William Mather

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

William Mather is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, William Mather has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in William Mather's work include Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (17 papers), stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (5 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (4 papers). William Mather is often cited by papers focused on Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (17 papers), stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (5 papers) and Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques (4 papers). William Mather collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and France. William Mather's co-authors include Jeff Hasty, Lev S. Tsimring, Matthew R. Bennett, Scott Cookson, Jesse Stricker, Ruth Williams, Tal Danino, Octavio Mondragón-Palomino, Nicholas C. Butzin and Ronald F. Fox and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

William Mather

23 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

A fast, robust and tunable synthetic gene oscillator 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 250 500 750
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. A fast, robust and tunable synthetic gene oscillator
    2008 818 citations Jesse Stricker, Scott Cookson et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Mather United States 16 1.3k 371 274 151 145 23 1.6k
Scott Cookson United States 7 937 0.7× 225 0.6× 283 1.0× 115 0.8× 133 0.9× 7 1.2k
David R. McMillen Canada 18 2.0k 1.6× 542 1.5× 243 0.9× 126 0.8× 176 1.2× 40 2.3k
Octavio Mondragón-Palomino United States 8 894 0.7× 242 0.7× 404 1.5× 115 0.8× 87 0.6× 12 1.2k
Tau‐Mu Yi United States 18 1.5k 1.2× 270 0.7× 188 0.7× 101 0.7× 120 0.8× 40 1.8k
Subhayu Basu United States 6 1.8k 1.4× 449 1.2× 515 1.9× 117 0.8× 159 1.1× 8 2.1k
Thomas E. Gorochowski United Kingdom 27 1.3k 1.1× 397 1.1× 267 1.0× 59 0.4× 103 0.7× 64 1.9k
Jangir Selimkhanov United States 13 905 0.7× 204 0.5× 435 1.6× 72 0.5× 96 0.7× 19 1.5k
Attila Becskei Switzerland 19 2.8k 2.2× 852 2.3× 178 0.6× 184 1.2× 254 1.8× 42 3.1k
Brian Munsky United States 20 2.1k 1.6× 495 1.3× 137 0.5× 85 0.6× 295 2.0× 64 2.4k
Markus Kollmann Germany 18 638 0.5× 185 0.5× 210 0.8× 97 0.6× 58 0.4× 32 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Mather

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Mather

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mather, William, et al.. (2020). Genome-scale transcriptional dynamics and environmental biosensing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(6). 3301–3306. 26 indexed citations
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Harimoto, Tetsuhiro, Zakary S. Singer, Joanna Zhang, et al.. (2019). Rapid screening of engineered microbial therapies in a 3D multicellular model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(18). 9002–9007. 29 indexed citations
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Butzin, Nicholas C. & William Mather. (2017). Crosstalk between Diverse Synthetic Protein Degradation Tags in Escherichia coli. ACS Synthetic Biology. 7(1). 54–62. 21 indexed citations
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Mather, William, et al.. (2017). Synchronized DNA cycling across a bacterial population. Nature Genetics. 49(8). 1282–1285. 26 indexed citations
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Mather, William, et al.. (2017). The spatiotemporal system dynamics of acquired resistance in an engineered microecology. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 16071–16071. 13 indexed citations
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Jensen, Roderick V., et al.. (2017). Mechanisms for Differential Protein Production in Toxin–Antitoxin Systems. Toxins. 9(7). 211–211. 24 indexed citations
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Butzin, Nicholas C. & William Mather. (2016). Synthetic Genetic Oscillators. 2. 100–125. 4 indexed citations
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Mather, William, et al.. (2016). Proteolytic crosstalk in multi-protease networks. Physical Biology. 13(2). 25002–25002. 13 indexed citations
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Butzin, Nicholas C., et al.. (2016). Entrainment of a Bacterial Synthetic Gene Oscillator through Proteolytic Queueing. ACS Synthetic Biology. 6(3). 455–462. 12 indexed citations
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Butzin, Nicholas C., et al.. (2015). Marching along to an Offbeat Drum: Entrainment of Synthetic Gene Oscillators by a Noisy Stimulus. ACS Synthetic Biology. 5(2). 146–153. 14 indexed citations
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Mather, William, et al.. (2014). A queueing approach to multi-site enzyme kinetics. Interface Focus. 4(3). 20130077–20130077. 17 indexed citations
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Mather, William, Jeff Hasty, Lev S. Tsimring, & Ruth Williams. (2013). Translational Cross Talk in Gene Networks. Biophysical Journal. 104(11). 2564–2572. 49 indexed citations
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Mather, William, Jeff Hasty, & Lev S. Tsimring. (2012). Fast stochastic algorithm for simulating evolutionary population dynamics. Bioinformatics. 28(9). 1230–1238. 7 indexed citations
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Boyer, Denis, William Mather, Octavio Mondragón-Palomino, et al.. (2011). Buckling instability in ordered bacterial colonies. Physical Biology. 8(2). 26008–26008. 54 indexed citations
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Mather, William, Jeff Hasty, Lev S. Tsimring, & Ruth Williams. (2011). Factorized time-dependent distributions for certain multiclass queueing networks and an application to enzymatic processing networks. Queueing Systems. 69(3-4). 313–328. 17 indexed citations
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Mather, William, et al.. (2010). Correlation Resonance Generated by Coupled Enzymatic Processing. Biophysical Journal. 99(10). 3172–3181. 43 indexed citations
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Mather, William, Octavio Mondragón-Palomino, Tal Danino, Jeff Hasty, & Lev S. Tsimring. (2010). Streaming Instability in Growing Cell Populations. Physical Review Letters. 104(20). 208101–208101. 55 indexed citations
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Mather, William, Matthew R. Bennett, Jeff Hasty, & Lev S. Tsimring. (2009). Delay-Induced Degrade-and-Fire Oscillations in Small Genetic Circuits. Physical Review Letters. 102(6). 68105–68105. 116 indexed citations
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Stricker, Jesse, Scott Cookson, Matthew R. Bennett, et al.. (2008). A fast, robust and tunable synthetic gene oscillator. Nature. 456(7221). 516–519. 818 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mather, William & Ronald F. Fox. (2006). Kinesin’s Biased Stepping Mechanism: Amplification of Neck Linker Zippering. Biophysical Journal. 91(7). 2416–2426. 25 indexed citations

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