Brian Desany

12.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Brian Desany is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Desany has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Plant Science and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Brian Desany's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (2 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (2 papers). Brian Desany is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (2 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (2 papers). Brian Desany collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Australia. Brian Desany's co-authors include Stephen J. Elledge, Annette A. Alcasabas, Qinghua Liu, Yolanda Sánchez, Bin Wang, William J. Jones, Michael D. Miller, Jason P. Affourtit, Isak S. Pretorius and Paul J. Chambers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Brian Desany

16 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Regulation of RAD53 by the ATM -Like Kinases MEC1 and TEL1 in Yeast Cell Cycle Checkpoint Pathways

1996 519 citations Yolanda Sánchez, Brian Desany et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Desany United States	16	1.7k	580	317	312	297	16	2.7k
Kenji Ohba Japan	23	697 0.4×	381 0.7×	184 0.6×	183 0.6×	150 0.5×	54	1.7k
Twan Rutten Germany	41	2.6k 1.5×	3.2k 5.5×	184 0.6×	215 0.7×	344 1.2×	128	4.5k
D.E. Kellogg United States	7	1.2k 0.7×	501 0.9×	91 0.3×	164 0.5×	92 0.3×	8	2.1k
Ennes A. Auerswald Germany	27	1.9k 1.1×	461 0.8×	55 0.2×	57 0.2×	240 0.8×	46	2.9k
Na‐Sheng Lin Taiwan	32	1.7k 1.0×	2.8k 4.8×	121 0.4×	91 0.3×	104 0.4×	152	4.0k
Jean‐François Arrighi France	27	659 0.4×	1.5k 2.6×	441 1.4×	152 0.5×	59 0.2×	57	3.4k
A. John United States	17	1.1k 0.7×	151 0.3×	95 0.3×	385 1.2×	282 0.9×	25	2.0k
Beatriz G.T. Pogo United States	32	1.3k 0.7×	442 0.8×	618 1.9×	94 0.3×	57 0.2×	97	3.2k
James Erickson United States	26	3.2k 1.8×	337 0.6×	44 0.1×	166 0.5×	297 1.0×	52	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Desany

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Desany

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16 of 16 papers shown

Haase, Chad P., Michael R. Weil, Karla D. Passalacqua, et al.. (2012). Global mRNA decay analysis at single nucleotide resolution reveals segmental and positional degradation patterns in a Gram-positive bacterium. Genome biology. 13(4). R30–R30. 44 indexed citations

Prochnik, Simon, Pradeep Reddy Marri, Brian Desany, et al.. (2012). The Cassava Genome: Current Progress, Future Directions. Tropical Plant Biology. 5(1). 88–94. 216 indexed citations

Holder, Jason W., Paul A. Godfrey, Christopher A. Desjardins, et al.. (2011). Comparative and Functional Genomics of Rhodococcus opacus PD630 for Biofuels Development. PLoS Genetics. 7(9). e1002219–e1002219. 101 indexed citations

Samarakoon, Upeka, Allison Regier, Asako Tan, et al.. (2011). High-throughput 454 resequencing for allele discovery and recombination mapping in Plasmodium falciparum. BMC Genomics. 12(1). 116–116. 20 indexed citations

Borneman, Anthony R., Brian Desany, David W. H. Riches, et al.. (2011). Whole-Genome Comparison Reveals Novel Genetic Elements That Characterize the Genome of Industrial Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genetics. 7(2). e1001287–e1001287. 226 indexed citations

Borneman, Anthony R., Brian Desany, David W. H. Riches, et al.. (2011). The genome sequence of the wine yeast VIN7 reveals an allotriploid hybrid genome with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces kudriavzevii origins. FEMS Yeast Research. 12(1). 88–96. 84 indexed citations

Tripp, H. James, Shellie R. Bench, Kendra A. Turk, et al.. (2010). Metabolic streamlining in an open-ocean nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium. Nature. 464(7285). 90–94. 244 indexed citations

Archer, John, Michael Braverman, Bruce E. Taillon, et al.. (2009). Detection of low-frequency pretherapy chemokine (CXC motif) receptor 4 (CXCR4)-using HIV-1 with ultra-deep pyrosequencing. AIDS. 23(10). 1209–1218. 98 indexed citations

Simen, Birgitte B., Jan Fredrik Simons, Katherine Huppler Hullsiek, et al.. (2009). Low-Abundance Drug-Resistant Viral Variants in Chronically HIV-Infected, Antiretroviral Treatment–Naive Patients Significantly Impact Treatment Outcomes. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 199(5). 693–701. 318 indexed citations

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Cornman, Robert S., Yan Ping Chen, Michael C. Schatz, et al.. (2009). Genomic Analyses of the Microsporidian Nosema ceranae, an Emergent Pathogen of Honey Bees. PLoS Pathogens. 5(6). e1000466–e1000466. 180 indexed citations

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Rounsley, Steve, Pradeep Reddy Marri, Yeisoo Yu, et al.. (2009). De Novo Next Generation Sequencing of Plant Genomes. Rice. 2(1). 35–43. 45 indexed citations

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Levenkova, Natasha, William Chow, Pascal Bouffard, et al.. (2008). Assessing the feasibility of GS FLX Pyrosequencing for sequencing the Atlantic salmon genome. BMC Genomics. 9(1). 404–404. 66 indexed citations

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Yeager, Meredith, Nianqing Xiao, Richard B. Hayes, et al.. (2008). Comprehensive resequence analysis of a 136 kb region of human chromosome 8q24 associated with prostate and colon cancers. Human Genetics. 124(2). 161–170. 74 indexed citations

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Desany, Brian & Zemin Zhang. (2004). Bioinformatics and cancer target discovery. Drug Discovery Today. 9(18). 795–802. 37 indexed citations

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Desany, Brian, et al.. (1998). Recovery from DNA replicational stress is the essential function of the S-phase checkpoint pathway. Genes & Development. 12(18). 2956–2970. 388 indexed citations

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Sánchez, Yolanda, Brian Desany, William J. Jones, et al.. (1996). Regulation of RAD53 by the ATM -Like Kinases MEC1 and TEL1 in Yeast Cell Cycle Checkpoint Pathways. Science. 271(5247). 357–360. 519 indexed citations breakdown →

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