Current Position
- 2023–current
- Editor-in-Chief, Patterns, Cell Press
Previous Positions
- 2022
- Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Genetics and the Biotechnology Journal, Wiley
- 2021–2022
- Scientific Coordinator at the Leibniz DSMZ for the WiLDSI Project
- 2017–2021
- Chief Editor at Scientific Data, an open-access, data-focused journal from Nature Research
- 2012–2017
- Managing Editor at Scientific Data
- 2010–2012
- Editor at Molecular Systems Biology, an open-access journal then jointly run by EMBO and Nature Publishing Group
Education & Research
- 2006–2010
- Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics. Department of Computational Molecular Biology.
Research Focus: Computational analysis of vertebrate genome evolution.
Advisor: Prof. Martin Vingron - 2000–2006
- Stanford University, Stanford, California. Ph.D. in Genetics awarded September 2006.
Research Focus:Genomic analysis of Xenopus organizer function.
Advisor: Prof. Julie Baker
Awarded: National Science Foundation Fellowship 2001-2003 - 1996–2000
- University of California, Davis B.S. Genetics (Highest Honors)
Awarded: Regent’s Scholar, Edward Craft Award for academic excellence, Dean’s Honor List
Example Editorial Writing
- Staying the course. Patterns doi:10.1016/j.patter.2023.100690 (2023)
- Promoting best practice in nucleotide sequence data sharing. Sci. Data doi:10.1038/s41597-020-0471-1 (2020)
- Data citation needed. Sci. Data doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0026-5 (2019)
- Open for business. Sci. Data doi:10.1038/sdata.2017.58 (2017)
- More bang for your byte. Sci. Data doi:10.1038/sdata.2014.10 (2014)
- Sharing the structures. Nature Milestones doi:10.1038/nature13369 (2014)
Example Editorial Presentations
- “The importance of research data for getting published” presented at Publishing Better Science through Better Data 2016, a one-day meeting organized by Sci. Data and the Wellcome Trust.
- “Promoting transparent research methods, protocols and data to reduce irreproducibility” presented at the STM Innovations Seminar in 2015.
Science Policy
- Amber Hartman Scholz, Jens Freitag, Christopher H. C. Lyal, Rodrigo Sara, Martha Lucia Cepeda, Ibon Cancio, Scarlett Sett, Andrew Lee Hufton, et al. Multilateral benefit-sharing from digital sequence information will support both science and biodiversity conservation. Nat. Commun. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28594-0 (2022).
- Rodrigo Sara, Andrew L. Hufton & Amber H. Scholz. Compatible or Incompatible? DSI, Open Access and Benefit-sharing. Chapter in Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources, Information and Traditional Knowledge (2022). Preprint at SocArXiv doi:10.31235/osf.io/nw8g9.
- Rodrigo Sara, Andrew L. Hufton, Scarlett Sett & Amber Hartman Scholz. Open access: a technical assessment for the debate on benefit-sharing and digital sequence information. Zenodo doi:10.5281/zenodo.5849643 (2022).
- Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Varsha Khodiyar, Andrew L. Hufton & Susanna-Assunta Sansone. Publishing descriptions of non-public clinical datasets: guidance for researchers, repositories, editors and funding organisations. Res. Integr. Peer Rev. doi:10.1186/s41073-016-0015-6 (2016).
Research Publications
- Morgane Thomas-Chollier, Andrew L. Hufton, Matthias Heinig, Sean O’Keeffe, Nassim El Masri, Helge G. Roider, Thomas Manke & Martin Vingron. Transcription factor binding predictions for the analysis of ChIP-seq data and regulatory SNPs. Nat. Protoc. doi:10.1038/nprot.2011.409 (2011).
- Hans-Jörg Warnatz, Robert Querfurth, Anna Guerasimova, Xi Cheng, Stefan A. Haas, Andrew L. Hufton, Thomas Manke, Dominique Vanhecke, Wilfried Nietfeld, Martin Vingron, Michal Janitz, Hans Lehrach & Marie-Laure Yaspo. Functional analysis and identification of cis-regulatory elements of human chromosome 21 gene promoters. Nucleic Acids Res. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq402 (2010).
- Andrew L. Hufton & Georgia Panopoulou. Polyploidy and genome rearrangement: a variety of outcomes. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. doi:10.1016/j.gde.2009.10.005 (2009).
- Andrew L. Hufton, Susanne Mathia, Helene Braun, Udo Georgi, Hans Lehrach, Martin Vingron, Albert J. Poustka & Georgia Panopoulou. Deeply conserved chordate noncoding sequences preserve genome synteny but do not drive gene duplicate retention. Genome Res. doi:10.1101/gr.093237.109 (2009).
- Ulrich Koestner, Iryna Shnitsar, Karen Linnemannstöns, Andrew L. Hufton & Annette Borchers. Semaphorin and neuropilin expression during early morphogenesis of Xenopus laevis. Dev. Dyn. doi:10.1002/dvdy.21785 (2008).
- Andrew L. Hufton, Detlef Groth, Martin Vingron, Hans Lehrach, Albert J. Poustka & Georgia Panopoulou. Early vertebrate whole genome duplications were predated by a period of intense genome rearrangement. Genome Res. doi:10.1101/gr.080119.108 (2008).
- Andrew L. Hufton, Arunachalam Vinayagam, Sándor Suhai & Julie C. Baker. Genomic analysis of Xenopus organizer function. BMC Dev. Biol. doi:10.1186/1471-213X-6-27 (2006).
- Annette G. M. Borchers, Andrew L. Hufton, Adam G. Eldridge, Peter K. Jackson, Richard M. Harland & Julie C. Baker. The E3 ubiquitin ligase Greul1 anteriorizes ectoderm during Xenopus development. Dev. Biol. doi:10.1006/dbio.2002.0814 (2002).
Thesis
Andrew L. Hufton. Genetic control of embryo patterning in Xenopus laevis: Description of the anterior inducer XGREUL1 and a genomic analysis of organizer function. Ph.D. dissertation. Stanford University, California. Available from: Dissertations & Theses: Full Text. ProQuest. Publication Number: AAT 3235234.