David Karig

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

David Karig is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Karig has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in David Karig's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (14 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (6 papers). David Karig is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (14 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (6 papers). David Karig collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Italy. David Karig's co-authors include Ron Weiss, Subhayu Basu, Ernesto Andrianantoandro, Sharon Bewick, Lingchong You, Michael L. Simpson, Frances H. Arnold, Katie Brenner, Aloke Kumar and Mitchel J. Doktycz and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

David Karig

38 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline

2006 729 citations David Karig, Ron Weiss et al. Molecular Systems Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Karig United States	24	1.8k	551	405	243	182	39	2.6k
Ting Lu United States	33	2.3k 1.3×	656 1.2×	574 1.4×	308 1.3×	248 1.4×	121	3.9k
Chikara Furusawa Japan	40	4.1k 2.3×	1.0k 1.8×	1.0k 2.5×	221 0.9×	80 0.4×	162	5.2k
Diogo M. Camacho United States	17	2.4k 1.4×	690 1.3×	348 0.9×	146 0.6×	53 0.3×	23	3.7k
Michael Baym United States	21	1.6k 0.9×	304 0.6×	732 1.8×	375 1.5×	133 0.7×	38	2.8k
Patrik D’haeseleer United States	30	2.4k 1.4×	820 1.5×	222 0.5×	333 1.4×	186 1.0×	43	3.5k
Henry Lam Hong Kong	32	3.5k 2.0×	174 0.3×	289 0.7×	152 0.6×	42 0.2×	112	5.0k
Juhyun Kim South Korea	19	1.3k 0.8×	182 0.3×	391 1.0×	160 0.7×	132 0.7×	73	2.1k
Mikael Huss Sweden	25	2.9k 1.6×	197 0.4×	481 1.2×	82 0.3×	59 0.3×	56	3.9k
Cynthia H. Collins United States	20	2.2k 1.2×	780 1.4×	637 1.6×	256 1.1×	50 0.3×	29	2.8k
Christopher V. Rao United States	39	3.8k 2.1×	2.0k 3.6×	1.1k 2.7×	382 1.6×	133 0.7×	117	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by David Karig

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Karig

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Loomis, Kristin H., et al.. (2021). A mixed community of skin microbiome representatives influences cutaneous processes more than individual members. Microbiome. 9(1). 22–22. 43 indexed citations

Weissman, JL, Samantha Bolten, Peter Thielen, et al.. (2021). Exploring the functional composition of the human microbiome using a hand-curated microbial trait database. BMC Bioinformatics. 22(1). 306–306. 6 indexed citations

Ernlund, Amanda, Lauren T. Moffatt, Collin M. Timm, et al.. (2021). Examining the effect of wound cleansing on the microbiome of venous stasis ulcers. Wound Repair and Regeneration. 29(5). 766–776. 5 indexed citations

Timm, Collin M., Kristin H. Loomis, William D. Stone, et al.. (2020). Isolation and characterization of diverse microbial representatives from the human skin microbiome. Microbiome. 8(1). 58–58. 54 indexed citations

Bewick, Sharon, Eliezer Gurarie, JL Weissman, et al.. (2019). Trait-based analysis of the human skin microbiome. Microbiome. 7(1). 101–101. 26 indexed citations

Mainali, Kumar P., Sharon Bewick, Briana Vecchio-Pagán, David Karig, & William F. Fagan. (2019). Detecting interaction networks in the human microbiome with conditional Granger causality. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(5). e1007037–e1007037. 28 indexed citations

Karig, David, et al.. (2018). Stochastic Turing patterns in a synthetic bacterial population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(26). 6572–6577. 126 indexed citations

Karig, David, et al.. (2017). Preservation of protein expression systems at elevated temperatures for portable therapeutic production. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 14(129). 20161039–20161039. 43 indexed citations

Mainali, Kumar P., Sharon Bewick, Peter Thielen, et al.. (2017). Statistical analysis of co-occurrence patterns in microbial presence-absence datasets. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0187132–e0187132. 29 indexed citations

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Karig, David. (2017). Cell-free synthetic biology for environmental sensing and remediation. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 45. 69–75. 69 indexed citations

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Lopatkin, Allison J., Shuqiang Huang, Robert P. Smith, et al.. (2016). Antibiotics as a selective driver for conjugation dynamics. Nature Microbiology. 1(6). 16044–16044. 231 indexed citations

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Iyer, Sukanya, et al.. (2013). Multi-Input Regulation and Logic with T7 Promoters in Cells and Cell-Free Systems. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e78442–e78442. 37 indexed citations

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Karig, David, Sukanya Iyer, Michael L. Simpson, & Mitchel J. Doktycz. (2012). Expression Optimization and Inducible Negative Feedback in Cell-Free Systems. Molecular Systems Biology. 40(8). 1 indexed citations

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Karig, David, Sukanya Iyer, Michael L. Simpson, & Mitchel J. Doktycz. (2011). Expression optimization and synthetic gene networks in cell-free systems. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(8). 3763–3774. 92 indexed citations

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Karig, David, Piro Siuti, Roy D. Dar, et al.. (2011). Model for biological communication in a nanofabricated cell-mimic driven by stochastic resonance. Nano Communication Networks. 2(1). 39–49. 7 indexed citations

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Brenner, Katie, David Karig, Ron Weiss, & Frances H. Arnold. (2007). Engineered bidirectional communication mediates a consensus in a microbial biofilm consortium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(44). 17300–17304. 185 indexed citations

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Karig, David, J. Ku, & Ron Weiss. (2006). Engineering Multi-signal Systems for Complex Pattern Formation. 263–266. 1 indexed citations

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Karig, David & Ron Weiss. (2005). Signal‐amplifying genetic circuit enables in vivo observation of weak promoter activation in the Rhl quorum sensing system. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 89(6). 709–718. 37 indexed citations

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Lee, Ruby B., David Karig, J.P. McGregor, & Zhijie Shi. (2003). Enlisting Hardware Architecture to Thwart Malicious Code Injection.. Lecture notes in computer science. 237–252. 54 indexed citations

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Karig, David & Ruby Lee. (2001). Remote Denial of Service Attacks and Countermeasures. Child welfare. 86(2). 31–48. 30 indexed citations

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