Publications
The following publications were published exclusively under the affiliation of the Max Planck Society. For publications by the principal investigator outside of the Max Planck Society, see the links on the lower left.
Publications by the Arndt Lab
Preprints
If preprints are available, they will be listed here.
2025
Reconstructing the network of horizontal gene exchange in bacteria to differentiate direct and indirect transfers. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)
Published
2025
Reconstructing the network of horizontal gene exchange in bacteria to differentiate direct and indirect transfers. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology (2025)
Predicting the methylation status of CpG islands from read distribution biases. BMC Genomics 26, 973 (2025)
Genomic landscape of multiple myeloma and its precursor conditions. Nature Genetics (2025)
Reconstruction of Segmental Duplication Rates and Associated Genomic Features by Network Analysis. Genome Biology and Evolution 17 (3), Article evaf011 (2025)
2024
Uncovering the dynamics and consequences of RNA isoform changes during neuronal differentiation. Molecular Systems Biology 20 (7), pp. 767 - 798 (2024)
Modeling gene expression cascades during cell state transitions. iScience 27 (4), Article 109386 (2024)
Modeling the mosaic structure of bacterial genomes to infer their evolutionary history. PNAS 121 (13), Article e2313367121 (2024)
2023
Dissecting regional heterogeneity and modeling transcriptional cascades in brain organoids. Dissertation, vii, 129 pp. (2023)
2022
Computational interpretation of disease-causing, structural, and non-coding human genetic variants. Dissertation, 118 pp. (2022)
Dynamical Aspects of the Evolution of Segmental Duplications in the Human Genome. Dissertation, xiii, 129 pp. (2022)
Enhanced cortical neural stem cell identity through short SMAD and WNT inhibition in human cerebral organoids facilitates emergence of outer radial glial cells. Nature Cell Biology 24 (6), pp. 981 - 995 (2022)
2021
Modelling segmental duplications in the human genome. BMC Genomics 22 (1), Article 496 (2021)
Identical sequences found in distant genomes reveal frequent horizontal transfer across the bacterial domain. eLife 10, Article e62719 (2021)
2019
Sequential and continuous time stick-breaking. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 6 (6), Article 064003 (2019)
2018
Large scale variation in the rate of germ-line de novo mutation, base composition, divergence and diversity in humans. PLoS Genetics 14 (3), e1007254 (2018)
2017
The information capacity of the genetic code: Is the natural code optimal? Journal of Theoretical Biology 419, pp. 227 - 237 (2017)
2016
Comparing the Statistical Fate of Paralogous and Orthologous Sequences. Genetics 204 (2), pp. 475 - 482 (2016)
Variation in the molecular clock of primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (38), pp. 10607 - 10612 (2016)
Evolutionary dynamics of selfish DNA explains the abundance distribution of genomic subsequences. Scientific Reports 6, 30851 (2016)
2015
Quantification of GC-biased gene conversion in the human genome. Genome Research 25 (8), pp. 1215 - 1228 (2015)
Genome-wide patterns and properties of de novo mutations in humans. Nature Genetics 47 (7), pp. 822 - 826 (2015)
Statistical properties of pairwise distances between leaves on a random Yule tree. PLoS One 10 (3), e0120206 (2015)
How evolution of genomes is reflected in exact DNA sequence match statistics. Mol Biol Evol 32 (2), pp. 524 - 535 (2015)
Evolutionary consequences of DNA methylation on the GC content in vertebrate genomes. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 5 (3), pp. 441 - 447 (2015)
Anomalous discontinuity at the percolation critical point of active gels. Phys Rev Lett 114 (9), 098104 (2015)
2014
Germ line Methylation Patterns Determine the Distribution of Recombination Events in the Dog Genome. Genome biology and evolution 7 (2), pp. 522 - 530 (2014)
Editorial: Complexity in genomes. Computational Biology and Chemistry 53, pp. 1 - 4 (2014)
Evidence of a cancer type-specific distribution for consecutive somatic mutation distances. Computational Biology and Chemistry 53, Pt A, pp. 79 - 83 (2014)
Single-cell based high-throughput sequencing of full-length immunoglobulin heavy and light chain genes. European Journal of Immunology 44 (2), pp. 597 - 603 (2014)
Distribution of segmental duplications in the context of higher order chromatin organisation of human chromosome 7. BMC Genomics 15, p. 15:537 - 15:537 (2014)
2013
Twisted signatures of GC-biased gene conversion embedded in an evolutionary stable karyotype. Molecular Biology and Evolution 30 (7), pp. 1700 - 1712 (2013)
Neutral Evolution of Duplicated DNA: An Evolutionary Stick-Breaking Process Causes Scale-Invariant Behavior. Physical Review Letters 110 (14), p. 148101 - 148101 (2013)
2012
The evolution of base composition in mammalian genomes. Dissertation (2012)
Functional analysis of centrosomal kinase substrates in Drosophila melanogaster reveals a new function of the nuclear envelope component otefin in cell cycle progression. Molecular and Cellular Biology (Washington, DC) 32 (17), pp. 3554 - 3569 (2012)
2011
Probing the SELEX Process with Next-Generation Sequencing. PLoS ONE 6 (12), e29604 (2011)
Substitution patterns are under different influences in primates and rodents. Genome Biol Evol 3, pp. 236 - 45 (2011)
Preventing dangerous nonsense: selection for robustness to transcriptional error in human genes. PLoS Genet 7 (10), p. e1002276 (2011)
Palaeohexaploid Ancestry for Caryophyllales Inferred from Extensive Gene-Based Physical and Genetic Mapping of the Sugar Beet Genome (Beta vulgaris). The Plant Journal: for Cell and Molecular Biology (2011)
CpG deamination creates transcription factor-binding sites with high efficiency. Genome Biol Evol 3, pp. 1304 - 11 (2011)
2010
A calibrated diversity assay for nucleic acid libraries using DiStRO-a Diversity Standard of Random Oligonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Research 38 (4), p. e23 - e23 (2010)
Discovering mutational patterns in mammals using comparative genomics. Dissertation, IV, 117 pp., Freie Universität, Berlin (2010)
The evolution of transcription-associated biases of mutations across vertebrates. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10, p. 10:187 - 10:187 (2010)
Stationarity and reversibility in the nucleotide evolutionary process. Dissertation, 72 pp., Freie Universität, Berlin (2010)
2009
Methylation and deamination of CpGs generate p53-binding sites on a genomic scale. Trends in Genetics 25 (2), pp. 63 - 66 (2009)
2008
Quantifying the stationarity and time reversibility of the nucleotide substitution process. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25 (12), pp. 2525 - 2535 (2008)
The Impact of Recombination on Nucleotide Substitutions in the Human Genome e1000071 (2008). PLoS Genetics 4 (5), p. e1000071 - e1000071 (2008)
Transcription induces strand-specific mutations at the 5? end of human genes. Genome Research 18 (8), pp. 1216 - 1223 (2008)
Tandem Duplications in the Human Genome. Dissertation, IV, 106 pp., Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin (2008)
2007
The Otto Warburg International Summer School and Workshop on Networks and Regulation. BMC Bioinformatics 8 (Suppl) (6), p. S1 - S1 (2007)
DNA indels in coding regions reveal selective constraints on protein evolution in the human lineage. BMC Evolutionary Biology 7, pp. 191 - 102 (2007)
Effects of Long-Range Correlations in DNA on Sequence Alignment Score Statistics. Journal of Computational Biology: A Journal of Computational Molecular Cell Biology 14 (5), pp. 655 - 668 (2007)
The Majority of Recent Short DNA Insertions in the Human Genome Are Tandem Duplications. Molecular Biology and Evolution: MBE 24 (5), pp. 1190 - 1197 (2007)
2006
Alignment Statistics for Long-Range Correlated Genomic Sequences (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3909/2006). 10th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2006, Venice, Italy, April 02, 2006 - April 05, 2006. Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg (2006), 612 pp.
CorGen-measuring and generating long-range correlations for DNA sequence analysis. Nucleic Acids Research 34, pp. W692 - W695 (2006)
A novel method distinguishes between mutation rates and fixation biases in patterns of single-nucleotide substitution. Journal of Molecular Evolution: the Journal of the International Society of Molecular Evolution 62 (2), pp. 168 - 175 (2006)
Identification of highly specific localized sequence motifs in human ribosomal protein gene promoters. Gene 365, pp. 48 - 56 (2006)
2005
Universality of long-range correlations in expansion-randomization systems. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (10), p. P10004 - P10004 (2005)
Substantial Regional Variation in Substitution Rates in the Human Genome: Importance of GC Content, Gene Density, and Telomere-Specific Effects. Journal of Molecular Evolution: the Journal of the International Society of Molecular Evolution 60 (6), pp. 748 - 763 (2005)
Solvable Sequence Evolution Models and Genomic Correlations. Physical Review Letters 94, pp. 138103-1 - 138103-4 (2005)
Male-Driven Biased Gene Conversion Governs the Evolution of Base Composition in Human Alu Repeats. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22 (6), pp. 1468 - 1474 (2005)
Identification and measurement of neighbor-dependent nucleotide substitution processes. Bioinformatics 21 (10), pp. 3222 - 2328 (2005)
Genomic heterogeneity of background substitutional patterns in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 169 (2), pp. 709 - 722 (2005)
2004
Regional and time-resolved mutation patterns of the human genome. 18th GERMAN CONFERENCE ON BIOINFORMATICS 2003 (GCB’03), Technische Universitaet Muenchen, October 12, 2003 - October 14, 2003. Bioinformatics 20 (10), pp. 1482 - 1485 (2004)
2003
Distinct changes of genomic biases in nucleotide substitution at the time of mammalian radiation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20 (11), pp. 1887 - 1896 (2003)
DNA sequence evolution with neighbor-dependent mutation. Journal of Computational Biology 10 (3-4), pp. 313 - 322 (2003)
2002
Annotating regulatory DNA based on man-mouse genomic comparison. Proceedings of the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2002), pp. S84 - S90 (2002)