Michael Brudno

26.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
137 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Michael Brudno is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Brudno has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Molecular Biology, 51 papers in Genetics and 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Michael Brudno's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (46 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (22 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers). Michael Brudno is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (46 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (22 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (18 papers). Michael Brudno collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Michael Brudno's co-authors include Serafim Batzoglou, Marc Fiume, Inna Dubchak, Arend Sidow, Paul Medvedev, Alexander Poliakov, Anna Goldenberg, Aziz M. Mezlini, Bo Wang and Benjamin Haibe‐Kains and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael Brudno

132 papers receiving 8.9k 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.

Similarity network fusion for aggregating data types on a genomic scale

2014 1.3k citations Marc Fiume, Michael Brudno et al. profile →
LAGAN and Multi-LAGAN: Efficient Tools for Large-Scale Multiple Alignment of Genomic DNA

2003 876 citations Michael Brudno, Gregory M. Cooper et al. Genome Research profile →
VISTA : visualizing global DNA sequence alignments of arbitrary length

2000 830 citations Michael Brudno, Alexander Poliakov et al. Bioinformatics profile →
ProbCons: Probabilistic consistency-based multiple sequence alignment

2005 815 citations Michael Brudno, Serafim Batzoglou et al. Genome Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Brudno Canada	39	6.3k	2.3k	1.4k	997	913	137	9.1k
Naama Barkai Israel	52	12.4k 2.0×	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	348 0.4×	157	14.7k
Ron Shamir Israel	62	10.7k 1.7×	1.9k 0.8×	847 0.6×	1.7k 1.7×	1.2k 1.3×	296	15.1k
Lincoln Stein United States	63	11.3k 1.8×	3.4k 1.5×	3.1k 2.2×	647 0.6×	2.0k 2.2×	203	16.7k
Haixu Tang United States	46	5.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	425 0.5×	186	8.2k
Chris Mungall United States	48	10.6k 1.7×	2.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	3.1k 3.1×	706 0.8×	165	14.0k
Suzanna Lewis United States	36	8.4k 1.3×	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.7×	648 0.7×	63	10.9k
Dong Xu United States	72	9.7k 1.5×	1.3k 0.6×	5.0k 3.5×	821 0.8×	644 0.7×	454	16.2k
Yves Moreau Belgium	49	8.0k 1.3×	3.5k 1.5×	844 0.6×	979 1.0×	1.1k 1.2×	263	12.9k
Roded Sharan Israel	57	11.3k 1.8×	1.1k 0.5×	507 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	952 1.0×	214	14.0k
Alvis Brāzma United Kingdom	50	11.0k 1.7×	1.6k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	670 0.7×	1.4k 1.5×	132	14.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Brudno

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

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Baciu, Cristina, Graziano Oldani, Elisa Pasini, et al.. (2025). Modelling the liver’s regenerative capacity across different clinical conditions. JHEP Reports. 7(8). 101465–101465.

Anthony, Samantha J., Enid K. Selkirk, Robert J. Klaassen, et al.. (2024). User-Centered Design and Usability of Voxe as a Pediatric Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measure Platform: Mixed Methods Evaluation Study. JMIR Human Factors. 11. e57984–e57984.

Muley, Milind M., YuShan Tu, David P. Finn, et al.. (2023). Conserved transcriptional programming across sex and species after peripheral nerve injury predicts treatments for neuropathic pain. British Journal of Pharmacology. 180(21). 2822–2836. 9 indexed citations

Osmond, Matthew, Taila Hartley, Marta Gîrdea, et al.. (2022). PhenomeCentral: 7 years of rare disease matchmaking. Human Mutation. 43(6). 674–681. 11 indexed citations

Siddaway, Robert, Jyothishmathi Swaminathan, Scott Ryall, et al.. (2022). Splicing is an alternate oncogenic pathway activation mechanism in glioma. Nature Communications. 13(1). 588–588. 26 indexed citations

Jiang, Yue, Robert Siddaway, Cynthia Hawkins, et al.. (2021). MetaFusion: a high-confidence metacaller for filtering and prioritizing RNA-seq gene fusion candidates. Bioinformatics. 37(19). 3144–3151. 7 indexed citations

Thorogood, Adrian, Heidi L. Rehm, Peter Goodhand, et al.. (2021). International federation of genomic medicine databases using GA4GH standards. Cell Genomics. 1(2). 100032–100032. 22 indexed citations

Anthony, Samantha J., Melanie Barwick, Michael Brudno, et al.. (2021). Creation of an electronic patient-reported outcome measure platform Voxe: a mixed methods study protocol in paediatric solid organ transplantation. BMJ Open. 11(10). e053119–e053119. 2 indexed citations

Díaz-Mejía, J. Javier, Ping Luo, Samarth Patel, et al.. (2020). CReSCENT: CanceR Single Cell ExpressioN Toolkit. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(W1). W372–W379. 10 indexed citations

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Cahill, Lindsay S., Jessie M. Cameron, Julie L. Winterburn, et al.. (2020). Structural Variant in Mitochondrial-Associated Gene (MRPL3) Induces Adult-Onset Neurodegeneration with Memory Impairment in the Mouse. Journal of Neuroscience. 40(23). 4576–4585. 7 indexed citations

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Green, Jane S., Somayyeh Fahiminiya, Jacek Majewski, et al.. (2020). A novel pathogenic missense ADAMTS17 variant that impairs secretion causes Weill-Marchesani Syndrome with variably dysmorphic hand features. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 10827–10827. 14 indexed citations

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Tonekaboni, Sana, Mjaye Mazwi, Peter C. Laussen, et al.. (2018). Prediction of Cardiac Arrest from Physiological Signals in the Pediatric ICU. 534–550. 15 indexed citations

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Wang, Zihan, Michael Brudno, & Orion J. Buske. (2017). Towards a Directory of Rare Disease Specialists: Identifying Experts from Publication History. 352–360. 1 indexed citations

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Hartley, Taila, Eric Bareke, Kym M. Boycott, et al.. (2017). Autosomal dominant cutis laxa with progeroid features due to a novel, de novo mutation in ALDH18A1. Journal of Human Genetics. 62(6). 661–663. 11 indexed citations

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Dubchak, Inna, Alexander Poliakov, Andrey Kislyuk, & Michael Brudno. (2009). Multiple whole-genome alignments without a reference organism. Genome Research. 19(4). 682–689. 49 indexed citations

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Quon, Gerald, Yee Whye Teh, Esther T. Chan, et al.. (2008). A mixture model for the evolution of gene expression in non-homogeneous datasets. UCL Discovery (University College London). 21. 1297–1304. 2 indexed citations

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Small, Kerrin S., et al.. (2007). Extreme genomic variation in a natural population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(13). 5698–5703. 91 indexed citations

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Small, Kerrin S., et al.. (2007). A haplome alignment and reference sequence of the highly polymorphic Ciona savignyi genome. Genome biology. 8(3). R41–R41. 76 indexed citations

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Shulman, Joshua, Michael Brudno, & Serafim Batzoglou. (2004). PROBCONS: probabilistic consistency-based multiple alignment of amino acid sequences. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 703–708. 27 indexed citations

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Cooper, Gregory M., Michael Brudno, Eric A. Stone, et al.. (2004). Characterization of Evolutionary Rates and Constraints in Three Mammalian Genomes. Genome Research. 14(4). 539–548. 105 indexed citations

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