Agricultural Genomics and Bioinformatics Group - Group leader

Agricultural Genomics and Bioinformatics Group - Group leader

Last modified: 20. July 2022

Name: Dr Endre Barta
Department: Department of Genetics and Genomics
Position: scientific advisor
Phone: +36-70/320-6881
Office: MATE GBI Gödöllő, Szent-Györgyi A. st. 4., ground floor, 049
E-mail: Barta.Endre@uni-mate.hu

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Scientific career

  • Group leader, MATE, Institute of Genetics and Biotechnology, Department of Genetics and Genomics, Agricultural Genomics and Bioinformatics Group (2021-)
  • Research associate (BRC, Szeged, 1987-1990)
  • Research fellow (ABC, Gödöllő, 1991-2002)
  • Senior research fellow (ABC , Gödöllő, 2003-2020)
  • Scientific advisor (NARIC, ABC, Gödöllő, 2020)
  • Group leader (ABC, Gödöllő, Bioinformatics group 2005-)
  • Head of department (NARIC, ABC Gödöllő, Department of Genomics, 2016-2021)
  • Tertiary education
  • M.Sc. in molecular biology, JATE, Szeged, 1987
  • Ph.D. in biology, ELTE, Budapest 2004


Research areas

  • Bioinformatics
  • Genomics
  • Functional genomics
     

Teaching

  • Bioinformatics


Selected publications (from the last five years)

Frank K, Bana NÁ, Bleier N, Sugár L, Nagy J, Wilhelm J, Kálmán Z, Barta E, Orosz L, Horn P, Stéger V*. Mining the red deer genome (CerEla1.0) to develop X-and Y-chromosome-linked STR markers. PLoS One. 2020;15(11):e0242506. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0242506. eCollection 2020. PubMed PMID: 33226998; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7986210.

Czipa E, Schiller M, Nagy T, Kontra L, Steiner L, Koller J, Pálné-Szén O, Barta E*. ChIPSummitDB: a ChIP-seq-based database of human transcription factor binding sites and the topological arrangements of the proteins bound to them. Database (Oxford). 2020 Jan 1;2020. doi: 10.1093/database/baz141

Bana NÁ, Nyiri A, Nagy J, Frank K, Nagy T, Stéger V, Schiller M, Lakatos P, Sugár L, Horn P, Barta E, Orosz L*. The red deer Cervus elaphus genome CerEla1.0: sequencing, annotating, genes, and chromosomes. Mol Genet Genomics. 2018 Jun;293(3):665-684. doi: 10.1007/s00438-017-1412-3. Epub 2018 Jan 2. PubMed PMID: 29294181.

Taller D, Bálint J, Gyula P, Nagy T, Barta E, Baksa I, Szittya G, Taller J, Havelda Z*. Expansion of Capsicum annuum fruit is linked to dynamic tissue-specific differential expression of miRNA and siRNA profiles. PLoS One. 2018;13(7):e0200207. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200207. eCollection 2018. PubMed PMID: 30044813; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6059424.

Frank K, Molnár J, Barta E, Marincs F*. The full mitochondrial genomes of Mangalica pig breeds and their possible origin. Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Oct 17;2(2):730-734. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1390415. PubMed PMID: 33473962; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7800509.

Nagy G, Czipa E, Steiner L, Nagy T, Pongor S, Nagy L, Barta E*. Motif oriented high-resolution analysis of ChIP-seq data reveals the topological order of CTCF and cohesin proteins on DNA. BMC Genomics. 2016 Aug 15;17(1):637. doi: 10.1186/s12864-016-2940-7. PubMed PMID: 27526722; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4986361.

Molnár J, Nagy T, Stéger V, Tóth G, Marincs F, Barta E*. Genome sequencing and analysis of Mangalica, a fatty local pig of Hungary. BMC Genomics. 2014 Sep 5;15:761. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-761. PubMed PMID: 25193519; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4162939.

Barta E*, Sebestyén E, Pálfy TB, Tóth G, Ortutay CP, Patthy L. DoOP: Databases of Orthologous Promoters, collections of clusters of orthologous upstream sequences from chordates and plants. Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jan 1;33(Database issue):D86-90. doi: 10.1093/nar/gki097. PubMed PMID: 15608291; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC540051.

Barta E*, Kaján L, Pongor S. IS: a web-site for intron statistics. Bioinformatics. 2003 Mar 1;19(4):543. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg019. PubMed PMID: 12611812.

Barta E*, Pintar A, Pongor S. Repeats with variations: accelerated evolution of the Pin2 family of proteinase inhibitors. Trends Genet. 2002 Dec;18(12):600-3. doi: 10.1016/s0168-9525(02)02771-3. PubMed PMID: 12446136.
 

Major grants of the group 

  1. Házinyúl tenyészetek termelőképességének növelése genomikai módszerekkel (NKFIA 2017-1.3.1-VKE-2017-00026) (témavezetők: Dr. Barta Endre, Dr. Hiripi László, Dr. Stéger Viktor,2018-2021)
  2. Hogyan, pontosan hová és milyen sorrendben kötődnek a transzkripciós faktorok a DNS-hez (NKFI OTKA K-132814), (Dr. Barta Endre, 2019-22)