Gert Hulselmans

14.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
30 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Gert Hulselmans is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gert Hulselmans has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 4 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Gert Hulselmans's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (14 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (13 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers). Gert Hulselmans is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (14 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (13 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (6 papers). Gert Hulselmans collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and United Kingdom. Gert Hulselmans's co-authors include Stein Aerts, Sara Aibar, Zeynep Kalender Atak, Hana Imrichová, Carmen Bravo González‐Blas, Jasper Wouters, Jean‐Christophe Marine, Florian Rambow, Vân Anh Huynh‐Thu and Pierre Geurts and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Gert Hulselmans

29 papers receiving 6.3k citations

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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.

SCENIC: single-cell regulatory network inference and clustering

2017 3.1k citations Sara Aibar, Carmen Bravo González‐Blas et al. Nature Methods profile →
A scalable SCENIC workflow for single-cell gene regulatory network analysis

2020 723 citations Bram Van de Sande, Christopher Flerin et al. Nature Protocols profile →
iRegulon: From a Gene List to a Gene Regulatory Network Using Large Motif and Track Collections

2014 610 citations Annelien Verfaillie, Hana Imrichová et al. profile →
SCENIC+: single-cell multiomic inference of enhancers and gene regulatory networks

2023 231 citations Carmen Bravo González‐Blas, Seppe De Winter et al. Nature Methods profile →

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Hana Imrichová Belgium

Shuqiang Li United States

Sara Aibar Belgium

Xiaojie Qiu United States

Zeynep Kalender Atak Belgium

Florian Rambow Belgium

Hannah A. Pliner United States

Jasper Wouters Belgium

Andrew J. Hill United States

Suoqin Jin China

Hana Imrichová Belgium

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gert Hulselmans

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Pech, Ulrike, Jasper Janssens, Nils Schoovaerts, et al.. (2025). Synaptic deregulation of cholinergic projection neurons causes olfactory dysfunction across five fly Parkinsonism models. eLife. 13.

González‐Blas, Carmen Bravo, Irina Matetovici, Hanne Hillen, et al.. (2024). Single-cell spatial multi-omics and deep learning dissect enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks in liver zonation. Nature Cell Biology. 26(1). 153–167. 30 indexed citations

Janssens, Jasper, Pierre Mangeol, Nikolai Hecker, et al.. (2024). Spatial transcriptomics in the adult Drosophila brain and body. eLife. 13. 2 indexed citations

Floc’hlay, Swann, Valerie Christiaens, Carmen Bravo González‐Blas, et al.. (2023). Shared enhancer gene regulatory networks between wound and oncogenic programs. eLife. 12. 8 indexed citations

Taskiran, Ibrahim Ihsan, Katina I. Spanier, Gert Hulselmans, et al.. (2023). Cell-type-directed design of synthetic enhancers. Nature. 626(7997). 212–220. 69 indexed citations

Ismail, Joy N., Carmen Bravo González‐Blas, Gert Hulselmans, et al.. (2022). Hydrop enables droplet-based single-cell ATAC-seq and single-cell RNA-seq using dissolvable hydrogel beads. eLife. 11. 44 indexed citations

Styfhals, Ruth, Gert Hulselmans, Katina I. Spanier, et al.. (2022). Cell type diversity in a developing octopus brain. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7392–7392. 41 indexed citations

Janssens, Jasper, Sara Aibar, Ibrahim Ihsan Taskiran, et al.. (2022). Decoding gene regulation in the fly brain. Nature. 601(7894). 630–636. 89 indexed citations

Matetovici, Irina, Suresh Poovathingal, Jeroen Aerts, et al.. (2022). Comparative analysis of antibody- and lipid-based multiplexing methods for single-cell RNA-seq. Genome biology. 23(1). 55–55. 24 indexed citations

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González‐Blas, Carmen Bravo, Xiao‐Jiang Quan, Ibrahim Ihsan Taskiran, et al.. (2020). Identification of genomic enhancers through spatial integration of single‐cell transcriptomics and epigenomics. Molecular Systems Biology. 16(5). e9438–e9438. 48 indexed citations

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Sande, Bram Van de, Christopher Flerin, Kristofer Davie, et al.. (2020). A scalable SCENIC workflow for single-cell gene regulatory network analysis. Nature Protocols. 15(7). 2247–2276. 723 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wouters, Jasper, Zeynep Kalender Atak, Liesbeth Minnoye, et al.. (2020). Robust gene expression programs underlie recurrent cell states and phenotype switching in melanoma. Nature Cell Biology. 22(8). 986–998. 137 indexed citations

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González‐Blas, Carmen Bravo, Liesbeth Minnoye, Sara Aibar, et al.. (2019). cisTopic: cis-regulatory topic modeling on single-cell ATAC-seq data. Nature Methods. 16(5). 397–400. 244 indexed citations

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Spanier, Katina I., Mieke Jansen, Ellen Decaestecker, et al.. (2017). Conserved Transcription Factors Steer Growth-Related Genomic Programs in Daphnia. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9(6). 1821–1842. 12 indexed citations

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Atak, Zeynep Kalender, Hana Imrichová, Dmitry Svetlichnyy, et al.. (2017). Identification of cis-regulatory mutations generating de novo edges in personalized cancer gene regulatory networks. Genome Medicine. 9(1). 80–80. 11 indexed citations

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Aibar, Sara, Carmen Bravo González‐Blas, Thomas Moerman, et al.. (2017). SCENIC: single-cell regulatory network inference and clustering. Nature Methods. 14(11). 1083–1086. 3087 indexed citations breakdown →

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Verfaillie, Annelien, Hana Imrichová, Zeynep Kalender Atak, et al.. (2015). Decoding the regulatory landscape of melanoma reveals TEADS as regulators of the invasive cell state. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6683–6683. 280 indexed citations

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Imrichová, Hana, Gert Hulselmans, Zeynep Kalender Atak, Delphine Potier, & Stein Aerts. (2015). i-cisTarget 2015 update: generalized cis-regulatory enrichment analysis in human, mouse and fly. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(W1). W57–W64. 116 indexed citations

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Naval-Sánchez, Marina, Delphine Potier, Gert Hulselmans, Valerie Christiaens, & Stein Aerts. (2015). Identification of Lineage-SpecificCis-Regulatory Modules Associated with Variation in Transcription Factor Binding and Chromatin Activity Using Ornstein–Uhlenbeck Models. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(9). 2441–2455. 8 indexed citations

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Atak, Zeynep Kalender, Valentina Gianfelici, Gert Hulselmans, et al.. (2013). Comprehensive Analysis of Transcriptome Variation Uncovers Known and Novel Driver Events in T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. PLoS Genetics. 9(12). e1003997–e1003997. 99 indexed citations

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