
Sinan Uğur Umu
- Postdoc; PhD
Publications 2025
MirGeneDB 3.0: improved taxonomic sampling, uniform nomenclature of novel conserved microRNA families and updated covariance models
Nucleic Acids Res, 53 (D1), D116-D128
DOI 10.1093/nar/gkae1094, PubMed 39673268
Publications 2024
Validation of miRNA signatures for ovarian cancer earlier detection in the pre-diagnosis setting using machine learning approaches
Front Oncol, 14, 1389066
DOI 10.3389/fonc.2024.1389066, PubMed 38983926
Publications 2023
Profiling small RNAs in fecal immunochemical tests: is it possible?
Mol Cancer, 22 (1), 161
DOI 10.1186/s12943-023-01869-w, PubMed 37789383
Accurate microRNA annotation of animal genomes using trained covariance models of curated microRNA complements in MirMachine
Cell Genom, 3 (8), 100348
DOI 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100348, PubMed 37601971
Publications 2022
Identification of Circulating lncRNAs Associated with Gallbladder Cancer Risk by Tissue-Based Preselection, Cis-eQTL Validation, and Analysis of Association with Genotype-Based Expression
Cancers (Basel), 14 (3)
DOI 10.3390/cancers14030634, PubMed 35158906
MirGeneDB 2.1: toward a complete sampling of all major animal phyla
Nucleic Acids Res, 50 (D1), D204-D210
DOI 10.1093/nar/gkab1101, PubMed 34850127
Sustained software development, not number of citations or journal choice, is indicative of accurate bioinformatic software
Genome Biol, 23 (1), 56
DOI 10.1186/s13059-022-02625-x, PubMed 35172880
Serum RNAs can predict lung cancer up to 10 years prior to diagnosis
Elife, 11
DOI 10.7554/eLife.71035, PubMed 35147498
Cellsnake: a user-friendly tool for single-cell RNA sequencing analysis
Gigascience, 12
DOI 10.1093/gigascience/giad091, PubMed 37889009
Publications 2021
Epigenome-Wide Analysis of Methylation Changes in the Sequence of Gallstone Disease, Dysplasia, and Gallbladder Cancer
Hepatology, 73 (6), 2293-2310
DOI 10.1002/hep.31585, PubMed 33020926
HPV16 and HPV18 type-specific APOBEC3 and integration profiles in different diagnostic categories of cervical samples
Tumour Virus Res, 12, 200221
DOI 10.1016/j.tvr.2021.200221, PubMed 34175494
Publications 2020
Serum RNA Profiling in the 10-Years Period Prior to Diagnosis of Testicular Germ Cell Tumor
Front Oncol, 10, 574977
DOI 10.3389/fonc.2020.574977, PubMed 33251139
RNA Sequencing of Hepatobiliary Cancer Cell Lines: Data and Applications to Mutational and Transcriptomic Profiling
Cancers (Basel), 12 (9)
DOI 10.3390/cancers12092510, PubMed 32899426
A 10-year prediagnostic follow-up study shows that serum RNA signals are highly dynamic in lung carcinogenesis
Mol Oncol, 14 (2), 235-247
DOI 10.1002/1878-0261.12620, PubMed 31851411
Publications 2019
TaME-seq: An efficient sequencing approach for characterisation of HPV genomic variability and chromosomal integration
Sci Rep, 9 (1), 524
DOI 10.1038/s41598-018-36669-6, PubMed 30679491
Publications 2018
A high-resolution map of the human small non-coding transcriptome
Bioinformatics, 34 (10), 1621-1628
DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btx814, PubMed 29281000
Circulating small non-coding RNAs associated with age, sex, smoking, body mass and physical activity
Sci Rep, 8 (1), 17650
DOI 10.1038/s41598-018-35974-4, PubMed 30518766
Publications 2017
A comprehensive benchmark of RNA-RNA interaction prediction tools for all domains of life
Bioinformatics, 33 (7), 988-996
DOI 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw728, PubMed 27993777
A comprehensive profile of circulating RNAs in human serum
RNA Biol, 15 (2), 242-250
DOI 10.1080/15476286.2017.1403003, PubMed 29219730
Publications 2016
Avoidance of stochastic RNA interactions can be harnessed to control protein expression levels in bacteria and archaea
Elife, 5
DOI 10.7554/eLife.13479, PubMed 27642845
Publications 2014
Robust identification of noncoding RNA from transcriptomes requires phylogenetically-informed sampling
PLoS Comput Biol, 10 (10), e1003907
DOI 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003907, PubMed 25357249
Publications 2013
TRAINER: a general-purpose trainable short biosequence classifer
Protein Pept Lett, 20 (10), 1108-14
DOI 10.2174/0929866511320100004, PubMed 23544665
Publications 2011
A probabilistic approach to microRNA-target binding
Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 413 (1), 111-5
DOI 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.08.065, PubMed 21875575