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Artem Babaian
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Latest papers
Resolving human neuronal herpesvirus reactivation via petabase-scale association studies.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
Logan: Planetary-Scale Genome Assembly Surveys Life's Diversity.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025 · senior author
Discovery of functional factorless internal ribosome entry site-like structures through virome mining.
PLoS pathogens · 2025
Latest funding
- $1,216,350
Catalyzing a Microplastic-Free Future: Discovering Ultra-Efficient and Safe PET-Degrading Enzymes through AI-Guided Functional Genomics
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
- $229,500
Illuminating the Dark RNA Virome through ultra-deep homology search
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
12 publications.
Resolving human neuronal herpesvirus reactivation via petabase-scale association studies.
Gutierrez JC, Chen Y, Babaian A, Dhindsa RS, Lareau CA
Logan: Planetary-Scale Genome Assembly Surveys Life's Diversity.
Chikhi R, Lemane T, Loll-Krippleber R, Montoliu-Nerin M, Raffestin B, Camargo AP, Miller CJ, Fiamenghi MB, Agustinho DP, Majidian S, Autric G, Hugues M, Lee J, Faure R, Curry KD, Moura de Sousa JA, Rocha EPC, Koslicki D, Medvedev P, Gupta P, Shen J, Morales-Tapia A, Sihuta K, Roy PJ, Brown GW, Edgar RC, Korobeynikov A, Steinegger M, Lareau CA, Peterlongo P, Babaian A
Discovery of functional factorless internal ribosome entry site-like structures through virome mining.
Chapagain S, Salcedo-Porras N, Abdolahzadeh A, Zhang Y, Pereira HS, Flibotte S, Low K, Young C, Wu Y, Wang S, Ishiguro S, Yachie N, Patel T, Babaian A, Jan E
Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes.
Zheludev IN, Edgar RC, Lopez-Galiano MJ, de la Peña M, Babaian A, Bhatt AS, Fire AZ
A parasite odyssey: An RNA virus concealed in Toxoplasma gondii.
Gupta P, Hiller A, Chowdhury J, Lim D, Lim DY, Saeij JPJ, Babaian A, Rodriguez F, Pereira L, Morales-Tapia A
Petabase-Scale Homology Search for Structure Prediction.
Lee S, Kim G, Karin EL, Mirdita M, Park S, Chikhi R, Babaian A, Kryshtafovych A, Steinegger M
ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Kolmioviridae 2024.
Kuhn JH, Babaian A, Bergner LM, Dény P, Glebe D, Horie M, Koonin EV, Krupovic M, Paraskevopoulou S, de la Peña M, Smura T, Hepojoki J
Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes.
Zheludev IN, Edgar RC, Lopez-Galiano MJ, de la Peña M, Babaian A, Bhatt AS, Fire AZ
The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2023.
Hufsky F, Abecasis AB, Babaian A, Beck S, Brierley L, Dellicour S, Eggeling C, Elena SF, Gieraths U, Ha AD, Harvey W, Jones TC, Lamkiewicz K, Lovate GL, Lücking D, Machyna M, Nishimura L, Nocke MK, Renard BY, Sakaguchi S, Sakellaridi L, Spangenberg J, Tarradas-Alemany M, Triebel S, Vakulenko Y, Wijesekara RY, González-Candelas F, Krautwurst S, Pérez-Cataluña A, Randazzo W, Sánchez G, Marz M
Petascale Homology Search for Structure Prediction.
Lee S, Kim G, Karin EL, Mirdita M, Park S, Chikhi R, Babaian A, Kryshtafovych A, Steinegger M
Catalyzing a Microplastic-Free Future: Discovering Ultra-Efficient and Safe PET-Degrading Enzymes through AI-Guided Functional Genomics
Principal investigators: Babaian, Artem
Keywords: Bioinformatics; Functional Genomics; High-Throughput Screening; Microplastics; Yeast
Illuminating the Dark RNA Virome through ultra-deep homology search
Principal investigators: Babaian, Artem
Keywords: Homology Search; Pathogen Surveillence; Petabase-Scale Sequence Search; Protein Structure; Rna Dependent Rna Polymerase (Rdrp); Rna Virus; Virus Discovery
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Department of Molecular Genetics
- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Other
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