List of works - Chris Upton

A new family of lipolytic enzymes?

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

A new family of lipolytic plant enzymes with members in rice, arabidopsis and maize.

scientific article published on December 1995

A novel member of the serpin superfamily is encoded on a circular plasmid-like DNA species isolated from rabbit cells.

scientific article

A novel poxvirus gene and its human homolog are similar to an E. coli lysophospholipase

scientific article

Absence of plasmid-mediated DNA polymerase activity from UV-induced strains of Escherichia coli [proceedings]

scientific article published on December 1979

Absence of ultraviolet-inducible DNA polymerase I-like activity in Escherichia coli strains harbouring R plasmids

scientific article published on 01 July 1981

African swine fever virus replication and genomics

scientific article

An ectromelia virus profilin homolog interacts with cellular tropomyosin and viral A-type inclusion protein

scientific article

Analysis of host response modifier ORFs of ectromelia virus, the causative agent of mousepox

scientific article

Base-By-Base Version 3: New Comparative Tools for Large Virus Genomes

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

Base-By-Base version 2: single nucleotide-level analysis of whole viral genome alignments

scientific article

Base-By-Base: single nucleotide-level analysis of whole viral genome alignments

scientific article

Bioinformatics for analysis of poxvirus genomes

scientific article

Characterization of Eptesipoxvirus, a novel poxvirus from a microchiropteran bat.

scientific article published on 6 July 2017

Characterization of indels in poxvirus genomes

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Comparative analysis of the complete genome sequences of Kenyan African swine fever virus isolates within p72 genotypes IX and X.

scientific article published on 3 February 2015

Comparative genomic analysis of the family Iridoviridae: re-annotating and defining the core set of iridovirus genes

scientific article published on 19 January 2007

Comparison of the genome sequences of non-pathogenic and pathogenic African swine fever virus isolates.

scientific article published on February 2008

Complete coding sequences of the rabbitpox virus genome

scientific article

Computational Strategies to Combat COVID-19: Useful Tools to Accelerate SARS-CoV-2 and Coronavirus Research

scientific article published on 23 May 2020

Computational strategies to combat COVID-19: useful tools to accelerate SARS-CoV-2 and coronavirus research

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Deletion of the growth factor gene related to EGF and TGF alpha reduces virulence of malignant rabbit fibroma virus

scientific article

Ectromelia virus virulence factor p28 acts upstream of caspase-3 in response to UV light-induced apoptosis

scientific article published in April 2000

Encoding of a homolog of the IFN-gamma receptor by myxoma virus

scientific article published on November 1992

Evidence for a novel gene associated with human influenza A viruses

scientific article

Expression of a non-coding RNA in ectromelia virus is required for normal plaque formation.

scientific article published on February 2014

Expression of eight unrelated Muc+ plasmids in eleven DNA repair-deficient E. coli strains.

scientific article

Genome Annotation Transfer Utility (GATU): rapid annotation of viral genomes using a closely related reference genome

scientific article

Genome segment RNA-1 of a flat apple isolate of Cherry rasp leaf virus: nucleotide sequence analysis and RT-PCR detection

scientific article

Genome sequence and comparative virulence of raccoonpox virus: the first North American poxvirus sequence

scientific article

Genomic analysis of highly virulent Georgia 2007/1 isolate of African swine fever virus.

scientific article

Genomic analysis of the vaccinia virus strain variants found in Dryvax vaccine

scientific article (publication date: December 2011)

Genomic differences of Vaccinia virus clones from Dryvax smallpox vaccine: the Dryvax-like ACAM2000 and the mouse neurovirulent Clone-3.

scientific article

Genomic sequence and analysis of a vaccinia virus isolate from a patient with a smallpox vaccine-related complication

scientific article

GraphDNA: a Java program for graphical display of DNA composition analyses

scientific article

Host-derived pathogenicity islands in poxviruses

scientific article

Identification and DNA sequence of the large subunit of the capping enzyme from Shope fibroma virus

scientific article published on August 1991

Identification and nucleotide sequence of the thymidine kinase gene of Shope fibroma virus

scientific article published on December 1986

It's a small world after all—viral genomics and the global dominance of viruses

scientific article published on 08 September 2011

JDotter: a Java interface to multiple dotplots generated by dotter

scientific article

JaPaFi: A Novel Program for the Identification of Highly Conserved DNA Sequences.

scientific article

Java GUI for InterProScan (JIPS): a tool to help process multiple InterProScans and perform ortholog analysis

scientific article

Mapping and sequencing of a gene from myxoma virus that is related to those encoding epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor alpha

scientific article published on April 1987

Myxoma virus M11L ORF encodes a protein for which cell surface localization is critical in manifestation of viral virulence

scientific article published on November 1992

Myxoma virus and Shope fibroma virus encode dual-specificity tyrosine/serine phosphatases which are essential for virus viability

scientific article published on January 1995

Myxoma virus and malignant rabbit fibroma virus encode a serpin-like protein important for virus virulence

scientific article published on December 1990

New bioinformatics tools for viral genome analyses at Viral Bioinformatics--Canada

scientific article published in April 2005

Novel Poxvirus Infection in an Immune Suppressed Patient

scientific article

Nucleotide sequence and genome organisation of cherry mottle leaf virus and its relationship to members of the Trichovirus genus

scientific article published on January 2000

Organization of two genes encoding cytotoxic T lymphocyte-specific serine proteases CCPI and CCPII.

scientific article published in September 1988

Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus 1 proteome reveals novel architectural and regulatory features of a giant virus.

scientific article published on 13 June 2012

Poxvirus Orthologous Clusters (POCs).

scientific article

Poxvirus bioinformatics

scientific article published on January 2004

Poxviruses: past, present and future.

scientific article

Predicted function of the vaccinia virus G5R protein.

scientific article

Prediction of a novel RNA binding domain in crocodilepox Zimbabwe Gene 157.

scientific article

Prediction of steps in the evolution of variola virus host range

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Re-Assembly and Analysis of an Ancient Variola Virus Genome.

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Related strains of African swine fever virus with different virulence: genome comparison and analysis.

scientific article published on 18 November 2014

Replication and resolution of cloned poxvirus telomeres in vivo generates linear minichromosomes with intact viral hairpin termini.

scientific article published on August 1986

Review: Capripoxvirus Diseases: Current Status and Opportunities for Control.

scientific article

Role of phages in the pathogenesis of Burkholderia, or 'Where are the toxin genes in Burkholderia phages?'.

scientific article

Screening predicted coding regions in poxvirus genomes

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Sequence Searcher: A Java tool to perform regular expression and fuzzy searches of multiple DNA and protein sequences

scientific article

Shope fibroma virus RING finger protein N1R binds DNA and inhibits apoptosis

scientific article published on September 1998

Single primer pair designs that facilitate simultaneous detection and differentiation of peach mosaic virus and cherry mottle leaf virus

scientific article published in December 1999

Species specificity of ectromelia virus and vaccinia virus interferon-gamma binding proteins

scientific article published on April 1995

Suffix tree searcher: exploration of common substrings in large DNA sequence sets

scientific article

T2 open reading frame from the Shope fibroma virus encodes a soluble form of the TNF receptor

scientific article

The Genome sequence of the SARS-associated coronavirus

scientific article

The genome of Shope fibroma virus, a tumorigenic poxvirus, contains a growth factor gene with sequence similarity to those encoding epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor alpha

scientific article published on January 1987

The genome of Yoka poxvirus

scientific article

The genomes of three North American orthopoxviruses

scientific article published on 9 September 2016

The genomic sequence of ectromelia virus, the causative agent of mousepox

scientific article published on December 2003

The myxoma virus-soluble interferon-gamma receptor homolog, M-T7, inhibits interferon-gamma in a species-specific manner

scientific article published on February 1995

The subunits of succinyl-coenzyme A synthetase--function and assembly.

scientific article

Three novel Pseudomonas phages isolated from composting provide insights into the evolution and diversity of tailed phages

scientific article

Transcriptional regulation of two cytotoxic T lymphocyte-specific serine protease genes

scientific article

Tumorigenic poxviruses: analysis of viral DNA sequences implicated in the tumorigenicity of Shope fibroma virus and malignant rabbit virus

scientific article

Tumorigenic poxviruses: fine analysis of the recombination junctions in malignant rabbit fibroma virus, a recombinant between Shope fibroma virus and myxoma virus

scientific article

Tumorigenic poxviruses: genomic organization and DNA sequence of the telomeric region of the Shope fibroma virus genome

scientific article

Tumorigenic poxviruses: genomic organization of malignant rabbit virus, a recombinant between Shope fibroma virus and myxoma virus

scientific article published in January 1985

Tumorigenic poxviruses: transcriptional mapping of the terminal inverted repeats of Shope fibroma virus

scientific article

Two novel poxviruses with unusual genome rearrangements: NY_014 and Murmansk

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

Using purine skews to predict genes in AT-rich poxviruses

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Utilization of the second polyadenylation signal at the 3' end of the chicken carbonic anhydrase II gene

scientific article published on February 1990

Vaccinia virus G8R protein: a structural ortholog of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)

scientific article

Vaccinia virus-encoded ribonucleotide reductase subunits are differentially required for replication and pathogenesis

scientific article

Viral Genome DataBase: storing and analyzing genes and proteins from complete viral genomes

scientific article

Virulence differences between monkeypox virus isolates from West Africa and the Congo basin

scientific article

gpt-gus fusion gene for selection and marker in recombinant poxviruses.

scientific article

List of works by Chris Upton

A new family of lipolytic enzymes?

A new family of lipolytic plant enzymes with members in rice, arabidopsis and maize.

A novel member of the serpin superfamily is encoded on a circular plasmid-like DNA species isolated from rabbit cells.

A novel poxvirus gene and its human homolog are similar to an E. coli lysophospholipase

Absence of plasmid-mediated DNA polymerase activity from UV-induced strains of Escherichia coli [proceedings]

Absence of ultraviolet-inducible DNA polymerase I-like activity in Escherichia coli strains harbouring R plasmids

African swine fever virus replication and genomics

An ectromelia virus profilin homolog interacts with cellular tropomyosin and viral A-type inclusion protein

Analysis of host response modifier ORFs of ectromelia virus, the causative agent of mousepox

Base-By-Base Version 3: New Comparative Tools for Large Virus Genomes

Base-By-Base version 2: single nucleotide-level analysis of whole viral genome alignments

Base-By-Base: single nucleotide-level analysis of whole viral genome alignments

Bioinformatics for analysis of poxvirus genomes

Characterization of Eptesipoxvirus, a novel poxvirus from a microchiropteran bat.

Characterization of indels in poxvirus genomes

Comparative analysis of the complete genome sequences of Kenyan African swine fever virus isolates within p72 genotypes IX and X.

Comparative genomic analysis of the family Iridoviridae: re-annotating and defining the core set of iridovirus genes

Comparison of the genome sequences of non-pathogenic and pathogenic African swine fever virus isolates.

Complete coding sequences of the rabbitpox virus genome

Computational Strategies to Combat COVID-19: Useful Tools to Accelerate SARS-CoV-2 and Coronavirus Research

Computational strategies to combat COVID-19: useful tools to accelerate SARS-CoV-2 and coronavirus research

Deletion of the growth factor gene related to EGF and TGF alpha reduces virulence of malignant rabbit fibroma virus

Ectromelia virus virulence factor p28 acts upstream of caspase-3 in response to UV light-induced apoptosis

Encoding of a homolog of the IFN-gamma receptor by myxoma virus

Evidence for a novel gene associated with human influenza A viruses

Expression of a non-coding RNA in ectromelia virus is required for normal plaque formation.

Expression of eight unrelated Muc+ plasmids in eleven DNA repair-deficient E. coli strains.

Genome Annotation Transfer Utility (GATU): rapid annotation of viral genomes using a closely related reference genome

Genome segment RNA-1 of a flat apple isolate of Cherry rasp leaf virus: nucleotide sequence analysis and RT-PCR detection

Genome sequence and comparative virulence of raccoonpox virus: the first North American poxvirus sequence

Genomic analysis of highly virulent Georgia 2007/1 isolate of African swine fever virus.

Genomic analysis of the vaccinia virus strain variants found in Dryvax vaccine

Genomic differences of Vaccinia virus clones from Dryvax smallpox vaccine: the Dryvax-like ACAM2000 and the mouse neurovirulent Clone-3.

Genomic sequence and analysis of a vaccinia virus isolate from a patient with a smallpox vaccine-related complication

GraphDNA: a Java program for graphical display of DNA composition analyses

Host-derived pathogenicity islands in poxviruses

Identification and DNA sequence of the large subunit of the capping enzyme from Shope fibroma virus

Identification and nucleotide sequence of the thymidine kinase gene of Shope fibroma virus

It's a small world after all—viral genomics and the global dominance of viruses

JDotter: a Java interface to multiple dotplots generated by dotter

JaPaFi: A Novel Program for the Identification of Highly Conserved DNA Sequences.

Java GUI for InterProScan (JIPS): a tool to help process multiple InterProScans and perform ortholog analysis

Mapping and sequencing of a gene from myxoma virus that is related to those encoding epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor alpha

Myxoma virus M11L ORF encodes a protein for which cell surface localization is critical in manifestation of viral virulence

Myxoma virus and Shope fibroma virus encode dual-specificity tyrosine/serine phosphatases which are essential for virus viability

Myxoma virus and malignant rabbit fibroma virus encode a serpin-like protein important for virus virulence

New bioinformatics tools for viral genome analyses at Viral Bioinformatics--Canada

Novel Poxvirus Infection in an Immune Suppressed Patient

Nucleotide sequence and genome organisation of cherry mottle leaf virus and its relationship to members of the Trichovirus genus

Organization of two genes encoding cytotoxic T lymphocyte-specific serine proteases CCPI and CCPII.

Paramecium bursaria chlorella virus 1 proteome reveals novel architectural and regulatory features of a giant virus.

Poxvirus Orthologous Clusters (POCs).

Poxvirus bioinformatics

Poxviruses: past, present and future.

Predicted function of the vaccinia virus G5R protein.

Prediction of a novel RNA binding domain in crocodilepox Zimbabwe Gene 157.

Prediction of steps in the evolution of variola virus host range

Re-Assembly and Analysis of an Ancient Variola Virus Genome.

Related strains of African swine fever virus with different virulence: genome comparison and analysis.

Replication and resolution of cloned poxvirus telomeres in vivo generates linear minichromosomes with intact viral hairpin termini.

Review: Capripoxvirus Diseases: Current Status and Opportunities for Control.

Role of phages in the pathogenesis of Burkholderia, or 'Where are the toxin genes in Burkholderia phages?'.

Screening predicted coding regions in poxvirus genomes

Sequence Searcher: A Java tool to perform regular expression and fuzzy searches of multiple DNA and protein sequences

Shope fibroma virus RING finger protein N1R binds DNA and inhibits apoptosis

Single primer pair designs that facilitate simultaneous detection and differentiation of peach mosaic virus and cherry mottle leaf virus

Species specificity of ectromelia virus and vaccinia virus interferon-gamma binding proteins

Suffix tree searcher: exploration of common substrings in large DNA sequence sets

T2 open reading frame from the Shope fibroma virus encodes a soluble form of the TNF receptor

The Genome sequence of the SARS-associated coronavirus

The genome of Shope fibroma virus, a tumorigenic poxvirus, contains a growth factor gene with sequence similarity to those encoding epidermal growth factor and transforming growth factor alpha

The genome of Yoka poxvirus

The genomes of three North American orthopoxviruses

The genomic sequence of ectromelia virus, the causative agent of mousepox

The myxoma virus-soluble interferon-gamma receptor homolog, M-T7, inhibits interferon-gamma in a species-specific manner

The subunits of succinyl-coenzyme A synthetase--function and assembly.

Three novel Pseudomonas phages isolated from composting provide insights into the evolution and diversity of tailed phages

Transcriptional regulation of two cytotoxic T lymphocyte-specific serine protease genes

Tumorigenic poxviruses: analysis of viral DNA sequences implicated in the tumorigenicity of Shope fibroma virus and malignant rabbit virus