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Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: Lausanne, VD, CH

2004 to present | Project manager (Swiss-Prot)
Employment
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Philippe Le Mercier

Education and qualifications (1)

Institut Pasteur: Paris, FR

1994-11-01 to 1998-06-01 | PhD (Rabies)
Education
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Philippe Le Mercier

Professional activities (1)

European Virus Bioinformatics Center: Jena, DE

2017 to present | Board director
Membership
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Philippe Le Mercier

Works (47)

DisProt in 2024: improving function annotation of intrinsically disordered proteins.

Nucleic acids research
2024-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad928
PMID: 37904585
PMC: PMC10767923
Contributors: Maria Cristina Aspromonte; María Victoria Nugnes; Federica Quaglia; Bouharoua A; DisProt Consortium ; Silvio Tosatto; Damiano Piovesan
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2024 update.

Nucleic acids research
2024-01-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad987
PMID: 37953330
PMC: PMC10767968
Contributors: Brian Raney; Barber GP; Benet-Pagès A; Casper J; Hiram Clawson; Cline MS; Mark Diekhans; Fischer C; Jairo Navarro Gonzalez; Hickey G et al.
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Philippe Le Mercier

ViralZone 2024 provides higher-resolution images and advanced virus-specific resources.

Nucleic acids research
2024-01-01 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad946
PMID: 37897348
PMC: PMC10767872
Contributors: Edouard de Castro; Hulo C; Masson P; Andrea H. Auchincloss; Alan Bridge; Philippe Le Mercier
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Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023.

Nucleic acids research
2023-01-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkac1052
PMID: 36408920
PMC: PMC9825514
Contributors: UniProt Consortium
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

SwissBioPics—an interactive library of cell images for the visualization of subcellular location data

Database
2022-04-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/database/baac026
Contributors: Philippe Le Mercier; Jerven Bolleman; Edouard de Castro; Elisabeth Gasteiger; Parit Bansal; Andrea H Auchincloss; Emmanuel Boutet; Lionel Breuza; Cristina Casals-Casas; Anne Estreicher et al.
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SARS-CoV-2 variants preferentially emerge at intrinsically disordered protein sites helping immune evasion.

The FEBS journal
2022-02-15 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/febs.16379
PMID: 35108439
PMC: PMC9542094
Contributors: Federica Quaglia; Edoardo Salladini; Carraro M; Giovanni Minervini; Tosatto SCE; Philippe Le Mercier
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Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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Blood virosphere in febrile Tanzanian children

Emerging microbes & infections
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2021.1925161
Part of ISSN: 2222-1751
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

Recommendations for the introduction of metagenomic next-generation sequencing in clinical virology, part II: bioinformatic analysis and reporting

Journal of clinical virology : the official publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2021.104812
Part of ISSN: 1386-6532
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine

Nucleic acids research
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1113
Part of ISSN: 0305-1048
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021

Nucleic acids research
2021 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkaa1100
Part of ISSN: 0305-1048
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

Sendai Virus and a Unified Model of Mononegavirus RNA Synthesis.

Viruses
2021-12-09 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/v13122466
PMID: 34960735
PMC: PMC8708023
Contributors: Kolakofsky D; Philippe Le Mercier; Nishio M; Blackledge M; Thibaut CREPIN; Ruigrok RWH
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Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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[ViralZone : digitalizing for knowledge sharing]

Virologie (Montrouge, France)
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1684/vir.2020.0873
Part of ISSN: 1267-8694
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

A paramyxovirus-like model for Ebola virus bipartite promoters

PLoS pathogens
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008972
Part of ISSN: 1553-7366
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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Characterization and mutagenesis of Chinese hamster ovary cells endogenous retroviruses to inactivate viral particle release

Biotechnology and bioengineering
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/bit.27200
Part of ISSN: 0006-3592
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

The International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2020

Viruses
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/v12121398
Part of ISSN: 1999-4915
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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UniRule: a unified rule resource for automatic annotation in the UniProt Knowledgebase

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa485
Part of ISSN: 1367-4803
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

Virosaurus A Reference to Explore and Capture Virus Genetic Diversity

Viruses
2020-11 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.3390/v12111248
Contributors: Anne Gleizes; Florian Laubscher; Nicolas Guex; Christian Iseli; Thomas Junier; Samuel Cordey; Jacques Fellay; Ioannis Xenarios; Laurent Kaiser; Philippe Le Mercier
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
grade
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A potential role for integrins in host cell entry by SARS-CoV-2.

Antiviral research
2020-03-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2020.104759
PMID: 32130973
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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A Bioinformatics View of Glycan⁻Virus Interactions

Viruses
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/v11040374
Part of ISSN: 1999-4915
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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An intrinsically disordered proteins community for ELIXIR

F1000Research
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.20136.1
Part of ISSN: 2046-1402
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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Bipartite promoters and RNA editing of paramyxoviruses and filoviruses.

RNA (New York, N.Y.)
2018-12-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1261/rna.068825.118
PMID: 30587495
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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Bacterial Virus Ontology; Coordinating across Databases

Viruses
2017 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/v9060126
Part of ISSN: 1999-4915
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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The ins and outs of eukaryotic viruses: Knowledge base and ontology of a viral infection.

PloS one
2017-02-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171746
PMID: 28207819
PMC: PMC5313201
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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Improving HIV proteome annotation: new features of BioAfrica HIV Proteomics Resource

Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/database/baw045
Part of ISSN: 1758-0463
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

A structured annotation frame for the transposable phages: a new proposed family "Saltoviridae" within the Caudovirales

Virology
2015 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.10.009
Part of ISSN: 1096-0341
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

Representing virus-host interactions and other multi-organism processes in the Gene Ontology.

BMC microbiology
2015-07-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1186/s12866-015-0481-x
PMID: 26215368
PMC: PMC4517558
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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An integrated ontology resource to explore and study host-virus relationships.

PloS one
2014-09-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108075
PMID: 25233094
PMC: PMC4169452
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Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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Fifteen years SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: life science databases, tools and support.

Nucleic acids research
2014-05-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku380
PMID: 24792157
PMC: PMC4086091
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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The EMPRES-i genetic module: a novel tool linking epidemiological outbreak information and genetic characteristics of influenza viruses.

Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
2014-03-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/database/bau008
PMID: 24608033
PMC: PMC3945526
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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The UniProt-GO Annotation database in 2011

Nucleic acids research
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr1048
Part of ISSN: 0305-1048
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

ViralZone: recent updates to the virus knowledge resource.

Nucleic acids research
2012-11-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1220
PMID: 23193299
PMC: PMC3531065
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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Microbial virus genome annotation-mustering the troops to fight the sequence onslaught.

Virology
2012-10-18 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2012.09.027
PMID: 23084289
PMC: PMC3518702
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Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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OpenFluDB, a database for human and animal influenza virus

Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
2010 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/database/baq004
Part of ISSN: 1758-0463
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

Human parainfluenza virus type 2 L protein regions required for interaction with other viral proteins and mRNA capping.

Journal of virology
2010-11-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01226-10
PMID: 21068245
PMC: PMC3020016
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Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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ViralZone: a knowledge resource to understand virus diversity.

Nucleic acids research
2010-10-14 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq901
PMID: 20947564
PMC: PMC3013774
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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Towards Viral Genome Annotation Standards, Report from the 2010 NCBI Annotation Workshop.

Viruses
2010-10-13 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/v2102258
PMID: 21994619
PMC: PMC3185566
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier
grade
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euHCVdb: the European hepatitis C virus database

Nucleic acids research
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl970
Part of ISSN: 0305-1048
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

Sendai virus RNA polymerase scanning for mRNA start sites at gene junctions

Virology
2007 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2006.12.033
Part of ISSN: 1096-0341
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

Viral DNA polymerase scanning and the gymnastics of Sendai virus RNA synthesis

Virology
2004 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2003.10.031
Part of ISSN: 1096-0341
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

Competition between the Sendai virus N mRNA start site and the genome 3'-end promoter for viral RNA polymerase

Journal of virology
2003 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.17.9147-9155.2003
Part of ISSN: 0022-538X
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

Sendai virus targets inflammatory responses, as well as the interferon-induced antiviral state, in a multifaceted manner

Journal of virology
2003 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.77.14.7903-7913.2003
Part of ISSN: 0022-538X
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

A novel expression cassette of lyssavirus shows that the distantly related Mokola virus can rescue a defective rabies virus genome

Journal of virology
2002 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.4.2024-2027.2002
Part of ISSN: 0022-538X
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

All four Sendai Virus C proteins bind Stat1, but only the larger forms also induce its mono-ubiquitination and degradation

Virology
2002 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1006/viro.2001.1342
Part of ISSN: 1096-0341
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

Ambisense sendai viruses are inherently unstable but are useful to study viral RNA synthesis

Journal of virology
2002 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.76.11.5492-5502.2002
Part of ISSN: 0022-538X
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

Comparison of picornaviral IRES-driven internal initiation of translation in cultured cells of different origins

Nucleic acids research
1997 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/25.5.925
Part of ISSN: 0305-1048
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

The complete Mokola virus genome sequence: structure of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase

The Journal of general virology
1997 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1099/0022-1317-78-7-1571
Part of ISSN: 0022-1317
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Philippe Le Mercier

The noncoding and surface envelope coding sequences of myeloblastosis-associated virus are respectively responsible for nephroblastoma development and renal hyperplasia

Journal of virology
1996 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/jvi.70.4.2576-2580.1996
Part of ISSN: 0022-538X
Source: Self-asserted source
Philippe Le Mercier

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