Wouter De Coster

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
18 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Wouter De Coster is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Molecular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Wouter De Coster has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Molecular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Wouter De Coster's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (5 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). Wouter De Coster is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (5 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers). Wouter De Coster collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Norway. Wouter De Coster's co-authors include Christine Van Broeckhoven, Svenn D’Hert, Marc Cruts, Darrin T. Schultz, Rosa Rademakers, Fritz J. Sedlazeck, Matthias H. Weissensteiner, Mojca Stražišar, Tim De Pooter and Kristel Sleegers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Nature Reviews Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Wouter De Coster

17 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

NanoPack: visualizing and processing long-read sequencing data

2018 1.7k citations Wouter De Coster, Svenn D’Hert et al. Bioinformatics profile →
NanoPack2: population-scale evaluation of long-read sequencing data

2023 238 citations Wouter De Coster, Rosa Rademakers Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wouter De Coster Belgium	11	1.5k	549	525	390	218	18	2.5k
Darrin T. Schultz United States	11	1.3k 0.9×	560 1.0×	442 0.8×	233 0.6×	164 0.8×	21	2.2k
Svenn D’Hert Belgium	4	1.2k 0.8×	460 0.8×	407 0.8×	236 0.6×	165 0.8×	4	1.9k
Claire Toffano‐Nioche France	16	1.9k 1.2×	585 1.1×	624 1.2×	267 0.7×	121 0.6×	26	2.4k
Yong Liang China	21	1.6k 1.1×	651 1.2×	662 1.3×	413 1.1×	227 1.0×	48	3.1k
Marten Boetzer Netherlands	8	1.8k 1.2×	731 1.3×	930 1.8×	434 1.1×	136 0.6×	8	3.0k
Shuai Le China	22	1.8k 1.2×	1.4k 2.6×	601 1.1×	436 1.1×	257 1.2×	42	3.1k
Carole Dossat France	23	1.3k 0.9×	571 1.0×	749 1.4×	441 1.1×	253 1.2×	31	2.6k
Omri Wurtzel Israel	19	2.3k 1.5×	695 1.3×	354 0.7×	616 1.6×	100 0.5×	26	2.7k
Walter Pirovano Netherlands	17	2.2k 1.5×	813 1.5×	1.1k 2.0×	495 1.3×	182 0.8×	40	3.7k
Brian Tjaden United States	21	2.2k 1.5×	713 1.3×	285 0.5×	1.1k 2.8×	151 0.7×	37	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Wouter De Coster

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wouter De Coster

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18 of 18 papers shown

Crook, Richard, Peizhou Jiang, Shanu F. Roemer, et al.. (2025). Expanding the spectrum of annexin A11 proteinopathy in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and motor neuron disease. Acta Neuropathologica. 150(1). 52–52.

Perneel, Jolien, Nemo Peeters, Riet De Rycke, et al.. (2025). Increased TMEM106B levels lead to lysosomal dysfunction which affects synaptic signaling and neuronal health. Molecular Neurodegeneration. 20(1). 45–45. 1 indexed citations

English, Adam C., Egor Dolzhenko, Sean K. McKenzie, et al.. (2024). Analysis and benchmarking of small and large genomic variants across tandem repeats. Nature Biotechnology. 43(3). 431–442. 24 indexed citations

Coster, Wouter De, Ida Höijer, Inge Bruggeman, et al.. (2024). Visualization and analysis of medically relevant tandem repeats in nanopore sequencing of control cohorts with pathSTR. Genome Research. 34(11). 2074–2080. 5 indexed citations

Dewaele, Barbara, Bert Callewaert, Olivier Vanakker, et al.. (2024). Full characterization of unresolved structural variation through long-read sequencing and optical genome mapping. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 29142–29142. 5 indexed citations

Rijk, Peter De, Fahri Küçükali, Jasper Van Dongen, et al.. (2024). Scywalker: scalable end-to-end data analysis workflow for long-read single-cell transcriptome sequencing. Bioinformatics. 40(9). 1 indexed citations

Coster, Wouter De & Rosa Rademakers. (2023). NanoPack2: population-scale evaluation of long-read sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 39(5). 238 indexed citations breakdown →

Valček, Adam, et al.. (2022). Genomic Analysis of a Strain Collection Containing Multidrug-, Extensively Drug-, Pandrug-, and Carbapenem-Resistant Modern Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 66(9). e0089222–e0089222. 18 indexed citations

Valček, Adam, Tom Coenye, Tim De Pooter, et al.. (2022). Phenotypic Characterization and Heterogeneity among Modern Clinical Isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii. Microbiology Spectrum. 11(1). e0306122–e0306122. 25 indexed citations

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Coster, Wouter De, Matthias H. Weissensteiner, & Fritz J. Sedlazeck. (2021). Towards population-scale long-read sequencing. Nature Reviews Genetics. 22(9). 572–587. 163 indexed citations

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Coster, Wouter De, Endre Bakken Stovner, & Mojca Stražišar. (2020). Methplotlib: analysis of modified nucleotides from nanopore sequencing. Bioinformatics. 36(10). 3236–3238. 18 indexed citations

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Coster, Wouter De, Mojca Stražišar, & Peter De Rijk. (2020). Critical length in long-read resequencing. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 2(1). lqz027–lqz027. 2 indexed citations

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Roeck, Arne De, Wouter De Coster, Rita Cacace, et al.. (2019). NanoSatellite: accurate characterization of expanded tandem repeat length and sequence through whole genome long-read sequencing on PromethION. Genome biology. 20(1). 239–239. 68 indexed citations

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Coster, Wouter De & Christine Van Broeckhoven. (2019). Newest Methods for Detecting Structural Variations. Trends in biotechnology. 37(9). 973–982. 56 indexed citations

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Alonge, Michael, et al.. (2019). malonge/RaGOO: Zenodo integration. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Coster, Wouter De, Peter De Rijk, Arne De Roeck, et al.. (2019). Structural variants identified by Oxford Nanopore PromethION sequencing of the human genome. Genome Research. 29(7). 1178–1187. 100 indexed citations

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Coster, Wouter De, Svenn D’Hert, Darrin T. Schultz, Marc Cruts, & Christine Van Broeckhoven. (2018). NanoPack: visualizing and processing long-read sequencing data. Bioinformatics. 34(15). 2666–2669. 1729 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dumont, Henri J., Jan Mertens, & Wouter De Coster. (1993). The Calopteryx-splendens-cline in Southwestern France, analysed by quantitative wingspot analysis (Zygoptera: Calopterygidae). Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 13 indexed citations

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