Tomas Babak

5.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Tomas Babak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomas Babak has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Tomas Babak's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (11 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers). Tomas Babak is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (11 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (7 papers). Tomas Babak collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Tomas Babak's co-authors include Timothy R. Hughes, Benjamin J. Blencowe, Quaid Morris, Derek van der Kooy, Brian DeVeale, Wen Zhang, Jason M. Johnson, Christina Alm, Hideki Yoshida and Éric Lécuyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Tomas Babak

34 papers receiving 4.1k citations

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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.

Global Analysis of mRNA Localization Reveals a Prominent Role in Organizing Cellular Architecture and Function

2007 732 citations Éric Lécuyer, Hideki Yoshida et al. Cell profile →
A quantitative atlas of polyadenylation in five mammals

2012 487 citations Adnan Derti, Philip W. Garrett-Engele et al. Genome Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tomas Babak Canada	24	3.5k	996	917	313	159	34	4.2k
Susan Tweedie United Kingdom	28	4.8k 1.4×	503 0.5×	938 1.0×	337 1.1×	246 1.5×	45	5.8k
Teemu Kivioja Finland	21	4.4k 1.3×	589 0.6×	684 0.7×	484 1.5×	379 2.4×	33	5.2k
Donna Karolchik United States	17	4.3k 1.2×	945 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	693 2.2×	269 1.7×	21	5.3k
Kristian Vlahoviček Croatia	25	2.5k 0.7×	425 0.4×	450 0.5×	357 1.1×	162 1.0×	62	3.0k
Hiram Clawson United States	17	4.6k 1.3×	1.1k 1.1×	1.7k 1.8×	894 2.9×	259 1.6×	23	5.7k
Frédéric Schütz Switzerland	24	1.8k 0.5×	561 0.6×	612 0.7×	339 1.1×	146 0.9×	38	3.2k
Edward J. Kulbokas United States	8	2.7k 0.8×	768 0.8×	975 1.1×	329 1.1×	293 1.8×	9	3.7k
Sarah J. Wheelan United States	34	3.1k 0.9×	581 0.6×	705 0.8×	865 2.8×	317 2.0×	84	4.2k
Cathy Riemer United States	15	3.0k 0.8×	342 0.3×	1.1k 1.2×	757 2.4×	268 1.7×	25	4.7k
Belinda Giardine United States	28	3.2k 0.9×	290 0.3×	734 0.8×	484 1.5×	180 1.1×	61	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Tomas Babak

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tomas Babak

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Truesdell, Peter, Jessica Chang, Meiou Dai, et al.. (2024). Pharmacogenomic discovery of genetically targeted cancer therapies optimized against clinical outcomes. npj Precision Oncology. 8(1). 186–186. 2 indexed citations

Singh-Babak, Sheena D., Tomas Babak, Hunter B. Fraser, & Alexander D. Johnson. (2021). Lineage-specific selection and the evolution of virulence in the Candida clade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(12). 10 indexed citations

Zhao, Yulei, Calvin Sjaarda, Prem Khanal, et al.. (2019). A one-step tRNA-CRISPR system for genome-wide genetic interaction mapping in mammalian cells. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14499–14499. 6 indexed citations

Marks, Harold G., Hindrik H. D. Kerstens, Erik Splinter, et al.. (2016). Dynamics of gene silencing during X inactivation using allele-specific RNA-seq (vol 16, 149, 2015). Genome biology. 17. 2–3. 11 indexed citations

Marks, Hendrik, Hindrik H. D. Kerstens, Tahsin Stefan Barakat, et al.. (2015). Dynamics of gene silencing during X inactivation using allele-specific RNA-seq. Genome biology. 16(1). 149–149. 91 indexed citations

Derti, Adnan, Philip W. Garrett-Engele, Kenzie D. MacIsaac, et al.. (2012). A quantitative atlas of polyadenylation in five mammals. Genome Research. 22(6). 1173–1183. 487 indexed citations breakdown →

DeVeale, Brian, Derek van der Kooy, & Tomas Babak. (2012). Critical Evaluation of Imprinted Gene Expression by RNA–Seq: A New Perspective. PLoS Genetics. 8(3). e1002600–e1002600. 166 indexed citations

Singh-Babak, Sheena D., Tomas Babak, Stephanie Diezmann, et al.. (2012). Global Analysis of the Evolution and Mechanism of Echinocandin Resistance in Candida glabrata. PLoS Pathogens. 8(5). e1002718–e1002718. 151 indexed citations

Vignali, Marissa, Christopher D. Armour, Jingyang Chen, et al.. (2011). NSR-seq transcriptional profiling enables identification of a gene signature of Plasmodium falciparum parasites infecting children. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 121(3). 1119–1129. 56 indexed citations

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Yang, Fan, Tomas Babak, Jay Shendure, & Christine M. Distèche. (2010). Global survey of escape from X inactivation by RNA-sequencing in mouse. Genome Research. 20(5). 614–622. 271 indexed citations

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Armour, Christopher D., John C. Castle, Ronghua Chen, et al.. (2009). Digital transcriptome profiling using selective hexamer priming for cDNA synthesis. Nature Methods. 6(9). 647–649. 125 indexed citations

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Khanna, May, Harm van Bakel, Xinyi Tang, et al.. (2009). A systematic characterization of Cwc21, the yeast ortholog of the human spliceosomal protein SRm300. RNA. 15(12). 2174–2185. 28 indexed citations

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Babak, Tomas, Brian DeVeale, Christopher D. Armour, et al.. (2008). Global Survey of Genomic Imprinting by Transcriptome Sequencing. Current Biology. 18(22). 1735–1741. 127 indexed citations

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Marcon, Edyta, Tomas Babak, Gordon Chua, Thomas A. Hughes, & Peter B. Møens. (2008). miRNA and piRNA localization in the male mammalian meiotic nucleus. Chromosome Research. 16(2). 243–260. 95 indexed citations

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Barash, Yoseph, Joanna Y. Ip, Christine Misquitta, et al.. (2007). Functional coordination of alternative splicing in the mammalian central nervous system. Genome biology. 8(6). R108–R108. 82 indexed citations

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Lécuyer, Éric, Hideki Yoshida, Christina Alm, et al.. (2007). Global Analysis of mRNA Localization Reveals a Prominent Role in Organizing Cellular Architecture and Function. Cell. 131(1). 174–187. 732 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huang, Jim, Tomas Babak, Timothy W. Corson, et al.. (2007). Using expression profiling data to identify human microRNA targets. Nature Methods. 4(12). 1045–1049. 338 indexed citations

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Hughes, Timothy R., Shawna L. Hiley, Arneet L. Saltzman, Tomas Babak, & Benjamin J. Blencowe. (2006). [14] Microarray Analysis of RNA Processing and Modification. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 410. 300–316. 19 indexed citations

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Babak, Tomas, Wen Zhang, Quaid Morris, Benjamin J. Blencowe, & Timothy R. Hughes. (2004). Probing microRNAs with microarrays: Tissue specificity and functional inference. RNA. 10(11). 1813–1819. 303 indexed citations

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Pan, Qun, Ofer Shai, Christine Misquitta, et al.. (2004). Revealing Global Regulatory Features of Mammalian Alternative Splicing Using a Quantitative Microarray Platform. Molecular Cell. 16(6). 929–941. 244 indexed citations

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