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

Ales Varabyou

Johns Hopkins University

ORCID: 0000-0003-1060-7212

Also affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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 1%percentile
4.8Author DataRank

Indexed papers

5in 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 5 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.

The status of the human gene catalogue

Nature(2023)10.1038/s41586-023-06490-x
Top 8%
2.9DataRank
Top 8%171 citations

Sílvia Carbonell Sala, Francisco M. De La Vega, Tiago Faial, Adam Frankish, T Gingeras +16 more

Papers

Driven by 15 papers — median percentile 52. Top paper: “The status of the human gene catalogue”.

The status of the human gene catalogue

Nature(2023)10.1038/s41586-023-06490-x
Top 8%
2.9DataRank
Top 8%171 citations

Sílvia Carbonell Sala, Francisco M. De La Vega, Tiago Faial, Adam Frankish, T Gingeras +16 more

CHESS 3: an improved, comprehensive catalog of human genes and transcripts based on large-scale expression data, phylogenetic analysis, and protein structure

Genome biology(2023)10.1186/s13059-023-03088-4
Top 14%
1.5DataRank
Top 14%58 citations

Markus J. Sommer, Beril Erdogdu, Ida Shinder, Ilia Minkin, Kuan-Hao Chao +10 more

Structure-guided isoform identification for the human transcriptome

eLife(2022)10.7554/elife.82556
N/A
1.4DataRank · unranked
50 citations

Sooyoung Cha, Ales Varabyou, Natalia Rincon, Sukhwan Park, Ilia Minkin +4 more

Effects of transcriptional noise on estimates of gene and transcript expression in RNA sequencing experiments

Genome Research(2020)10.1101/gr.266213.120
N/A
0.587DataRank · unranked
49 citations

Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea, Ales Varabyou

Investigating open reading frames in known and novel transcripts using ORFanage

Nature Computational Science(2023)10.1038/s43588-023-00496-1
N/A
0.538DataRank · unranked
35 citations

Beril Erdogdu, Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea, Ales Varabyou

Rapid detection of inter-clade recombination in SARS-CoV-2 with Bolotie

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.09.21.300913
N/A
0.477DataRank · unranked
23 citations

Christopher Pockrandt, Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea, Ales Varabyou

CHESS 3: an improved, comprehensive catalog of human genes and transcripts based on large-scale expression data, phylogenetic analysis, and protein structure

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.12.21.521274
Top 48%
0.371DataRank
Top 48%9 citations

Markus J. Sommer, Beril Erdogdu, Ida Shinder, Ilia Minkin, Kuan-Hao Chao +10 more

Detecting differential transcript usage in complex diseases with SPIT

Cell Reports Methods(2024)10.1016/j.crmeth.2024.100736
N/A
0.315DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Ales Varabyou, Stephanie C. Hicks, Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea, Beril Erdogdu

Investigating Open Reading Frames in Known and Novel Transcripts using ORFanage

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.03.23.533704
N/A
0.208DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Beril Erdogdu, Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea, Ales Varabyou

Detecting differential transcript usage in complex diseases with SPIT

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.07.10.548289
N/A
0.104DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Ales Varabyou, Stephanie C. Hicks, Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea, Beril Erdogdu

Comprehensive Transcriptome Annotation of Thousands of HIV-1 Genomes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.09.24.675449
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Mykhaylo Artamonov, Sophia Cheng, Diane L. Bolton, Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea +1 more

Highly accurate isoform identification for the human transcriptome

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.06.08.495354
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Sooyoung Cha, Ales Varabyou, Natalia Rincon, Sukhwan Park, Ilia Minkin +4 more

Rapid detection of inter-clade recombination in SARS-CoV-2 with Bolotie

Genetics(2021)10.1093/genetics/iyab074
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
72 citations

Christopher Pockrandt, Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea, Ales Varabyou

The status of the human gene catalogue

arXiv (Cornell University)(2023)10.48550/arxiv.2303.13996
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Sílvia Carbonell Sala, Francisco M. De La Vega, Tiago Faial, Adam Frankish, T Gingeras +16 more

TieBrush: an efficient method for aggregating and summarizing mapped reads across large datasets

Bioinformatics(2021)10.1093/bioinformatics/btab342
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
27 citations

Geo Pertea, Christopher Pockrandt, Mihaela Pertea, Ales Varabyou