Katherine S. Pollard

79.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
188 papers, 15.2k citations indexed

About

Katherine S. Pollard is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine S. Pollard has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 15.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 158 papers in Molecular Biology, 41 papers in Genetics and 23 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Katherine S. Pollard's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (48 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (44 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (44 papers). Katherine S. Pollard is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (48 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (44 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (44 papers). Katherine S. Pollard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Katherine S. Pollard's co-authors include Adam Siepel, Stephen Nayfach, Melissa J. Hubisz, Kate R. Rosenbloom, Mark J. van der Laan, John A. Capra, Sean Whalen, Joshua Ladau, Nandita R. Garud and Thomas J. Sharpton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Katherine S. Pollard

180 papers receiving 15.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Detection of nonneutral substitution rates on mammalian phylogenies

2009 1.4k citations Katherine S. Pollard et al. Genome Research profile →
A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome

2020 736 citations Alexandre Almeida, Stephen Nayfach et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
An RNA gene expressed during cortical development evolved rapidly in humans

2006 672 citations Katherine S. Pollard et al. profile →
Dynamic and Coordinated Epigenetic Regulation of Developmental Transitions in the Cardiac Lineage

2012 462 citations John A. Capra, Deepak Srivastava et al. profile →
New insights from uncultivated genomes of the global human gut microbiome

2019 445 citations Stephen Nayfach, Zhou Jason Shi et al. profile →
Broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 predicted by comparative and structural analysis of ACE2 in vertebrates

2020 414 citations Joana Damas, Graham M. Hughes et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Reconstructing the Microbial Diversity and Function of Pre-Agricultural Tallgrass Prairie Soils in the United States

2013 400 citations Joshua Ladau, Katherine S. Pollard et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katherine S. Pollard

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Accurate estimation of intraspecific microbial gene content variation in metagenomic data with MIDAS v3 and StrainPGC 2025 ·Genome Research ·Byron J. Smith, Chunyu Zhao, Veronika Dubinkina, Xiaofan Jin, (unknown), Saar Shoer, Jacqueline Moltzau Anderson, Eran Segal, Katherine S. Pollard	1
2	The oligogenic inheritance test GCOD detects risk genes and their interactions in congenital heart defects 2025 ·Genome Research ·(unknown), Kihyun Lee, (unknown), Yu Huang, (unknown), Mauro W. Costa, Deepak Srivastava, Katherine S. Pollard	0
3	Sequence-Based Machine Learning Reveals 3D Genome Differences between Bonobos and Chimpanzees 2024 ·Genome Biology and Evolution ·Colin M. Brand, Shuzhen Kuang, (unknown), Evonne McArthur, Katherine S. Pollard, Timothy H. Webster, John A. Capra	3
4	Machine Learning Reveals the Diversity of Human 3D Chromatin Contact Patterns 2024 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·(unknown), Colin M. Brand, Evonne McArthur, David C. Rinker, Shuzhen Kuang, Katherine S. Pollard, John A. Capra	4
5	Metatranscriptomic investigation of singleIxodes pacificusticks reveals diverse microbes, viruses, and novel mRNA-like endogenous viral elements 2024 ·mSystems ·(unknown), Beth M. Hayes, (unknown), (unknown), Gloria Castañeda, Angela M. Bosco‐Lauth, Daniel J. Salkeld, Amy Kistler, Katherine S. Pollard, Seemay Chou	2
6	An atlas of lamina-associated chromatin across twelve human cell types reveals an intermediate chromatin subtype 2023 ·Genome biology ·Parisha P. Shah, Kathleen C. Keough, (unknown), (unknown), Richard J. Abdill, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Angela Chen, (unknown), Patrick Walsh, Son C. Nguyen, Sean Whalen, Eric F. Joyce, Kyle M. Loh, Nicole Dubois, Katherine S. Pollard, Rajan Jain	39
7	CellWalkR: an R package for integrating and visualizing single-cell and bulk data to resolve regulatory elements 2022 ·Bioinformatics ·Pawel F. Przytycki, Katherine S. Pollard	4
8	MIDAS2: Metagenomic Intra-species Diversity Analysis System 2022 ·Bioinformatics ·Chunyu Zhao, Boris Dimitrov, (unknown), Stephen Nayfach, Katherine S. Pollard	20
9	Cell Layers: uncovering clustering structure in unsupervised single-cell transcriptomic analysis 2022 ·Bioinformatics Advances ·Andrew P. Blair, (unknown), Elie N. Farah, C. Neil, Katherine S. Pollard, Pawel F. Przytycki, Irfan S. Kathiriya, Benoit G. Bruneau	1
10	A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome breakdown → 2020 ·Nature Biotechnology ·Alexandre Almeida, Stephen Nayfach, Miguel Boland, Francesco Strozzi, Martín Beracochea, Zhou Jason Shi, Katherine S. Pollard, Ekaterina Sakharova, Donovan H. Parks, Philip Hugenholtz, Nicola Segata, Nikos C. Kyrpides, ROBERT FINN	736
11	lentiMPRA and MPRAflow for high-throughput functional characterization of gene regulatory elements 2020 ·Nature Protocols ·M. Grace Gordon, Fumitaka Inoue, Beth Martin, Max Schubach, Vikram Agarwal, Sean Whalen, (unknown), Jingjing Zhao, Tal Ashuach, Ryan Ziffra, Anat Kreimer, Ilias Georgakopoulos‐Soares, Nir Yosef, Chun Ye, Katherine S. Pollard, Jay Shendure, Martin Kircher, Nadav Ahituv	70
12	Broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 predicted by comparative and structural analysis of ACE2 in vertebrates breakdown → 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Joana Damas, Graham M. Hughes, Kathleen C. Keough, Corrie Painter, Nicole S. Persky, Marco Corbo, Michael Hiller, Klaus‐Peter Koepfli, Andreas R. Pfenning, Huabin Zhao, Diane P. Genereux, Ross Swofford, Katherine S. Pollard, Oliver A. Ryder, Martin Nweeia, Kerstin Lindblad‐Toh, Emma C. Teeling, Elinor K. Karlsson, Harris A. Lewin	414
13	Chromatin features constrain structural variation across evolutionary timescales 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Geoffrey Fudenberg, Katherine S. Pollard	65
14	phylogenize : correcting for phylogeny reveals genes associated with microbial distributions 2019 ·Bioinformatics ·Patrick H. Bradley, Katherine S. Pollard	2
15	Global ecotypes in the ubiquitous marine clade SAR86 2019 ·The ISME Journal ·Adrienne Hoarfrost, Stephen Nayfach, Joshua Ladau, Shibu Yooseph, Carol Arnosti, Christopher L. Dupont, Katherine S. Pollard	40
16	Principles of meiotic chromosome assembly revealed in S. cerevisiae 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Stephanie A. Schalbetter, Geoffrey Fudenberg, Jonathan Baxter, Katherine S. Pollard, Matthew J. Neale	84
17	The Epstein-Barr Virus Episome Maneuvers between Nuclear Chromatin Compartments during Reactivation 2017 ·Journal of Virology ·Stephanie Moquin, Sean Thomas, Sean Whalen, Alix Warburton, (unknown), Alison A. McBride, Katherine S. Pollard, JJ L. Miranda	46
18	Development of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Is Linked to a Longitudinal Restructuring of the Gut Metagenome in Mice 2017 ·mSystems ·Thomas J. Sharpton, Svetlana Lyalina, (unknown), (unknown), Emily M. Deal, Courtney R. Armour, Christopher A. Gaulke, Shomyseh Sanjabi, Katherine S. Pollard	40
19	Features that define the best ChIP-seq peak calling algorithms 2016 ·Briefings in Bioinformatics ·Reuben Thomas, Sean Thomas, Alisha K. Holloway, Katherine S. Pollard	74
20	Average genome size estimation improves comparative metagenomics and sheds light on the functional ecology of the human microbiome 2015 ·Genome Biology ·Stephen Nayfach, Katherine S. Pollard	224

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