Greg Finak

10.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
42 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Greg Finak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Immunology and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Greg Finak has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Immunology and 10 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Greg Finak's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (20 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (14 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (10 papers). Greg Finak is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (20 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (14 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (10 papers). Greg Finak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and South Africa. Greg Finak's co-authors include Raphaël Gottardo, Andrew McDavid, M. Juliana McElrath, Martin Prlic, Hannah W. Miller, Chloe K. Slichter, Morag Park, Alex K. Shalek, Jingyuan Deng and Vivian H. Gersuk and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Greg Finak

42 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

MAST: a flexible statistical framework for assessing transcriptional changes and characterizing heterogeneity in single-cell RNA sequencing data

2015 1.6k citations Greg Finak, Andrew McDavid et al. Genome biology profile →
Stromal gene expression predicts clinical outcome in breast cancer

2008 1.3k citations Greg Finak, Nicholas Bertos et al. Nature Medicine profile →
Safety and immunogenicity of a mRNA rabies vaccine in healthy adults: an open-label, non-randomised, prospective, first-in-human phase 1 clinical trial

2017 373 citations Martin Alberer, Ulrike Gnad-Vogt et al. The Lancet profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Greg Finak United States	23	3.2k	1.3k	1.2k	1.1k	424	42	5.3k
Ilya Korsunsky United States	12	3.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	747 0.6×	749 0.7×	307 0.7×	19	4.9k
Joost van den Oord Belgium	28	2.9k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	1.4k 1.2×	957 0.9×	145 0.3×	79	5.5k
Charles‐Antoine Dutertre Singapore	28	2.5k 0.8×	2.8k 2.1×	897 0.8×	448 0.4×	320 0.8×	51	6.2k
Aaron T. L. Lun Australia	31	4.7k 1.5×	1.4k 1.0×	514 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	521 1.2×	44	6.3k
Michael Morse United States	13	3.3k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	606 0.5×	720 0.7×	304 0.7×	34	4.6k
Jinmiao Chen Singapore	33	3.1k 0.9×	4.1k 3.1×	1.1k 0.9×	611 0.6×	352 0.8×	72	8.2k
Tamir Chandra United Kingdom	25	3.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	433 0.4×	606 0.6×	198 0.5×	47	4.6k
Erin F. Simonds United States	19	5.1k 1.6×	2.6k 1.9×	1.1k 1.0×	703 0.7×	1.4k 3.4×	28	7.6k
Raúl Ramos United States	15	2.5k 0.8×	1.7k 1.2×	898 0.8×	692 0.7×	184 0.4×	32	5.1k

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Manz, Trevor, et al.. (2024). A General Framework for Comparing Embedding Visualizations Across Class-Label Hierarchies. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 31(1). 283–293. 2 indexed citations

O’Brien, Valerie P., Yuqi Kang, Meera K. Shenoy, et al.. (2023). Single-cell Profiling Uncovers a Muc4 -Expressing Metaplastic Gastric Cell Type Sustained by Helicobacter pylori -driven Inflammation. Cancer Research Communications. 3(9). 1756–1769. 3 indexed citations

Finak, Greg, Leonard D’Amico, Nina Bhardwaj, et al.. (2021). New interpretable machine-learning method for single-cell data reveals correlates of clinical response to cancer immunotherapy. Patterns. 2(12). 100372–100372. 21 indexed citations

Rakshit, Srabanti, Vasista Adiga, Greg Finak, et al.. (2020). HIV Skews a Balanced Mtb-Specific Th17 Response in Latent Tuberculosis Subjects to a Pro-inflammatory Profile Independent of Viral Load. Cell Reports. 33(9). 108451–108451. 6 indexed citations

Rakshit, Srabanti, Asma Ahmed, Vasista Adiga, et al.. (2019). BCG revaccination boosts adaptive polyfunctional Th1/Th17 and innate effectors in IGRA+ and IGRA– Indian adults. JCI Insight. 4(24). 40 indexed citations

Finak, Greg. (2018). The Computational article format: Software as a research output. Cytometry Part A. 93(12). 1187–1188. 1 indexed citations

Bolton, Diane L., Kathleen A. McGinnis, Greg Finak, et al.. (2017). Combined single-cell quantitation of host and SIV genes and proteins ex vivo reveals host-pathogen interactions in individual cells. PLoS Pathogens. 13(6). e1006445–e1006445. 17 indexed citations

Alberer, Martin, Ulrike Gnad-Vogt, Henoch S. Hong, et al.. (2017). Safety and immunogenicity of a mRNA rabies vaccine in healthy adults: an open-label, non-randomised, prospective, first-in-human phase 1 clinical trial. The Lancet. 390(10101). 1511–1520. 373 indexed citations breakdown →

Slichter, Chloe K., Andrew McDavid, Hannah W. Miller, et al.. (2016). Distinct activation thresholds of human conventional and innate-like memory T cells. JCI Insight. 1(8). 108 indexed citations

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Finak, Greg, Andrew McDavid, Masanao Yajima, et al.. (2015). MAST: a flexible statistical framework for assessing transcriptional changes and characterizing heterogeneity in single-cell RNA sequencing data. Genome biology. 16(1). 278–278. 1570 indexed citations breakdown →

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Finak, Greg, Jacob Frelinger, Wenxin Jiang, et al.. (2014). OpenCyto: An Open Source Infrastructure for Scalable, Robust, Reproducible, and Automated, End-to-End Flow Cytometry Data Analysis. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(8). e1003806–e1003806. 135 indexed citations

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McDavid, Andrew, Lucas Dennis, Patrick Danaher, et al.. (2014). Modeling Bi-modality Improves Characterization of Cell Cycle on Gene Expression in Single Cells. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(7). e1003696–e1003696. 41 indexed citations

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Aghaeepour, Nima, Greg Finak, Holger H. Hoos, et al.. (2013). Critical assessment of automated flow cytometry data analysis techniques. Nature Methods. 10(3). 228–238. 389 indexed citations

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Finak, Greg, Chungwen Wei, Igñacio Sanz, et al.. (2013). High‐throughput flow cytometry data normalization for clinical trials. Cytometry Part A. 85(3). 277–286. 31 indexed citations

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Finak, Greg, et al.. (2010). Optimizing transformations for automated, high throughput analysis of flow cytometry data. BMC Bioinformatics. 11(1). 546–546. 65 indexed citations

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Myhre, Simen, Trine Tramm, Jan Alsner, et al.. (2010). In Silico Ascription of Gene Expression Differences to Tumor and Stromal Cells in a Model to Study Impact on Breast Cancer Outcome. PLoS ONE. 5(11). e14002–e14002. 19 indexed citations

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Roche, O., Greg Finak, Andrew Evans, et al.. (2009). Regulation of endocytosis via the oxygen-sensing pathway. Nature Medicine. 15(3). 319–324. 160 indexed citations

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Finak, Greg, Nicholas Bertos, François Pépin, et al.. (2008). Stromal gene expression predicts clinical outcome in breast cancer. Nature Medicine. 14(5). 518–527. 1288 indexed citations breakdown →

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Finak, Greg, Svetlana Sadekova, François Pépin, et al.. (2006). Gene expression signatures of morphologically normal breast tissue identify basal-like tumors. Breast Cancer Research. 8(5). R58–R58. 110 indexed citations

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Finak, Greg, et al.. (2004). BIAS: Bioinformatics Integrated Application Software. Computer applications in the biosciences. 21(8). 1745–1746. 7 indexed citations

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