2026 Debora S. Marks: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	66	2563	2430	1139	1069	141	35554

Overview

Debora S. Marks is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on molecular biology and genetics. They have also contributed extensively to the intersection of artificial intelligence with biomedical sciences.

The primary fields of study in their research include:

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Their work further focuses on several subfields, including:

Molecular Biology
Genetics
Artificial Intelligence
Infectious Diseases
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

Key research topics covered in their publications consist of:

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Protein Structure and Dynamics
Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Genomics and Rare Diseases
Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research

Marks has published a substantial number of papers across multiple renowned scientific venues. Among the most frequent are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Nature
Nature Communications
arXiv (Cornell University)

Recent significant papers include:

Scientific discovery in the age of artificial intelligence, 2023, Nature
Disease variant prediction with deep generative models of evolutionary data, 2021, Nature
Protein design and variant prediction using autoregressive generative models, 2021, Nature Communications
A deep learning algorithm to predict risk of pancreatic cancer from disease trajectories, 2023, Nature Medicine
Machine learning for functional protein design, 2024, Nature Biotechnology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Marks include:

Chris Sander
Pascal Notin
Joseph Min
Kelly P. Brock
Nathan Rollins

Best Publications

Human MicroRNA Targets

Bino John;Anton James Enright;Anton James Enright;Alexei Aravin;Thomas Tuschl

4502
Citations
MicroRNA targets in Drosophila

Anton J Enright;Bino John;Ulrike Gaul;Thomas Tuschl

3888
Citations
The microRNA.org resource: targets and expression

Doron Betel;Manda Wilson;Aaron P Gabow;Debora S. Marks

2958
Citations
Identification of Virus-Encoded MicroRNAs

Sébastien Pfeffer;Mihaela Zavolan;Friedrich A. Grässer;Minchen Chien

2072
Citations
Direct-coupling analysis of residue coevolution captures native contacts across many protein families

Faruck Morcos;Andrea Pagnani;Bryan Lunt;Arianna Bertolino

1675
Citations
Protein 3D structure computed from evolutionary sequence variation.

Debora S. Marks;Lucy J. Colwell;Robert Sheridan;Thomas A. Hopf

1295
Citations
The small RNA profile during Drosophila melanogaster development

Alexei A. Aravin;Mariana Lagos-Quintana;Abdullah Yalcin;Mihaela Zavolan

1257
Citations
miR-122, a mammalian liver-specific microRNA, is processed from hcr mRNA and may downregulate the high affinity cationic amino acid transporter CAT-1.

Jinhong Chang;Emmanuelle Nicolas;Debora Marks;Chris Sander

1061
Citations
Protein structure prediction from sequence variation

Debora S Marks;Thomas A Hopf;Chris Sander

706
Citations
miRcode: A map of putative microRNA target sites in the long non-coding transcriptome

Ashwini Jeggari;Debora S Marks;Erik Larsson

702
Citations
Mutation effects predicted from sequence co-variation.

Thomas A Hopf;John B Ingraham;Frank J Poelwijk;Charlotta P I Schärfe;Charlotta P I Schärfe

688
Citations
Transfection of small RNAs globally perturbs gene regulation by endogenous microRNAs

Aly A Khan;Doron Betel;Martin L Miller;Martin L Miller;Chris Sander

632
Citations
Three-dimensional structures of membrane proteins from genomic sequencing.

Thomas A. Hopf;Lucy J. Colwell;Robert Sheridan;Burkhard Rost

595
Citations
Deep generative models of genetic variation capture the effects of mutations.

Adam J. Riesselman;John B. Ingraham;Debora S. Marks

565
Citations
MicroRNA profiling of the murine hematopoietic system

Silvia Monticelli;Silvia Monticelli;K Mark Ansel;Changchun Xiao;Nicholas D Socci

560
Citations
Sequence co-evolution gives 3D contacts and structures of protein complexes

Thomas A Hopf;Charlotta P I Schärfe;Charlotta P I Schärfe;João P G L M Rodrigues;Anna G Green

558
Citations
Disease variant prediction with deep generative models of evolutionary data.

Jonathan Frazer;Pascal Notin;Mafalda Dias;Aidan Gomez

522
Citations
Quantification of the effect of mutations using a global probability model of natural sequence variation

Thomas A. Hopf;John B. Ingraham;Frank J. Poelwijk;Michael Springer

446
Citations
The developmental miRNA profiles of zebrafish as determined by small RNA cloning

Po Yu Chen;Heiko Manninga;Krasimir Slanchev;Minchen Chien

441
Citations
MicroRNA control of protein expression noise

Jörn M. Schmiedel;Jörn M. Schmiedel;Jörn M. Schmiedel;Sandy L. Klemm;Yannan Zheng;Apratim Sahay

429
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Sander Harvard University

Andrew C. Kruse Harvard University

Thomas Tuschl Rockefeller University

Oliver Kohlbacher University of Tübingen

Thomas G. Bernhardt Harvard University

Anton J. Enright University of Cambridge

Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin Utrecht University

Kenneth T. Douglas University of Manchester

Robert L. Sheridan Harvard University

Alexei A. Aravin California Institute of Technology

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