Alan M Moses

10.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
78 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Alan M Moses is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan M Moses has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Alan M Moses's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (22 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (21 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (18 papers). Alan M Moses is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (22 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (21 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (18 papers). Alan M Moses collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Alan M Moses's co-authors include Michael B. Eisen, Alex N. Nguyen Ba, Nicholas J. Provart, Venky N. Iyer, Anastassia K. Pogoutse, Derek Y. Chiang, Daniel A. Pollard, Julie D. Forman‐Kay, Taraneh Zarin and Iva Pritišanac and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Alan M Moses

76 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

In vivo enhancer analysis of human conserved non-coding sequences

2006 860 citations Alan M Moses, Michael B. Eisen et al. profile →
NLStradamus: a simple Hidden Markov Model for nuclear localization signal prediction

2009 529 citations Alex N. Nguyen Ba, Nicholas J. Provart et al. BMC Bioinformatics profile →
Transformers and genome language models

2025 18 citations Michael Wainberg, Duncan Forster et al. Nature Machine Intelligence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan M Moses Canada	36	4.4k	1.2k	1.1k	439	355	78	5.3k
Yitzhak Pilpel Israel	49	6.7k 1.5×	1.3k 1.1×	670 0.6×	97 0.2×	275 0.8×	100	8.3k
Amy A. Caudy United States	31	9.1k 2.1×	1.7k 1.5×	1.9k 1.6×	161 0.4×	250 0.7×	52	11.3k
Tom Owen‐Hughes United Kingdom	53	8.7k 2.0×	1.4k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	97 0.2×	250 0.7×	95	9.9k
Ben Lehner Spain	53	7.1k 1.6×	2.3k 1.9×	655 0.6×	50 0.1×	355 1.0×	119	9.1k
Yoshihide Hayashizaki Japan	46	4.8k 1.1×	854 0.7×	857 0.8×	48 0.1×	409 1.2×	149	6.8k
Andreas Gnirke United States	22	5.6k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	98 0.2×	184 0.5×	28	7.3k
George H. Wadhams United Kingdom	23	2.2k 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	485 0.4×	82 0.2×	201 0.6×	33	3.4k
Christine Queitsch United States	32	3.5k 0.8×	874 0.8×	2.0k 1.7×	48 0.1×	283 0.8×	76	4.9k
Mark D. Biggin United States	35	6.0k 1.4×	1.6k 1.4×	1.4k 1.2×	40 0.1×	346 1.0×	65	8.9k
Douglas Vollrath United States	36	4.4k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	1.0k 0.9×	106 0.2×	734 2.1×	73	6.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wainberg, Michael, Duncan Forster, Mehran Karimzadeh, et al.. (2025). Transformers and genome language models. Nature Machine Intelligence. 7(3). 346–362. 18 indexed citations breakdown →

Alderson, T. Reid, et al.. (2023). Systematic identification of conditionally folded intrinsically disordered regions by AlphaFold2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(44). e2304302120–e2304302120. 98 indexed citations

Strome, Bob, et al.. (2021). A functionally divergent intrinsically disordered region underlying the conservation of stochastic signaling. PLoS Genetics. 17(9). e1009629–e1009629. 9 indexed citations

Zarin, Taraneh, Bob Strome, Gang Peng, et al.. (2021). Identifying molecular features that are associated with biological function of intrinsically disordered protein regions. eLife. 10. 55 indexed citations

Kuzmin, Elena, Benjamin VanderSluis, Alex N. Nguyen Ba, et al.. (2020). Exploring whole-genome duplicate gene retention with complex genetic interaction analysis. Science. 368(6498). 70 indexed citations

Iserman, Christiane, Ulrike Friedrich, Taraneh Zarin, et al.. (2020). Condensation of Ded1p Promotes a Translational Switch from Housekeeping to Stress Protein Production. Cell. 181(4). 818–831.e19. 156 indexed citations

Pritišanac, Iva, Robert M. Vernon, Alan M Moses, & Julie D. Forman‐Kay. (2019). Entropy and Information within Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions. Entropy. 21(7). 662–662. 28 indexed citations

Zarin, Taraneh, Bob Strome, Alex N. Nguyen Ba, et al.. (2019). Proteome-wide signatures of function in highly diverged intrinsically disordered regions. eLife. 8. 116 indexed citations

Lu, Alex X., Amy X. Lu, Wiebke Schormann, et al.. (2019). The Cells Out of Sample (COOS) dataset and benchmarks for measuring out-of-sample generalization of image classifiers. arXiv (Cornell University). 32. 1852–1860. 1 indexed citations

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Lu, Alex X., Louis‐François Handfield, & Alan M Moses. (2018). Extracting and Integrating Protein Localization Changes from Multiple Image Screens of Yeast Cells. BIO-PROTOCOL. 8(18). e3022–e3022. 1 indexed citations

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Chong, Yolanda, Judice L.Y. Koh, Helena Friesen, et al.. (2015). Yeast Proteome Dynamics from Single Cell Imaging and Automated Analysis. Cell. 162(1). 221–221. 7 indexed citations

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Lumba, Shelley, Shigeo Toh, Louis‐François Handfield, et al.. (2014). A Mesoscale Abscisic Acid Hormone Interactome Reveals a Dynamic Signaling Landscape in Arabidopsis. Developmental Cell. 29(3). 360–372. 94 indexed citations

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Sharifpoor, Sara, Alex N. Nguyen Ba, Dewald van Dyk, et al.. (2011). A quantitative literature-curated gold standard for kinase-substrate pairs. Genome biology. 12(4). R39–R39. 48 indexed citations

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Moses, Alan M. (2009). Statistical tests for natural selection on regulatory regions based on the strength of transcription factor binding sites. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9(1). 286–286. 20 indexed citations

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Shultzaberger, Ryan K., Derek Y. Chiang, Alan M Moses, & Michael B. Eisen. (2007). Determining Physical Constraints in Transcriptional Initiation Complexes Using DNA Sequence Analysis. PLoS ONE. 2(11). e1199–e1199. 6 indexed citations

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Moses, Alan M, Daniel A Pollard, David A. Nix, et al.. (2006). Large-Scale Turnover of Functional Transcription Factor Binding Sites in Drosophila. PLoS Computational Biology. 2(10). e130–e130. 179 indexed citations

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Pollard, Daniel A, Alan M Moses, Venky N. Iyer, & Michael B. Eisen. (2006). Detecting the limits of regulatory element conservation and divergence estimation using pairwise and multiple alignments. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 376–376. 38 indexed citations

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Pollard, Daniel A., Venky N. Iyer, Alan M Moses, & Michael B. Eisen. (2006). Widespread Discordance of Gene Trees with Species Tree in Drosophila: Evidence for Incomplete Lineage Sorting. PLoS Genetics. 2(10). e173–e173. 302 indexed citations

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Kellis, Manolis, Alan M Moses, Derek Y. Chiang, Eric S. Lander, & Michael B. Eisen. (2003). Position specific variation in the rate of evolution in transcription factor binding sites. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 10 indexed citations

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Moses, Alan M, Derek Y. Chiang, Manolis Kellis, Eric S. Lander, & Michael B. Eisen. (2003). Position specific variation in the rate of evolution in transcription factor binding sites. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 3(1). 19–19. 118 indexed citations

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