoglu, Monica C Munoz-Torres, Julie A McMurry, Xingmin Aaron Zhang, Peter N Robinson, Melissa A Haendel. Representing glycophenotypes: semantic unification of glycobiology resources for disease discovery Database, Volume 2019, 2019, baz114, https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baz114. Link here
  • Kent A Shefchek, Nomi L Harris, Michael Gargano, Nicolas Matentzoglu, Deepak Unni, Matthew Brush, Daniel Keith, Tom Conlin, Nicole Vasilevsky, et al. The Monarch Initiative in 2019: an integrative data and analytic platform connecting phenotypes to genotypes across species. Nucleic Acids Research, gkz997, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz997. Link here
  • Sebastian Köhler, N. Christine Øien, Orion J. Buske, Tudor Groza, Julius O. B. Jacobsen, Craig McNamara, Nicole Vasilevsky, Leigh C. Carmody, J. P. Gourdine, Michael Gargano, Julie A. McMurry, Daniel Danis Christopher J. Mungall, Damian Smedley, Melissa Haendel, Peter N. Robinson. Encoding Clinical Data with the Human Phenotype Ontology for Computational Differential Diagnostics. Current Protocols in Human Genetics.Volume103, Issue1 September 2019, e92, https://doi.org/10.1002/cphg.92. Link here
  • Xingmin Aaron Zhang, Amy Yates, Nicole Vasilevsky, et al., Semantic Integration of Clinical Laboratory Tests from Electronic Health Records for Deep Phenotyping and Biomarker Discovery npj Digital Medicinevolume 2, Article number: 32 (2019) Preprint here, Link here
  • Sebastian Köhler, Leigh Carmody, Nicole Vasilevsky, et al. Expansion of the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) knowledge base and resources. 22 November 2018. Nucleic Acids Research, gky1105, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky1105 Link here
  • Nicole A. Vasilevsky, et al. Plain-language medical vocabulary for precision diagnosis. Nature Genetics 50, 474–476 (2018). (Preprint available at: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1168737) Link here
  • Vasilevsky N, Engelstad M, Foster E, Mungall C, Robinson P, Köhler S, Haendel M. 2016. IT402: Enhancing the Human Phenotype Ontology for Use by the Layperson. International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (Conference paper, ICBO BioCreative 2016). Link here
  • Christopher J. Mungall, …, Nicole Vasilevsky, Zhou Yuan, Nicole Washington, Harry Hochheiser, Tudor Groza, Damian Smedley, Peter N. Robinson, and Melissa A. Haendel. (2017) The Monarch Initiative: an integrative data and analytic platform connecting phenotypes to genotypes across species. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Jan 4;45(D1):D712-D722. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkw1128 Link here
  • Sebastian Köhler, Nicole A. Vasilevsky, …, and Peter N. Robinson. The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2017. Nucl. Acids Res. first published online November 28, 2016 doi:10.1093/nar/gkw1039 Link here
  • Julie A. McMurry, …, Nicole A. Vasilevsky, Zhou Yuan, Suzanna E. Lewis, Harry Hochheiser, Tudor Groza, Damian Smedley, Peter N. Robinson, Christopher J. Mungall, Melissa A. Haendel. Navigating the Phenotype Frontier: The Monarch Initiative. GENETICS August 1, 2016 vol. 203 no. 4 1491-1495; DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.188870 Link here
  • Bone WP, …, Vasilevsky N, Wahl C, Wolfe LA, Boerkoel CF, Brudno M, Haendel MA, Gahl WA, Smedley D. Computational evaluation of exome sequence data using human and model organism phenotypes improves diagnostic efficiency. Genetics in medicine: official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics, 2015 Nov 12. doi: 10.1038/gim.2015.137. Link here
  • Tudor Groza, …, Nicole Vasilevsky, et al. The Human Phenotype Ontology: Semantic unification of common and rare disease. The American Journal of Human Genetics (2015). [Link here](http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg
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  • Haendel MA, Vasilevsky N, Brush M, Hochheiser HS, Jacobsen J, Oellrich A, Mungall CJ, Washington N, Köhler S, Lewis SE, Robinson PN, Smedley D. Disease insights through cross-species phenotype comparisons. Mamm Genome. 2015 Jun 20. PMID: 26092691. Link here

Biomedical Ontologies and Bioinformatics

  • Callahan, T.J., Stefanski, A.L., Wyrwa, J.M. et al. Ontologizing health systems data at scale: making translational discovery a reality. npj Digit. Med. 6, 89 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-023-00830-x
  • Stefancsik, R., Balhoff, J.P., Balk, M.A. et al. The Ontology of Biological Attributes (OBA)—computational traits for the life sciences. Mamm Genome (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00335-023-09992-1
  • Chan, L.E., Thessen, A.E., Duncan, W.D. et al. The Environmental Conditions, Treatments, and Exposures Ontology (ECTO): connecting toxicology and exposure to human health and beyond. J Biomed Semant 14, 3 (2023). Link here
  • Nicolas Matentzoglu, Damien Goutte-Gattat, Shawn Zheng Kai Tan, James P. Balhoff, Seth Carbon, Anita R. Caron, William D. Duncan, Joe E. Flack, Melissa Haendel, Nomi L. Harris, William R Hogan, Charles Tapley Hoyt, Rebecca C. Jackson, HyeongSik Kim, Huseyin Kir, Martin Larralde, Julie A. McMurry, James A. Overton, Bjoern Peters, Clare Pilgrim, Ray Stefancsik, Sofia MC Robb, Sabrina Toro, Nicole A Vasilevsky, Ramona Walls, Christopher J. Mungall, David Osumi-Sutherland, Ontology Development Kit: a toolkit for building, maintaining, and standardising biomedical ontologies, arXiv:2207.02056 [cs.DB], Link here
  • Nicolas Matentzoglu, James P Balhoff, Susan M Bello, Chris Bizon, Matthew Brush, Tiffany J Callahan, Christopher G Chute, William D Duncan, Chris T Evelo, Davera Gabriel, John Graybeal, Alasdair Gray, Benjamin M Gyori, Melissa Haendel, Henriette Harmse, Nomi L Harris, Ian Harrow, Harshad B Hegde, Amelia L Hoyt, Charles T Hoyt, Dazhi Jiao, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Simon Jupp, Hyeongsik Kim, Sebastian Koehler, Thomas Liener, Qinqin Long, James Malone, James A McLaughlin, Julie A McMurry, Sierra Moxon, Monica C Munoz-Torres, David Osumi-Sutherland, James A Overton, Bjoern Peters, Tim Putman, Núria Queralt-Rosinach, Kent Shefchek, Harold Solbrig, Anne Thessen, Tania Tudorache, Nicole Vasilevsky, Alex H Wagner, Christopher J Mungall, A Simple Standard for Sharing Ontological Mappings (SSSOM), Database, Volume 2022, 2022, baac035, https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baac035
  • Rebecca Jackson, Nicolas Matentzoglu, James A Overton, Randi Vita, James P Balhoff, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Seth Carbon, Melanie Courtot, Alexander D Diehl, Damion M Dooley, William D Duncan, Nomi L Harris, Melissa A Haendel, Suzanna E Lewis, Darren A Natale, David Osumi-Sutherland, Alan Ruttenberg, Lynn M Schriml, Barry Smith, Christian J Stoeckert Jr., Nicole A Vasilevsky, Ramona L Walls, Jie Zheng, Christopher J Mungall, Bjoern Peters, OBO Foundry in 2021: operationalizing open data principles to evaluate ontologies, Database, Volume 2021, 2021, baab069. Paper is available here.
  • Lauren Chan, Nicole Vasilevsky, Anne Thessen, Julie McMurry, Melissa Haendel, The landscape of nutri-informatics: a review of current resources and challenges for integrative nutrition research, Database, Volume 2021, 2021, baab003, https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baab00
  • Hotchkiss, J.; Manyisa, N.; Adadey, S.M.; Oluwole, O.G.; Wonkam, E.; Mnika, K.; Yalcouye, A.; Nembaware, V.; Haendel, M.; Vasilevsky, N.; Mulder, N.J.; Jupp, S.; Wonkam, A.; Mazandu, G.K. The Hearing Impairment Ontology: A Tool for Unifying Hearing Impairment Knowledge to Enhance Collaborative Research. Genes 2019, 10, 960 Link here
  • Matentzoglu, Nicolas;… Vasilevsky, Nicole; Zhang, Xingmin A.; Haendel, Melissa A. Phenotype Ontologies Traversing All The Organisms (POTATO) workshop aims to reconcile logical definitions across species. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2382757
  • Diehl AD, Meehan TF, Bradford YM, Brush MH, Dahdul WM, Dougall DS, He Y, Osumi-Sutherland D, Ruttenberg A, Sarntivijai S, Van Slyke CE, Vasilevsky NA, Haendel MA, Blake JA, Mungall CJ. The Cell Ontology 2016: enhanced content, modularization, and ontology interoperability. J Biomed Semantics. 2016 Jul 4;7(1):44. doi: 10.1186/s13326-016-0088-7.
  • Terry Meehan, Nicole A. Vasilevsky, Christopher J. Mungall, Melissa A. Haendel, Judith A. Blake, Alexander D. Diehl (2013) Ontology based molecular signatures for immune cell types via gene expression analysis. BMC Bioinformatics 14:263. *These authors contributed equally to the work.

Biocuration

  • Federica Quaglia, Rama Balakrishnan, Susan M Bello, Nicole Vasilevsky, Conference report: Biocuration 2021 Virtual Conference, Database, Volume 2022, 2022, baac027, https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baac027
  • International Society for Biocuration (2018) Biocuration: Distilling data into knowledge. PLoS Biol 16(4): e2002846. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002846. Link here
  • Michael Bada, Nicole Vasilevsky, William A Baumgartner, Jr, Melissa Haendel, Lawrence E Hunter. Gold-standard ontology-based anatomical annotation in the CRAFT Corpus. Database, Volume 2017, 1 January 2017, bax087, https://academic.oup.com/database/article/doi/10.1093/database/bax087/4780291. Link here
  • Wang Q, …,Vasilevsky N, Wang X, Chatr-Aryamontri A, Laulederkind SJ, Matis-Mitchell S, McEntyre J, Orchard S, Pundir S, Rodriguez-Esteban R, Van Auken K, Lu Z, Schaeffer M, Wu CH, Hirschman L, Arighi CN. Overview of the interactive task in BioCreative V. Database (Oxford). 2016 Sep 1;2016. pii: baw119. Print 2016. Link here

Attribution and Representing Researcher Expertise

  • Mohammad Hosseini, Julien Colomb, Alex O. Holcombe, Barbara Kern, Nicole A. Vasilevsky, Kristi L. Holmes. Evolution and adoption of contributor role ontologies and taxonomies. Learned Publishing Volume36, Issue2, April 2023, Pages 275-284, https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1496
  • Vasilevsky NA, Hosseini M, Teplitzky S, Ilik V, Mohammadi E, Schneider J, Kern B, Colomb J, Edmunds SC, Gutzman K, Himmelstein DS, White M, Smith B, O’Keefe L, Haendel M, Holmes KL. Is authorship sufficient for today’s collaborative research? A call for contributor roles. Account Res. 2021 Jan;28(1):23-43. Preprint available here.
  • Nicole A. Vasilevsky, Mohammad Hosseini, Samantha Teplitzky, Violeta Ilik, Ehsan Mohammadi, Juliane Schneider, Barbara Kern, Julien Colomb, Scott C. Edmunds, Karen Gutzman, Daniel S. Himmelstein, Marijane White, Britton Smith, Lisa O’Keefe, Melissa Haendel, Kristi L. Holmes. Is authorship sufficient for today’s collaborative research? A call for contributor roles. Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance. DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2020.1779591. Link here. Preprint here.
  • Craig D. Newgard, MD… Nicole Vasilevsky, PhD; Marijane White, MSLIS; Adrienne Zell, PhD. The First National Institutes of Health Institutional Training Program in Emergency Care Research: Productivity and Outcomes. Ann Emerg Med. 2018 Aug 2. pii: S0196-0644(18)30549-3. doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2018.06.018. Link here
  • Haendel MA, Torniai C, Vasilevsky N, Hoffmann S, Bourges-Waldegg D. eagle-i: ontology-driven federated search and data entry tools for discovering biomedical research resources. (2013) International Conference on Biomedical Ontology; July 7-13, 2013; Montreal, Canada. Link here
  • Vasilevsky NA, Johnson T, Corday K, Torniai C, Brush M, Segerdell E, Wilson M, Shaffer C and Haendel M. (2012) Research Resources: Curating the new eagle-i discovery system. Database, Vol. 2012, Article ID bar067. Link here
  • Torniai, C, Brush, M, Vasilevsky, N, Segerdell, E, Wison, M, Johnson, T, Corday, K, Shaffer, C, and Haendel, M. (2011) Developing an application ontology for biomedical resource annotation and retrieval: Challenges and lessons learned. International Conference on Biomedical Ontology 2011; July 26–30, 2011; Buffalo, NY. Link here

Education and Training

  • Nicole Vasilevsky, James Overton, Rebecca Jackson, Sabrina Toro, Shawn Tan, Bradley Varner, David Osumi-Sutherland, & Nicolas Matentzoglu. (2022, August 3). OBO Academy: Training materials for bio-ontologists. 2022 ISMB Bio-Ontologies Community, Madison, WI. Link here
  • Ted Laderas, Nicole Vasilevsky, Bjorn Pederson, Melissa Haendel, Shannon McWeeney, David Dorr (2017): Teaching data science fundamentals through realistic synthetic clinical cardiovascular data. BioRxiv preprint: doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/232611
  • Nicole Vasilevsky, Morgan Schafer, Deanne Tibbitts, Kirsten Wright and Heather Zwickey. Curriculum Development of a Research Laboratory Methodology Course for Complementary and Integrative Medicine Students. (2015) Medical Science Educator. DOI:10.1007/s40670-015-0113-y

Data Management, Data Standards and Altmetrics

  • Anja Füllgrabe, Nancy George, Matthew Green, Parisa Nejad, Bruce Aronow, Silvie Korena Fexova, Clay Fischer, Mallory Ann Freeberg, Laura Huerta, Norman Morrison, Richard H. Scheuermann, Deanne Taylor, Nicole Vasilevsky, Laura Clarke, Nils Gehlenborg, Jim Kent, John Marioni, Sarah Teichmann, Alvis Brazma, Irene Papatheodorou. Guidelines for reporting single-cell RNA-seq experiments. Nat Biotechnol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-00744-z. Link here.
  • Nicole Vasilevsky, Jackie Wirz, Robin Champieux, Todd Hannon, Bryan Laraway, Kyle Banerjee, Chris Shaffer, Melissa Haendel. Lions, Tigers, and Gummi Bears: Springing Towards Effective Engagement with Research Data Management, (2014). Scholar Archive. Paper 3571. http://digitalcommons.ohsu.edu/etd/3571
  • Haendel MA, Vasilevsky NA, and Wirz JA. (2012) Dealing with Data: A case study on information and data management literacy. PLoS Biol 10(5): e1001339. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001339.

Open Science and Scientific Reproducibility

  • Harris NL, Hokamp K, Ménager H, Monica Munoz-Torres, Deepak Unni, Nicole Vasilevsky, Jason Williams. BOSC 2022: the first hybrid and 23rd annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference [version 1; peer review: not peer reviewed]. F1000Research 2022, 11:1034 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.125043.1)
  • David B Resnik, Melissa Morales, Rachel Landrum, Min Shi, Jessica Minnier, Nicole A. Vasilevsky & Robin E. Champieux (2019) Effect of Impact Factor and Discipline on Journal Data Sharing Policies, Accountability in Research, DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2019.1591277. Link here
  • Vasilevsky NA, Minnier J, Haendel MA, Champieux RE. (2017) Reproducible and reusable research: Are journal data sharing policies meeting the mark? PeerJ 5:e3208; DOI 10.7717/peerj.3208 (Preprint available at: https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2588v1)
  • Nicole A. Vasilevsky, Matthew H. Brusfh, Holly Paddock, Laura Ponting, Shreejoy J. Tripathy, Gregory M. LaRocca, Melissa A. Haendel (2013) On the reproducibility of science: Unique Identification of Research Resources in the Biomedical Literature. PeerJ. https://peerj.com/articles/148/
  • Bandrowski A, Brush M, Grethe JS, Haendel MA, Kennedy DN, Hill S, Hof PR, Martone ME, Pols M, Tan S, Washington N, Zudilova-Seinstra E, Vasilevsky N. The Resource Identification Initiative: A cultural shift in publishing [version 2; referees: 2 approved] F1000Research 2015, 4:134 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.6555.2) http://f1000research.com/articles/4-134/v2
  • Babette Haven, Elysia Heilig, Cristine Donham, Michael Settles, Nicole Vasilevsky, Katherine Owen, Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology. Registered report: A chromatin-mediated reversible drug-tolerant state in cancer cell subpopulations (2016) eLife 2016;5:e09462
  • Vita R, Vasilevsky N, Bandrowski A, Haendel M, Sette A, Peters B. (2016) Reproducibility and Conflicts in Immune Epitope Data. Immunology. 2016 Mar;147(3):349-54. doi: 10.1111/imm.12566.

Cancer immunology

  • Vasilevsky NA, Ruby CE, Hurlin PJ, Weinberg AD. OX40 engagement stabilizes Mxd4 and Mnt protein levels in antigen-stimulated T cells leading to an increase in cell survival. Eur J Immunol. 2011 Apr; 41(4):1024-34. Eur J Immunol. 2011 Apr;41(4):1024-34.