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Shamith Samarajiwa
University of CambridgeORCID 0000-0003-1046-0601Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
Biology Disciplines
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2020-2026 · peak 5/yrCo-Author Collaboration Network
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- ImmunologybioRxivPreprint
Lipid droplet accumulation drives glutamine-dependent NLRP3 inflammasome activation
Najd M. Aljadeed, Erato Pambori, Yujia Zhang…·Paras Anand
This study shows that lipid droplet accumulation promotes NLRP3 inflammasome activation through glutamine-dependent metabolic reprogramming in macrophages.
DOI 10.64898/2026.01.13.699337 - Genetic & Genomic MedicineMolecular Systems BiologyPeer-reviewed
Decoding Non-coding SNPs: Systems Genomics Modelling Dissects the Heterogeneity of IBD
Dezső Módos, John P. Thomas, Johanne Brooks-Warburton…·Tamas Douglas Korcsmaros
The paper models the impact of non-coding SNPs on gene regulatory networks in IBD to stratify patients based on gene dysregulation and therapeutic response.
- Cancer BiologyEMBO ReportsPeer-reviewed
KRAS G12 mutant alleles differentially control glutamine metabolism via FOXO1
Suzan Ber, Ming Hui Yang, Marco Sciacovelli…·Alessandro Esposito
This study identifies how different KRAS G12 alleles alter glutamine metabolism and nitrogen recycling through FOXO1 regulation in colorectal cancer cells, revealing potential therapeutic targets.
2 citations - Cell BiologybioRxivPreprint
Non-catalytic role for MLL2 in controlling chromatin organisation and mobility during priming of pluripotent cells for differentiation
M. Steindel, Oliver Davis, Katrin Neumann…·Srinjan Basu
This study shows MLL2 stabilizes 3D chromatin loops during pluripotent cell differentiation without requiring its enzymatic activity.
- BioinformaticsBiology Methods and ProtocolsPeer-reviewed
Machine Classification of Methylomes in Cancer
Izzy Newsham, Marcin Sendera, Sriganesh Jammula, Shamith Samarajiwa
This paper develops a deep learning model that classifies 13 cancer types and non-cancer tissues using DNA methylation data with 98.2% accuracy, identifying methylation loci linked to cancer-related genes.
14 citations - Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprint
Mapping of cis-regulatory variants by differential allelic expression analysis identifies candidate causal variants and target genes of 41 breast cancer risk loci
Joana M. Xavier, Ramiro Magno, Roslin Russell…·Ana-Teresa Maia
1 citation - Molecular BiologyNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Transcription-driven cohesin repositioning rewires chromatin loops in cellular senescence
Ioana Olan, Aled Parry, Stefan Schoenfelder…·Masashi Narita
This study shows that oncogenic HRAS-induced senescence in human fibroblasts involves enhancer-promoter rewiring and dynamic cohesin binding, particularly at SASP genes.
- GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
Identifying regulatory and spatial genomic architectural elements using cell type independent machine and deep learning models
Laura D. Martens, Oisín Faust, Liviu Pirvan…·Shamith Samarajiwa
The paper develops machine and deep learning models to predict chromatin interactions and TAD boundaries using histone modification data, independent of Hi-C data.
4 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
SpiderSeqR: an R package for crawling the web of high-throughput multi-omic data repositories for data-sets and annotation
Anna M. Sozanska, Charles Fletcher, Dóra Bihary, Shamith Samarajiwa
SpiderSeqR streamlines access to multi-omic data repositories by integrating GEO and SRA, enabling unified search, annotation conversion, and query management.
1 citation - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Pangaea: A modular and extensible collection of tools for mining context dependent gene relationships from the biomedical literature
Liviu Pirvan, Shamith Samarajiwa
Pangaea extracts context-dependent gene relationships from biomedical literature using natural language processing and provides scalable, extensible tools for analysis.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Neuron-specific increase in lamin B1 disrupts nuclear function in Huntington's disease
Rafael Alcalá‐Vida, Marta García-Forn, Jordi Creus‐Muncunill…·Esther Pérez‐Navarro
This study shows increased lamin B1 levels in HD neurons disrupt nuclear function, and reducing lamin B1 with betulinic acid improves nuclear homeostasis and prevents motor and cognitive dysfunction in a mouse model.
1 citation