Heewook Lee

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Heewook Lee is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Heewook Lee has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Heewook Lee's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers). Heewook Lee is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (8 papers). Heewook Lee collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Japan. Heewook Lee's co-authors include Haixu Tang, Patricia L. Foster, Ellen Popodi, Carl Kingsford, Thomas G. Doak, Hongan Long, Wazim Mohammed Ismail, Michael Lynch, Brittany A. Niccum and Seojin Bang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Heewook Lee

30 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Rate and molecular spectrum of spontaneous mutations in the bacterium Escherichia coli as determined by whole-genome sequencing

2012 496 citations Heewook Lee, Ellen Popodi et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Heewook Lee United States	16	976	706	170	141	108	30	1.4k
Viktória Lázár Hungary	18	901 0.9×	679 1.0×	168 1.0×	506 3.6×	83 0.8×	29	1.7k
Sandra C. Viegas Portugal	20	1.0k 1.1×	497 0.7×	359 2.1×	44 0.3×	103 1.0×	40	1.4k
Christine Jacobs United States	13	691 0.7×	503 0.7×	201 1.2×	309 2.2×	93 0.9×	16	1.2k
Jutta Nesper Switzerland	19	838 0.9×	460 0.7×	297 1.7×	141 1.0×	118 1.1×	24	1.4k
Richard Szubin United States	26	1.5k 1.5×	709 1.0×	179 1.1×	144 1.0×	91 0.8×	71	2.2k
Matthew Boitano United States	16	1.3k 1.4×	540 0.8×	313 1.8×	135 1.0×	366 3.4×	20	2.0k
Marie‐Françoise Noirot‐Gros France	21	882 0.9×	573 0.8×	233 1.4×	97 0.7×	150 1.4×	29	1.2k
Hanni Willenbrock Denmark	14	1.2k 1.2×	424 0.6×	309 1.8×	63 0.4×	201 1.9×	22	1.9k
Kuanqing Liu United States	17	1.5k 1.5×	465 0.7×	186 1.1×	100 0.7×	65 0.6×	17	1.7k
Agnieszka Sierakowska Juncker Denmark	12	951 1.0×	238 0.3×	258 1.5×	59 0.4×	104 1.0×	15	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Heewook Lee

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heewook Lee

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heewook Lee. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heewook Lee 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 Heewook Lee. Heewook Lee is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Driver, Erin M., et al.. (2024). Encrypted data-sharing for preserving privacy in wastewater-based epidemiology. The Science of The Total Environment. 940. 173315–173315. 3 indexed citations

Zhang, Pengfei, et al.. (2022). PiTE: TCR-epitope Binding Affinity Prediction Pipeline using Transformer-based Sequence Encoder. PubMed. 28. 347–358. 7 indexed citations

Bang, Seojin, et al.. (2022). ATM-TCR: TCR-Epitope Binding Affinity Prediction Using a Multi-Head Self-Attention Model. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 893247–893247. 35 indexed citations

Foster, Patricia L., Brittany A. Niccum, & Heewook Lee. (2021). DNA Replication-Transcription Conflicts Do Not Significantly Contribute to Spontaneous Mutations Due to Replication Errors in Escherichia coli. mBio. 12(5). e0250321–e0250321. 8 indexed citations

Niccum, Brittany A., Heewook Lee, Wazim Mohammed Ismail, Haixu Tang, & Patricia L. Foster. (2019). The Symmetrical Wave Pattern of Base-Pair Substitution Rates across the Escherichia coli Chromosome Has Multiple Causes. mBio. 10(4). 22 indexed citations

Foster, Patricia L., Brittany A. Niccum, Ellen Popodi, et al.. (2018). Determinants of Base-Pair Substitution Patterns Revealed by Whole-Genome Sequencing of DNA Mismatch Repair Defective Escherichia coli. Genetics. 209(4). 1029–1042. 31 indexed citations

Niccum, Brittany A., Heewook Lee, Wazim Mohammed Ismail, Haixu Tang, & Patricia L. Foster. (2018). The Spectrum of Replication Errors in the Absence of Error Correction Assayed Across the Whole Genome of Escherichia coli. Genetics. 209(4). 1043–1054. 21 indexed citations

Lee, Heewook & Carl Kingsford. (2018). Kourami: graph-guided assembly for novel human leukocyte antigen allele discovery. Genome biology. 19(1). 16–16. 55 indexed citations

Lee, Heewook & Carl Kingsford. (2018). Accurate Assembly and Typing of HLA using a Graph-Guided Assembler Kourami. Methods in molecular biology. 1802. 235–247. 5 indexed citations

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Long, Hongan, Samuel F. Miller, Chaoxian Zhao, et al.. (2016). Antibiotic treatment enhances the genome-wide mutation rate of target cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(18). E2498–505. 155 indexed citations

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Lee, Heewook, Thomas G. Doak, Ellen Popodi, Patricia L. Foster, & Haixu Tang. (2016). Insertion sequence-caused large-scale rearrangements in the genome of Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(15). gkw647–gkw647. 65 indexed citations

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Foster, Patricia L., et al.. (2015). Determinants of spontaneous mutation in the bacterium Escherichia coli as revealed by whole-genome sequencing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(44). E5990–9. 119 indexed citations

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Long, Hongan, Sibel Küçükyıldırım, Way Sung, et al.. (2015). Background Mutational Features of the Radiation-Resistant BacteriumDeinococcus radiodurans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(9). 2383–2392. 52 indexed citations

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Suzuki, Haruo, Amy L. Dapper, Craig E. Jackson, et al.. (2015). Draft Genome Sequence of Caedibacter varicaedens, a Kappa Killer Endosymbiont Bacterium of the Ciliate Paramecium biaurelia. Genome Announcements. 3(6). 7 indexed citations

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Lee, Heewook, Ellen Popodi, Patricia L. Foster, & Haixu Tang. (2014). Detection of Structural Variants Involving Repetitive Regions in the Reference Genome. Journal of Computational Biology. 21(3). 219–233. 14 indexed citations

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Foster, Patricia L., Andrew J. Hanson, Heewook Lee, Ellen Popodi, & Haixu Tang. (2013). On the Mutational Topology of the Bacterial Genome. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 3(3). 399–407. 57 indexed citations

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Lee, Heewook, Ellen Popodi, Haixu Tang, & Patricia L. Foster. (2012). Rate and molecular spectrum of spontaneous mutations in the bacterium Escherichia coli as determined by whole-genome sequencing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(41). E2774–83. 496 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lee, Heewook & Haixu Tang. (2012). Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies and Fragment Assembly Algorithms. Methods in molecular biology. 855. 155–174. 17 indexed citations

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Lee, Heewook, Ellen Popodi, Patricia L. Foster, & Haixu Tang. (2012). Detecting structural variants involving repetitive elements: capturing transposition events of IS elements in the genome of Escherichia coli. BMC Bioinformatics. 13(S18). 3 indexed citations

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Lee, Heewook. (2000). An optimal design method for brake squeal noise based on complex eigenvalue and sensitivity analyses and response surface methodology.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 4 indexed citations

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