Hiram Clawson

35.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
23 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Hiram Clawson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hiram Clawson has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Hiram Clawson's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (9 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Hiram Clawson is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (9 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Hiram Clawson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Denmark. Hiram Clawson's co-authors include David Haussler, W. James Kent, Kate R. Rosenbloom, Webb Miller, Angie S. Hinrichs, LaDeana W. Hillier, Adam Siepel, George M. Weinstock, Minmei Hou and Richard A. Gibbs and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Hiram Clawson

23 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Evolutionarily conserved elements in vertebrate, insect, worm, and yeast genomes

2005 2.8k citations Adam Siepel, Gill Bejerano et al. Genome Research profile →
Aligning Multiple Genomic Sequences With the Threaded Blockset Aligner

2004 1.0k citations Mathieu Blanchette, W. James Kent et al. Genome Research profile →
The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2019 update

2018 547 citations Maximilian Haeussler, Ann S. Zweig et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2025 update

2024 113 citations Galt P Barber, Anna Benet‐Pagès et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hiram Clawson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hiram Clawson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hiram Clawson 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 Hiram Clawson. Hiram Clawson 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2025 update breakdown → 2024 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·(unknown), Galt P Barber, Anna Benet‐Pagès, Jonathan D. Casper, Hiram Clawson, Mark Diekhans, Clay Fischer, Jairo Navarro Gonzalez, Angie S. Hinrichs, Christopher M. Lee, Luis R Nassar, Brian J. Raney, Matthew L Speir, Marijke J. van Baren, Charles Vaske, D. Haussler, W. James Kent, Maximilian Haeussler	113
2	Euarchontoglires Challenged by Incomplete Lineage Sorting 2022 ·Genes ·Liliya Doronina, (unknown), Hiram Clawson, Gennady Churakov, Jürgen Schmitz	3
3	Variant interpretation: UCSC Genome Browser Recommended Track Sets 2022 ·Human Mutation ·Anna Benet‐Pagès, Kate R. Rosenbloom, Luis R Nassar, Christopher M. Lee, Brian J. Raney, Hiram Clawson, Daniel Schmelter, Jonathan D. Casper, Jairo Navarro Gonzalez, Gerardo Perez, Brian T. Lee, Ann S. Zweig, W. James Kent, (unknown), Robert M. Kuhn	2
4	The UCSC SARS-CoV-2 Genome Browser 2020 ·Nature Genetics ·Jason D. Fernandes, Angie S. Hinrichs, Hiram Clawson, Jairo Navarro Gonzalez, Brian T. Lee, Luis R Nassar, Brian J. Raney, Kate R. Rosenbloom, Santrupti Nerli, Arjun A. Rao, Daniel Schmelter, (unknown), Nathan D Maulding, Ann S. Zweig, Todd M. Lowe, Manuel Ares, (unknown), W. James Kent, David Haussler, Maximilian Haeussler	60
5	The UCSC repeat browser allows discovery and visualization of evolutionary conflict across repeat families 2020 ·Mobile DNA ·Jason D. Fernandes, (unknown), Hiram Clawson, W. James Kent, David Haussler, Sofie R. Salama, Maximilian Haeussler	25
6	UCSC Genome Browser enters 20th year 2019 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Christopher M. Lee, Galt P Barber, Jonathan D. Casper, Hiram Clawson, Mark Diekhans, Jairo Navarro Gonzalez, Angie S. Hinrichs, Brian T. Lee, Luis R Nassar, Conner C. Powell, Brian J. Raney, Kate R. Rosenbloom, Daniel Schmelter, Matthew L Speir, Ann S. Zweig, David Haussler, Maximilian Haeussler, Robert M. Kuhn, W. James Kent	136
7	The UCSC Genome Browser database: 2019 update breakdown → 2018 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Maximilian Haeussler, Ann S. Zweig, (unknown), Matthew L Speir, Kate R. Rosenbloom, Brian J. Raney, (unknown), Brian T. Lee, Angie S. Hinrichs, Jairo Navarro Gonzalez, David Gibson, Mark Diekhans, Hiram Clawson, Jonathan D. Casper, Galt P Barber, David Haussler, Robert M. Kuhn, W. James Kent	547
8	True Homoplasy of Retrotransposon Insertions in Primates 2018 ·Systematic Biology ·Liliya Doronina, (unknown), Hiram Clawson, David A. Ray, Jürgen Schmitz	28
9	Speciation network in Laurasiatheria: retrophylogenomic signals 2017 ·Genome Research ·Liliya Doronina, Gennady Churakov, (unknown), Jingjing Shi, Robert Baertsch, Hiram Clawson, Jürgen Schmitz	32
10	Genome sequence of the basal haplorrhine primate Tarsius syrichta reveals unusual insertions 2016 ·Nature Communications ·Jürgen Schmitz, Angela Noll, Carsten A. Raabe, Gennady Churakov, Reinhard Voß, Martin Kiefmann, Timofey S. Rozhdestvensky, Jürgen Brosius, Robert Baertsch, Hiram Clawson, Christian Roos, Aleksey V. Zimin, Patrick Minx, Michael J. Montague, Richard K. Wilson, Wesley C. Warren	27
11	An Orientation Dependent Size Illusion Is Underpinned by Processing in the Extrastriate Visual Area, LO1 2016 ·i-Perception ·Kyriaki Mikellidou, André Gouws, Hiram Clawson, Peter Thompson, Antony B. Morland, (unknown)	6
12	Exploring Massive Incomplete Lineage Sorting in Arctoids (Laurasiatheria, Carnivora) 2015 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Liliya Doronina, Gennady Churakov, Jingjing Shi, Jürgen Brosius, Robert Baertsch, Hiram Clawson, Jürgen Schmitz	33
13	Comparative assembly hubs: Web-accessible browsers for comparative genomics 2014 ·Bioinformatics ·Ngan Nguyen, Glenn Hickey, Brian J. Raney, Joel Armstrong, Hiram Clawson, Ann S. Zweig, Donna Karolchik, (unknown), David Haussler, Benedict Paten	14
14	The UCSC Ebola Genome Portal 2014 ·PLoS Currents ·Maximilian Haeussler, Donna Karolchik, Hiram Clawson, Brian J. Raney, Kate R. Rosenbloom, Pauline A. Fujita, Angie S. Hinrichs, Matthew L Speir, (unknown), Ann S. Zweig, David Haussler, W. James Kent	4
15	Track data hubs enable visualization of user-defined genome-wide annotations on the UCSC Genome Browser 2013 ·Bioinformatics ·Brian J. Raney, Timothy R. Dreszer, Galt P Barber, Hiram Clawson, Pauline A. Fujita, Ting Wang, Ngan Nguyen, Benedict Paten, Ann S. Zweig, Donna Karolchik, W. James Kent	254
16	Intronic Alternative Splicing Regulators Identified by Comparative Genomics in Nematodes 2006 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·(unknown), Sergio Barberán-Soler, (unknown), Hiram Clawson, (unknown), Alan M. Zahler	60
17	The ENCODE Project at UC Santa Cruz 2006 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Daniel Thomas, Kate R. Rosenbloom, Hiram Clawson, Angie S. Hinrichs, Heather Trumbower, Brian J. Raney, Donna Karolchik, G. P. Barber, Rachel Harte, Jennifer Hillman‐Jackson, Robert M. Kuhn, Brooke Rhead, Kayla Smith, (unknown), Ann S. Zweig, David Haussler, W. James Kent	66
18	Exploring relationships and mining data with the UCSC Gene Sorter: Figure 1. 2005 ·Genome Research ·W. James Kent, Fan Hsu, Donna Karolchik, Robert M. Kuhn, Hiram Clawson, Heather Trumbower, David Haussler	56
19	Evolutionarily conserved elements in vertebrate, insect, worm, and yeast genomes breakdown → 2005 ·Genome Research ·Adam Siepel, Gill Bejerano, Jakob Skou Pedersen, Angie S. Hinrichs, Minmei Hou, Kate R. Rosenbloom, Hiram Clawson, John Spieth, LaDeana W. Hillier, Stephen Richards, George M. Weinstock, Richard K. Wilson, Richard A. Gibbs, W. James Kent, Webb Miller, David Haussler	2780
20	Aligning Multiple Genomic Sequences With the Threaded Blockset Aligner breakdown → 2004 ·Genome Research ·Mathieu Blanchette, W. James Kent, Cathy Riemer, Laura Elnitski, Arian F. A. Smit, Krishna M. Roskin, Robert Baertsch, Kate R. Rosenbloom, Hiram Clawson, Eric D. Green, David Haussler, Webb Miller	1045

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