Francesco Russo
Socio Associato
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Translational Disease Systems Biology, Brunak lab
Contact Information
RESEARCH AREA
biological data integration,knowledge base management,system biology
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
non-coding RNAs, Cancer, Systems Biology, Stem Cells, Data Integration
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9257-4359
Selected Publications:
1) 'Variability in the Incidence of miRNAs and Genes in Fragile Sites and the Role of Repeats and CpG Islands in the Distribution of Genetic Material'
Alessandro Laganà*, Francesco Russo*, Catarina Sismeiro, Rosalba Giugno, Alfredo Pulvirenti, Alfredo Ferro
PLoS One. 2010 Jun 17;5(6):e11166
*contributed equally
2) 'Prediction of human targets for viral-encoded microRNAs by thermodynamics and empirical constraints'.
Laganà A, Forte S, Russo F, Giugno R, Pulvirenti A, Ferro A.
J RNAi Gene Silencing. 2010 May 24;6(1):379-85.
3) 'miRandola: Extracellular Circulating microRNAs Database'
Russo F, Di Bella S, Nigita G, Macca V, Laganà A, Giugno R, Pulvirenti A, Ferro A
PLoS ONE 2012 Oct 19;7(10):e47786
(http://atlas.dmi.unict.it/mirandola/)
4) 'miR-EdiTar: A database of predicted A-to-I edited miRNA target sites'
Laganà A, Paone A, Veneziano D, Cascione L, Gasparini P, Carasi S, Russo F, Nigita G, Macca V, Giugno R, Pulvirenti A, Shasha D, Ferro A, Croce CM
Bioinformatics (2012) 28 (23):3166-3168; doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts589
(http://microrna.osumc.edu/mireditar/)
5) ‘Extracellular circulating viral microRNAs: current knowledge and perspectives’
A Laganà*, F Russo*, S Di Bella, D Veneziano, R Giugno, A Pulvirenti, CM Croce, A Ferro
Frontiers in Genetics 4:120. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00120
*contributed equally
Selected Publications:
1) 'Variability in the Incidence of miRNAs and Genes in Fragile Sites and the Role of Repeats and CpG Islands in the Distribution of Genetic Material'
Alessandro Laganà*, Francesco Russo*, Catarina Sismeiro, Rosalba Giugno, Alfredo Pulvirenti, Alfredo Ferro
PLoS One. 2010 Jun 17;5(6):e11166
*contributed equally
2) 'Prediction of human targets for viral-encoded microRNAs by thermodynamics and empirical constraints'.
Laganà A, Forte S, Russo F, Giugno R, Pulvirenti A, Ferro A.
J RNAi Gene Silencing. 2010 May 24;6(1):379-85.
3) 'miRandola: Extracellular Circulating microRNAs Database'
Russo F, Di Bella S, Nigita G, Macca V, Laganà A, Giugno R, Pulvirenti A, Ferro A
PLoS ONE 2012 Oct 19;7(10):e47786
(http://atlas.dmi.unict.it/mirandola/)
4) 'miR-EdiTar: A database of predicted A-to-I edited miRNA target sites'
Laganà A, Paone A, Veneziano D, Cascione L, Gasparini P, Carasi S, Russo F, Nigita G, Macca V, Giugno R, Pulvirenti A, Shasha D, Ferro A, Croce CM
Bioinformatics (2012) 28 (23):3166-3168; doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts589
(http://microrna.osumc.edu/mireditar/)
5) ‘Extracellular circulating viral microRNAs: current knowledge and perspectives’
A Laganà*, F Russo*, S Di Bella, D Veneziano, R Giugno, A Pulvirenti, CM Croce, A Ferro
Frontiers in Genetics 4:120. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00120
*contributed equally
OTHER MEMBERSHIPS
Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS);
International Society for Biocuration (ISB);
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), Student Council (Steering Committee)
International Society for Biocuration (ISB);
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), Student Council (Steering Committee)
