Publications

Books

Logic of Chance Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution
-by Eugene V. Koonin
Publisher: FT Press (September 09, 2011)
ISBN: 0132542498

Sequence Evolution Function Sequence - Evolution - Function : Computational Approaches in Comparative Genomics
-by Eugene V. Koonin, Michael Y. Galperin
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (October 1, 2002)
ISBN: 1402072740

Frontiers in Computational Genomics pic Frontiers in Computational Genomics
-by Michael Y. Galperin (Editor), Eugene V. Koonin (Editor)
Publisher: Caister (January 2003)
ISBN: 0954246446

Power laws scale free networks Power Laws, Scale-Free Networks and Genome Biology (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit)
-by Eugene V. Koonin (Editor), Yuri I. Wolf (Editor), Georgy P. Karev (Editor)
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (March 17, 2006)
ISBN: 0387258833

Recent research publications from the group

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Latest publications (selection from 2020-2022)

  • Koonin EV, Dolja VV, Krupovic M, Varsani A, Wolf YI, Yutin N, Zerbini FM, Kuhn JH. Global Organization and Proposed Megataxonomy of the Virus World. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2020 Mar 4;84(2):e00061-19. doi: 10.1128/MMBR.00061-19. PMID: 32132243; PMCID: PMC7062200.
  • Altae-Tran H, Kannan S, Demircioglu FE, Oshiro R, Nety SP, McKay LJ, Dlakić M, Inskeep WP, Makarova KS, Macrae RK, Koonin EV, Zhang F. The widespread IS200/IS605 transposon family encodes diverse programmable RNA-guided endonucleases. Science. 2021 Oct;374(6563):57-65. doi: 10.1126/science.abj6856. Epub 2021 Sep 9. PMID: 34591643.
  • Aylward FO, Moniruzzaman M, Ha AD, Koonin EV. A phylogenomic framework for charting the diversity and evolution of giant viruses. PLoS Biol. 2021 Oct 27;19(10):e3001430. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001430. PMID: 34705818; PMCID: PMC8575486.
  • Fesenko I, Shabalina SA, Mamaeva A, Knyazev A, Glushkevich A, Lyapina I, Ziganshin R, Kovalchuk S, Kharlampieva D, Lazarev V, Taliansky M, Koonin EV. A vast pool of lineage-specific microproteins encoded by long non-coding RNAs in plants. Nucleic Acids Res. 2021 Oct 11;49(18):10328-10346. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkab816. PMID: 34570232; PMCID: PMC8501992.
  • Garushyants SK, Rogozin IB, Koonin EV. Template switching and duplications in SARS-CoV-2 genomes give rise to insertion variants that merit monitoring. Commun Biol. 2021 Nov 30;4(1):1343. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02858-9. PMID: 34848826PMCID: PMC8632935.
  • Benler S, Faure G, Altae-Tran H, Shmakov S, Zheng F, Koonin E. Cargo Genes of Tn7-Like Transposons Comprise an Enormous Diversity of Defense Systems, Mobile Genetic Elements, and Antibiotic Resistance Genes. mBio. 2021 Dec 21;12(6):e0293821. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02938-21. Epub 2021 Dec 7. PMID: 34872347; PMCID: PMC8649781.
  • Sorokina I, Mushegian AR, Koonin EV. Is Protein Folding a Thermodynamically Unfavorable, Active, Energy-Dependent Process? Int J Mol Sci. 2022 Jan 4;23(1):521. doi: 10.3390/ijms23010521. PMID: 35008947; PMCID: PMC8745595.
  • Krupovic M, Makarova KS, Koonin EV. Cellular homologs of the double jelly- roll major capsid proteins clarify the origins of an ancient virus kingdom. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Feb 1;119(5):e2120620119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2120620119. PMID: 35078938; PMCID: PMC8812541.
  • Vanchurin V, Wolf YI, Koonin EV, Katsnelson MI. Thermodynamics of evolution and the origin of life. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Feb 8;119(6):e2120042119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2120042119. PMID: 35131858; PMCID: PMC8833196.
  • Vanchurin V, Wolf YI, Katsnelson MI, Koonin EV. Toward a theory of evolution as multilevel learning. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 Feb 8;119(6):e2120037119. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2120037119. PMID: 35121666; PMCID: PMC8833143.

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