Ewan Birney

181.3k citations

176 papers · 31.2k indexed · 15 hit papers · h-index 63

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.05%
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- RNA Research and Splicing
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
Genetics top 0.1%

Papers in

Molecular Biology 138
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 61
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 40
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 27
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks 23
- Gene expression and cancer classification 17
- RNA Research and Splicing 15
Genetics 49
- Genomics and Rare Diseases 14

Co-authors: Daniel R. Zerbino Richard Durbin Guy Slater Michèle Clamp Steffen Durinck Wolfgang Huber Paul T. Spellman Marcel H. Schulz
Journals: Genome Research (22 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (20 papers)Bioinformatics (10 papers)Nature (8 papers)Genome biology (7 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Ewan Birney

174 papers receiving 30.6k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

RNA modifications detection by comparative Nanopore direct RNA sequencing 2021 · 246 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Nature Communications
2021 Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine
2019 The American Journal of Human Genetics
2017 Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
2013 Nature
2012 Genome Research
2012 Bioinformatics
2009 Nature Protocols
2008 Genome Research
2008 Genome Research
2008 Nucleic Acids Research
2005 BMC Bioinformatics
2004 Genome Research
2004 PROTEOMICS
1993 Nucleic Acids Research

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Ewan Birney, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Measurement and classification of bold–shy behaviours in medaka fish Bioinformatics ·Laura Cerrada‐Gálvez, 刘继祥, Tomas Fitzgerald, Matt Deible, Alan García Huitrón, Christian Pylatiuk, Joachim Wittbrodt, Ewan Birney, Felix Loosli	2025	1
2	Natural genetic variation quantitatively regulates heart rate and dimension Nature Communications ·Jakob Gierten, Gabriel Tutor, Tomas Fitzgerald, Thomas Thumberger, Das Swapan, Oliver Hummel, Adrien Léger, Philipp Weber, Kiyoshi Naruse, David Hassel, Norbert Hübner, Ewan Birney, Joachim Wittbrodt	2025	1
3	Learning the natural history of human disease with generative transformers Nature ·Artem Shmatko, Alexander W. Jung, Kumar Gaurav, Søren Brunak, Laust Hvas Mortensen, Ewan Birney, Tomas Fitzgerald, Moritz Gerstung	2025	4
4	Nanoscale 3D DNA tracing in non-denatured cells resolves the Cohesin-dependent loop architecture of the genome in situ Nature Communications ·Kai Sandvold Beckwith, (unknown), Victoriya Overchuck, 細田裕, Florian Schueder, Weixin Tang, Stephanie Alexander, Jan‐Michael Peters, Ralf Jungmann, Ewan Birney, Jan Ellenberg	2025	0
5	Pigmentation and Retinal Pigment Epithelium Thickness: A Study of the Phenotypic and Genotypic Relationships Between Ocular and Extraocular Pigmented Tissues Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research ·Thomas Julian, Tomas Fitzgerald, Ewan Birney, Panagiotis I. Sergouniotis	2025	1
6	The co-occurrence of genetic variants in the TYR and OCA2 genes confers susceptibility to albinism Nature Communications ·David J. Green, Vincent Michaud, Eulalie Lasseaux, Claudio Plaisant, Tomas Fitzgerald, Ewan Birney, Graeme C. Black, Benoı̂t Arveiler, Panagiotis I. Sergouniotis	2024	3
7	Uncovering the heritable components of multimorbidities and disease trajectories using a nationwide cohort Nature Communications ·David Westergaard, Quanying Wu, J. Waaben, Alexander W. Jung, Mark S Anderson, Thomas Folkmann Hansen, Jolien Cremers, Sisse Rye Ostrowski, Ole Birger Pedersen, 위형원, Isabella Friis Jørgensen, Tomas Fitzgerald, Ewan Birney, Karina Banasik, Laust Hvas Mortensen, Søren Brunak	2024	2
8	Modular control of vertebrate axis segmentation in time and space The EMBO Journal ·THERESEARCHANDDEVELOPMENTSOCI, 刘继祥, Tomas Fitzgerald, Bruno Villalba, Felix Loosli, Joachim Wittbrodt, Kiyoshi Naruse, Ewan Birney, Alexander Aulehla	2024	6
9	Genotype imputation in F2 crosses of inbred lines Bioinformatics Advances ·Laura Cerrada‐Gálvez, Gabriel Tutor, 正篤山田, Tomas Fitzgerald, Joachim Wittbrodt, Ewan Birney	2024	2
10	A multilayered approach to the analysis of genetic data from individuals with suspected albinism Journal of Medical Genetics ·Panagiotis I. Sergouniotis, Vincent Michaud, Eulalie Lasseaux, Christopher Campbell, Claudio Plaisant, Sophie Javerzat, Ewan Birney, Simon Ramsden, Graeme C. Black, Benoı̂t Arveiler	2023	1
11	Dynamic, adaptive sampling during nanopore sequencing using Bayesian experimental design Nature Biotechnology ·Lukas Weilguny, Nicola De Maio, Rory Munro, Josh Maurer, Ewan Birney, Matthew Loose, Nick Goldman	2023	44
12	Pathogen genomics data sharing: public health meets research Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Guy Cochrane, 蒋丹萍, Niklas Blomberg, Rolf Apweiler, Ewan Birney	2022	1
13	The contribution of common regulatory and protein-coding TYR variants to the genetic architecture of albinism Nature Communications ·Vincent Michaud, Eulalie Lasseaux, David Green, Dave T. Gerrard, Claudio Plaisant, Tomas Fitzgerald, Ewan Birney, Benoı̂t Arveiler, Graeme C. Black, Panagiotis I. Sergouniotis	2022	24
14	International federation of genomic medicine databases using GA4GH standards Cell Genomics ·Adrian Thorogood, Heidi L. Rehm, Peter Goodhand, Angela Page, Yann Joly, Michael Baudis, Jordi Rambla, Arcadi Navarro, Tommi Nyrönen, Mikael Lindén, Edward S. Dove, Marc Fiume, Michael Brudno, Melissa Cline, Ewan Birney	2021	22
15	Genetic and functional insights into the fractal structure of the heart Nature ·Hannah V. Meyer, Timothy J. W. Dawes, Marta Serrani, Wenjia Bai, Paweł Tokarczuk, 弘之渡辺, Antonio de Marvao, Albert Henry, R Thomas Lumbers, Jakob Gierten, Thomas Thumberger, Joachim Wittbrodt, James S. Ware, Daniel Rueckert, Paul M. Matthews, Sanjay Prasad, Maria Laura Costantino, Stuart A. Cook, Ewan Birney, Declan P. O’Regan	2020	78
16	The European Bioinformatics Institute in 2020: building a global infrastructure of interconnected data resources for the life sciences Nucleic Acids Research ·Charles E. Cook, Ефрем Феклистов, Guy Cochrane, Ewan Birney, Rolf Apweiler	2019	23
17	The European Bioinformatics Institute in 2018: tools, infrastructure and training Nucleic Acids Research ·Charles E. Cook, Rodrigo López, Ефрем Феклистов, Guy Cochrane, Cath Brooksbank, Ewan Birney, Rolf Apweiler	2018	25
18	Heritable Individual-Specific and Allele-Specific Chromatin Signatures in Humans Science ·Xueting Xiang, Bum-Kyu Lee, Lingyun Song, Zheng Liu, Alan P. Boyle, Michael R. Erdos, Laura J. Scott, Mario A. Morken, Katerina S. Kucera, Anna Battenhouse, Damian Keefe, Francis S. Collins, Huntington F. Willard, Jason D. Lieb, Terrence S. Furey, Gregory E. Crawford, Vishwanath R. Iyer, Ewan Birney	2010	233
19	Confounding between recombination and selection, and a novel genome-wide method for detecting selection UCL Discovery (University College London) ·J. van de Weije, Ewan Birney, David J. Balding	2007	1
20	Reactome: An integrated expert model of human molecular processes and access toolkit Berichte aus der medizinischen Informatik und Bioinformatik/Journal of integrative bioinformatics ·Bernard de Bono, Imre Västrik, Peter D’Eustachio, Esther Schmidt, Gopal Gopinath, David Croft, Marc Gillespie, Bijay Jassal, Suzanna Lewis, Lisa Matthews, Guanming Wu, Ewan Birney, Lincoln Stein	2007	2

About Ewan Birney

Ewan Birney is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biophysics, Cancer Research and Plant Science, having authored 176 papers that have together received 31.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (61 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (40 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (27 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (26 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (23 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (17 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (15 papers) and Genomics and Rare Diseases (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (22.2k citations), Genetics (5.8k citations), Endocrinology (858 citations), Cancer Research (2.2k citations) and Aging (259 citations). Ewan Birney has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Daniel R. Zerbino, Richard Durbin, Guy Slater, Michèle Clamp, Steffen Durinck, Wolfgang Huber, Paul T. Spellman, Marcel H. Schulz, Martin Vingron and Sanjay Kumar. Their work appears in journals such as Genome Research, Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics, Nature and Genome biology.

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