Simon Tavaré

55.6k total citations · 11 hit papers
220 papers, 21.3k citations indexed

About

Simon Tavaré is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Tavaré has authored 220 papers receiving a total of 21.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Molecular Biology, 78 papers in Genetics and 38 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Simon Tavaré's work include Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (34 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (30 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (30 papers). Simon Tavaré is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (34 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (30 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (30 papers). Simon Tavaré collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Simon Tavaré's co-authors include Robert Griffiths, Peter Donnelly, Mark Dunning, Paul Marjoram, Darryl Shibata, Richard Arratia, Inmaculada Spiteri, Natalie Thorne, John C. Marioni and Magnus Nordborg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Simon Tavaré

218 papers receiving 20.7k citations

Hit Papers

Some probabilistic and statistical problems in the analys... 1984 2026 1998 2012 1986 2007 2013 2009 2007 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Some probabilistic and statistical problems in the analysis of DNA sequences
    1986 2.0k citations Simon Tavaré profile →
  2. Relative Impact of Nucleotide and Copy Number Variation on Gene Expression Phenotypes
    2007 1.3k citations Mark Dunning, Natalie Thorne et al. Science profile →
  3. Intratumor heterogeneity in human glioblastoma reflects cancer evolutionary dynamics
    2013 1.2k citations Andrea Sottoriva, Inmaculada Spiteri et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Autophagy mediates the mitotic senescence transition
    2009 836 citations Andrew Young, Masako Narita et al. Genes & Development profile →
  5. Population genomics of human gene expression
    2007 789 citations Mark Dunning, Simon Tavaré et al. profile →
  6. MicroRNA expression profiling of human breast cancer identifies new markers of tumor subtype
    2007 750 citations Natalie Thorne, Inmaculada Spiteri et al. Genome biology profile →
  7. Markov chain Monte Carlo without likelihoods
    2003 709 citations Simon Tavaré et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  8. Inferring Coalescence Times From DNA Sequence Data
    1997 573 citations Simon Tavaré et al. profile →
  9. Spatial Coupling of mTOR and Autophagy Augments Secretory Phenotypes
    2011 459 citations Masako Narita, Andrew Young et al. Science profile →
  10. Line-of-descent and genealogical processes, and their applications in population genetics models
    1984 446 citations Simon Tavaré profile →
  11. Logarithmic Combinatorial Structures: A Probabilistic Approach
    2003 253 citations Simon Tavaré et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Tavaré United States 68 10.7k 6.7k 3.6k 1.8k 1.8k 220 21.3k
John D. Storey United States 40 15.2k 1.4× 5.5k 0.8× 2.3k 0.6× 2.0k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 83 26.0k
Terence P. Speed Australia 83 20.2k 1.9× 5.2k 0.8× 3.8k 1.1× 2.7k 1.5× 2.1k 1.2× 378 34.9k
Robert Gentleman United States 43 18.7k 1.7× 3.8k 0.6× 7.8k 2.2× 2.7k 1.5× 1.6k 0.9× 115 34.2k
Wing Hung Wong United States 74 14.2k 1.3× 2.9k 0.4× 2.6k 0.7× 1.5k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 262 26.7k
Gilbert Chu United States 43 14.0k 1.3× 2.3k 0.4× 3.0k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 3.0k 1.7× 87 19.8k
Jeffrey T. Leek United States 39 10.0k 0.9× 2.5k 0.4× 2.5k 0.7× 1.7k 1.0× 949 0.5× 82 16.1k
John Quackenbush United States 75 13.9k 1.3× 2.9k 0.4× 3.3k 0.9× 2.8k 1.5× 3.4k 1.9× 293 29.2k
Paul T. Spellman United States 40 21.9k 2.0× 3.1k 0.5× 3.9k 1.1× 2.3k 1.3× 3.9k 2.2× 114 31.1k
Gil McVean United Kingdom 62 15.1k 1.4× 18.6k 2.8× 2.4k 0.7× 5.5k 3.0× 843 0.5× 127 36.4k
Gavin Sherlock United States 52 35.0k 3.3× 6.3k 0.9× 4.6k 1.3× 5.4k 3.0× 2.7k 1.5× 127 49.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Tavaré

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tavaré, Simon. (2025). Birth and death processes in phylogenetics and population genetics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1919). 20230300–20230300. 1 indexed citations
2.
McCullagh, Peter, et al.. (2023). Fisher’s measure of variability in repeated samples. Bernoulli. 29(2). 3 indexed citations
3.
Nowicki-Osuch, Karol, Lizhe Zhuang, Tik Shing Cheung, et al.. (2023). Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Unifies Developmental Programs of Esophageal and Gastric Intestinal Metaplasia. Cancer Discovery. 13(6). 1346–1363. 32 indexed citations
4.
Williams, Edward H., Thomas R. Flint, Claire M. Connell, et al.. (2020). CamGFR v2: A New Model for Estimating the Glomerular Filtration Rate from Standardized or Non-standardized Creatinine in Patients with Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. 27(5). 1381–1390. 7 indexed citations
5.
Reilein, Amy, et al.. (2018). Division-independent differentiation mandates proliferative competition among stem cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(14). E3182–E3191. 18 indexed citations
6.
Piccirillo, Sara, Inmaculada Spiteri, Andrea Sottoriva, et al.. (2014). Contributions to Drug Resistance in Glioblastoma Derived from Malignant Cells in the Sub-Ependymal Zone. Cancer Research. 75(1). 194–202. 43 indexed citations
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Sottoriva, Andrea, Inmaculada Spiteri, Sara Piccirillo, et al.. (2013). Intratumor heterogeneity in human glioblastoma reflects cancer evolutionary dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(10). 4009–4014. 1231 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vermeulen, Louis, Edward Morrissey, Maartje van der Heijden, et al.. (2013). Defining Stem Cell Dynamics in Models of Intestinal Tumor Initiation. Science. 342(6161). 995–998. 295 indexed citations
9.
Sottoriva, Andrea, Inmaculada Spiteri, Darryl Shibata, Christina Curtis, & Simon Tavaré. (2012). Single-Molecule Genomic Data Delineate Patient-Specific Tumor Profiles and Cancer Stem Cell Organization. Cancer Research. 73(1). 41–49. 50 indexed citations
10.
Narita, Masako, Andrew Young, Satoko Arakawa, et al.. (2011). Spatial Coupling of mTOR and Autophagy Augments Secretory Phenotypes. Science. 332(6032). 966–970. 459 indexed citations breakdown →
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Young, Andrew, Masako Narita, Manuela Ferreira, et al.. (2009). Autophagy mediates the mitotic senescence transition. Genes & Development. 23(7). 798–803. 836 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wilson, Michael D., Nuno L. Barbosa‐Morais, Dominic Schmidt, et al.. (2008). Species-Specific Transcription in Mice Carrying Human Chromosome 21. Science. 322(5900). 434–438. 224 indexed citations
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Palmer, Roger D., Nuno L. Barbosa‐Morais, Balaji Muralidhar, et al.. (2008). Pediatric Malignant Germ Cell Tumors Show Characteristic Transcriptome Profiles. Cancer Research. 68(11). 4239–4247. 54 indexed citations
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Hull, M. Louise, Claudia Rangel‐Escareño, Claire M. Johnson, et al.. (2008). Endometrial-Peritoneal Interactions during Endometriotic Lesion Establishment. American Journal Of Pathology. 173(3). 700–715. 140 indexed citations
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Dunning, Mark, Matthew E. Ritchie, Nuno L. Barbosa‐Morais, Simon Tavaré, & Andy G. Lynch. (2008). Spike-in validation of an Illumina-specific variance-stabilizing transformation. BMC Research Notes. 1(1). 18–18. 13 indexed citations
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Dunning, Mark, Nuno L. Barbosa‐Morais, Andy G. Lynch, Simon Tavaré, & Matthew E. Ritchie. (2008). Statistical issues in the analysis of Illumina data. BMC Bioinformatics. 9(1). 85–85. 89 indexed citations
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Curtis, Christina, Gary N. Landis, Donna G. Folk, et al.. (2007). Transcriptional profiling of MnSOD-mediated lifespan extension in Drosophilareveals a species-general network of aging and metabolic genes. Genome biology. 8(12). 93–93. 111 indexed citations
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Conboy, Caitlin B., Christiana Spyrou, Natalie Thorne, et al.. (2007). Cell Cycle Genes Are the Evolutionarily Conserved Targets of the E2F4 Transcription Factor. PLoS ONE. 2(10). e1061–e1061. 44 indexed citations
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Deonier, Richard C., Simon Tavaré, & Michael S. Waterman. (2005). Computational Genome Analysis: An Introduction. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 45 indexed citations
20.
Karlin, Samuel & Simon Tavaré. (1982). A diffusion process with killing: the time to formation of recurrent deleterious mutant genes. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 13(3). 249–261. 11 indexed citations

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