Chris Sander

257.8k total citations · 42 hit papers
308 papers, 93.4k citations indexed

About

Chris Sander is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Sander has authored 308 papers receiving a total of 93.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 276 papers in Molecular Biology, 76 papers in Cancer Research and 52 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Chris Sander's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (77 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (55 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (54 papers). Chris Sander is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (77 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (55 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (54 papers). Chris Sander collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Chris Sander's co-authors include Liisa Holm, Burkhard Rost, Nikolaus Schultz, Debora S. Marks, Ethan Cerami, Bülent Arman Aksoy, Anders J. Skanderup, Erik Larsson, Jianjiong Gao and S. Onur Sumer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Chris Sander

305 papers receiving 92.1k citations

Hit Papers

The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: A... 1992 2026 2003 2014 2012 2013 2013 1993 2004 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
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. The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data
    2012 12.0k citations Ethan Cerami, Jianjiong Gao et al. Cancer Discovery profile →
  2. Integrative Analysis of Complex Cancer Genomics and Clinical Profiles Using the cBioPortal
    2013 10.8k citations Jianjiong Gao, Bülent Arman Aksoy et al. profile →
  3. The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project
    2013 5.4k citations John N. Weinstein, Gordon B. Mills et al. Nature Genetics profile →
  4. Protein Structure Comparison by Alignment of Distance Matrices
    1993 3.5k citations Liisa Holm, Chris Sander profile →
  5. Human MicroRNA Targets
    2004 3.1k citations Thomas Tuschl, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  6. MicroRNA targets in Drosophila
    2003 2.8k citations Thomas Tuschl, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  7. Prediction of Protein Secondary Structure at Better than 70% Accuracy
    1993 2.4k citations Burkhard Rost, Chris Sander profile →
  8. The microRNA.org resource: targets and expression
    2007 2.1k citations Debora S. Marks, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  9. Predicting the functional impact of protein mutations: application to cancer genomics
    2011 1.4k citations Boris Reva, Yevgeniy Antipin et al. profile →
  10. Precision microbiome reconstitution restores bile acid mediated resistance to Clostridium difficile
    2014 1.3k citations Richard R. Stein, Agnès Viale et al. profile →
  11. Comprehensive modeling of microRNA targets predicts functional non-conserved and non-canonical sites
    2010 1.3k citations Phaedra Agius, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  12. Identification of Virus-Encoded MicroRNAs
    2004 1.2k citations Debora S. Marks, Chris Sander et al. Science profile →
  13. Combining evolutionary information and neural networks to predict protein secondary structure
    1994 1.2k citations Burkhard Rost, Chris Sander profile →
  14. Mapping the Protein Universe
    1996 1.2k citations Liisa Holm, Chris Sander Science profile →
  15. Dali: a network tool for protein structure comparison
    1995 1.2k citations Liisa Holm, Chris Sander profile →
  16. Evaluating cell lines as tumour models by comparison of genomic profiles
    2013 1.1k citations Douglas A. Levine, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  17. Direct-coupling analysis of residue coevolution captures native contacts across many protein families
    2011 971 citations Debora S. Marks, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  18. Emerging landscape of oncogenic signatures across human cancers
    2013 912 citations Martin L. Miller, Bülent Arman Aksoy et al. Nature Genetics profile →
  19. Identification of microRNAs of the herpesvirus family
    2005 896 citations Mariana Lagos‐Quintana, Robert P. Sheridan et al. profile →
  20. Genomic and transcriptomic hallmarks of poorly differentiated and anaplastic thyroid cancers
    2016 862 citations Nikolaus Schultz, Michael F. Berger et al. profile →
  21. The double cubic lattice method: Efficient approaches to numerical integration of surface area and volume and to dot surface contouring of molecular assemblies
    1995 833 citations Chris Sander et al. profile →
  22. Pathway Commons, a web resource for biological pathway data
    2010 764 citations Ethan Cerami, Emek Demir et al. profile →
  23. Protein 3D Structure Computed from Evolutionary Sequence Variation
    2011 762 citations Debora S. Marks, Robert P. Sheridan et al. profile →
  24. miR-122, a Mammalian Liver-Specific microRNA, is Processed from hcr mRNA and MayDownregulate the High Affinity Cationic Amino Acid Transporter CAT-1
    2004 696 citations Debora S. Marks, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  25. An ATPase domain common to prokaryotic cell cycle proteins, sugar kinases, actin, and hsp70 heat shock proteins.
    1992 677 citations Chris Sander et al. profile →
  26. Enlarged representative set of protein structures
    1994 672 citations Chris Sander et al. profile →
  27. Correlated mutations and residue contacts in proteins
    1994 652 citations Chris Sander, Reinhard Schneider et al. profile →
  28. The Immunoglobulin Fold
    1994 601 citations Liisa Holm, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  29. Transmembrane helices predicted at 95% accuracy
    1995 574 citations Burkhard Rost, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  30. An Integrated Metabolic Atlas of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
    2016 531 citations A. Ari Hakimi, A. Rose Brannon et al. profile →
  31. Conservation and prediction of solvent accessibility in protein families
    1994 513 citations Burkhard Rost, Chris Sander profile →
  32. The nuclear deubiquitinase BAP1 is commonly inactivated by somatic mutations and 3p21.1 losses in malignant pleural mesothelioma
    2011 512 citations Barry S. Taylor, Boris Reva et al. Nature Genetics profile →
  33. Genome Sequencing Identifies a Basis for Everolimus Sensitivity
    2012 480 citations Gopa Iyer, Aphrothiti J. Hanrahan et al. Science profile →
  34. PredictProtein—an open resource for online prediction of protein structural and functional features
    2014 455 citations Reinhard Schneider, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  35. Mutual exclusivity analysis identifies oncogenic network modules
    2011 452 citations Ethan Cerami, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  36. Mutation effects predicted from sequence co-variation
    2017 447 citations Frank J. Poelwijk, Michael Springer et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  37. Cellular cofactors affecting hepatitis C virus infection and replication
    2007 437 citations Robert P. Sheridan, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  38. Ecological Modeling from Time-Series Inference: Insight into Dynamics and Stability of Intestinal Microbiota
    2013 425 citations Richard R. Stein, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  39. Protein design and variant prediction using autoregressive generative models
    2021 195 citations Adam J. Riesselman, Chris Sander et al. profile →
  40. Dictionary of immune responses to cytokines at single-cell resolution
    2023 122 citations Chris Sander et al. profile →
  41. Machine learning for functional protein design
    2024 118 citations Pascal Notin, Nathan Rollins et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  42. Learning from prepandemic data to forecast viral escape
    2023 85 citations Pascal Notin, Chris Sander et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chris Sander United States 119 69.7k 26.3k 13.4k 10.6k 8.3k 308 93.4k
Rakesh K. Jain United States 170 56.7k 0.8× 27.5k 1.0× 34.7k 2.6× 17.1k 1.6× 3.6k 0.4× 862 134.8k
Peer Bork Germany 151 97.1k 1.4× 9.5k 0.4× 7.0k 0.5× 6.1k 0.6× 15.3k 1.8× 524 145.9k
Minoru Kanehisa Japan 75 76.3k 1.1× 12.2k 0.5× 5.4k 0.4× 7.0k 0.7× 10.1k 1.2× 266 114.1k
Stuart L. Schreiber United States 139 66.7k 1.0× 9.4k 0.4× 11.3k 0.8× 7.1k 0.7× 4.7k 0.6× 600 91.9k
Todd R. Golub United States 111 77.0k 1.1× 27.5k 1.0× 18.8k 1.4× 13.7k 1.3× 7.3k 0.9× 229 113.9k
Adrian L. Harris United Kingdom 164 64.9k 0.9× 45.7k 1.7× 34.9k 2.6× 13.0k 1.2× 8.0k 1.0× 1.2k 109.9k
David Botstein United States 150 111.9k 1.6× 22.9k 0.9× 20.5k 1.5× 8.0k 0.8× 29.0k 3.5× 425 163.8k
Lewis C. Cantley United States 183 104.9k 1.5× 29.7k 1.1× 27.4k 2.0× 11.3k 1.1× 7.3k 0.9× 710 150.4k
Patrick O. Brown United States 137 85.4k 1.2× 24.6k 0.9× 20.1k 1.5× 7.3k 0.7× 14.8k 1.8× 272 121.0k
Douglas Hanahan United States 109 79.7k 1.1× 36.5k 1.4× 43.8k 3.3× 12.6k 1.2× 13.4k 1.6× 230 137.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Sander

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Su, Yang, et al.. (2024). LanTERN: A Fluorescent Sensor That Specifically Responds to Lanthanides. ACS Synthetic Biology. 13(3). 958–962. 6 indexed citations
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Notin, Pascal, Nathan Rollins, Yarin Gal, Chris Sander, & Debora S. Marks. (2024). Machine learning for functional protein design. Nature Biotechnology. 42(2). 216–228. 118 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Xubin, Gonghong Yan, Jacob H. Elnaggar, et al.. (2022). Precision Combination Therapies Based on Recurrent Oncogenic Coalterations. Cancer Discovery. 12(6). 1542–1559. 20 indexed citations
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Stiffler, Michael A., Frank J. Poelwijk, Kelly P. Brock, et al.. (2019). Protein Structure from Experimental Evolution. Cell Systems. 10(1). 15–24.e5. 25 indexed citations
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Okada, Tomoyo, Ann Y. Lee, Li‐Xuan Qin, et al.. (2016). Integrin-α10 Dependency Identifies RAC and RICTOR as Therapeutic Targets in High-Grade Myxofibrosarcoma. Cancer Discovery. 6(10). 1148–1165. 68 indexed citations
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Luna, Augustin, Özgün Babur, Bülent Arman Aksoy, Emek Demir, & Chris Sander. (2015). PaxtoolsR: pathway analysis in R using Pathway Commons. Bioinformatics. 32(8). 1262–1264. 20 indexed citations
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Voss, Martin H., A. Ari Hakimi, Can G. Pham, et al.. (2014). Tumor Genetic Analyses of Patients with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma and Extended Benefit from mTOR Inhibitor Therapy. Clinical Cancer Research. 20(7). 1955–1964. 156 indexed citations
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Aksoy, Bülent Arman, Emek Demir, Özgün Babur, et al.. (2014). Prediction of individualized therapeutic vulnerabilities in cancer from genomic profiles. Bioinformatics. 30(14). 2051–2059. 25 indexed citations
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Weinstein, John N., Gordon B. Mills, Kenna Shaw, et al.. (2013). The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project. Nature Genetics. 45(10). 1113–1120. 5399 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hakimi, A. Ari, Irina Ostrovnaya, Boris Reva, et al.. (2013). Adverse Outcomes in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma with Mutations of 3p21 Epigenetic Regulators BAP1 and SETD2 : A Report by MSKCC and the KIRC TCGA Research Network. Clinical Cancer Research. 19(12). 3259–3267. 267 indexed citations
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Cerami, Ethan, Jianjiong Gao, Uğur Doğrusöz, et al.. (2012). The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data. Cancer Discovery. 2(5). 401–404. 11972 indexed citations breakdown →
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Iyer, Gopa, Aphrothiti J. Hanrahan, Matthew I. Milowsky, et al.. (2012). Genome Sequencing Identifies a Basis for Everolimus Sensitivity. Science. 338(6104). 221–221. 480 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mitsiades, Nicholas, Clifford C. Sung, Nikolaus Schultz, et al.. (2012). Distinct Patterns of Dysregulated Expression of Enzymes Involved in Androgen Synthesis and Metabolism in Metastatic Prostate Cancer Tumors. Cancer Research. 72(23). 6142–6152. 175 indexed citations
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Taylor, Barry S., Penelope DeCarolis, Christina V. Angeles, et al.. (2011). Frequent Alterations and Epigenetic Silencing of Differentiation Pathway Genes in Structurally Rearranged Liposarcomas. Cancer Discovery. 1(7). 587–597. 92 indexed citations
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Hanrahan, Aphrothiti J., Nikolaus Schultz, Maggie L. Westfal, et al.. (2011). Genomic Complexity and AKT Dependence in Serous Ovarian Cancer. Cancer Discovery. 2(1). 56–67. 88 indexed citations
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Ugras, Stacy, Elliott Brill, Anders J. Skanderup, et al.. (2011). Small RNA Sequencing and Functional Characterization Reveals MicroRNA-143 Tumor Suppressor Activity in Liposarcoma. Cancer Research. 71(17). 5659–5669. 98 indexed citations
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Brill, Elliott, Ryan M. Gobble, Christina V. Angeles, et al.. (2010). ZIC1 Overexpression Is Oncogenic in Liposarcoma. Cancer Research. 70(17). 6891–6901. 39 indexed citations
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Singer, Samuel, Nicholas D. Socci, Grazia Ambrosini, et al.. (2007). Gene Expression Profiling of Liposarcoma Identifies Distinct Biological Types/Subtypes and Potential Therapeutic Targets in Well-Differentiated and Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma. Cancer Research. 67(14). 6626–6636. 189 indexed citations
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Holm, Liisa & Chris Sander. (1996). Mapping the Protein Universe. Science. 273(5275). 595–602. 1237 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rost, Burkhard, Chris Sander, & Reinhard Schneider. (1994). Evolution and Neural Networks – Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Above 71% Accuracy. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg). 385–394. 7 indexed citations

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