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

Sean Whalen

Gladstone Institutes

ORCID: 0000-0002-6648-3610
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyComputer Science

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
2.0Author DataRank

Indexed papers

1in 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 1 indexed paper 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.

A Chromatin Accessibility Atlas of the Developing Human Telencephalon

Cell(2020)10.1016/j.cell.2020.06.002
Top 11%
2.0DataRank
Top 11%108 citations

Sean Whalen, Pawel F. Przytycki, Reuben Thomas, Fadya Binyameen, Tomasz J. Nowakowski +6 more

Papers

Driven by 13 papers — median percentile 89. Top paper: “A Chromatin Accessibility Atlas of the Developing Human Telencephalon”.

A Chromatin Accessibility Atlas of the Developing Human Telencephalon

Cell(2020)10.1016/j.cell.2020.06.002
Top 11%
2.0DataRank
Top 11%108 citations

Sean Whalen, Pawel F. Przytycki, Reuben Thomas, Fadya Binyameen, Tomasz J. Nowakowski +6 more

Single-cell multi-cohort dissection of the schizophrenia transcriptome

Science(2024)10.1126/science.adg5136
N/A
1.3DataRank · unranked
125 citations

Shahin Mohammadi, José Dávila-Velderrain, Sivan Subburaju, Daniel Reed Tso, Makayla Hourihan +196 more

Massively parallel characterization of regulatory elements in the developing human cortex

Science(2024)10.1126/science.adh0559
N/A
1.2DataRank · unranked
61 citations

Sean Whalen, Marilyn Steyert, Ryan Ziffra, Pawel F. Przytycki, Fumitaka Inoue +197 more

An atlas of lamina-associated chromatin across twelve human cell types reveals an intermediate chromatin subtype

Genome biology(2023)10.1186/s13059-023-02849-5
N/A
0.665DataRank · unranked
83 citations

Kathleen C. Keough, Ketrin Gjoni, Garrett T. Santini, Richard J. Abdill, Nadeera M. Wickramasinghe +13 more

FOXP3 expression depends on cell-type-specific cis-regulatory elements and transcription factor circuitry

Immunity(2025)10.1016/j.immuni.2025.10.020
N/A
0.292DataRank · unranked
6 citations

Maya M. Arce, Sivakanthan Kasinathan, Sean Whalen, Rama Dajani, Sanjana Subramanya +25 more

Machine learning dissection of human accelerated regions in primate neurodevelopment

Neuron(2023)10.1016/j.neuron.2022.12.026
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
96 citations

Fumitaka Inoue, Hane Ryu, Tyler Fair, Eirene Markenscoff-Papadimitriou, Kathleen C. Keough +17 more

Massively parallel characterization of psychiatric disorder-associated and cell-type-specific regulatory elements in the developing human cortex

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.02.15.528663
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
18 citations

Sean Whalen, Marilyn Steyert, Ryan Ziffra, Pawel F. Przytycki, Fumitaka Inoue +9 more

Cis-Regulatory Element and Transcription Factor Circuitry Required for Cell-Type Specific Expression of FOXP3

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.08.30.610436
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Maya M. Arce, Sean Whalen, Rama Dajani, Laine Goudy, Sivakanthan Kasinathan +22 more

Comparative evaluation of genomic footprinting algorithms for predicting transcription factor binding sites in single-cell data

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.08.07.669008
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Sean Whalen, Katherine S. Pollard, Amanda Everitt

Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/2bje-6g29
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Deborah J. Thompson, Hannes Helgason, Timothy M. Frayling, Hilary K. Finucane, Patrick Sulem +211 more

An atlas of lamina-associated chromatin across twelve human cell types reveals an intermediate chromatin subtype

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.07.23.218768
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Parisha P. Shah, Ketrin Gjoni, Garrett T. Santini, Nadeera M. Wickramasinghe, Carolyn E. Dundes +12 more

Three-dimensional genome re-wiring in loci with Human Accelerated Regions

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.10.04.510859
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
15 citations

Sean Whalen, Fumitaka Inoue, Pawel F. Przytycki, Tyler Fair, Chengyu Deng +9 more

Single Cell Epigenetics Reveal Cell-Cell Communication Networks in Normal and Abnormal Cardiac Morphogenesis

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.07.25.501458
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Sean Whalen, Ivana Zlatanova, Tomohiro Nishino, Benjamin van Soldt, Lin Ye +13 more