2026 Martin C. Frith: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	50	3888	3669	172	163	120	34609

Overview

Martin C. Frith is affiliated with the University of Tokyo in Japan. Their research primarily covers the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Genetics, Artificial Intelligence, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience as subfields of study.

Their work spans several main topics, including:

RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
RNA modifications and cancer
Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
DNA Repair Mechanisms
Algorithms and Data Compression

Martin C. Frith has contributed extensively to scientific literature with notable recent papers such as:

"Recombination of repeat elements generates somatic complexity in human genomes," published in 2022 in Cell
"Long-read sequencing identifies the pathogenic nucleotide repeat expansion in RFC1 in a Japanese case of CANVAS," published in 2020 in Journal of Human Genetics
"A pipeline for complete characterization of complex germline rearrangements from long DNA reads," published in 2020 in Genome Medicine
"Minimally overlapping words for sequence similarity search," published in 2020 in Bioinformatics
"Significant non-existence of sequences in genomes and proteomes," published in 2021 in Nucleic Acids Research

The scientist frequently collaborates with various colleagues, including:

Satomi Mitsuhashi
Piero Carninci
Giovanni Pascarella
Naomichi Matsumoto
Annika Busch

Martin C. Frith has published multiple works in prominent venues such as:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Journal of Human Genetics
Bioinformatics
Nature Communications
Molecular Biology and Evolution

Best Publications

MEME Suite: tools for motif discovery and searching

Timothy L. Bailey;Mikael Bodén;Fabian A. Buske;Martin C. Frith

11289
Citations
The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

P. Carninci;T. Kasukawa;S. Katayama;J. Gough

4200
Citations
A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

Alistair R.R. Forrest;Hideya Kawaji;Michael Rehli;J. Kenneth Baillie

2045
Citations
Antisense Transcription in the Mammalian Transcriptome

S. Katayama;Y. Tomaru;T. Kasukawa;K. Waki

2025
Citations
Assessing computational tools for the discovery of transcription factor binding sites.

Martin Tompa;Nan Li;Timothy L. Bailey;George M. Church

1617
Citations
Genome-wide analysis of mammalian promoter architecture and evolution

Piero Carninci;Albin Sandelin;Boris Lenhard;Boris Lenhard;Shintaro Katayama

1612
Citations
Adaptive seeds tame genomic sequence comparison.

Szymon M. Kiełbasa;Raymond Wan;Kengo Sato;Paul Horton

1290
Citations
Rapid evolution of noncoding RNAs: lack of conservation does not mean lack of function

Ken C. Pang;Ken C. Pang;Martin C. Frith;John S. Mattick

758
Citations
Experimental validation of the regulated expression of large numbers of non-coding RNAs from the mouse genome

Timothy Ravasi;Harukazu Suzuki;Ken C. Pang;Shintaro Katayama

626
Citations
Genomic targets of nuclear estrogen receptors.

Raegan O’Lone;Martin C. Frith;Elinor K. Karlsson;Ulla Hansen

573
Citations
Detection of functional DNA motifs via statistical over-representation.

Martin C. Frith;Yutao Fu;Liqun Yu;Jiang‐Fan Chen

512
Citations
Long-read sequencing identifies GGC repeat expansions in NOTCH2NLC associated with neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease.

Jun Sone;Satomi Mitsuhashi;Atsushi Fujita;Takeshi Mizuguchi

479
Citations
Discovering Sequence Motifs with Arbitrary Insertions and Deletions

Martin C. Frith;Neil F. W. Saunders;Bostjan Kobe;Timothy L. Bailey

404
Citations
Cluster-Buster: finding dense clusters of motifs in DNA sequences

Martin C. Frith;Michael C. Li;Zhiping Weng

376
Citations
A code for transcription initiation in mammalian genomes

Martin C. Frith;Eivind Valen;Anders Krogh;Yoshihide Hayashizaki

311
Citations
Detection of cis-element clusters in higher eukaryotic DNA

Martin C. Frith;Ulla Hansen;Zhiping Weng

310
Citations
SeqVISTA: a graphical tool for sequence feature visualization and comparison

Zhenjun Hu;Martin C. Frith;Tianhua Niu;Zhiping Weng

295
Citations
The amazing complexity of the human transcriptome.

Martin C Frith;Michael Pheasant;John S Mattick

270
Citations
The abundance of short proteins in the mammalian proteome

Martin C. Frith;Alistair Raymond Russell Forrest;Ehsan Nourbakhsh;Ken C. Pang;Ken C. Pang

259
Citations
Finding functional sequence elements by multiple local alignment

Martin C. Frith;Ulla Hansen;John L. Spouge;Zhiping Weng

257
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoshihide Hayashizaki RIKEN

Piero Carninci RIKEN

Jun Kawai RIKEN

Kiyoshi Asai University of Tokyo

Naomichi Matsumoto Yokohama City University

Zhiping Weng University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School

Albin Sandelin University of Copenhagen

Boris Lenhard Imperial College London

Claes Wahlestedt University of Miami

Shintaro Katayama Karolinska Institute

External Links

Personal website of Martin C. Frith

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