2026 Brendan J. Frey: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	71	1724	1671	62	56	225	44164

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Brendan J. Frey is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and works primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans several subfields including Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Materials Chemistry, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Biophysics.

The scientist's recent papers include:

HiCSR: a Hi-C super-resolution framework for producing highly realistic contact maps, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
A graph neural network approach for molecule carcinogenicity prediction, 2022, Bioinformatics
An RNA foundation model enables discovery of disease mechanisms and candidate therapeutics, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
ATP7B variant c.1934T > G p.Met645Arg causes Wilson disease by promoting exon 6 skipping, 2020, npj Genomic Medicine
Orthrus: Towards Evolutionary and Functional RNA Foundation Models, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has coauthored frequently with the following researchers:

Leo J. Lee
Philip Fradkin
Bo Wang
Albi Celaj
Ken J. Kron

Their work appears often in the following publication venues:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Bioinformatics
npj Genomic Medicine
UNC Libraries
arXiv (Cornell University)

The main topics addressed in their research cover:

RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
RNA Research and Splicing
RNA modifications and cancer
Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Machine Learning in Materials Science
Trace Elements in Health
Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Brendan J. Frey has been recognized by scientific societies through awards such as:

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2015, Academy of Science
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2008

Best Publications

Factor graphs and the sum-product algorithm

F.R. Kschischang;B.J. Frey;H.-A. Loeliger

8379
Citations
Clustering by Passing Messages Between Data Points

Brendan J. Frey;Delbert Dueck

8332
Citations
Predicting the sequence specificities of DNA- and RNA-binding proteins by deep learning

Babak Alipanahi;Andrew Delong;Matthew T Weirauch;Brendan J Frey

3245
Citations
A compendium of RNA-binding motifs for decoding gene regulation

Debashish Ray;Hilal Kazan;Kate B. Cook;Matthew T. Weirauch;Matthew T. Weirauch

1685
Citations
The "Wake-Sleep" Algorithm for Unsupervised Neural Networks

Geoffrey E. Hinton;Peter Dayan;Brendan J. Frey;Radford M. Neal

1541
Citations
The Evolutionary Landscape of Alternative Splicing in Vertebrate Species

Nuno L. Barbosa-Morais;Nuno L. Barbosa-Morais;Manuel Irimia;Qun Pan;Hui Y. Xiong

1226
Citations
Deciphering the splicing code

Yoseph Barash;John A. Calarco;Weijun Gao;Qun Pan

1158
Citations
Graphical Models for Machine Learning and Digital Communication

Brendan J. Frey

802
Citations
Deep learning of the tissue-regulated splicing code.

Michael K. K. Leung;Hui Yuan Xiong;Leo J. Lee;Brendan J. Frey

605
Citations
Iterative decoding of compound codes by probability propagation in graphical models

F.R. Kschischang;B.J. Frey

598
Citations
Deep learning in biomedicine.

Michael Wainberg;Daniele Merico;Andrew Delong;Brendan J Frey

597
Citations
Adversarial Autoencoders

Alireza Makhzani;Jonathon Shlens;Navdeep Jaitly;Ian Goodfellow

539
Citations
A Revolution: Belief Propagation in Graphs with Cycles

Brendan J. Frey;David J. C. MacKay

467
Citations
Classifying and segmenting microscopy images with deep multiple instance learning

Oren Z. Kraus;Jimmy Lei Ba;Brendan J. Frey

467
Citations
Non-metric affinity propagation for unsupervised image categorization

D. Dueck;B.J. Frey

414
Citations
C2H2 zinc finger proteins greatly expand the human regulatory lexicon

Hamed S Najafabadi;Sanie Mnaimneh;Frank W Schmitges;Michael Garton

407
Citations
Whole-genome sequencing expands diagnostic utility and improves clinical management in paediatric medicine

Dimitri J. Stavropoulos;Daniele Merico;Rebekah Jobling;Sarah Bowdin

392
Citations
Video Epitomes

Vincent Cheung;Brendan J. Frey;Nebojsa Jojic

391
Citations
The functional landscape of mouse gene expression

Wen-Wen Zhang;Quaid D. Morris;Richard Chang;Ofer Shai

385
Citations
MBNL proteins repress ES-cell-specific alternative splicing and reprogramming

Hong Han;Manuel Irimia;P. Joel Ross;Hoon Ki Sung

379
Citations
Adaptive dropout for training deep neural networks

Jimmy Ba;Brendan Frey

373
Citations
Revealing global regulatory features of mammalian alternative splicing using a quantitative microarray platform.

Qun Pan;Ofer Shai;Christine Misquitta;Wen Zhang

372
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nebojsa Jojic Microsoft (United States)

Benjamin J. Blencowe University of Toronto

Quaid Morris Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Ralf Koetter Technical University of Munich

Thomas S. Huang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Daniele Merico University of Toronto

Frank R. Kschischang University of Toronto

Andrew Emili Boston University

Nuno L. Barbosa-Morais University of Lisbon

Anthony Vetro Mitsubishi Electric (United States)

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