Hopf T.A., Morinaga S., Ihara S., Touhara K., Marks D.S., Benton R. (2015). Amino acid coevolution reveals three-dimensional structure and functional domains of insect odorant receptors. Nature Communications 6:6077.
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Hopf T.A.*, Schärfe C.P.I.*, Rodrigues J.P.G.L.M.*, Green A.G., Kohlbacher O., Sander C., Bonvin A.M.J.J., Marks D.S. (2014). Sequence co-evolution gives 3D contacts and structures of protein complexes. eLife Sep 25;3.
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Kajan L., Hopf T.A., Kalas M., Marks D.S., Rost B. (2014). FreeContact: fast and free software for protein contact prediction from residue co-evolution. BMC Bioinformatics 15 (1), 85.
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Marks D.S., Hopf T.A., Sander C. (2012). Protein structure prediction from sequence variation. Nature Biotechnology 30 (11), 1072-80.
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Hopf T.A., Colwell L. J., Sheridan R., Rost B., Sander C., Marks D.S. (2012). Three-dimensional structures of membrane proteins from genomic sequencing. Cell 149 (7), 1607-21.
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Marks D.S., Colwell L.J., Sheridan R., Hopf T.A., Pagnani A., Zecchina R., Sander C. (2011): Protein 3D structure computed from evolutionary sequence variation. PLoS ONE e6(12): 28766.
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Hopf T., Kramer S.: Mining Class-Correlated Patterns for Sequence Labeling (2010). In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Discovery Science, Springer.
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Research Interests
protein evolution and design
coevolution of amino acid sequences
protein 3D structure, complexes and function from evolutionary couplings
phenotypic consequences of genetic variation
drug targets
CV
11/2009-03/2012: M.Sc. in Bioinformatics, LMU and TU München
Master's thesis: Membrane protein 3D structure prediction from sequence alone
10/2006-11/2009: B.Sc. in Bioinformatics, LMU and TU München
Bachelor's thesis: Conditional random fields over sequence patterns