🏆 Finalist — NIH Data Sharing Index (“S-Index”) Challenge

William Lees

Bar-Ilan University

ORCID: 0000-0001-9834-6840

Also affiliated with University of Louisville, University of Louisville Hospital, Birkbeck, University of London

Pharmacology, Toxicology and PharmaceuticsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyImmunology and MicrobiologyMedicine

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

Top 2%percentile
3.2Author DataRank

Indexed papers

7in pilot corpus
datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology
Why this DataRank?

An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 7 indexed papers attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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Top data-sharing exemplar

The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

Complete sequencing of ape genomes

Nature(2025)10.1038/s41586-025-08816-3
Top 16%
1.3DataRank
Top 16%128 citations

Arang Rhie, Prajna Hebbar, Francesca Antonacci, Glennis A. Logsdon, Steven J. Solar +123 more

Papers

Driven by 14 papers — median percentile 54. Top paper: “Diversity in immunogenomics: the value and the challenge”.

Diversity in immunogenomics: the value and the challenge

Nature Methods(2021)10.1038/s41592-021-01169-5
N/A
1.6DataRank · unranked
80 citations

Yana Safonova, Mikhail Shugay, Alice B. Popejoy, Oscar L. Rodriguez, Felix Breden +30 more

Complete sequencing of ape genomes

Nature(2025)10.1038/s41586-025-08816-3
Top 16%
1.3DataRank
Top 16%128 citations

Arang Rhie, Prajna Hebbar, Francesca Antonacci, Glennis A. Logsdon, Steven J. Solar +123 more

AIRR community curation and standardised representation for immunoglobulin and T cell receptor germline sets

ImmunoInformatics(2023)10.1016/j.immuno.2023.100025
Top 33%
0.607DataRank
Top 33%19 citations

Scott Christley, Ayelet Peres, Justin T. Kos, Brian Corrie, Duncan Ralph +10 more

Complete sequencing of ape genomes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.07.31.605654
Top 34%
0.582DataRank
Top 34%26 citations

Arang Rhie, Prajna Hebbar, Francesca Antonacci, Glennis A. Logsdon, Steven J. Solar +123 more

Ultra-long sequencing for contiguous haplotype resolution of the human immunoglobulin heavy-chain locus

Genome Research(2025)10.1101/gr.280400.125
N/A
0.275DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Egil Røsjø, Uddalok Jana, Easton E. Ford, Alan Tourancheau, William Lees +5 more

Population-level genomic analysis of immunoglobulin loci variation in rhesus macaques reveals extensive germline diversity

Immunity(2026)10.1016/j.immuni.2025.12.002
N/A
0.269DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Amit A. Upadhyay, Vered Klein, Swati Saha, Oscar L. Rodriguez, Zachary M. Vanwinkle +29 more

The human IG heavy chain constant gene locus is enriched for large structural variants and coding polymorphisms that vary among human populations

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.02.12.634878
Top 58%
0.269DataRank
Top 58%5 citations

Oscar L. Rodriguez, William Lees, Eric Engelbrecht, Zachary Vanwinkle, Ayelet Peres +12 more

AIRR-C Human IG Reference Sets: curated sets of immunoglobulin heavy and light chain germline genes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.09.01.555348
Top 61%
0.241DataRank
Top 61%4 citations

Mats Ohlin, Martin Corcoran, James M. Heather, Duncan Ralph, Mansun Law +10 more

The human IG heavy chain constant gene locus is enriched for large structural variants and coding polymorphisms that vary among human populations

Cell Genomics(2025)10.1016/j.xgen.2025.101058
Top 63%
0.214DataRank
Top 63%3 citations

Oscar L. Rodriguez, William Lees, Eric Engelbrecht, Zach Vanwinkle, Ayelet Peres +12 more

The current landscape of adaptive immune receptor genomic and repertoire data: OGRDB and VDJbase

Nucleic Acids Research(2025)10.1093/nar/gkaf1094
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Ayelet Peres, Vered Klein, N. Amos, Uddalok Jana, Eric Engelbrecht +7 more

Germline immunoglobulin genes: Disease susceptibility genes hidden in plain sight?

Current Opinion in Systems Biology(2020)10.1016/j.coisb.2020.10.011
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
47 citations

Gur Yaari, Adrian J. Shepherd, William Lees, Corey T. Watson, Andrew M. Collins

Digger: directed annotation of immunoglobulin and T cell receptor V, D, and J gene sequences and assemblies

Bioinformatics(2024)10.1093/bioinformatics/btae144
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
19 citations

Swati Saha, Gur Yaari, Corey T. Watson, William Lees

Germline polymorphisms in the immunoglobulin kappa and lambda loci underpinning antibody light chain repertoire variability

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-66759-9
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Oscar L. Rodriguez, William Lees, Zach Vanwinkle, Kaitlyn Shields, Steven Schultze +9 more

The Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire Knowledge Commons: An invitation to the community

Cell Systems(2025)10.1016/j.cels.2025.101401
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Scott Christley, Felix Breden, Kevin A. Burns, Brian Corrie, William Lees +9 more