
Caitlin Simopoulos
PostDoc
Educations:
- Doctor of Philosophy – Computational Biology
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
Supervisors: Elizabeth Weretilnyk and Brian Golding
Research Project: Transcriptomics and genomics of the extremophile Eutrema salsugineum, and the application of long non-protein coding RNA prediction by ensemble
machine learning - Master of Bioinformatics (MBinf) Convocated February 2014
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
Supervisors: Paul McNicholas and Steven Rothstein
Research Project: Weighted Gene Correlation Network Analysis of Maize and Rice
Undergoing Nitrogen Stress - Bachelor of Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics Convocated June 2012
University of Guelph, Guelph, ON
Publications in North Omics
Simopoulos CMA, Ning Z, Zhang X, Li L, Walker K, Lavallée-Adam M and Figeys D.
pepFunk: a tool for peptide-centric functional analysis of metaproteomic human gut microbiome studies.
(2020) Bioinformatics. 36, 4171-4179
Pubmed
Bioinformatics
Previous Publications
Simopoulos CMA, MacLeod MJR, Irani S, Sung WWL, Champigny MJ, Summers PS, Golding GB and Weretilnyk EA.
Coding and long non-coding RNAs provide evidence of distinct transcriptional reprogramming for two ecotypes of the extremophile plant Eutrema salsugineum undergoing water deficit stress.
(2020) BMC Genomics. 21, 396
Pubmed
BMC Genomics
PMC Article
Simopoulos CMA, Weretilnyk EA and Golding GB.
Molecular Traits of Long Non-protein Coding RNAs from Diverse Plant Species Show Little Evidence of Phylogenetic Relationships.
(2019) G3 (Bethesda). 9, 2511-2520
Pubmed
G3 (Bethesda)
PMC Article
Simopoulos CMA, Weretilnyk EA and Golding GB.
Prediction of plant lncRNA by ensemble machine learning classifiers.
(2018) BMC Genomics. 19, 316
Pubmed
BMC Genomics
PMC Article