Damien Woods

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Damien Woods is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Damien Woods has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 9 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Damien Woods's work include DNA and Biological Computing (22 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (12 papers) and Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (12 papers). Damien Woods is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Biological Computing (22 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (12 papers) and Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (12 papers). Damien Woods collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Spain. Damien Woods's co-authors include Thomas J. Naughton, Erik Winfree, Gregory Izatt, Lulu Qian, David Doty, Zibo Chen, Shayan Doroudi, Robert F. Johnson, Niranjan Srinivas and Wei Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Damien Woods

29 papers receiving 1000 citations

Hit Papers

A cargo-sorting DNA robot 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300 400

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Damien Woods United States 12 737 248 206 180 158 33 1.0k
Masami Hagiya Japan 14 828 1.1× 169 0.7× 82 0.4× 221 1.2× 183 1.2× 95 1.2k
David Soloveichik United States 13 2.5k 3.4× 599 2.4× 400 1.9× 170 0.9× 203 1.3× 29 2.7k
Yuan-Jyue Chen United States 15 1.4k 1.8× 319 1.3× 181 0.9× 157 0.9× 91 0.6× 21 1.5k
Jeff Nivala United States 15 1.1k 1.6× 604 2.4× 165 0.8× 160 0.9× 87 0.6× 26 1.5k
Douglas M. Carmean United States 12 405 0.5× 35 0.1× 340 1.7× 130 0.7× 126 0.8× 17 902
Qi Cheng United States 15 261 0.4× 57 0.2× 165 0.8× 218 1.2× 189 1.2× 70 708
David Doty United States 11 380 0.5× 68 0.3× 31 0.2× 162 0.9× 79 0.5× 33 505
Eugen Czeizler Finland 9 697 0.9× 162 0.7× 23 0.1× 40 0.2× 129 0.8× 34 789
Klaus‐Peter Zauner United Kingdom 14 126 0.2× 203 0.8× 157 0.8× 64 0.4× 36 0.2× 50 529
Enzo Kopperger Germany 9 877 1.2× 345 1.4× 78 0.4× 95 0.5× 44 0.3× 13 1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Damien Woods

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Damien Woods

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Damien Woods. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Damien Woods 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 Damien Woods. Damien Woods 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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Kostitsyna, Irina, et al.. (2022). Turning machines: a simple algorithmic model for molecular robotics. Natural Computing. 23(2). 407–430. 2 indexed citations
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Woods, Damien, David Doty, Cameron Myhrvold, et al.. (2019). Diverse and robust molecular algorithms using reprogrammable DNA self-assembly. Nature. 567(7748). 366–372. 196 indexed citations
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Li, Wei, Robert F. Johnson, Zibo Chen, et al.. (2017). A cargo-sorting DNA robot. Science. 357(6356). 432 indexed citations breakdown →
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Woods, Damien & Yannick Rondelez. (2017). Preface. Natural Computing. 17(1). 1–2.
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Patitz, Matthew J., et al.. (2014). Intrinsic universality in tile self-assembly requires cooperation. arXiv (Cornell University). 752–771. 20 indexed citations
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Murphy, Niall & Damien Woods. (2013). AND and/or OR: Uniform Polynomial-Size Circuits. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 128. 150–166. 2 indexed citations
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Murphy, Niall & Damien Woods. (2012). AND and/or OR: Uniform Polynomial-Size Circuits. MURAL - Maynooth University Research Archive Library (National University of Ireland, Maynooth). 1 indexed citations
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Doty, David, Jack H. Lutz, Matthew J. Patitz, et al.. (2012). The Tile Assembly Model is Intrinsically Universal. 302–310. 33 indexed citations
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Murphy, Niall & Damien Woods. (2011). The computational power of membrane systems under tight uniformity conditions. Natural Computing. 10(1). 613–632. 28 indexed citations
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Doty, David, Jack H. Lutz, Matthew J. Patitz, Scott M. Summers, & Damien Woods. (2010). Intrinsic Universality in Self-Assembly. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 11 indexed citations
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Murphy, Niall & Damien Woods. (2009). The Computational Complexity of Uniformity and Semi-uniformity in Membrane Systems. MURAL - Maynooth University Research Archive Library (National University of Ireland, Maynooth). 73–84.
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Woods, Damien & Turlough Neary. (2009). Small Semi-Weakly Universal Turing Machines. Fundamenta Informaticae. 91(1). 179–195. 6 indexed citations
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Woods, Damien & Thomas J. Naughton. (2009). Optical computing. Applied Mathematics and Computation. 215(4). 1417–1430. 10 indexed citations
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Neary, Turlough & Damien Woods. (2009). Four Small Universal Turing Machines. Fundamenta Informaticae. 91(1). 123–144. 14 indexed citations
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Murphy, Niall, Thomas J. Naughton, Damien Woods, et al.. (2008). Implementations of a model of physical sorting. International journal of unconventional computing. 4. 3–12. 6 indexed citations
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Woods, Damien & Turlough Neary. (2008). The complexity of small universal Turing machines: A survey. Theoretical Computer Science. 410(4-5). 443–450. 21 indexed citations
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Neary, Turlough & Damien Woods. (2006). Small fast universal Turing machines. Theoretical Computer Science. 362(1-3). 171–195. 18 indexed citations
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Neary, Turlough & Damien Woods. (2005). A small fast universal Turing machine. 4 indexed citations
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Woods, Damien. (2005). Computational complexity of an optical model of computation. 6 indexed citations
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Woods, Damien & Thomas J. Naughton. (2004). An optical model of computation. Theoretical Computer Science. 334(1-3). 227–258. 21 indexed citations

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