Venetia Pliatsika
Software Engineer
Short Bio
Venetia specializes in algorithm design. She graduated from University of Pennsylvania on 2013 with a masters degree in computer science and joined our team on the same year.
Publications
2023
- Pliatsika, V, Cherlin, T, Loher, P, Vlantis, P, Nagarkar, P, Nersisyan, S, Rigoutsos, I. MINRbase: a comprehensive database of nuclear- and mitochondrial-ribosomal-RNA-derived fragments (rRFs). Nucleic Acids Res. 2023; :. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkad833. PubMed PMID:37843123.
2021
- Shigematsu M, Kawamura T, Morichika K, Izumi N, Kiuchi T, Honda S, Pliatsika V, Matsubara R, Rigoutsos I, Katsuma S, Tomari Y, Kirino Y. RNase κ promotes robust piRNA production by generating 2',3'-cyclic phosphate-containing precursors. Nat Commun. 2021 Jul 23;12(1):4498. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24681-w. PubMed PMID:34301931.
- Loher P, Karathanasis N, Londin E, Bray P, Pliatsika V, Telonis AG, Rigoutsos I. IsoMiRmap-fast, deterministic, and exhaustive mining of isomiRs from short RNA-seq datasets. Bioinformatics. 2021 Jan 20:btab016. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab016. Epub ahead of print. PubMed PMID:33471076.
2020
- Cherlin, T, Magee, R, Jing, Y, Pliatsika, V, Loher, P, Rigoutsos, I. Ribosomal RNA fragmentation into short RNAs (rRFs) is modulated in a sex- and population of origin-specific manner. BMC Biol 18, 38 (2020). doi: 10.1186/s12915-020-0763-0. PubMed PMID:32279660.
2019
- Telonis, AG, Loher, P, Magee, R, Pliatsika, V, Londin, E, Kirino, Y, Rigoutsos, I. tRNA Fragments Show Intertwining with mRNAs of Specific Repeat Content and Have Links to Disparities. Cancer Res. 2019 Apr 17. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-19-0789. PubMed PMID:30996049.
2018
- Pliatsika, V, Loher, P, Magee, R, Telonis, AG, Londin, E, Shigematsu, M, Kirino, Y, Rigoutsos, I. MINTbase v2.0: a comprehensive database for tRNA-derived fragments that includes nuclear and mitochondrial fragments from all The Cancer Genome Atlas projects. Nucleic Acids Res. 2018;46 (D1):D152-D159. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx1075. PubMed PMID:29186503 PubMed Central PMC5753276.
2016
- Pliatsika, V, Loher, P, Telonis, AG, Rigoutsos, I. MINTbase: a framework for the interactive exploration of mitochondrial and nuclear tRNA fragments. Bioinformatics. 2016;32 (16):2481-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw194. PubMed PMID:27153631 PubMed Central PMC4978933.
2015
- Pliatsika, V, Rigoutsos, I. "Off-Spotter": very fast and exhaustive enumeration of genomic lookalikes for designing CRISPR/Cas guide RNAs. Biol. Direct. 2015;10 :4. doi: 10.1186/s13062-015-0035-z. PubMed PMID:25630343 PubMed Central PMC4326336.