Simon Rasmussen

Simon Rasmussen

Associate professor, group leader, Professor


  1. 2015
  2. Reads2Type: a web application for rapid microbial taxonomy identification

    Saputra, D., Rasmussen, Simon, Larsen, M. V., Haddad, N., Sperotto, M. M., Aarestrup, F. M., Lund, O. & Sicheritz-Pontén, T., 25 Nov 2015, In: BMC Bioinformatics. 16, 398.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Meta-genomic analysis of toilet waste from long distance flights; a step towards global surveillance of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance

    Nordahl Petersen, T., Rasmussen, Simon, Hasman, H., Carøe, C., Bælum, J., Schultz, A. C., Bergmark, L., Svendsen, C. A., Lund, O., Sicheritz-Pontén, T. & Aarestrup, F. M., 10 Jul 2015, In: Scientific Reports. 5, p. 11444

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  4. Published

    Discovery, genotyping and characterization of structural variation and novel sequence at single nucleotide resolution from de novo genome assemblies on a population scale

    Danish Pan Genome Consortium, D. P. G. C., Belling, K. G. & Rasmussen, Simon, 2015, In: GigaScience. 4, 13 p., 64.

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  5. Published

    Early divergent strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 years ago

    Rasmussen, S., Allentoft, M. E., Nielsen, K., Orlando, L. A. A., Sikora, M., Sjögren, K-G., Pedersen, A. G., Schubert, M., Van Dam, A., Kapel, C. M. O., Nielsen, H. B., Brunak, S., Avetisyan, P., Epimakhov, A., Khalyapin, M. V., Gnuni, A., Kriiska, A., Lasak, I., Metspalu, M., Moiseyev, V. & 11 others, Gromov, A., Pokutta, D., Saag, L., Varul, L., Yepiskoposyan, L., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Foley, R. A., Lahr, M. M., Nielsen, R., Kristiansen, K. & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Cell. 163, 3, p. 571-582 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Genomic evidence for the Pleistocene and recent population history of Native Americans

    Raghavan, M., Steinrücken, M., Harris, K., Schiffels, S., Rasmussen, S., DeGiorgio, M., Albrechtsen, A., Valdiosera Morales, C. E., Avila Arcos, M. D. C., Malaspinas, A. S., Eriksson, A., Moltke, I., Metspalu, M., Homburger, J. R., Wall, J., Cornejo, O. E., Moreno Mayar, J. V., Korneliussen, T. S., Pierre, T. L., Rasmussen, M. & 81 others, Campos, P., Damgaard, P. D. B., Allentoft, Morten Erik, Lindo, J., Metspalu, E., Rodríguez-Varela, R., Mansilla, J., Henrickson, C., Seguin-Orlando, A., Malmström, H., Stafford jr., T., Shringarpure, S. S., Moreno-Estrada, A., Karmin, M., Tambets, K., Bergström, A., Xue, Y., Warmuth, V., Friend, A. D., Singarayer, J., Valdes, P., Balloux, F., Leboreiro, I., Vera, J. L., Rangel-Villalobos, H., Pettener, D., Luiselli, D., Davis, L. G., Heyer, E., Zollikofer, C. P. E., Ponce de León, M. S., Smith, C. I., Grimes, V., Pike, K., Deal, M., Fuller, B. T., Arriaza, B., Standen, V., Luz, M. F., Ricaut, F., Guidon, N., Osipova, L., Voevoda, M. I., Posukh, O. L., Balanovsky, O., Lavryashina, M., Bogunov, Y., Khusnutdinova, E., Gubina, M., Balanovska, E., Fedorova, S., Litvinov, S., Malyarchuk, B., Derenko, M., Mosher, M. J., Archer, D., Cybulski, J., Petzelt, B., Mitchell, J., Worl, R., Norman, P. J., Parham, P., Kemp, B. M., Kivisild, T., Tyler-Smith, C., Sandhu, M. S., Crawford, M., Villems, R., Smith, D. G., Waters, M. R., Goebel, T., Johnson, J. R., Malhi, R. S., Jakobsson, M., Meltzer, D. J., Manica, A., Durbin, R., Bustamante, C. D., Song, Y. S., Nielsen, Rasmus & Willerslev, Eske, 2015, In: Science (New York, N.Y.). 349, 6250, 6250.

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  7. Published

    Novel variation and de novo mutation rates in population-wide de novo assembled Danish trios

    Besenbacher, S., Liu, S., Gonzalez-Izarzugaza, J. M., Grove, J., Belling, K. G., Bork-Jensen, J., Huang, S., Als, T. D., Li, S., Yadav, R., Rubio García, A., Lescai, F., Demontis, D., Rao, J., Ye, W., Mailund, T., Møllegaard Friborg, R., Pedersen, C. N. S., Xu, R., Sun, J. & 27 others, Liu, H., Wang, O., Cheng, X., Flores, D., Rydza, E. K., Rapacki, K., Sørensen, J. D., Chmura, P. J., Westergaard, David, Dworzynski, P., Sørensen, Thorkild I.A., Lund, O., Hansen, Torben, Xu, X., Li, N., Bolund, L., Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Eiberg, Hans Rudolf Lytchoff, Krogh, Anders, Børglum, A. D., Brunak, Søren, Kristiansen, Karsten, Schierup, M. H., Wang, J., Gupta, R., Villesen, P. & Rasmussen, Simon, 2015, In: Nature Communications. 6, 9 p., 5969.

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  8. Published

    Transcriptome profiling of brown adipose tissue during cold exposure reveals extensive regulation of glucose metabolism

    Hao, Q., Yadav, R., Basse, A. L., Petersen, S., Sonne, Si Brask, Rasmussen, Simon, Zhu, Q., Lu, Z., Wang, J., Audouze, K., Gupta, R., Madsen, L., Kristiansen, Karsten & Hansen, Jacob B., 2015, In: American Journal of Physiology: Endocrinology and Metabolism. 308, 5, p. E380-E392 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. 2014
  10. Construction of a dairy microbial genome catalog opens new perspectives for the metagenomic analysis of dairy fermented products

    Almeida, M., Hébert, A., Abraham, A., Rasmussen, Simon, Monnet, C., Pons, N., Delbès, C., Loux, V., Batto, J., Leonard, P., Kennedy, S., Ehrlich, S. D., Pop, M., Montel, M., Irlinger, F. & Renault, P., 13 Dec 2014, In: BMC Genomics. 15, p. 1101

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Published

    A selective sweep on a deleterious mutation in CPT1A in Arctic populations

    Clemente, F. J., Cardona, A., Inchly, C. E., Peters, B. M., Jacobs, G., Pagani, L., Lawson, D. J., Añtao, T., Vicente, M., Mitt, M., DiGiorgio, M., Faltyskova, Z., Xue, Y., Ayub, Q., Szpak, M., Mägi, R., Eriksson, A., Manica, A., Raghavan, M., Rasmussen, M. & 10 others, Rasmussen, Simon, Willerslev, Eske, Vidal-Puig, A., Tyler-Smith, C., Willems, R., Nielsen, R., Metspalu, M., Malyarchuk, B., Derenko, M. & Kivisild, T., 2014, In: American Journal of Human Genetics. 95, 5, p. 584-589 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. Benchmarking of methods for genomic taxonomy

    Larsen, M. V., Cosentino, S., Lukjancenko, O., Saputra, D., Rasmussen, Simon, Hasman, H., Sicheritz-Pontén, T., Aarestrup, F. M., Ussery, D. W. & Lund, O., 2014, In: Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 52, 5, p. 1529-39 11 p.

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  13. Published

    Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European

    Olalde, I., Allentoft, M. E., Sánchez-Quinto, F., Santpere, G., Chiang, C. W. K., DiGeorgio, M., Prado-Martínez, J., Rodríguez Pérez, J. A., Rasmussen, S., Quilez, J., Ramírez, O., Marigorta, U. M., Fernández-Callejo, M., Prada, M. E., Encinas, J. M. V., Nielsen, R., Netea, M. G., Novembre, J., Sturm, R. A., Sabeti, P. & 4 others, Marquès-Bonet, T., Navarro, A., Willerslev, Eske & Lalueza-Fox, C., 2014, In: Nature. 507, 7491, p. 225-228 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    Genome-wide Ancestry Patterns in Rapanui Suggest Pre-European Admixture with Native Americans

    Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Rasmussen, Simon, Seguin-Orlando, A., Rasmussen, M., Liang, M., Flåm, S. T., Lie, B. A., Gilfillan, G. D., Nielsen, Rasmus, Thorsby, E., Willerslev, Eske & Malaspinas, A., 2014, In: Current Biology. 24, 21, p. 2518-2525

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  15. Published

    Hybridization capture using short PCR products enriches small genomes by Capturing Flanking Sequences (CapFlank)

    Tsangaras, K., Wales, N., Sicheritz-Pontén, T., Rasmussen, Simon, Michaux, J., Ishida, Y., Morand, S., Kampmann, Marie-Louise, Gilbert, M Thomas P & Greenwood, A. D., 2014, In: PLoS ONE. 9, 10, 10 p., e109101.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Identification and assembly of genomes and genetic elements in complex metagenomic samples without using reference genomes

    Nielsen, H. B., Almeida, M., Juncker, A., Rasmussen, S., Li, J., Sunagawa, S., Plichta, D. R., Gautier, L., Pedersen, A. G., Le Chatelier, E., Pelletier, E., Bonde, I., Nielsen, T., Manichanh, C., Arumugam, M., Batto, J-M., dos Santos, M. B. Q., Blom, N., Borruel, N., Burgdorf, K. S. & 31 others, Boumezbeur, F., Casellas, F., Doré, J., Dworzynski, P., Guarner, F., Hansen, Torben, Hildebrand, F., Kaas, R. S., Kennedy, S., Kristiansen, Karsten, Kultima, J. R., Léonard, P., Levenez, F., Lund, O., Moumen, B., Le Paslier, D., Pons, N., Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Prifti, E., Qin, J., Raes, J., Sørensen, Søren Johannes, Tap, J., Tims, S., Ussery, D., Yamada, T., Renault, P., Sicheritz-Pontén, T., Bork, P., Wang, J. & MetaHIT Consortium, M. C., 2014, In: Nature Biotechnology. 32, 8, p. 822–828 7 p.

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  17. Published

    The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic

    Raghavan, M., DeGiorgio, M., Albrechtsen, A., Moltke, I., Skoglund, P., Korneliussen, T. S., Grønnow, B., Appelt, M., Gulløv, H. C., Friesen, T. M., Fitzhugh, W., Malmström, H. S., Rasmussen, S., Olsen, J., Melchior, L. C., Fuller, B. T., Fahrni, S. M., Stafford jr., T., Grimes, V., Renouf, M. A. P. & 36 others, Cybulski, J., Lynnerup, Niels, Lahr, M. M., Britton, K., Knecht, R., Arneborg, J., Metspalu, M., Cornejo, O. E., Malaspinas, A. S., Wang, Y., Rasmussen, M., Raghavan, V., Hansen, Thomas van Overeem, Khusnutdinova, E., Pierre, T. L., Dneprovsky, K., Andreasen, C., Lange, H., Hayes, M. G., Coltrain, J., Spitsyn, V. A., Götherström, A., Orlando, L. A. A., Kivisild, T., Villems, R., Crawford, M. H., Nielsen, Finn Cilius, Dissing, J., Heinemeier, J., Meldgaard, Morten, Bustamante, C., O'Rourke, D. H., Jakobsson, M., Gilbert, M Thomas P, Nielsen, R. & Willerslev, Eske, 2014, In: Science. 345, 6200, 9 p.

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  18. Published

    The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana

    Rasmussen, M., Anzick, S. L., Waters, M. R., Skoglund, P., DeGiorgio, M., Stafford jr., T., Rasmussen, S., Moltke, I., Albrechtsen, A., Doyle, S. M., Poznik, G. D., Gudmundsdottir, V., Yadav, R., Malaspinas, A. S., White, S. S., Allentoft, M. E., Cornejo, O. E., Tambets, K., Eriksson, A., Heintzman, P. D. & 22 others, Karmin, M., Korneliussen, Thorfinn Sand, Meltzer, D. J., Pierre, T. L., Stenderup, Jesper Tandberg, Saag, L., Warmuth, V. M., Lopes, M. C., Malhi, R. S., Brunak, S., Sicheritz-Pontén, T., Barnes, I., Collins, M., Orlando, L. A. A., Balloux, F., Manica, A., Gupta, R., Metspalu, M., Bustamante, C. D., Jakobsson, M., Nielsen, R. & Willerslev, Eske, 2014, In: Nature. 506, 7487, p. 225-229 5 p.

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  19. Published

    Two ancient human genomes reveal Polynesian ancestry among the indigenous Botocudos of Brazil

    Malaspinas, A. S., Lao, O., Schroeder, H., Rasmussen, M., Raghavan, M., Moltke, I., Campos, P., Sagredo, F. S., Rasmussen, S., Gonçalves, V. F., Albrechtsen, A., Allentoft, M. E., Johnson, P. L. F., Li, M., Reis, S., Bernardo, D. V., DeGiorgio, M., Duggan, A. T., Bastos, M., Wang, Y. & 20 others, Stenderup, Jesper Tandberg, Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Brunak, S., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Hodges, E., Hannon, G. J., Orlando, L. A. A., Price, T. D., Jensen, J. D., Nielsen, Rasmus, Heinemeier, J., Olsen, J., Rodrigues-Carvalho, C., Lahr, M. M., Neves, W. A., Kayser, M., Higham, T., Stoneking, M., Pena, S. D. J. & Willerslev, Eske, 2014, In: Current biology : CB. 24, 21, p. R1035-R1037 3 p.

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  20. Published

    Upper palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

    Raghavan, M., Skoglund, P., Graf, K. E., Metspalu, M., Albrechtsen, A., Moltke, I., Rasmussen, S., Stafford jr., T., Orlando, L. A. A., Metspalu, E., Karmin, M., Tambets, K., Rootsi, S., Mägi, R., Campos, P., Balanovska, E., Balanovsky, O., Khusnutdinova, E., Litvinov, S., Osipova, L. P. & 11 others, Fedorova, S. A., Voevoda, M. I., Degiorgio, M., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Brunak, S., Demeshchenko, S., Kivisild, T., Villems, R., Nielsen, R., Jakobsson, M. & Willerslev, Eske, 2014, In: Nature. 505, 7481, p. 87-91 4 p.

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  21. 2013
  22. Published

    Bacterial natural transformation by highly fragmented and damaged DNA

    Overballe-Petersen, S., Harms, K., Orlando, L. A. A., Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor, Rasmussen, Simon, Dahl, Tais Wittchen, Rosing, Minik Thorleif, Poole, A. M., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Brunak, S., Inselmann, S., de Vries, J., Wackernagel, W., Pybus, O. G., Nielsen, Rasmus, Johnsen, P. J., Nielsen, K. M. & Willerslev, Eske, 3 Dec 2013, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110, 49, p. 19860–19865 6 p.

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  23. Complete genes may pass from food to human blood

    Spisák, S., Solymosi, N., Ittzés, P., Bodor, A., Kondor, D., Vattay, G., Barták, B. K., Sipos, F., Galamb, O., Tulassay, Z., Szállási, Z., Rasmussen, Simon, Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Brunak, Søren, Molnár, B. & Csabai, I., 2013, In: PloS one. 8, 7, p. e69805

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  24. Published

    Genome-scale cold stress response regulatory networks in ten Arabidopsis thaliana ecotypes

    Barah, P., Jayavelu, N. D., Rasmussen, Simon, Nielsen, H. B., Mundy, J. & Bones, A. M., 2013, In: B M C Genomics. 14, 16 p., 722 .

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  25. Published

    Metagenomic species profiling using universal phylogenetic marker genes

    Sunagawa, S., Mende, D. R., Zeller, G., Izquierdo-Carrasco, F., Berger, S. A., Kultima, J. R., Coelho, L. P., Arumugam, M., Tap, J., Nielsen, H. B., Rasmussen, S., Brunak, S., Pedersen, O. B., Guarner, F., de Vos, W. M., Wang, J., Li, J., Doré, J., Ehrlich, S. D., Stamatakis, A. & 1 others, Bork, P., 2013, In: Nature Methods. 10, 12, p. 1196-1199 4 p.

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  26. Published

    Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers

    Le Chatelier, E., Nielsen, T., Qin, J., Prifti, E., Hildebrand, F., Falony, G., Almeida, M., Arumugam, M., Batto, J-M., Kennedy, S., Leonard, P., Li, J., Burgdorf, K. S., Grarup, N., Jørgensen, T., Brandslund, I., Nielsen, H. B., Juncker, A., dos Santos, M. B. Q., Levenez, F. & 62 others, Pons, N., Rasmussen, Simon, Sunagawa, S., Tap, J., Tims, S., Zoetendal, E. G., Brunak, S., Clément, K., Doré, J., Kleerebezem, M., Kristiansen, Karsten, Renault, P., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., de Vos, W. M., Zucker, J., Raes, J., Hansen, Torben, Bork, P., Wang, J., Ehrlich, S. D., Pedersen, Oluf Borbye, Guedon, E., Delorme, C., Layec, S., Khaci, G., van de Guchte, M., Vandemeulebrouck, G., Jamet, A., Dervyn, R., Sanchez, N., Maguin, E., Haimet, F., Winogradski, Y., Cultrone, A., Leclerc, M., Juste, C., Blottière, H., Pelletier, E., LePaslier, D., Artiguenave, F., Bruls, T., Weissenbach, J., Turner, K., Parkhill, J., Antolin, M., Manichanh, C., Casellas, F., Boruel, N., Varela, E., Torrejon, A., Guarner, F., Denariaz, G., Derrien, M., van Hylckama Vlieg, J. E. T., Veiga, P., Oozeer, R., Knol, J., Rescigno, M., Brechot, C., Mérieux, A., M'Rini, C. & Yamada, T., 2013, In: Nature. 500, 7464, p. 541-546 6 p.

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  27. Targeted metabolic engineering guided by computational analysis of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)

    Udatha, D. B. R. K. G., Rasmussen, Simon, Sicheritz-Pontén, T. & Panagiotou, G., 2013, In: Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.). 985, p. 409-28 20 p.

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  28. 2012
  29. Published

    Multilocus sequence typing of total-genome-sequenced bacteria

    Larsen, Mette Vang, Cosentino, S., Rasmussen, Simon, Friis, Carsten, Hasman, H., Marvig, R. L., Jelsbak, L., Sicheritz-Pontén, T., Ussery, D. W., Aarestrup, F. M. & Lund, O., Apr 2012, In: Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 50, 4, p. 1355-61 7 p.

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