Cole Trapnell

131.5k total citations · 27 hit papers
102 papers, 85.0k citations indexed

About

Cole Trapnell is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cole Trapnell has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 85.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Cancer Research and 12 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Cole Trapnell's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (54 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (26 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (14 papers). Cole Trapnell is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (54 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (26 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (14 papers). Cole Trapnell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and South Africa. Cole Trapnell's co-authors include Steven L. Salzberg, Lior Pachter, Mihai Pop, Ben Langmead, Geo Pertea, Harold Pimentel, John L. Rinn, Daehwan Kim, Loyal A. Goff and Ryan Kelley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Cole Trapnell

98 papers receiving 84.4k citations

Hit Papers

Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA seq... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2010 2013 2012 2009 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cole Trapnell United States 60 58.9k 16.6k 16.3k 9.6k 9.4k 102 85.0k
Simon Anders Germany 31 51.5k 0.9× 11.8k 0.7× 15.8k 1.0× 10.7k 1.1× 9.6k 1.0× 59 87.9k
Michael I. Love United States 31 39.1k 0.7× 8.9k 0.5× 11.3k 0.7× 8.8k 0.9× 7.0k 0.8× 93 68.1k
Wolfgang Huber Germany 72 67.0k 1.1× 14.6k 0.9× 17.8k 1.1× 12.8k 1.3× 12.6k 1.3× 249 109.8k
Ben Langmead United States 31 49.5k 0.8× 8.7k 0.5× 18.4k 1.1× 6.0k 0.6× 11.2k 1.2× 79 79.0k
Jun Wang China 107 34.0k 0.6× 7.9k 0.5× 11.7k 0.7× 5.4k 0.6× 9.5k 1.0× 1.9k 66.2k
Minoru Kanehisa Japan 75 76.3k 1.3× 12.2k 0.7× 14.1k 0.9× 8.7k 0.9× 10.1k 1.1× 266 114.1k
Christian von Mering Switzerland 68 45.6k 0.8× 7.5k 0.5× 7.0k 0.4× 5.6k 0.6× 6.3k 0.7× 134 69.7k
Lior Pachter United States 56 36.2k 0.6× 8.1k 0.5× 12.4k 0.8× 4.8k 0.5× 7.7k 0.8× 175 55.2k
Michael W. Pfaffl Germany 47 30.7k 0.5× 6.1k 0.4× 9.5k 0.6× 7.1k 0.7× 6.7k 0.7× 247 62.0k
Gregory J. Hannon United States 142 84.2k 1.4× 35.0k 2.1× 18.5k 1.1× 6.6k 0.7× 10.4k 1.1× 320 104.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Cole Trapnell

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cole Trapnell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cole Trapnell

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cole Trapnell. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cole Trapnell 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 Cole Trapnell. Cole Trapnell 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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Suiter, Chase C., Diego Calderon, David Lee, et al.. (2025). Combinatorial mapping of E3 ubiquitin ligases to their target substrates. Molecular Cell. 85(4). 829–842.e6. 3 indexed citations
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Lalanne, Jean‐Benoît, Samuel G. Regalado, Silvia Domcke, et al.. (2024). Multiplex profiling of developmental cis-regulatory elements with quantitative single-cell expression reporters. Nature Methods. 21(6). 983–993. 13 indexed citations
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Lotfollahi, Mohammad, Carlo De Donno, Leon Hetzel, et al.. (2023). Predicting cellular responses to complex perturbations in high‐throughput screens. Molecular Systems Biology. 19(6). e11517–e11517. 97 indexed citations breakdown →
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Calderon, Diego, Ronnie Blecher‐Gonen, Xingfan Huang, et al.. (2022). The continuum of Drosophila embryonic development at single-cell resolution. Science. 377(6606). eabn5800–eabn5800. 45 indexed citations
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Hadland, Brandon, Barbara Varnum‐Finney, Adam Heck, et al.. (2022). Engineering a niche supporting hematopoietic stem cell development using integrated single-cell transcriptomics. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1584–1584. 28 indexed citations
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Rubin, Sara A., Chloé S. Baron, Cecília Pessoa Rodrigues, et al.. (2022). Single-cell analyses reveal early thymic progenitors and pre-B cells in zebrafish. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 219(9). 33 indexed citations
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Bonora, Giancarlo, Vijay Ramani, Ritambhara Singh, et al.. (2021). Single-cell landscape of nuclear configuration and gene expression during stem cell differentiation and X inactivation. Genome biology. 22(1). 279–279. 16 indexed citations
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Cao, Junyue, Diana R. O’Day, Hannah A. Pliner, et al.. (2020). A human cell atlas of fetal gene expression. Science. 370(6518). 383 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hanchate, Naresh K., Eun Jeong Lee, Kunio Kondoh, et al.. (2020). Connect-seq to superimpose molecular on anatomical neural circuit maps. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(8). 4375–4384. 26 indexed citations
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Furlan, Scott N., Karnail Singh, Christina Lopez, et al.. (2020). IL-2 enhances ex vivo–expanded regulatory T-cell persistence after adoptive transfer. Blood Advances. 4(8). 1594–1605. 30 indexed citations
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Saunders, Lauren M., Andrew J. Aman, Victor M. Lewis, et al.. (2019). Thyroid hormone regulates distinct paths to maturation in pigment cell lineages. eLife. 8. 107 indexed citations
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Cao, Junyue, Malte Spielmann, Xiaojie Qiu, et al.. (2019). The single-cell transcriptional landscape of mammalian organogenesis. Nature. 566(7745). 496–502. 2172 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sharon, Nadav, Raghav Chawla, Jonas Mueller, et al.. (2019). A Peninsular Structure Coordinates Asynchronous Differentiation with Morphogenesis to Generate Pancreatic Islets. Cell. 176(4). 790–804.e13. 97 indexed citations
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Packer, Jonathan S., Qin Zhu, Chau Huynh, et al.. (2019). A lineage-resolved molecular atlas of C. elegans embryogenesis at single-cell resolution. Science. 365(6459). 301 indexed citations breakdown →
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Srivatsan, Sanjay, José L. McFaline‐Figueroa, Vijay Ramani, et al.. (2019). Massively multiplex chemical transcriptomics at single-cell resolution. Science. 367(6473). 45–51. 198 indexed citations
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Cao, Junyue, Darren A. Cusanovich, Vijay Ramani, et al.. (2018). Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in thousands of single cells. Science. 361(6409). 1380–1385. 585 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cao, Junyue, Jonathan S. Packer, Vijay Ramani, et al.. (2017). Comprehensive single-cell transcriptional profiling of a multicellular organism. Science. 357(6352). 661–667. 896 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hanchate, Naresh K., Kunio Kondoh, Zhonghua Lu, et al.. (2015). Single-cell transcriptomics reveals receptor transformations during olfactory neurogenesis. Science. 350(6265). 1251–1255. 159 indexed citations
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Kim, Daehwan, Geo Pertea, Cole Trapnell, et al.. (2013). TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions. Genome biology. 14(4). R36–R36. 9419 indexed citations breakdown →
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Altschul, Stephen F., Barry Demchak, Richard Durbin, et al.. (2013). The anatomy of successful computational biology software. Nature Biotechnology. 31(10). 894–897. 18 indexed citations

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