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Daniel J. Turner publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel J. Turner sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 89 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Daniel J. Turner D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel J. Turner sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Daniel J. Turner is affiliated with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology as well as medicine, focusing on molecular biology, cancer research, ecology, infectious diseases, and physiology.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Spaceflight effects on biology
  • Space Exploration and Technology
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

Recent research papers by Daniel J. Turner include:

  • Identifying synergistic high-order 3D chromatin conformations from genome-scale nanopore concatemer sequencing (2022, Nature Biotechnology)
  • Assembly-free single-molecule sequencing recovers complete virus genomes from natural microbial communities (2020, Genome Research)
  • Real-Time Culture-Independent Microbial Profiling Onboard the International Space Station Using Nanopore Sequencing (2021, Genes)
  • LamPORE: rapid, accurate and highly scalable molecular screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection, based on nanopore sequencing (2020, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
  • Off Earth Identification of Bacterial Populations Using 16S rDNA Nanopore Sequencing (2020, Genes)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Daniel J. Turner include:

  • Sissel Juul
  • David Stoddart
  • Eoghan Harrington
  • Lynn Ly
  • John Beaulaurier

Publication venues where Daniel J. Turner commonly publishes are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 4 publications
  • Genome Research with 2 publications
  • Genes with 2 publications
  • Nature Biotechnology with 1 publication
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences with 1 publication

Best Publications

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance

    Joshua Quick;Nicholas J. Loman;Sophie Duraffour;Jared T. Simpson;Jared T. Simpson

  • Target-enrichment strategies for next-generation sequencing

    Lira Mamanova;Alison J Coffey;Carol E Scott;Iwanka Kozarewa

  • iCLIP reveals the function of hnRNP particles in splicing at individual nucleotide resolution

    Julian König;Kathi Zarnack;Gregor Rot;Tomaž Curk

  • Identification of somatically acquired rearrangements in cancer using genome-wide massively parallel paired-end sequencing

    Peter J Campbell;Philip J Stephens;Erin D Pleasance;Sarah O'Meara

  • Highly parallel direct RNA sequencing on an array of nanopores.

    Garalde Dr;Snell Ea;Jachimowicz D;Sipos B

  • A large genome center's improvements to the Illumina sequencing system.

    Michael A Quail;Iwanka Kozarewa;Frances Smith;Aylwyn Scally

  • Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence

    Aylwyn Scally;Julien Y. Dutheil;LaDeana W. Hillier;Gregory E. Jordan

  • A Bayesian deconvolution strategy for immunoprecipitation-based DNA methylome analysis

    Thomas A. Down;Vardhman K. Rakyan;Daniel J. Turner;Paul Flicek

  • Neuronal MeCP2 Is Expressed at Near Histone-Octamer Levels and Globally Alters the Chromatin State

    Peter J. Skene;Robert S. Illingworth;Shaun Webb;Alastair R.W. Kerr

  • Simultaneous assay of every Salmonella Typhi gene using one million transposon mutants

    Gemma C. Langridge;Minh Duy Phan;Daniel J. Turner;Timothy T. Perkins

  • CpG islands influence chromatin structure via the CpG-binding protein Cfp1

    John P Thomson;Peter J Skene;Jim Selfridge;Thomas Clouaire

  • Amplification-free Illumina sequencing-library preparation facilitates improved mapping and assembly of (G+C)-biased genomes

    Iwanka Kozarewa;Zemin Ning;Michael A Quail;Mandy J Sanders

  • Orphan CpG islands identify numerous conserved promoters in the mammalian genome

    Robert S. Illingworth;Ulrike Gruenewald-Schneider;Shaun Webb;Alastair R. W. Kerr

  • Nanopore metagenomics enables rapid clinical diagnosis of bacterial lower respiratory infection.

    Themoula Charalampous;Gemma L Kay;Gemma L Kay;Hollian Richardson;Alp Aydin

  • Analysis of Plasmodium falciparum diversity in natural infections by deep sequencing

    Magnus Manske;Magnus Manske;Olivo Miotto;Olivo Miotto;Susana Campino;Susana Campino;Sarah Auburn;Sarah Auburn;Sarah Auburn

  • A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing

    Richard M. Durbin;David L. Altshuler;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David R. Bentley

  • Optimizing Illumina next-generation sequencing library preparation for extremely AT-biased genomes.

    Samuel O. Oyola;Thomas D. Otto;Yong-ping Gu;Gareth Maslen

  • High-throughput phenotyping using parallel sequencing of RNA interference targets in the African trypanosome

    Sam Alsford;Daniel J. Turner;Samson O. Obado;Alejandro Sanchez-Flores

  • Germline rates of de novo meiotic deletions and duplications causing several genomic disorders

    Daniel J Turner;Marcos Miretti;Diana Rajan;Heike Fiegler

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew E. Hurles
Matthew E. Hurles Wellcome Sanger Institute
Chris Tyler-Smith
Chris Tyler-Smith Wellcome Sanger Institute
Michael A. Quail
Michael A. Quail Wellcome Sanger Institute
John Wain
John Wain University of East Anglia
Yali Xue
Yali Xue Wellcome Sanger Institute
Matthew Berriman
Matthew Berriman University of Glasgow
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin University of Cambridge
Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
David Haussler
David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski
Dominic P. Kwiatkowski University of Oxford

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