2026 Brenton R. Graveley: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	71	2154	2047	978	917	162	31280

Overview

Brenton R. Graveley is affiliated with the University of Connecticut Health Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology as a subfield. The scope of their work also includes Cancer Research, Insect Science, Ecology, and Aging.

The main topics that Graveley's research covers include:

RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
RNA Research and Splicing
RNA modifications and cancer
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences

Their publication record includes work published in various journals, among which the most frequent venues are:

Nucleic Acids Research
Nature
RNA
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Genome Biology

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Brenton R. Graveley include:

"A large-scale binding and functional map of human RNA-binding proteins," 2020, published in Nature
"Principles of RNA processing from analysis of enhanced CLIP maps for 150 RNA binding proteins," 2020, Genome Biology
"Poison Exon Splicing Regulates a Coordinated Network of SR Protein Expression during Differentiation and Tumorigenesis," 2020, Molecular Cell
"Sequencing and Structure Probing of Long RNAs Using MarathonRT: A Next-Generation Reverse Transcriptase," 2020, Journal of Molecular Biology
"Primed CRISPR DNA uptake in Pyrococcus furiosus," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research

Frequent collaborators in Brenton R. Graveley's research include:

Sara Olson
Sandra C. Garrett
Michael P. Terns
Steven M. Blue
Brian A. Yee

Best Publications

Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes

Jill E. Moore;Michael J. Purcaro;Henry E. Pratt;Charles B. Epstein

2519
Citations
Expansion of the eukaryotic proteome by alternative splicing

Timothy W. Nilsen;Brenton R. Graveley

2353
Citations
The developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster

Brenton R. Graveley;Angela N. Brooks;Joseph W. Carlson;Michael O. Duff

1685
Citations
Alternative splicing: increasing diversity in the proteomic world.

Brenton R. Graveley

1548
Citations
Sorting out the complexity of SR protein functions.

Brenton R. Graveley

1466
Citations
RNA-Guided RNA Cleavage by a CRISPR RNA-Cas Protein Complex

Caryn R. Hale;Peng Zhao;Sara Olson;Michael O. Duff

1347
Citations
Identification of Functional Elements and Regulatory Circuits by Drosophila modENCODE

Sushmita Roy;Jason Ernst;Peter V. Kharchenko;Pouya Kheradpour

1266
Citations
Codon Optimality Is a Major Determinant of mRNA Stability

Vladimir Presnyak;Najwa Alhusaini;Ying Hsin Chen;Sophie Martin

998
Citations
A large-scale binding and functional map of human RNA-binding proteins

Eric L. Van Nostrand;Peter Freese;Gabriel A. Pratt;Xiaofeng Wang

986
Citations
Genome-wide Analysis of Drosophila Circular RNAs Reveals Their Structural and Sequence Properties and Age-Dependent Neural Accumulation

Jakub O. Westholm;Pedro Miura;Pedro Miura;Sara Olson;Sol Shenker;Sol Shenker

930
Citations
Diversity and dynamics of the Drosophila transcriptome

James B. Brown;James B. Brown;Nathan Boley;Robert Eisman;Gemma E. May

761
Citations
Sequence, Structure, and Context Preferences of Human RNA Binding Proteins

Daniel Dominguez;Peter Freese;Maria S. Alexis;Amanda Su

495
Citations
Genomewide characterization of non-polyadenylated RNAs

Li Yang;Michael O Duff;Brenton R Graveley;Gordon G Carmichael

476
Citations
Dynamic integration of splicing within gene regulatory pathways.

Ulrich Braunschweig;Serge Gueroussov;Alex M. Plocik;Brenton R. Graveley

474
Citations
Essential Features and Rational Design of CRISPR RNAs that Function with the Cas RAMP Module Complex to Cleave RNAs

Caryn R. Hale;Sonali Majumdar;Joshua Elmore;Neil Pfister

464
Citations
Regulatory divergence in Drosophila revealed by mRNA-seq

C. Joel McManus;Joseph D. Coolon;Michael O. Duff;Jodi Eipper-Mains

446
Citations
Identification of alternative splicing regulators by RNA interference in Drosophila

Jung W. Park;Katherine Parisky;Alicia M. Celotto;Robert A. Reenan

349
Citations
Comparative analysis of the transcriptome across distant species

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

341
Citations
The developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster

Brenton Graveley

15
Citations
Regulatory divergence in Drosophila revealed by mRNA-seq (Genome Research (2010) 20, (816-825))

C. Joel McManus;Joseph D. Coolon;Michael O. Duff;Jodi Eipper-Mains

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gene W. Yeo University of California, San Diego

Susan E. Celniker Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Li Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences

Christopher B. Burge MIT

Thomas R. Gingeras Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Peter Cherbas Indiana University

Norbert Perrimon Harvard University

Michael P. Terns University of Georgia

Thomas C. Kaufman Indiana University

Roger A. Hoskins Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

External Links

Personal website of Brenton R. Graveley

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