Bing Ren

115.9k total citations · 27 hit papers
216 papers, 45.0k citations indexed

About

Bing Ren is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bing Ren has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 45.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 183 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Genetics and 28 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Bing Ren's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (116 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (62 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (45 papers). Bing Ren is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (116 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (62 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (45 papers). Bing Ren collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Belgium. Bing Ren's co-authors include Jesse R. Dixon, Gary C. Hon, Siddarth Selvaraj, Feng Yue, Ming Hu, Audrey Kim, Yin Shen, Zhen Ye, R. David Hawkins and Jun S. Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Bing Ren

212 papers receiving 44.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Topological domains in mammalian genomes identified by analysis of chromatin interactions
    2012 4.5k citations Jesse R. Dixon, Ming Hu et al. Nature profile →
  2. Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences
    2009 3.4k citations Bing Ren et al. Nature profile →
  3. N6-methyladenosine-dependent regulation of messenger RNA stability
    2013 3.3k citations Bing Ren, Chuan He et al. Nature profile →
  4. Distinct and predictive chromatin signatures of transcriptional promoters and enhancers in the human genome
    2007 2.5k citations Bing Ren et al. Nature Genetics profile →
  5. Genome-Wide Location and Function of DNA Binding Proteins
    2000 1.4k citations Bing Ren et al. Science profile →
  6. Identification of 67 Histone Marks and Histone Lysine Crotonylation as a New Type of Histone Modification
    2011 1.4k citations Bing Ren et al. profile →
  7. The NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Mapping Consortium
    2010 1.2k citations Bing Ren, Manolis Kellis et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  8. Hotspots of aberrant epigenomic reprogramming in human induced pluripotent stem cells
    2011 1.1k citations Bing Ren et al. Nature profile →
  9. Remodeling of Yeast Genome Expression in Response to Environmental Changes
    2001 1.1k citations Bing Ren et al. profile →
  10. Chromatin architecture reorganization during stem cell differentiation
    2015 1.1k citations Jesse R. Dixon, Ah Young Lee et al. Nature profile →
  11. A map of the cis-regulatory sequences in the mouse genome
    2012 1.0k citations Jesse R. Dixon, Bing Ren et al. Nature profile →
  12. A high-resolution map of the three-dimensional chromatin interactome in human cells
    2013 828 citations Jesse R. Dixon, Ah Young Lee et al. Nature profile →
  13. Analysis of the Vertebrate Insulator Protein CTCF-Binding Sites in the Human Genome
    2007 811 citations Bing Ren et al. profile →
  14. Base-Resolution Analysis of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in the Mammalian Genome
    2012 798 citations Miao Yu, Bing Ren et al. profile →
  15. A high-resolution map of active promoters in the human genome
    2005 726 citations Bing Ren et al. Nature profile →
  16. CRISPR Inversion of CTCF Sites Alters Genome Topology and Enhancer/Promoter Function
    2015 648 citations David U. Gorkin, Bing Ren et al. profile →
  17. Cohesin and CTCF differentially affect chromatin architecture and gene expression in human cells
    2013 566 citations Jesse R. Dixon, Bing Ren et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  18. Chromatin Domains: The Unit of Chromosome Organization
    2016 504 citations Jesse R. Dixon, David U. Gorkin et al. profile →
  19. A Compendium of Chromatin Contact Maps Reveals Spatially Active Regions in the Human Genome
    2016 489 citations Ming Hu, Zheng Xu et al. profile →
  20. Broad histone H3K4me3 domains in mouse oocytes modulate maternal-to-zygotic transition
    2016 450 citations Guoqiang Li, Ah Young Lee et al. Nature profile →
  21. The 4D nucleome project
    2017 439 citations Bing Ren et al. Nature profile →
  22. Human body epigenome maps reveal noncanonical DNA methylation variation
    2015 424 citations Bing Ren et al. Nature profile →
  23. Temporal transcriptional response to ethylene gas drives growth hormone cross-regulation in Arabidopsis
    2013 334 citations Bing Ren et al. profile →
  24. Comprehensive analysis of single cell ATAC-seq data with SnapATAC
    2021 225 citations Rongxin Fang, Sebastian Preißl et al. Nature Communications profile →
  25. A single-cell atlas of chromatin accessibility in the human genome
    2021 200 citations James D. Hocker, Joshua Chiou et al. profile →
  26. Promoter-proximal CTCF binding promotes distal enhancer-dependent gene activation
    2021 184 citations Naoki Kubo, Haruhiko Ishii et al. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology profile →
  27. Spatially organized cellular communities form the developing human heart
    2024 64 citations Elie N. Farah, Colin Kern et al. Nature profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Bing Ren 39.9k 7.5k 5.6k 5.5k 2.3k 216 45.0k
Yi Zhang 52.9k 1.3× 9.3k 1.2× 3.6k 0.6× 5.6k 1.0× 2.5k 1.1× 420 60.2k
Jay Shendure 36.0k 0.9× 17.1k 2.3× 4.4k 0.8× 8.2k 1.5× 3.2k 1.4× 297 52.4k
Danny Reinberg 51.6k 1.3× 9.6k 1.3× 4.3k 0.8× 4.4k 0.8× 3.1k 1.4× 303 59.5k
B Bernstein 51.6k 1.3× 8.0k 1.1× 5.7k 1.0× 11.3k 2.1× 4.2k 1.8× 146 59.5k
R Myers 32.6k 0.8× 12.7k 1.7× 4.8k 0.9× 4.3k 0.8× 3.6k 1.6× 299 50.2k
J. Michael Cherry 29.4k 0.7× 5.4k 0.7× 4.9k 0.9× 4.0k 0.7× 2.8k 1.2× 95 40.4k
Marco A. Marra 18.9k 0.5× 5.0k 0.7× 5.8k 1.0× 5.2k 0.9× 2.1k 0.9× 361 30.0k
Yong Zhang 20.8k 0.5× 3.6k 0.5× 4.1k 0.7× 3.9k 0.7× 2.5k 1.1× 374 28.1k
B Wold 27.6k 0.7× 5.6k 0.7× 6.9k 1.2× 5.3k 1.0× 3.0k 1.3× 114 38.6k
Tarjei S. Mikkelsen 26.3k 0.7× 5.4k 0.7× 1.8k 0.3× 6.1k 1.1× 2.8k 1.2× 65 31.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bing Ren

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bing Ren

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bing Ren. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bing Ren based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bing Ren. Bing Ren is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mao, Weihua, Ziyi Xu, Qi Liu, et al.. (2024). A Whole-Genome Survey and the Mitochondrial Genome of Acanthocepola indica Provide Insights into Its Phylogenetic Relationships in Priacanthiformes. Animals. 14(22). 3257–3257. 1 indexed citations
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Ren, Bing, et al.. (2024). Enhanced braille recognition based on piezoresistive and piezoelectric dual-mode tactile sensors. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 366. 115000–115000. 15 indexed citations
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Lee, Lindsay, Miao Yu, Xiaoqi Li, et al.. (2023). SnapHiC-D: a computational pipeline to identify differential chromatin contacts from single-cell Hi-C data. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 24(5). 4 indexed citations
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Lee, Lindsay, Hongyu Yu, Chenxu Zhu, et al.. (2023). SnapFISH: a computational pipeline to identify chromatin loops from multiplexed DNA FISH data. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4873–4873. 5 indexed citations
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Meng, Zhipeng, Cao Fang, Yunjiang Qiu, et al.. (2022). The Hippo pathway mediates Semaphorin signaling. Science Advances. 8(21). eabl9806–eabl9806. 12 indexed citations
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Destici, Eugin, Fugui Zhu, Sebastian Preißl, et al.. (2022). Human-gained heart enhancers are associated with species-specific cardiac attributes. Nature Cardiovascular Research. 1(9). 830–843. 6 indexed citations
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Hocker, James D., Georg Vogler, Mingyi Wang, et al.. (2022). Age-dependent Lamin changes induce cardiac dysfunction via dysregulation of cardiac transcriptional programs. Nature Aging. 3(1). 17–33. 16 indexed citations
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Huang, Hui, Quan Zhu, Yuanyuan Han, et al.. (2021). CTCF mediates dosage- and sequence-context-dependent transcriptional insulation by forming local chromatin domains. Nature Genetics. 53(7). 1064–1074. 104 indexed citations
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Yu, Miao, Armen Abnousi, Yanxiao Zhang, et al.. (2021). SnapHiC: a computational pipeline to identify chromatin loops from single-cell Hi-C data. Nature Methods. 18(9). 1056–1059. 49 indexed citations
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Zhu, Chenxu, Yanxiao Zhang, Yang Eric Li, et al.. (2021). Joint profiling of histone modifications and transcriptome in single cells from mouse brain. Nature Methods. 18(3). 283–292. 181 indexed citations
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Yan, Jian, Yunjiang Qiu, Yimeng Yin, et al.. (2021). Systematic analysis of binding of transcription factors to noncoding variants. Nature. 591(7848). 147–151. 88 indexed citations
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Kubo, Naoki, Haruhiko Ishii, Xiong Xiong, et al.. (2021). Promoter-proximal CTCF binding promotes distal enhancer-dependent gene activation. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 28(2). 152–161. 184 indexed citations breakdown →
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You, Qiancheng, Anthony Cheng, Xi Gu, et al.. (2020). Direct DNA crosslinking with CAP-C uncovers transcription-dependent chromatin organization at high resolution. Nature Biotechnology. 39(2). 225–235. 32 indexed citations
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Li, Guoqiang, Yaping Liu, Yanxiao Zhang, et al.. (2019). Joint profiling of DNA methylation and chromatin architecture in single cells. Nature Methods. 16(10). 991–993. 151 indexed citations
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Heckerman, David, Ali Torkamani, Li Yin, et al.. (2019). Ranking of non-coding pathogenic variants and putative essential regions of the human genome. Nature Communications. 10(1). 52 indexed citations
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Qin, Peng, Shaoying Lu, Yuxin Shi, et al.. (2018). Coordinated histone modifications and chromatin reorganization in a single cell revealed by FRET biosensors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(50). E11681–E11690. 45 indexed citations
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Martin, Joshua S., Zheng Xu, Alex P. Reiner, et al.. (2017). HUGIn: Hi-C Unifying Genomic Interrogator. Bioinformatics. 33(23). 3793–3795. 37 indexed citations
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Ishii, Haruhiko, James T. Kadonaga, & Bing Ren. (2015). MPE-seq, a new method for the genome-wide analysis of chromatin structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(27). E3457–65. 56 indexed citations
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Attanasio, Catia, Alex S. Nord, Yiwen Zhu, et al.. (2013). Fine Tuning of Craniofacial Morphology by Distant-Acting Enhancers. Science. 342(6157). 1241006–1241006. 170 indexed citations
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Toyo‐oka, Kazuhito, Shinji Hirotsune, Zirong Li, et al.. (2006). Mnt-Deficient Mammary Glands Exhibit Impaired Involution and Tumors with Characteristics of Myc Overexpression. Cancer Research. 66(11). 5565–5573. 28 indexed citations

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