World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
66
Citations
62214
World Ranking
2559
National Ranking
327

Overview

Adam Frankish is a researcher affiliated with the European Bioinformatics Institute in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Cancer Research among other subfields.

Their research contributions include publications in several key topics such as:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • RNA Modifications and Cancer
  • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
  • Cancer-Related Molecular Mechanisms Research
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • RNA Research and Splicing

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Biotechnology

Adam Frankish has contributed to notable research articles, including:

  • GENCODE 2021, published in 2020 in Nucleic Acids Research
  • Ensembl 2022, published in 2021 in Nucleic Acids Research
  • Ensembl 2021, published in 2020 in Nucleic Acids Research
  • Ensembl 2023, published in 2022 in Nucleic Acids Research
  • A draft human pangenome reference, published in 2023 in Nature

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Jonathan M. Mudge
  • Paul Flicek
  • José M. González
  • Toby Hunt
  • Fergal J. Martin

Best Publications

  • An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

    Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

  • Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

    Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

  • GENCODE: The reference human genome annotation for The ENCODE Project

    Jennifer Harrow;Adam Frankish;Jose M. Gonzalez;Electra Tapanari

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

    Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

  • GENCODE reference annotation for the human and mouse genomes.

    Adam Frankish;Mark Diekhans;Anne-Maud Ferreira;Rory Baldwin Johnson

  • A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)

    Richard M. Myers;John Stamatoyannopoulos;Michael Snyder;Ian Dunham

  • A Systematic Survey of Loss-of-Function Variants in Human Protein-Coding Genes

    Daniel G. MacArthur;Daniel G. MacArthur;Suganthi Balasubramanian;Adam Frankish;Ni Huang

  • The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome

    Mark T Ross;Darren V Grafham;Alison J Coffey;Steven Scherer

  • Gencode 2021

    A. Frankish;M. Diekhans;I. Jungreis;J. Lagarde

  • Multiple evidence strands suggest that there may be as few as 19 000 human protein-coding genes

    Iakes Ezkurdia;David Juan;Jose Manuel Rodriguez;Adam Frankish

  • GENCODE: producing a reference annotation for ENCODE

    Jennifer Harrow;Adam Frankish;Alexandre Reymond;Alexandre Reymond

  • DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 9

    A J Mungall;S A Palmer;S K Sims;C A Edwards

  • The consensus coding sequence (CCDS) project: Identifying a common protein-coding gene set for the human and mouse genomes

    Kim D. Pruitt;Jennifer Harrow;Rachel A. Harte;Craig Wallin

  • Towards a complete map of the human long non-coding RNA transcriptome

    Barbara Uszczynska-Ratajczak;Julien Lagarde;Adam Frankish;Roderic Guigó

  • The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1

    S. G. Gregory;S. G. Gregory;K. F. Barlow;K. E. McLay;R. Kaul

  • The GENCODE pseudogene resource

    Baikang Pei;Cristina Sisu;Adam Frankish;Cédric Howald

  • The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 20.

    P Deloukas;M E Earthrowl;D V Grafham;M Rubenfield

  • Comparative analysis of the transcriptome across distant species

    Mark B. Gerstein;Joel Rozowsky;Koon Kiu Yan;Daifeng Wang

  • Pseudogenes in the ENCODE regions: Consensus annotation, analysis of transcription, and evolution

    Deyou Zheng;Adam Frankish;Robert Baertsch;Philipp Kapranov

  • Ensembl 2021

    K. L. Howe;P. Achuthan;J. Allen;J. Alvarez-Jarreta

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer Harrow
Jennifer Harrow AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
Tim Hubbard
Tim Hubbard King's College London
Paul Flicek
Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory
Roderic Guigó
Roderic Guigó Pompeu Fabra University
Mark Gerstein
Mark Gerstein Yale University
Mark Diekhans
Mark Diekhans University of California, Santa Cruz
Alexandre Reymond
Alexandre Reymond University of Lausanne
Thomas R. Gingeras
Thomas R. Gingeras Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Sarah Hunt
Sarah Hunt European Bioinformatics Institute

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Related Online Degrees & Career Pathways

For students interested in Genetics, there are several complementary online degree options and career pathways to consider. Allied health fields such as nursing and healthcare administration offer diverse opportunities, some of which provide flexible study tracks and accessible admissions.

If you're looking for a nursing pathway, there are nursing colleges that don’t require SAT or other standardized tests, making it easier to get started in a fast-growing healthcare field. For those wanting to advance quickly, a 9 month LPN program provides a swift route into practical nursing roles.

Interested in leadership or management within healthcare? Check out the most affordable online MHA programs for flexible, career-focused graduate education. And for those aiming at the highest academic credentials, there are online PhD in nursing programs that open doors to advanced research and university faculty positions.

Each of these online pathways can complement a background in Genetics, broadening career possibilities in healthcare and research.

Best Scientists Citing Adam Frankish

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles