Quin F. Wills

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Quin F. Wills is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Quin F. Wills has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Cancer Research and 2 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Quin F. Wills's work include Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (9 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (6 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (5 papers). Quin F. Wills is often cited by papers focused on Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (9 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (6 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (5 papers). Quin F. Wills collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Quin F. Wills's co-authors include Davis J. McCarthy, Kieran R. Campbell, Aaron T. L. Lun, Chris Holmes, Alex J. Tipping, Darren W. Sexton, Andrew Goldson, Kenneth J. Livak, Rory Bowden and Tariq Enver and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nucleic Acids Research and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Quin F. Wills

18 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Scater: pre-processing, quality control, normalization and visualization of single-cell RNA-seq data in R

2016 951 citations Davis J. McCarthy, Kieran R. Campbell et al. Bioinformatics profile →
Structural Remodeling of the Human Colonic Mesenchyme in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

2018 450 citations James Kinchen, Hannah H. Chen et al. Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Quin F. Wills United Kingdom	11	1.4k	501	470	293	278	18	2.1k
Jingyuan Deng United States	12	1.4k 1.0×	545 1.1×	430 0.9×	208 0.7×	147 0.5×	23	2.2k
Johanna Klughammer Austria	13	2.1k 1.6×	767 1.5×	415 0.9×	265 0.9×	322 1.2×	17	2.9k
Patrik L. Ståhl Sweden	23	2.2k 1.6×	516 1.0×	471 1.0×	263 0.9×	189 0.7×	44	2.9k
Christian Schmidl Germany	21	1.9k 1.4×	793 1.6×	306 0.7×	376 1.3×	289 1.0×	27	2.8k
Marco Mignardi Sweden	11	1.4k 1.0×	604 1.2×	452 1.0×	249 0.8×	158 0.6×	17	2.2k
Valentina Proserpio Italy	12	2.3k 1.7×	633 1.3×	546 1.2×	263 0.9×	165 0.6×	20	2.8k
Kelly Street United States	11	1.5k 1.1×	589 1.2×	329 0.7×	263 0.9×	106 0.4×	15	2.3k
Tomás Gomes United Kingdom	16	1.5k 1.1×	752 1.5×	363 0.8×	254 0.9×	146 0.5×	18	2.3k
Jessica C. Mar United States	28	1.7k 1.2×	656 1.3×	376 0.8×	511 1.7×	208 0.7×	60	3.2k
Kay Wiebrands Netherlands	9	1.6k 1.2×	313 0.6×	393 0.8×	759 2.6×	439 1.6×	9	2.4k

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18 of 18 papers shown

Vu, Trung Nghia, Quin F. Wills, Krishna R. Kalari, et al.. (2018). Isoform-level gene expression patterns in single-cell RNA-sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 34(14). 2392–2400. 12 indexed citations

Kinchen, James, Hannah H. Chen, Kaushal Parikh, et al.. (2018). Structural Remodeling of the Human Colonic Mesenchyme in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Cell. 175(2). 372–386.e17. 450 indexed citations breakdown →

Povinelli, Benjamin, Quin F. Wills, Nikolaos Barkas, et al.. (2018). Integrated Single Cell Analysis Reveals Cell Cycle and Ontogeny Related Transcriptional Heterogeneity in Hscs. Experimental Hematology. 64. S95–S96. 1 indexed citations

Povinelli, Benjamin, Quin F. Wills, Nikolaos Barkas, et al.. (2017). Unravelling Cell Cycle and Ontogeny Transcriptional Heterogeneity in Hematopoietic Stem Cells through Integrated Single Cell RNA-Seq. Blood. 130(Suppl_1). 769–769. 1 indexed citations

Wills, Quin F., Esther Mellado-Gomez, Rory Nolan, et al.. (2017). The nature and nurture of cell heterogeneity: accounting for macrophage gene-environment interactions with single-cell RNA-Seq. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 53–53. 14 indexed citations

Athreya, Arjun P., Krishna R. Kalari, Junmei Cairns, et al.. (2017). Model-based unsupervised learning informs metformin-induced cell-migration inhibition through an AMPK-independent mechanism in breast cancer. Oncotarget. 8(16). 27199–27215. 10 indexed citations

McCarthy, Davis J., Kieran R. Campbell, Aaron T. L. Lun, & Quin F. Wills. (2016). Scater: pre-processing, quality control, normalization and visualization of single-cell RNA-seq data in R. Bioinformatics. 33(8). 1179–1186. 951 indexed citations breakdown →

Vu, Trung Nghia, Quin F. Wills, Krishna R. Kalari, et al.. (2016). Beta-Poisson model for single-cell RNA-seq data analyses. Bioinformatics. 32(14). 2128–2135. 101 indexed citations

Wills, Quin F., Tobias Boothe, Ali Asadi, et al.. (2016). Statistical approaches and software for clustering islet cell functional heterogeneity. Islets. 8(2). 48–56. 10 indexed citations

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Yang, Yu Hsuan Carol, Quin F. Wills, & James D. Johnson. (2015). A live-cell, high-content imaging survey of 206 endogenous factors across five stress conditions reveals context-dependent survival effects in mouse primary beta cells. Diabetologia. 58(6). 1239–1249. 7 indexed citations

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Wills, Quin F. & Adam J. Mead. (2015). Application of single-cell genomics in cancer: promise and challenges. Human Molecular Genetics. 24(R1). R74–R84. 48 indexed citations

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Tang, Xiaojia, Saurabh Baheti, Khader Shameer, et al.. (2014). The eSNV-detect: a computational system to identify expressed single nucleotide variants from transcriptome sequencing data. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(22). e172–e172. 26 indexed citations

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Wills, Quin F., Kenneth J. Livak, Alex J. Tipping, et al.. (2013). Single-cell gene expression analysis reveals genetic associations masked in whole-tissue experiments. Nature Biotechnology. 31(8). 748–752. 171 indexed citations

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Livak, Kenneth J., Quin F. Wills, Alex J. Tipping, et al.. (2012). Methods for qPCR gene expression profiling applied to 1440 lymphoblastoid single cells. Methods. 59(1). 71–79. 112 indexed citations

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Rantalainen, Mattias, Blanca Herrera, Geoffrey C. Nicholson, et al.. (2011). MicroRNA Expression in Abdominal and Gluteal Adipose Tissue Is Associated with mRNA Expression Levels and Partly Genetically Driven. PLoS ONE. 6(11). e27338–e27338. 32 indexed citations

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Herrera, Blanca, Helen Lockstone, Jennifer M. Taylor, et al.. (2009). MicroRNA-125a is over-expressed in insulin target tissues in a spontaneous rat model of Type 2 Diabetes. BMC Medical Genomics. 2(1). 54–54. 108 indexed citations

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Wills, Quin F., et al.. (2009). Toxicogenomics in Drug Discovery and Development — Making an Impact. Alternatives to Laboratory Animals. 37(1_suppl). 33–37. 2 indexed citations

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Wills, Quin F.. (2007). SimuGen Ltd: Reliable, Early Prediction of Drug Toxicity with Toxicogenomics, Human Cell Culture and Computational Models. Pharmacogenomics. 8(8). 1081–1084. 1 indexed citations

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