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Richard H. Scheuermann is adjunct faculty at the J. Craig Venter Institute. After completing his doctoral research, he accepted an independent research position at the Basel Institute for Immunology in Basel, Switzerland. In 1992, he joined the faculty in the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas where he rose to the rank of Professor with tenure. In 2001, he made a career shift into the discipline of bioinformatics, initiated with a sabbatical year at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. In 2012, Dr. Scheuermann moved to San Diego to become the Director of Informatics at JCVI, and in 2016 was promoted to Director of the La Jolla Campus.
Dr. Scheuermann has applied his deep knowledge in molecular immunology and infectious disease toward the development of novel computational data mining methods and knowledge representation approaches, including the development of biomedical ontologies and their use in data mining, novel methods for the analysis of gene expression, protein network and flow cytometry data, and novel comparative genomics methods. These computational methods have been made available through several public database and analysis resources, including the Influenza Research Database (IRD), the Virus Pathogen Resource (ViPR), and the Immunology Database and Analysis Portal (ImmPort) supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
He received a BS in Life Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Research Priorities
Informatics database resources and knowledge representation standards
- Principle investigator on the Influenza Research Database (IRD), the Virus Pathogen Resource (ViPR) and the Immunology Database and Analysis Portal (ImmPort) development projects.
- Development of biomedical ontologies and other knowledge representation standards through the Open Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry, including the Cell Ontology (CL), the Ontology for General Medical Sciences (OGMS), the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI), and the Minimum Information about a Flow Cytometry Experiment (MIFlowCyt).
Flow cytometry analysis methods
- Development of a suite of cytometry data processing and analysis methods, including FLOCK, FlowMap-FR, FCSTrans, and DAFi.
- Co-founder of the FlowCAP Consortium for the critical evaluation of cytometry analysis methods using benchmark datasets and objective performance metrics.
- Development of the FlowGate resource for user-friendly access to cytometry analysis methods.
- Application of computational cytometry analysis methods to study immunological responses to vaccination, respiratory pathogen infection, autoimmunity, and leukemia and lymphoma.
Systems biology analysis methods
- Identification of functional modules within gene/protein networks based on their topological properties using MoNet and dMoNet.
- Dissemination of systems biology of infectious diseases data through the IRD and ViPR resources.
Transcriptomics and single cell genomics
- Development of a suite of gene expression microarray analysis methods, including DFW, DFCM, CLASSIFI, and GO-Bayes.
- Use of single cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) to study the cellular complexity of the human cerebral cortex, vaccine responses, and the development of multiple sclerosis.
- Application of machine learning methods for scRNAseq analysis, including quality control procedures and marker gene feature selection.
Publications
Journal of neuroinflammation. 2024-06-24; 21.1: 161.
Astrocytic stress response is induced by exposure to astrocyte-binding antibodies expressed by plasmablasts from pediatric patients with acute transverse myelitis
BMC medical genomics. 2024-06-19; 17.1: 165.
Association of disease severity and genetic variation during primary Respiratory Syncytial Virus infections
The Journal of investigative dermatology. 2024-02-01; 144.2: 252-262.e4.
Cross-Comparison of Inflammatory Skin Disease Transcriptomics Identifies PTEN as a Pathogenic Disease Classifier in Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus
PloS one. 2024-01-18; 19.1: e0285093.
Coordinating virus research: The Virus Infectious Disease Ontology
Nature genetics. 2023-12-01; 55.12: 2189-2199.
Circular extrachromosomal DNA promotes tumor heterogeneity in high-risk medulloblastoma
Frontiers in cellular neuroscience. 2023-11-29; 17.1256619.
Cochlear transcriptome analysis of an outbred mouse population (CFW)
Cell. 2023-10-26; 186.22: 4818-4833.e25.
Vertebrate-class-specific binding modes of the alphavirus receptor MXRA8
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 2023-10-03; 39.10:
A cell-level discriminative neural network model for diagnosis of blood cancers
Nature immunology. 2023-10-01; 24.10: 1616-1627.
SARS-CoV-2 reservoir in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC)
Nature immunology. 2023-10-01; 24.10: 1778.
Author Correction: SARS-CoV-2 reservoir in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC)
PLoS biology. 2023-06-30; 21.6: e3002133.
A guide to the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network data ecosystem
Cell reports. Medicine. 2023-06-20; 4.6: 101088.
Targets and cross-reactivity of human T cell recognition of common cold coronaviruses
Scientific reports. 2023-06-13; 13.1: 9567.
Reference-based cell type matching of in situ image-based spatial transcriptomics data on primary visual cortex of mouse brain
Vaccine. 2023-05-11; 41.20: 3171-3177.
Monkeypox (Mpox) requires continued surveillance, vaccines, therapeutics and mitigating strategies
Emerging infectious diseases. 2023-05-01; 29.5:
US National Institutes of Health Prioritization of SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Scientific data. 2023-04-28; 10.1: 246.
Author Correction: Brain Data Standards - A method for building data-driven cell-type ontologies
Scientific data. 2023-01-24; 10.1: 50.
Brain Data Standards - A method for building data-driven cell-type ontologies
Nucleic acids research. 2023-01-06; 51.D1: D678-D689.
Introducing the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC): a resource combining PATRIC, IRD and ViPR
Cell host & microbe. 2022-12-14; 30.12: 1662-1670.e4.
Defining antigen targets to dissect vaccinia virus and monkeypox virus-specific T cell responses in humans
Frontiers in bioinformatics. 2022-10-24; 2.1020189.
Early detection of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants of interest for experimental evaluation
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 2022-10-14; 38.20: 4735-4744.
FastMix: a versatile data integration pipeline for cell type-specific biomarker inference
Scientific reports. 2022-10-06; 12.1: 16731.
A novel vaccine based on SARS-CoV-2 CD4+ and CD8+ T cell conserved epitopes from variants Alpha to Omicron
PloS one. 2022-09-23; 17.9: e0275070.
Machine learning for cell type classification from single nucleus RNA sequencing data
Journal of virology. 2022-08-10; 96.15: e0083322.
Animal Models of Enterovirus D68 Infection and Disease
Scientific reports. 2022-06-15; 12.1: 9996.
Cell type matching in single-cell RNA-sequencing data using FR-Match
Virology. 2022-05-01; 570.123-133.
Genomic evolution of the Coronaviridae family
Nature. 2022-05-01; 605.7911: 640-652.
Defining the risk of SARS-CoV-2 variants on immune protection
Nature. 2022-04-01; 604.7904: E8.
Author Correction: Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset and mouse
Science translational medicine. 2022-03-02; 14.634: eabn7842.
Antibodies elicited by SARS-CoV-2 infection or mRNA vaccines have reduced neutralizing activity against Beta and Omicron pseudoviruses
Plant physiology. 2022-02-04; 188.2: 879-897.
The genome and preliminary single-nuclei transcriptome of Lemna minuta reveals mechanisms of invasiveness
Journal of leukocyte biology. 2021-12-01; 110.6: 1225-1239.
Corticosteroid treatment in COVID-19 modulates host inflammatory responses and transcriptional signatures of immune dysregulation
Frontiers in immunology. 2021-10-29; 12.690470.
Machine Learning-Based Single Cell and Integrative Analysis Reveals That Baseline mDC Predisposition Correlates With Hepatitis B Vaccine Antibody Response
Nature. 2021-10-06; 598.7879: 111-119.
Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset and mouse
Genome research. 2021-10-01; 31.10: 1767-1780.
A machine learning method for the discovery of minimum marker gene combinations for cell type identification from single-cell RNA sequencing
Cell reports. Medicine. 2021-07-20; 2.7: 100355.
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants on the total CD4+ and CD8+ T cell reactivity in infected or vaccinated individuals
Briefings in bioinformatics. 2021-07-20; 22.4:
FR-Match: robust matching of cell type clusters from single cell RNA sequencing data using the Friedman-Rafsky non-parametric test
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation. 2021-07-09; 2021.
Standardization of assay representation in the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations
Nature medicine. 2021-05-01; 27.5: 892-903.
SARS-CoV-2 infection of the oral cavity and saliva
JCI insight. 2021-04-08; 6.7:
A system-view of Bordetella pertussis booster vaccine responses in adults primed with whole-cell versus acellular vaccine in infancy
Nature neuroscience. 2021-04-01; 24.4: 613.
Publisher Correction: A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types
Nature neuroscience. 2021-04-01; 24.4: 612.
Author Correction: A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. 2021-03-01;
Negligible impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants on CD4 + and CD8 + T cell reactivity in COVID-19 exposed donors and vaccinees
Lancet (London, England). 2021-01-23; 397.10271: 334-346.
Acute flaccid myelitis: cause, diagnosis, and management
Nature biotechnology. 2020-12-01; 38.12: 1384-1386.
Guidelines for reporting single-cell RNA-seq experiments
Nature neuroscience. 2020-12-01; 23.12: 1456-1468.
A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types
Frontiers in immunology. 2020-11-30; 11.578801.
Multi-Omic Data Integration Allows Baseline Immune Signatures to Predict Hepatitis B Vaccine Response in a Small Cohort
Microorganisms. 2020-11-25; 8.12:
Epidemiology and Sequence-Based Evolutionary Analysis of Circulating Non-Polio Enteroviruses
Frontiers in immunology. 2020-11-04; 11.580373.
Systems Biology Methods Applied to Blood and Tissue for a Comprehensive Analysis of Immune Response to Hepatitis B Vaccine in Adults
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences. 2020-10-27;
Integrated Single-Cell Atlases Reveal an Oral SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Transmission Axis
Vaccine: X. 2020-08-07; 5.100065.
Unbiased analysis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells reveals CD4 T cell response to RSV matrix protein
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2020-06-09; 117.23: 12522-12523.
Sampling bias and incorrect rooting make phylogenetic network tracing of SARS-COV-2 infections unreliable
Cell host & microbe. 2020-04-08; 27.4: 671-680.e2.
A Sequence Homology and Bioinformatic Approach Can Predict Candidate Targets for Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2
Nature communications. 2020-03-03; 11.1: 1172.
Transcriptomic evidence that von Economo neurons are regionally specialized extratelencephalic-projecting excitatory neurons
Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology. 2020-03-01; 97.3: 296-307.
Machine Learning of Discriminative Gate Locations for Clinical Diagnosis
Human immunology. 2019-11-01; 80.11: 923-929.
A survey of known immune epitopes in the enteroviruses strains associated with acute flaccid myelitis
Nature. 2019-09-01; 573.7772: 61-68.
Conserved cell types with divergent features in human versus mouse cortex
JCI insight. 2019-05-02; 4.9:
Differential transcriptome and development of human peripheral plasma cell subsets
Virology. 2019-03-01; 529.29-42.
Classification of human Herpesviridae proteins using Domain-architecture Aware Inference of Orthologs (DAIO)
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 2019-01-01; 1911.47-69.
Hepatitis C Virus Database and Bioinformatics Analysis Tools in the Virus Pathogen Resource (ViPR)
PloS one. 2018-12-26; 13.12: e0209648.
Single-nucleus and single-cell transcriptomes compared in matched cortical cell types
mBio. 2018-10-16; 9.5:
Contemporary Circulating Enterovirus D68 Strains Have Acquired the Capacity for Viral Entry and Replication in Human Neuronal Cells
Blood advances. 2018-10-09; 2.19: 2419-2429.
Chromosome Y-encoded antigens associate with acute graft-versus-host disease in sex-mismatched stem cell transplant
Nature neuroscience. 2018-09-01; 21.9: 1185-1195.
Transcriptomic and morphophysiological evidence for a specialized human cortical GABAergic cell type
Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology. 2018-06-01; 93.6: 597-610.
DAFi: A directed recursive data filtering and clustering approach for improving and interpreting data clustering identification of cell populations from polychromatic flow cytometry data
Viruses. 2018-05-14; 10.5:
Bioinformatics Meets Virology: The European Virus Bioinformatics Center's Second Annual Meeting
Frontiers in immunology. 2018-05-08; 9.976.
VDJServer: A Cloud-Based Analysis Portal and Data Commons for Immune Repertoire Sequences and Rearrangements
Human molecular genetics. 2018-05-01; 27.R1: R40-R47.
Cell type discovery using single-cell transcriptomics: implications for ontological representation
The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology. 2018-02-01; 141.2: 775-777.e6.
Allergen-specific immunotherapy modulates the balance of circulating Tfh and Tfr cells
BMC bioinformatics. 2017-12-21; 18.Suppl 17: 559.
Cell type discovery and representation in the era of high-content single cell phenotyping
Clinics in laboratory medicine. 2017-12-01; 37.4: 931-944.
Automated Analysis of Clinical Flow Cytometry Data: A Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Illustration
BMC bioinformatics. 2017-10-11; 18.1: 448.
VDJPipe: a pipelined tool for pre-processing immune repertoire sequencing data
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2017-07-25; 114.30: 8059-8064.
Fast and accurate HLA typing from short-read next-generation sequence data with xHLA
Nucleic acids research. 2017-01-04; 45.D1: D466-D474.
Influenza Research Database: An integrated bioinformatics resource for influenza virus research
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. 2017-01-01; 22.564-575.
PRODUCTION OF A PRELIMINARY QUALITY CONTROL PIPELINE FOR SINGLE NUCLEI RNA-SEQ AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE ANALYSIS OF CELL TYPE DIVERSITY OF POST-MORTEM HUMAN BRAIN NEOCORTEX
Virus evolution. 2016-06-15; 2.1: vew015.
Genetic changes found in a distinct clade of Enterovirus D68 associated with paralysis during the 2014 outbreak
PloS one. 2016-04-29; 11.4: e0154556.
The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations
Nature protocols. 2016-03-01; 11.3: 499-524.
Using single nuclei for RNA-seq to capture the transcriptome of postmortem neurons
Scientific reports. 2016-02-10; 6.20686.
Standardizing Flow Cytometry Immunophenotyping Analysis from the Human ImmunoPhenotyping Consortium
Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology. 2016-01-01; 89.1: 71-88.
Mapping cell populations in flow cytometry data for cross-sample comparison using the Friedman-Rafsky test statistic as a distance measure
Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology. 2016-01-01; 89.1: 16-21.
A benchmark for evaluation of algorithms for identification of cellular correlates of clinical outcomes
Vaccine. 2015-08-26; 33.36: 4368-82.
Strengthening the influenza vaccine virus selection and development process: Report of the 3rd WHO Informal Consultation for Improving Influenza Vaccine Virus Selection held at WHO headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, 1-3 April 2014
Immunity. 2015-04-21; 42.4: 591-2.
Thinking outside the gate: single-cell assessments in multiple dimensions
Evolutionary bioinformatics online. 2015-03-16; 11.43-8.
A RESTful API for Access to Phylogenetic Tools via the CIPRES Science Gateway
Scientific data. 2014-10-14; 1.140033.
A comprehensive collection of systems biology data characterizing the host response to viral infection
Nature methods. 2013-03-01; 10.3: 228-38.
Critical assessment of automated flow cytometry data analysis techniques
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium. 2012-11-03; 2012.779-88.
A machine learning approach for identifying anatomical locations of actionable findings in radiology reports
Nucleic acids research. 2012-01-01; 40.Database issue: D593-8.
ViPR: an open bioinformatics database and analysis resource for virology research
Journal of biomedical informatics. 2011-02-01; 44.1: 3-7.
Ontologies for clinical and translational research: Introduction
Viruses. 2010-10-13; 2.10: 2258-2268.
Towards Viral Genome Annotation Standards, Report from the 2010 NCBI Annotation Workshop
Cytometry. Part B, Clinical cytometry. 2010-01-01; 78 Suppl 1.S69-82.
Elucidation of seventeen human peripheral blood B-cell subsets and quantification of the tetanus response using a density-based method for the automated identification of cell populations in multidimensional flow cytometry data
Summit on translational bioinformatics. 2009-03-01; 2009.116-20.
Toward an ontological treatment of disease and diagnosis
BMC bioinformatics. 2009-02-25; 10.70.
An improved ontological representation of dendritic cells as a paradigm for all cell types
Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology. 2008-10-01; 73.10: 926-30.
MIFlowCyt: the minimum information about a Flow Cytometry Experiment
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