Publications

2025

  • Huyen N Nguyen, Sehi L’Yi, Thomas C Smits, Shanghua Gao, Marinka Zitnik, Nils Gehlenborg (2025). Multimodal Retrieval of Genomics Data Visualizations (under review at IEEE VIS 2025). 10.31219/osf.io/zatw9_v1

  • Mark S Keller, Eric Moerth, Thomas C Smits, Simon Warchol, Qianwen Wang, Robert Krueger, Hanspeter Pfister, Nils Gehlenborg (2025). The State of Single-Cell Atlas Data Visualization in the Biological Literature (under review at IEEE CG&A). 10.31219/osf.io/yt3xz_v1

2024

  • Thomas C Smits, Sehi L’Yi, Andrew P Mar, Nils Gehlenborg (2024). AltGosling: Automatic Generation of Text Descriptions for Accessible Genomics Data Visualization, Bioinformatics 40(12), btae670. 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae670

  • Thomas C Smits, Sehi L’Yi, Huyen N Nguyen, Andrew P Mar, Nils Gehlenborg (2024). Explaining Unfamiliar Genomics Data Visualizations to a Blind Individual through Transitions, IEEE 2024 1st Workshop on Accessible Data Visualization (AccessViz), St Pete Beach, FL, USA, 2024, pp. 24-28, 10.1109/AccessViz64636.2024.00010

  • Lawrence Weru, Sehi L’Yi, Thomas C Smits, Nils Gehlenborg (2024). Using OpenKeyNav to Enhance the Keyboard-Accessibility of Web-based Data Visualization Tools (presented at IEEE VIS 2024 AccessViz Workshop). 10.31219/osf.io/3wjsa

2023

  • Sanjay Jain, Liming Pei, Jeffrey M. Spraggins, et al. Advances and prospects for the Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP). Nature Cell Biology 25, 1089–1100 (2023). 10.1038/s41556-023-01194-w

  • Sehi L’Yi, Harrison G Zhang, Andrew P Mar Thomas C Smits, Lawrence Weru, Sofía Rojas, Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg (2023). A comprehensive evaluation of life sciences data resources reveals significant accessibility barriers (under review at Nature Scientific Reports). 10.31219/osf.io/5v98j

2022

  • Thomas Smits, Anil Aktas Samur, Romain Lannes, Mariateresa Fulciniti, Masood Shammas, Jill Corre, Kenneth Anderson, Giovanni Parmigiani, Hervé Avet-Loiseau, Nikhil Munshi, Mehmet Samur (2022, December). Somatic Changes Prior to the Development of Hyperdiploidy Expose Mutation Accumulation Rate and Activated Processes in Multiple Myeloma. 64th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, LA. 10.1182/blood-2022-168837

  • Tengteng Yu, Mu Hao, Hailin Chen, Kenneth Wen, Tingjian Wang, Thomas Smits, Mehmet Samur, Eugenio Morelli, Lijie Xing, Liang Lin, Jun Qi, Gang An, Nikhil Munshi, Yu-Tzu Tai, Lugui Qiu, Kenneth Anderson (2022, December). PHF19 Inhibits Multiple Myeloma Cell Response to Immunotherapy Via Promoting Immunosuppressive Microenvironment. 64th ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, LA. 10.1182/blood-2022-159137

  • Thomas C Smits, Anil Aktas Samur, Romain Lannes, Mariateresa Fulciniti, Masood Shammas, Jill Corre, Kenneth Anderson, Giovanni Parmigiani, Hervé Avet-Loiseau, Nikhil Munshi, Mehmet Samur (2022, August). OAB-017: Mutations accumulated before and after hyperdiploidy reveal timing and impact of chromosomal gains on multiple myeloma. 19th International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. 10.1016/S2152-2650(22)00290-7

  • Tengteng Yu, Hailin Chen, Kenneth Wen, Tingjian Wang, Phillip Hsieh, Thomas C Smits, Mehmet Samur, Lijie Xing, Liang Lin, Mu Hao, Lugui Qiu, Yu-Tzu Tai, Kenneth Anderson (2022, August). OAB-031: PHF19 promotes multiple myeloma cell resistant to daratumumab/isatuximab via upregulation in immunosuppressive microenvironment and reduced CD38 target expression. 19th International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. 10.1016/S2152-2650(22)00304-4

  • Chandraditya Chakraborty, Srikanth Talluri, Eugenio Morelli, Sanika Derebail, Yan Xu, Charles Epstein, Thomas Smits, Moritz Binder, Kenneth Anderson, Masood Shammas, Mehmet Samur, Mariateresa Fulciniti, Nikhil Munshi (2022, August). OAB-013: Universal loss of BCL7A allows release of its binding partner IRF4 inducing its transcriptional activity promoting MM cell growth. 19th International Myeloma Society Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA. 10.1016/S2152-2650(22)00286-5

Additional

  • Thomas C Smits, Sehi L’Yi, Nils Gehlenborg (2023, March). Accessibility in Grammar-Based Genomics Visualization Language Gosling through Automatic Generation of Text Descriptions. 9th Annual HMS Master’s Programs Research Symposium, Boston, MA.

  • Thomas Smits, Nikolay Akhmetov, Lisa Choy, John Conroy, Mark Keller, Tiffany Liaw, Juan Puerto, Samson Toor, Morgan L. Turner, Philip Blood, Nils Gehlenborg (2023, December). Workspaces in Portal: Data Linking and Templates in Jupyter Lab. HuBMAP. HuBMAP Demo Day, remote.

  • Thomas Smits, HuBMAP Harvard HIVE-TC, HiDIVE Lab (2023, May). Workspaces in Portal (in progress): templates allow for easy cell type composition exploration. HuBMAP Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.