Quan Zou

27.5k total citations · 11 hit papers
554 papers, 20.1k citations indexed

About

Quan Zou is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Quan Zou has authored 554 papers receiving a total of 20.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 450 papers in Molecular Biology, 98 papers in Cancer Research and 75 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Quan Zou's work include Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (216 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (104 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (103 papers). Quan Zou is often cited by papers focused on Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (216 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (104 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (103 papers). Quan Zou collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Quan Zou's co-authors include Leyi Wei, Xiangxiang Zeng, Jijun Tang, Ran Su, Ying Ju, Fei Guo, Pengwei Xing, Bin Liu, Yijie Ding and Shixiang Wan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Quan Zou

521 papers receiving 19.8k 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.

Predicting Diabetes Mellitus With Machine Learning Techniques

2018 563 citations Quan Zou et al. profile →
Biological functions of microRNAs: a review

2010 552 citations Quan Zou et al. profile →
Gene2vec: gene subsequence embedding for prediction of mammalian N⁶-methyladenosine sites from mRNA

2018 428 citations Quan Zou et al. profile →
A novel features ranking metric with application to scalable visual and bioinformatics data classification

2015 338 citations Quan Zou et al. profile →
webTWAS: a resource for disease candidate susceptibility genes identified by transcriptome-wide association study

2021 316 citations Feifei Cui, Zilong Zhang et al. profile →
Distance-based Support Vector Machine to Predict DNA N6-methyladenine Modification

2022 268 citations Quan Zou et al. profile →
SBSM-Pro: support bio-sequence machine for proteins

2024 179 citations Quan Zou et al. profile →
DeepBIO: an automated and interpretable deep-learning platform for high-throughput biological sequence prediction, functional annotation and visualization analysis

2023 104 citations Quan Zou et al. profile →
Deepstacked-AVPs: predicting antiviral peptides using tri-segment evolutionary profile and word embedding based multi-perspective features with deep stacking model

2024 71 citations Shahid Akbar, Ali Raza et al. profile →
iAFPs-Mv-BiTCN: Predicting antifungal peptides using self-attention transformer embedding and transform evolutionary based multi-view features with bidirectional temporal convolutional networks

2024 67 citations Shahid Akbar, Quan Zou et al. profile →
DeepAVP-TPPred: identification of antiviral peptides using transformed image-based localized descriptors and binary tree growth algorithm

2024 52 citations Shahid Akbar, Ali Raza et al. Bioinformatics profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Quan Zou

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Quan Zou. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Quan Zou 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 Quan Zou. Quan Zou 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	Supervised pre-training for feature extraction in cell type annotation of single-cell multi-omics data 2025 ·Applied Soft Computing ·Yongqing Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Hong Luo, (unknown), Zixuan Wang, Quan Zou	0
2	SQ-DiffuPep: A multimodal information-guided quantitative latent diffusion model for antimicrobial peptide discovery 2025 ·Information Fusion ·(unknown), Wang Li, (unknown), Quan Zou, Xiaojun Yao, Xiangzheng Fu	0
3	ST-GCP: a graph convolutional network model with contrastive consistency and permutation for spatial transcriptomics 2025 ·Briefings in Bioinformatics ·Yajie Meng, Yongkang Wang, (unknown), Xianfang Tang, Zilong Zhang, Feifei Cui, Xiangzheng Fu, Quan Zou, Xu Lu, (unknown)	0
4	Increased versatility and convenience: Advances and strategy optimization of Receptor‐Mediated Ovary Transduction of Cargo‐mediated genetic modification in insects 2025 ·Insect Science ·Ling Xia, Cao Zhou, (unknown), Yan‐Ping Jiang, Quan Sun, Lingyi Li, (unknown), (unknown), Quan Zou, Xiaolin Yang, Kai Xiang, Jin Ma, Liang Qiao, Bin Chen, Wei Sun	1
5	CircRNA identification and feature interpretability analysis 2024 ·BMC Biology ·Mengting Niu, Chunyu Wang, Yaojia Chen, Quan Zou, Qi Ren, Xu Lei	7
6	Pebble flow in the HTR-PM reactor core by GPU-DEM simulation: Effect of friction 2024 ·Nuclear Engineering and Technology ·Zuoyi Zhang, Quan Zou, Nan Gui, Bing Xia, Zhiyong Liu, (unknown)	2
7	AIPs-DeepEnC-GA: Predicting anti-inflammatory peptides using embedded evolutionary and sequential feature integration with genetic algorithm based deep ensemble model 2024 ·Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems ·Ali Raza, Jamal Uddin, Quan Zou, Shahid Akbar, (unknown), Ruijun Liu	30
8	Identification, characterization and expression analysis of circRNA encoded by SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 2024 ·Briefings in Bioinformatics ·Mengting Niu, Chunyu Wang, Yaojia Chen, Quan Zou, Xu Lei	12
9	Recent Advances in Computational Prediction of Secondary and Supersecondary Structures from Protein Sequences 2024 ·Methods in molecular biology ·Jian Zhang, Jingjing Qian, Quan Zou, Feng Zhou, Lukasz Kurgan	2
10	Identifying nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptor and pathogen effector pairing using transfer-learning and bilinear attention network 2024 ·Bioinformatics ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xueying Xie, (unknown), Chunxue Yang, Fenglong Yang, Quan Zou, Shanwen Sun	5
11	Investigation of Intestinal Microbes of Five Zokor Species Based on 16S rRNA Sequences 2024 ·Microorganisms ·(unknown), Quan Zou, Hui Yang, (unknown)	1
12	Drug-target interaction prediction with collaborative contrastive learning and adaptive self-paced sampling strategy 2024 ·BMC Biology ·Zhen Tian, Yue Yu, (unknown), Quan Zou	8
13	CRBPSA: CircRNA-RBP interaction sites identification using sequence structural attention model 2024 ·BMC Biology ·Chao Cao, Chunyu Wang, Qi Dai, Quan Zou, Tao Wang	12
14	stHGC: a self-supervised graph representation learning for spatial domain recognition with hybrid graph and spatial regularization 2024 ·Briefings in Bioinformatics ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Quan Zou	2
15	Local augmented graph neural network for multi-omics cancer prognosis prediction and analysis 2023 ·Methods ·Yongqing Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Yuhang Liu, Hong Luo, (unknown), Quan Zou	9
16	m5U-SVM: identification of RNA 5-methyluridine modification sites based on multi-view features of physicochemical features and distributed representation 2023 ·BMC Biology ·Chunyan Ao, Xiucai Ye, Tetsuya Sakurai, Quan Zou, Liang Yu	49
17	mAML: an automated machine learning pipeline with a microbiome repository for human disease classification 2020 ·Database ·Fenglong Yang, Quan Zou	25
18	An in silico approach to identification, categorization and prediction of nucleic acid binding proteins 2020 ·Briefings in Bioinformatics ·Lei Xu, Shanshan Jiang, Jin Wu, Quan Zou	83
19	Prediction of potential disease-associated microRNAs using structural perturbation method 2018 ·Bioinformatics ·Xiangxiang Zeng, Li Liu, Linyuan Lü, Quan Zou	210
20	Tumor origin detection with tissue-specific miRNA and DNA methylation markers 2017 ·Bioinformatics ·Wei Tang, Shixiang Wan, Zhen Yang, Andrew E. Teschendorff, Quan Zou	292

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