Alejandro Maass, Ph.D.

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Profesor Titular
Centro de Regulación del Genoma
Centro de Modelamiento Matemético
Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Mateméticas
Universidad de Chile

Líneas de Investigación

Teoría de las Probabilidades
Bioinformática

Publicaciones

The BioMart community portal: an innovative alternative to large, centralized data repositories. 2015. Smedley D, Haider S, Durinck S, Pandini L, Provero P, Allen J, Arnaiz O, Awedh MH, Baldock R, Barbiera G, Bardou P, Beck T, Blake A, Bonierbale M, Brookes AJ, Bucci G, Buetti I, Burge S, Cabau C, Carlson JW, Chelala C, Chrysostomou C, Cittaro D, Collin O, Cordova R, Cutts RJ, Dassi E, Genova AD, Djari A, Esposito A, Estrella H, Eyras E, Fernandez-Banet J, Forbes S, Free RC, Fujisawa T, Gadaleta E, Garcia-Manteiga JM, Goodstein D, Gray K, Guerra-Assunção JA, Haggarty B, Han DJ, Han BW, Harris T, Harshbarger J, Hastings RK, Hayes RD, Hoede C, Hu S, Hu ZL, Hutchins L, Kan Z, Kawaji H, Keliet A, Kerhornou A, Kim S, Kinsella R, Klopp C, Kong L, Lawson D, Lazarevic D, Lee JH, Letellier T, Li CY, Lio P, Liu CJ, Luo J, Maass A, Mariette J, Maurel T, Merella S, Mohamed AM, Moreews F, Nabihoudine I, Ndegwa N, Noirot C, Perez-Llamas C, Primig M, Quattrone A, Quesneville H, Rambaldi D, Reecy J, Riba M, Rosanoff S, Saddiq AA, Salas E, Sallou O, Shepherd R, Simon R, Sperling L, Spooner W, Staines DM, Steinbach D, Stone K, Stupka E, Teague JW, Dayem Ullah AZ, Wang J, Ware D, Wong-Erasmus M, Youens-Clark K, Zadissa A, Zhang SJ, Kasprzyk A.

Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Apr 20. pii: gkv350. [Epub ahead of print]

  • A new CRB1 rat mutation links Müller glial cells to retinal telangiectasia. 2015.
    Zhao M, Andrieu-Soler C, Kowalczuk L, Paz Cortés M, Berdugo M, Dernigoghossian M, Halili F, Jeanny JC, Goldenberg B, Savoldelli M, El Sanharawi M, Naud MC, van Ijcken W, Pescini-Gobert R, Martinet D, Maass A, Wijnholds J, Crisanti P, Rivolta C, Behar-Cohen F.  J Neurosci. 2015 Apr 15;35(15):6093-106. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3412-14.

 

  • Genome Sequence of Borrelia chilensis VA1, a South American Member of the Lyme Borreliosis Group. 2015. Huang W, Ojaimi C, Fallon JT, Travisany D, Maass A, Ivanova L, Tomova A, González-Acuña D, Godfrey HP, Cabello FC. Genome Announc. 2015 Feb 12;3(1). pii: e01535-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01535-14.
  • Insights on the structure and stability of Licanantase: a trimeric acid-stable coiled-coil lipoprotein from Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans. 2014. Abarca F, Gutierrez-Maldonado SE, Parada P, Martinez P, Maass A, Perez-Acle T. PeerJ. 2:e457. doi: 10.7717/peerj.457. eCollection 2014.

 

  • A new genome of Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans provides insights into adaptation to a bioleaching environment. 2014. Travisany D, Cortés MP, Latorre M, Di Genova A, Budinich M, Bobadilla-Fazzini RA, Parada P, González M, Maass A.
    Res Microbiol. 165(9):743-52. doi: 10.1016/j.resmic.2014.08.004. Epub 2014 Aug 19.

 

  • Modeling acclimatization by hybrid systems: condition changes alter biological system behavior models. 2014. Assar R, Montecino MA, Maass A, Sherman DJ.
    Biosystems;121:43-53. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2014.05.007. Epub 2014 Jun 2.

 

  • Symbolic extensions applied to multiscale structure of genomes.
    Downarowicz T, Travisany D, Montecino M, Maass A.
    Acta Biotheor. 2014 Jun;62(2):145-69. doi: 10.1007/s10441-014-9215-y. Epub 2014 Apr 13.

 

  • Whole genome comparison between table and wine grapes reveals a comprehensive catalog of structural variants. 2014. Di Genova A, Almeida AM, Muñoz-Espinoza C, Vizoso P, Travisany D, Moraga C, Pinto M, Hinrichsen P, Orellana A, Maass A. BMC Plant Biol;14:7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-7.

 

  • Enterococcus faecalis reconfigures its transcriptional regulatory network activation at different copper levels. 2014. Latorre M, Galloway-Peña J, Roh JH, Budinich M, Reyes-Jara A, Murray BE, Maass A, González M. Metallomics. 6(3):572-81. doi: 10.1039/c3mt00288h. Epub 2014 Jan 2.

 

  • Identification of two putative reference genes from grapevine suitable for gene expression analysis in berry and related tissues derived from RNA-Seq data. 2013
    González-Agüero M, García-Rojas M, Di Genova A, Correa J, Maass A, Orellana A, Hinrichsen P. BMC Genomics. 14:878. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-878.

 

  • Comparative gene expression analysis of Dtg, a novel target gene of Dpp signaling pathway in the early Drosophila melanogaster embryo. 2014. Hodar C, Zuñiga A, Pulgar R, Travisany D, Chacon C, Pino M, Maass A, Cambiazo V. Gene. 10;535(2):210-7. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.11.032. Epub 2013 Dec 7.

 

  • Construction of reference chromosome-scale pseudomolecules for potato: integrating the potato genome with genetic and physical maps. 2013.
    Sharma SK, Bolser D, de Boer J, Sønderkær M, Amoros W, Carboni MF, D’Ambrosio JM, de la Cruz G, Di Genova A, Douches DS, Eguiluz M, Guo X, Guzman F, Hackett CA, Hamilton JP, Li G, Li Y, Lozano R, Maass A, Marshall D, Martinez D, McLean K, Mejía N, Milne L, Munive S, Nagy I, Ponce O, Ramirez M, Simon R, Thomson SJ, Torres Y, Waugh R, Zhang Z, Huang S, Visser RG, Bachem CW, Sagredo B, Feingold SE, Orjeda G, Veilleux RE, Bonierbale M, Jacobs JM, Milbourne D, Martin DM, Bryan GJ.
    G3 (Bethesda).;3(11):2031-47. doi: 10.1534/g3.113.007153.

 

  • Stoichiometric modeling of oxidation of reduced inorganic sulfur compounds (Riscs) in Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans. 2013. Bobadilla Fazzini RA, Cortés MP, Padilla L, Maturana D, Budinich M, Maass A, Parada P. Biotechnol Bioeng. 110(8):2242-51. doi: 10.1002/bit.24875. Epub 2013 Mar 26.

 

  • Cdk5 regulates Rap1 activity. 2013. Utreras E, Henriquez D, Contreras-Vallejos E, Olmos C, Di Genova A, Maass A, Kulkarni AB, Gonzalez-Billault C.  Neurochem Int. 62(6):848-53. doi: 10.1016/j.neuint.2013.02.011. Epub 2013 Feb 13.

 

  • Bioinformatic survey for new physiological substrates of Cyclin-dependent kinase 5.
    Bórquez DA, Olmos C, Álvarez S, Di Genova A, Maass A, González-Billault C.
    Genomics. 2013 Apr;101(4):221-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2013.01.003. Epub 2013 Feb 4.

 

  • Metabolomic study of Chilean biomining bacteria Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans strain Wenelen and Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans strain Licanantay. 2013. Martínez P, Gálvez S, Ohtsuka N, Budinich M, Cortés MP, Serpell C, Nakahigashi K, Hirayama A, Tomita M, Soga T, Martínez S, Maass A, Parada P. Metabolomics. 9(1):247-257. Epub 2012 Jul 21.

 

  • Draft genome sequence of the Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans Cutipay strain, an indigenous bacterium isolated from a naturally extreme mining environment in Northern Chile. 2012. Travisany D, Di Genova A, Sepúlveda A, Bobadilla-Fazzini RA, Parada P, Maass A. J Bacteriol. 194(22):6327-8. doi: 10.1128/JB.01622-12.

 

  • SalmonDB: a bioinformatics resource for Salmo salar and Oncorhynchus mykiss. 2011
    Di Génova A, Aravena A, Zapata L, González M, Maass A, Iturra P.
    Database (Oxford):bar050. doi: 10.1093/database/bar050. Print 2011.

 

  • Genome wide identification of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (ATCC 23270) transcription factors and comparative analysis of ArsR and MerR metal regulators. 2012.
    Hödar C, Moreno P, di Genova A, Latorre M, Reyes-Jara A, Maass A, González M, Cambiazo V. Biometals. 25(1):75-93. doi: 10.1007/s10534-011-9484-8. Epub 2011 Aug 10.

 

  • Sequencing the genome of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). 2010. Davidson WS, Koop BF, Jones SJ, Iturra P, Vidal R, Maass A, Jonassen I, Lien S, Omholt SW.
    Genome Biol;11(9):403. doi: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-9-403. Epub 2010 Sep 30.