Can Alkan

78.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
83 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Can Alkan is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Can Alkan has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Molecular Biology, 44 papers in Genetics and 36 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Can Alkan's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (55 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (33 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (29 papers). Can Alkan is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (55 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (33 papers) and Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (29 papers). Can Alkan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Türkiye and Canada. Can Alkan's co-authors include Evan E. Eichler, Bradley P. Coe, S. Cenk Şahinalp, Saba Sajjadian, Fereydoun Hormozdiari, Maika Malig, Onur Mutlu, Francesca Antonacci, Jacob O. Kitzman and Mario Ventura and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Can Alkan

81 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Genome structural variation discovery and genotyping

2011 1.0k citations Can Alkan, Evan E. Eichler et al. profile →
Limitations of next-generation genome sequence assembly

2010 508 citations Can Alkan, Saba Sajjadian et al. Nature Methods profile →
Personalized copy number and segmental duplication maps using next-generation sequencing

2009 505 citations Can Alkan, Jeffrey M. Kidd et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Can Alkan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Can Alkan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Can Alkan 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 Can Alkan. Can Alkan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Pre-processing of paleogenomes: mitigating reference bias and postmortem damage in ancient genome data 2025 ·Genome biology ·Dilek Koptekin, (unknown), Kıvılcım Başak Vural, Ekin Sağlıcan, N. Ezgi Altınışık, Anna‐Sapfo Malaspinas, Can Alkan, Mehmet Somel	3
2	Population-level gene copy number variations reveal distinct genetic properties of different Malus species 2025 ·BMC Genomics ·(unknown), Can Alkan, Awais Khan	0
3	ECOLE: Learning to call copy number variants on whole exome sequencing data 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Can Alkan, A. Ercüment Çiçek	3
4	Identification of protein–protein interaction bridges for multiple sclerosis 2023 ·Bioinformatics ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Emre Karakoç, Bilal E. Kerman, Can Alkan	1
5	Polishing copy number variant calls on exome sequencing data via deep learning 2022 ·Genome Research ·(unknown), Can Alkan, A. Ercüment Çiçek	8
6	GenASM: a high-performance, low-power approximate string matching acceleration framework for genome sequence analysis 2021 ·Bilkent University Institutional Repository (Bilkent University) ·Damla Senol Cali, (unknown), (unknown), Can Fırtına, Lavanya Subramanian, Jeremie S. Kim, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Mohammed Alser, Juan Gómez-Luna, Amirali Boroumand, (unknown), (unknown), Sreenivas Subramoney, Can Alkan, Saugata Ghose, Onur Mutlu	65
7	Discovery of tandem and interspersed segmental duplications using high-throughput sequencing 2019 ·Bioinformatics ·Arda Söylev, (unknown), Hajar Amini, Can Alkan, Fereydoun Hormozdiari	24
8	Characterizing microsatellite polymorphisms using assembly-based and mapping-based tools 2019 ·TURKISH JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY ·(unknown), Can Alkan	1
9	Targeting PLK1 overcomes T-DM1 resistance via CDK1-dependent phosphorylation and inactivation of Bcl-2/xL in HER2-positive breast cancer 2018 ·Oncogene ·Özge Saatci, Simone Borgoni, Özge Akbulut, Selvi Durmuş, Umar Raza, Erol Eyüpoğlu, Can Alkan, Aytekin Akyol, Özgür Kütük, Stefan Wiemann, Özgür Şahin	66
10	Realizing the potential of blockchain technologies in genomics 2018 ·Genome Research ·(unknown), (unknown), Erman Ayday, Can Alkan	84
11	Determining the origin of synchronous multifocal bladder cancer by exome sequencing 2015 ·BMC Cancer ·Ömer Acar, Ezgi Özkurt, (unknown), (unknown), Can Alkan, Tarık Esen, Mehmet Somel, Nathan A. Lack	19
12	Early postzygotic mutations contribute to de novo variation in a healthy monozygotic twin pair 2014 ·Journal of Medical Genetics ·(unknown), Bekir Ergüner, Mahmut Şamil Sağıroğlu, Bayram Yüksel, Onur Emre Onat, Can Alkan, Tayfun Özçelık	38
13	Reconstructing complex regions of genomes using long-read sequencing technology 2014 ·Genome Research ·John Huddleston, Swati Ranade, Maika Malig, Francesca Antonacci, Mark Chaisson, Lawrence Hon, Peter H. Sudmant, Tina Graves, Can Alkan, Megan Y. Dennis, Richard K. Wilson, Stephen W. Turner, Jonas Korlach, Evan E. Eichler	179
14	Gorilla genome structural variation reveals evolutionary parallelisms with chimpanzee 2011 ·Genome Research ·Mario Ventura, Claudia Rita Catacchio, Can Alkan, Tomàs Marquès‐Bonet, Saba Sajjadian, Tina Graves, Fereydoun Hormozdiari, Arcadi Navarro, Maika Malig, Carl Baker, Choli Lee, Emily H. Turner, Lin Chen, Jeffrey M. Kidd, Nicoletta Archidiacono, Jay Shendure, Richard K. Wilson, Evan E. Eichler	55
15	Detection of structural variants and indels within exome data 2011 ·Nature Methods ·Emre Karakoç, Can Alkan, Brian J. O’Roak, Megan Y. Dennis, Laura Vives, Kenneth M. K. Mark, Mark J. Rieder, Debbie A. Nickerson, Evan E. Eichler	82
16	Genome-wide characterization of centromeric satellites from multiple mammalian genomes 2010 ·Genome Research ·Can Alkan, Maria Francesca Cardone, Claudia Rita Catacchio, Francesca Antonacci, Stephen J. O’Brien, Oliver A. Ryder, Stefania Purgato, (unknown), Giuliano Della Valle, Evan E. Eichler, Mario Ventura	69
17	Comparative analysis of Alu repeats in primate genomes 2009 ·Genome Research ·George E. Liu, Can Alkan, Jiang Lu, Shaying Zhao, Evan E. Eichler	63
18	Organization and Evolution of Primate Centromeric DNA from Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequence Data 2007 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Can Alkan, Mario Ventura, Nicoletta Archidiacono, Mariano Rocchi, S. Cenk Şahinalp, Evan E. Eichler	73
19	Manipulating multiple sequence alignments via MaM and WebMaM 2005 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Can Alkan, Eray Tüzün, Jérôme Buard, (unknown), Evan E. Eichler, Jeffrey A. Bailey, S. Cenk Sahinalp	6
20	Analysis of Primate Genomic Variation Reveals a Repeat-Driven Expansion of the Human Genome 2003 ·Genome Research ·Ge Liu, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Shaying Zhao, Jeffrey A. Bailey, S. Cenk Şahinalp, Can Alkan, Eray Tüzün, Eric D. Green, Evan E. Eichler	117

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