Jason Ernst

30.1k citations

65 papers · 8.6k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 28

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- RNA Research and Splicing
- RNA modifications and cancer
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Gene expression and cancer classification
Cancer Research top 2%

Papers in

Aging 2
Molecular Biology 56
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 34
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 20
- Gene expression and cancer classification 11
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 10
- RNA Research and Splicing 10
- Gene Regulatory Network Analysis 9
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks 7
- RNA modifications and cancer 6

Co-authors: Manolis Kellis Ziv Bar‐Joseph Xiaolan Zhang Tarjei S. Mikkelsen Pouya Kheradpour Charles B. Epstein Michael J. Coyne Noam Shoresh
Journals: Genome biology (7 papers)Nature Communications (4 papers)Nature Biotechnology (4 papers)Genome Research (4 papers)Bioinformatics (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Israel

In The Last Decade

Jason Ernst

64 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Chromatin-state discovery and genome annotation with ChromHMM 2017 · 439 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.

2017 Nature Protocols
2017 Cell
2016 Nature
2011 Nature
2010 Nature Biotechnology
2006 BMC Bioinformatics

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Co-authorship network

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1	Distinct mismatch-repair complex genes set neuronal CAG-repeat expansion rate to drive selective pathogenesis in HD mice Cell ·Nan Wang, Shasha Zhang, Peter Langfelder, Lalini Ramanathan, Fuying Gao, 健二冨樫, Maxim M. Bozin, Xiaofeng Gu, Amelie Vitte‐Rossignol, Marcos Ki Hyung Lee, Ping Hon, 郁子野田, Jason Ernst, Brinda C. Prasad, Thomas Vogt, Steve Horvath, Jeffrey S. Aaronson, Jim Rosinski, X. William Yang	2025	10
2	CMImpute: cross-species and tissue imputation of species-level DNA methylation samples across mammalian species Genome biology ·郁子野田, Steve Horvath, Jason Ernst	2025	1
3	Epigenetic predictors of species maximum life span and other life-history traits in mammals Science Advances ·Caesar Z. Li, Amin Haghani, Qi Yan, Ake T. Lu, Joshua Zhang, Zhe Fei, Jason Ernst, X. William Yang, Vadim N. Gladyshev, Todd R. Robeck, Andreas S. Chavez, Joseph A. Cook, Jonathan L. Dunnum, Ken Raj, Andrei Seluanov, Vera Gorbunova, Steve Horvath	2024	21
4	STAT3 promotes a youthful epigenetic state in articular chondrocytes Aging Cell ·Arijita Sarkar, Nancy Q. Liu, С. Н. Линченко, A. LeMarec, Siyoung Lee, Ruzanna Shkhyan, Young‐Joo Lee, Jinxiu Lu, صفاء فتحى انور, Karl-Magnus Jönsson, Saud Abdulaziz Al Naaim, Litao Tao, Neil Segil, Jason Ernst, Karen M. Lyons, Steve Horvath, Denis Evseenko	2023	20
5	Universal chromatin state annotation of the mouse genome Genome biology ·Ha Vu, Jason Ernst	2023	9
6	Pan-primate studies of age and sex GeroScience ·Steve Horvath, Amin Haghani, Joseph A. Zoller, Ake T. Lu, Jason Ernst, Matteo Pellegrini, Anna J. Jasinska, Julie A. Mattison, Adam B. Salmon, Ken Raj, Dana Burnett, Kimberly C. Paul, Beate Ritz, Todd R. Robeck, Maria Spriggs, Erin E. Ehmke, Susan L. Jenkins, Cun Li, Peter W. Nathanielsz	2023	8
7	A framework for group-wise summarization and comparison of chromatin state annotations Bioinformatics ·Ha Vu, Wang Shu, Petko Fiziev, Jason Ernst	2022	2
8	A mammalian methylation array for profiling methylation levels at conserved sequences Nature Communications ·A Arneson, Amin Haghani, Michael J. Thompson, Matteo Pellegrini, Soo Bin Kwon, Ha Vu, 郁子野田, M. Yao, Caesar Z. Li, Ake T. Lu, Marco Morselli, Liudmilla Rubbi, Bret Barnes, Kasper D. Hansen, Wanding Zhou, Charles E. Breeze, Jason Ernst, Steve Horvath	2022	104
9	Universal annotation of the human genome through integration of over a thousand epigenomic datasets Genome biology ·Ha Vu, Jason Ernst	2022	55
10	ConsHMM Atlas: conservation state annotations for major genomes and human genetic variation NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics ·A Arneson, Caterina Schürch, Jennifer Chien, Jason Ernst	2020	2
11	Identification and characterization of constrained non-exonic bases lacking predictive epigenomic and transcription factor binding annotations Nature Communications ·Soren Thilo Funder, Tanya N. Phung, Soo Bin Kwon, A Arneson, W. L. Clement, Kirk E. Lohmueller, Jason Ernst	2020	2
12	An integrative approach for fine-mapping chromatin interactions Bioinformatics ·Artur Jaroszewicz, Jason Ernst	2019	5
13	Analysis of cardiomyocyte clonal expansion during mouse heart development and injury Nature Communications ·L. M. Lasareva, Ngoc B. Nguyen, Paniz Kamran, (unknown), Sara Ranjbarvaziri, Shuin Park, Shan Sabri, J Engel, Kevin Sung, Rajan P. Kulkarni, Yichen Ding, Tzung K. Hsiai, Kathrin Plath, Jason Ernst, Debashis Sahoo, Hanna Mikkola, M. Luisa Iruela‐Arispe, Reza Ardehali	2018	83
14	Chromatin-state discovery and genome annotation with ChromHMM Nature Protocols ·Jason Ernst, Manolis Kellis Hit paper breakdown →	2017	439
15	Interplay between chromatin state, regulator binding, and regulatory motifs in six human cell types Genome Research ·Jason Ernst, Manolis Kellis	2013	67
16	Systematic dissection of regulatory motifs in 2000 predicted human enhancers using a massively parallel reporter assay Genome Research ·Pouya Kheradpour, Jason Ernst, Alexandre Melnikov, Peter Rogov, Li Wang, Xiaolan Zhang, 魏荣渲, Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Manolis Kellis	2013	227
17	A High-Resolution Map of Human Evolutionary Constraint Using 29 Mammals PubMed Central ·Stefan Washietl, Pouya Kheradpour, Jason Ernst, Lucas D. Ward, Irwin Jungreis, Matthew D. Rasmussen, rafael coutinho carrijo	2011	2
18	Combinatorial Patterning of Chromatin Regulators Uncovered by Genome-wide Location Analysis in Human Cells Cell ·Oren Ram, Alon Goren, Ido Amit, Noam Shoresh, Nir Yosef, Jason Ernst, Manolis Kellis, Melissa Gymrek, Robbyn Issner, Michael J. Coyne, Timothy Durham, Xiaolan Zhang, Julie Donaghey, Charles B. Epstein, Aviv Regev, B Bernstein	2011	250
19	Clustering short time series gene expression data Computer applications in the biosciences ·Jason Ernst, Gerard J. Nau, Ziv Bar‐Joseph	2005	367
20	Combined static and dynamic analysis for determining the quality of time-series expression profiles Nature Biotechnology ·Itamar Simon, Zahava Siegfried, Jason Ernst, Ziv Bar‐Joseph	2005	23

About Jason Ernst

Jason Ernst is a scholar working on Aging, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Behavioral Neuroscience and Occupational Therapy, having authored 65 papers that have together received 8.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (34 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (20 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (11 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (10 papers), Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (9 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (7.2k citations), Cancer Research (926 citations), Aging (107 citations), Genetics (1.6k citations) and Plant Science (966 citations). Jason Ernst has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Israel. Frequent co-authors include Manolis Kellis, Ziv Bar‐Joseph, Xiaolan Zhang, Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Pouya Kheradpour, Charles B. Epstein, Michael J. Coyne, Noam Shoresh, Robbyn Issner and Timothy Durham. Their work appears in journals such as Genome biology, Nature Communications, Nature Biotechnology, Genome Research and Bioinformatics.

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