Publications

Maxwell Farrell, Nicolas Le Guillarme, Liam Brierley, Bronwen Hunter, Daan Scheepens, Anna Willoughby, Andrew Yates, Nicole Mideo (2024). The changing landscape of text mining: a review of approaches for ecology and evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291(2027): 20240423.

Sarah Hayes, Joe Hilton, Joaquin Mould-Quevedo, Christl Donnelly, Matthew Baylis, Liam Brierley (2024). Ecology and environment predict spatially stratified risk of highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds across Europe.

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Lu Lu, Feifei Zhang, Liam Brierley, Gail Robertson, Margo Chase-Topping, Samantha Lycett, Mark Woolhouse (2024). Temporal dynamics, discovery, and emergence of human-transmissible RNA viruses. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 41(1): msad272.

Michael Hawkings, Natasha Vaselli, Dimitrios Charalampopoulos, Liam Brierley, Alex Elliot, Iain Buchan, Daniel Hungerford (2023). A systematic review of the prevalence of persistent gastrointestinal symptoms and incidence of new gastrointestinal illness after acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. Viruses, 15(8): 1625.

Timothée Poisot, Marie-Andrée Ouellet, Nardus Mollentze, Maxwell Farrell, Daniel Becker, Liam Brierley, Gregory Albery, Rory Gibb, Stephanie Seifert, Colin Carlson (2023). Network embedding unveils the hidden interactions in the mammalian virome. Patterns, 4(6): 100738.

Maxwell Farrell, Liam Brierley, Anna Willoughby, Andrew Yates, Nicole Mideo (2022). Past and future uses of text mining in ecology & evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289(1975): 20212721.

Colin Carlson, Rory Gibb, Gregory Albery, Liam Brierley, Ryan Connor, Tad Dallas, Evan Eskew, Anna Fagre, Maxwell Farrell, Hannah Frank, Renata Muylaert, Timothée Poisot, Angela Rasmussen, Sadie Ryan, Stephanie Seifert (2022). The Global Virome in One Network (VIRION): an atlas of vertebrate-virus associations. mBio, 13(2): e02985-21.

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Liam Brierley, Federico Nanni, Jessica Polka, Gautam Dey, Máté Pálfy, Nicholas Fraser, Jonathon Coates (2022). Tracking changes between preprint posting and journal publication during a pandemic. PLoS Biology, 20(2): e3001285.

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Rory Gibb, Gregory Albery, Nardus Mollentze, Evan Eskew, Liam Brierley, Sadie Ryan, Stephanie Seifert, Colin Carlson (2022). Mammal virus diversity estimates are unstable due to accelerating discovery effort. Biology Letters, 18(1): 20210427.

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Gregory Albery, Daniel Becker, Liam Brierley, Cara Brook, Rebecca Christofferson, Lily Cohen, Tad Dallas, Evan Eskew, Anna Fagre, Maxwell Farrell, Emma Glennon, Sarah Guth, Maxwell Joseph, Nardus Mollentze, Benjamin Neely, Timothée Poisot, Angela Rasmussen, Sadie Ryan, Stephanie Seifert, Anna Sjodin, Erin Sorrell, Colin Carlson (2021). The science of the host-virus network. Nature Microbiology, 6(12): 1483-1492.

Rory Gibb, Gregory Albery, Daniel Becker, Liam Brierley, Ryan Connor, Tad Dallas, Evan Eskew, Maxwell Farrell, Angela Rasmussen, Sadie Ryan, Amy Sweeny, Colin Carlson, Timothée Poisot (2021). Data proliferation, reconciliation, and synthesis in viral ecology. BioScience, 71(11): 1148-1156.

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Liam Brierley, Anna Fowler (2021). Predicting the animal hosts of coronaviruses from compositional biases of spike protein and whole genome sequences through machine learning. PLoS Pathogens, 17(4): e1009149.

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Nicholas Fraser, Liam Brierley, Gautam Dey, Jessica Polka, Máté Pálfy, Federico Nanni, Jonathon Coates (2021). The evolving role of preprints in the dissemination of COVID-19 research and their impact on the science communication landscape. PLoS Biology, 19(4): e3000959.

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Liam Brierley (2021). Lessons from the influx of preprints during the early COVID-19 pandemic. The Lancet Planetary Health, 5(3): E115-E117.

Soeren Metelmann, Karan Pattni, Liam Brierley, Lisa Cavalerie, Cyril Caminade, Marcus SC Blagrove, Joanne Turner, Kieran J Sharkey, Matthew Baylis (2021). Impact of climatic, demographic and disease control factors on the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in large cities worldwide. One Health, 12: 100221.

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Feifei Zhang, Margo Chase-Topping, Chuan-Guo Guo, Bram Van Bunnik, Liam Brierley, Mark Woolhouse (2020). Global discovery of human-infective RNA viruses: A modelling analysis. PLoS Pathogens, 16(11): e1009079.

Liam Brierley, Amy B Pedersen, Mark Woolhouse (2019). Tissue tropism and transmission ecology predict virulence of human RNA viruses. PLoS Biology, 17(11): e3000206.

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Mark Woolhouse, Liam Brierley (2018). Epidemiological characteristics of human-infective RNA viruses. Scientific Data, 5: 180017.

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Mark Woolhouse, Liam Brierley, Chris McCaffery, Sam Lycett (2016). Assessing the epidemic potential of RNA and DNA viruses. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 22(12): 2037-2044.

Liam Brierley, Maarten J Vonhof, Kevin J Olival, Peter Daszak, Kate E Jones (2016). Quantifying global drivers of zoonotic bat viruses: a process-based perspective. The American Naturalist, 187(2): E53-E64.

Mark Woolhouse, Kyle Adair, Liam Brierley (2013). RNA viruses: a case study of the biology of emerging infectious diseases. Microbiology Spectrum, 1(1): 10.1128/microbiolspec.OH-0001-2012.