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Jim Kent's Degrees

PhD Computer Science University of California, Santa Cruz
Masters Computer Science University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelors Computer Science University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, William James Kent is an American research scientist and computer programmer. He has been a contributor to genome database projects and the 2003 winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award. Early life Kent was born in Hawaii and grew up in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome. (2001) (15222)
The human genome browser at UCSC. (2002) (9267)
BLAT--the BLAST-like alignment tool. (2002) (8246)
Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project (2007) (5196)
Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome. (2002) (4609)
Evolutionarily conserved elements in vertebrate, insect, worm, and yeast genomes. (2005) (3639)
Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues (2017) (2841)
Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution (2004) (2417)
Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome (2005) (2222)
The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements) Project (2004) (2194)
The UCSC Genome Browser Database (2003) (2163)
The UCSC Table Browser data retrieval tool (2004) (2111)
Galaxy: a platform for interactive large-scale genome analysis. (2005) (2084)
An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome (2012) (2080)
Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution (2004) (2053)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: update 2011 (2010) (1751)
The UCSC Genome Browser Database: update 2006 (2005) (1691)
Ultraconserved Elements in the Human Genome (2004) (1655)
A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) (2011) (1467)
Aligning multiple genomic sequences with the threaded blockset aligner. (2004) (1439)
Assessing computational tools for the discovery of transcription factor binding sites (2005) (1393)
A comparative encyclopedia of DNA elements in the mouse genome (2014) (1337)
Human-mouse alignments with BLASTZ. (2003) (1320)
Evolutionary and Biomedical Insights from the Rhesus Macaque Genome (2007) (1309)
Evaluation of off-target and on-target scoring algorithms and integration into the guide RNA selection tool CRISPOR (2016) (1132)
A high-resolution map of human evolutionary constraint using 29 mammals (2011) (1081)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: update 2010 (2009) (1057)
Integrative Analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans Genome by the modENCODE Project (2010) (931)
The UCSC genome browser database: update 2007 (2006) (929)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: extensions and updates 2013 (2012) (896)
BigWig and BigBed: enabling browsing of large distributed datasets (2010) (860)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: extensions and updates 2011 (2011) (859)
Evolution's cauldron: Duplication, deletion, and rearrangement in the mouse and human genomes (2003) (830)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2015 update (2014) (787)
ENCODE Data in the UCSC Genome Browser: year 5 update (2012) (767)
A physical map of the human genome (2001) (753)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2014 update (2013) (698)
Comparative analyses of multi-species sequences from targeted genomic regions (2003) (666)
Defining functional DNA elements in the human genome (2014) (647)
Toil enables reproducible, open source, big biomedical data analyses (2017) (642)
Discovery of functional elements in 12 Drosophila genomes using evolutionary signatures (2007) (639)
The UCSC genome browser and associated tools (2012) (610)
Spatiotemporal gene expression trajectories reveal developmental hierarchies of the human cortex (2017) (606)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2019 update (2018) (591)
The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). (2004) (565)
Identification and Classification of Conserved RNA Secondary Structures in the Human Genome (2006) (538)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2016 update (2015) (529)
The UCSC Known Genes (2006) (507)
A distal enhancer and an ultraconserved exon are derived from a novel retroposon (2006) (496)
The UCSC Genome Browser (2003) (481)
The UCSC Genome Browser Database: 2008 update (2007) (458)
The UCSC Genome Browser Database: update 2009 (2008) (448)
Forces Shaping the Fastest Evolving Regions in the Human Genome (2006) (439)
An encyclopedia of mouse DNA elements (Mouse ENCODE) (2012) (438)
ENCODE whole-genome data in the UCSC Genome Browser (2009) (433)
The DNA sequence of human chromosome 7 (2003) (425)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2018 update (2017) (422)
The UCSC cancer genomics browser: update 2011 (2010) (339)
Over 20% of human transcripts might form sense-antisense pairs. (2004) (326)
Track data hubs enable visualization of user-defined genome-wide annotations on the UCSC Genome Browser (2013) (323)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2017 update (2016) (319)
The Human Epigenome Browser at Washington University (2011) (302)
ENCODE whole-genome data in the UCSC Genome Browser: update 2012 (2011) (299)
Covariation in frequencies of substitution, deletion, transposition, and recombination during eutherian evolution. (2003) (298)
Conservation, regulation, synteny, and introns in a large-scale C. briggsae-C. elegans genomic alignment. (2000) (297)
28-way vertebrate alignment and conservation track in the UCSC Genome Browser. (2007) (293)
Reconstructing contiguous regions of an ancestral genome. (2006) (292)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2021 update (2020) (243)
Transcriptome and Genome Conservation of Alternative Splicing Events in Humans and Mice (2003) (235)
Hotspots of mammalian chromosomal evolution (2004) (229)
Analyses of deep mammalian sequence alignments and constraint predictions for 1% of the human genome. (2007) (221)
Environmentally Induced Foregut Remodeling by PHA-4/FoxA and DAF-12/NHR (2004) (216)
ENCODE whole-genome data in the UCSC genome browser (2011 update) (2010) (213)
Centromere reference models for human chromosomes X and Y satellite arrays (2013) (202)
The impact of rare variation on gene expression across tissues (2016) (197)
The UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser (2009) (175)
A Quantitative Proteome Map of the Human Body (2019) (143)
Assembly of the working draft of the human genome with GigAssembler. (2001) (140)
UCSC Genome Browser enters 20th year (2019) (140)
The completion of the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). (2009) (132)
Retrocopy contributions to the evolution of the human genome (2008) (112)
Erratum: Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome: International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium (Nature (2001) 409 (860-921)) (2001) (106)
The ENCODE Project at UC Santa Cruz (2006) (103)
UCSC genome browser tutorial. (2008) (98)
PhenCode: connecting ENCODE data with mutations and phenotype (2007) (93)
Alignathon: a competitive assessment of whole-genome alignment methods (2014) (91)
The Intronerator: exploring introns and alternative splicing in Caenorhabditis elegans (2000) (90)
Exploring relationships and mining data with the UCSC Gene Sorter. (2005) (88)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2022 update (2021) (87)
The share of human genomic DNA under selection estimated from human-mouse genomic alignments. (2003) (77)
The UCSC SARS-CoV-2 Genome Browser (2020) (76)
UCSC Cell Browser: visualize your single-cell data (2020) (62)
Computational screening of conserved genomic DNA in search of functional noncoding elements (2005) (61)
modENCODE Project Genome by the Caenorhabditis elegans Integrative Analysis of the (2011) (57)
Building a Pan-Genome Reference for a Population (2015) (55)
Population-scale tissue transcriptomics maps long non-coding RNAs to complex disease (2021) (54)
The UCSC Proteome Browser (2004) (53)
UCSC Data Integrator and Variant Annotation Integrator (2016) (52)
What everybody should know about the rat genome and its online resources (2008) (49)
Navigating protected genomics data with UCSC Genome Browser in a Box (2014) (48)
Analysis of the role of Caenorhabditis elegans GC-AG introns in regulated splicing. (2002) (47)
Ontology application and use at the ENCODE DCC (2015) (38)
The NIH BD2K center for big data in translational genomics (2015) (36)
Utilizing mapping targets of sequences underrepresented in the reference assembly to reduce false positive alignments (2015) (31)
Comparative genomic analysis using the UCSC genome browser. (2007) (28)
Rapid and efficient analysis of 20,000 RNA-seq samples with Toil (2016) (27)
Comparative assembly hubs: Web-accessible browsers for comparative genomics (2013) (26)
Understanding genome browsing (2009) (24)
Exploring the phenotypic consequences of tissue specific gene expression variation inferred from GWAS summary statistics (2018) (21)
Variation resources at UC Santa Cruz (2006) (21)
The UCSC Genome Browser (2012) (20)
Guidelines for reporting single-cell RNA-seq experiments (2019) (19)
The UCSC Genome Browser (2003) (17)
The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2023 update (2022) (16)
Reply to Brunet and Doolittle: Both selected effect and causal role elements can influence human biology and disease (2014) (15)
Phylogenomic resources at the UCSC Genome Browser. (2008) (13)
The UCSC repeat browser allows discovery and visualization of evolutionary conflict across repeat families (2020) (13)
Evaluation of off-target and on-target scoring algorithms and integration into the guide RNA selection tool CRISPOR (2016) (12)
The UCSC repeat browser allows discovery and visualization of evolutionary conflict across repeat families (2018) (11)
Mouse Alignments with BLASTZ − Human (2003) (10)
Global predictions and tests of erythroid regulatory regions. (2003) (10)
The UCSC Genome Browser (2007) (8)
The UCSC Ebola Genome Portal (2014) (8)
autoSQL and autoXML: code generators from the genome project (2002) (8)
SCORE FUNCTIONS FOR ASSESSING CONSERVATION IN LOCALLY ALIGNED REGIONS OF DNA FROM TWO SPECIES UCSC TECH REPORT UCSC-CRL-02-30 (2002) (6)
Piloting the zebrafish genome browser (2006) (5)
The UCSC SARS-CoV-2 Genome Browser (2020) (3)
Title: Ultra-conserved elements in the human genome Authors and affiliations: (2004) (3)
The flic file format: a fast and simple file format for graphics and animation (1993) (1)
Identification of Transcription Factor EGL-27::GFP Binding Regions in L1 (2011) (1)
Identification of Transcription Factor LIN-15B::GFP Binding Regions in L3 (2011) (1)
An encyclopedia of mouse DNA elements (Mouse ENCODE) (2012) (1)
Identification of Transcription Factor GEI-1::GFP Binding Regions in L4 (2011) (1)
Spaghetti code, soupy logic, and the expression of genes (2004) (0)
An Enhancer Near ISL1 and an Ultraconserved Exon of PCBP2 areDerived from a Retroposon (2005) (0)
Complete sequence representation across human X and Y centromeric regions (2013) (0)
Tag Storm: Metadata made simple (2017) (0)
Databases and Genome Browsers (2010) (0)
Ebola in Western Africa (2015) (0)
Visualizing Distributed Data with BigWig and BigBed at UCSC (2010 JGI/ANL HPC Workshop) (2010) (0)
Index-based Search of Single Sequences (2006) (0)
Browser 28-Way vertebrate alignment and conservation track in the UCSC data (2007) (0)
E-GEOD-25798.processed.2.zip (2011) (0)
Identification of Transcription Factor CEH-30::GFP Binding Regions in Late Embyros (2011) (0)
GenArk: Towards a million UCSC genome browsers (2023) (0)
Toil enables reproducible, open source, big biomedical data analyses (2017) (0)
Identification of Transcription Factor MEP-1::GFP Binding Regions in Embryos (2011) (0)
E-GEOD-25798.additional.1.zip (2011) (0)
E-GEOD-25800.processed.1.zip (2011) (0)
Aligner Aligning Multiple Genomic Sequences With the Threaded Blockset data (2004) (0)
David Exploring relationships and mining data with the UCSC Gene Sorter data (2005) (0)

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