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53
Citations
24783
World Ranking
15881
National Ranking
1249

Thomas A. Down publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas A. Down sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 77 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Thomas A. Down D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas A. Down sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Thomas A. Down is affiliated with the Wellcome/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute in the United Kingdom.

They have contributed to the field of scientific research through various studies and collaborations, though specific details about their publications, co-authors, or research topics are not provided.

Information about recent papers, including titles, years of publication, and venues, is not available.

Data on frequent co-authors and publication venues are not listed for this researcher.

There are no records of book publications linked to Thomas A. Down.

The main fields and subfields of study relevant to their work have not been detailed.

Their specific topics of research focus have not been documented.

There is no information regarding awards received by Thomas A. Down.

Best Publications

  • The Transcriptional Landscape of the Mammalian Genome

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

  • A census of human cancer genes

    P. Andrew Futreal;Lachlan Coin;Mhairi Marshall;Thomas Down

  • The Ensembl genome database project

    T. Hubbard;D. Barker;E. Birney;G. Cameron

  • DNA methylation profiling of human chromosomes 6, 20 and 22

    Florian Eckhardt;Joern Lewin;Rene Cortese;Vardhman K Rakyan

  • Epigenome-wide association studies for common human diseases

    Vardhman K. Rakyan;Thomas A. Down;David J. Balding;Stephan Beck

  • Germline DNA Demethylation Dynamics and Imprint Erasure through 5-hydroxymethylcytosine

    Jamie A. Hackett;Jamie A. Hackett;Roopsha Sengupta;Roopsha Sengupta;Jan J. Zylicz;Jan J. Zylicz;Kazuhiro Murakami;Kazuhiro Murakami

  • Human aging-associated DNA hypermethylation occurs preferentially at bivalent chromatin domains

    Vardhman K. Rakyan;Thomas A. Down;Siarhei Maslau;Toby Andrew

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

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

  • An Overview of Ensembl

    Ewan Birney;T. Daniel Andrews;Paul Bevan;Mario Caccamo

  • The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease

    Klaudia Walter;Josine L. Min;Jie Huang;Lucy Crooks

  • An integrated resource for genome-wide identification and analysis of human tissue-specific differentially methylated regions (tDMRs)

    Vardhman K. Rakyan;Thomas A. Down;Natalie P. Thorne;Paul Flicek

  • Improved imputation of low-frequency and rare variants using the UK10K haplotype reference panel

    Jie Huang;Bryan Howie;Shane McCarthy;Yasin Memari

  • Computational detection and location of transcription start sites in mammalian genomic DNA.

    Thomas A. Down;Tim J. P. Hubbard

  • Identification of Type 1 Diabetes–Associated DNA Methylation Variable Positions That Precede Disease Diagnosis

    Vardhman K. Rakyan;Huriya Beyan;Thomas A. Down;Mohammed I. Hawa

  • WormBase 2016: expanding to enable helminth genomic research

    Kevin L. Howe;Bruce J. Bolt;Scott Cain;Juancarlos Chan

  • Integrated Genetic and Epigenetic Analysis Identifies Haplotype-Specific Methylation in the FTO Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity Susceptibility Locus

    Christopher G. Bell;Sarah Finer;Cecilia M. Lindgren;Gareth A. Wilson

  • Placenta-specific Methylation of the Vitamin D 24-Hydroxylase Gene IMPLICATIONS FOR FEEDBACK AUTOREGULATION OF ACTIVE VITAMIN D LEVELS AT THE FETOMATERNAL INTERFACE

    Boris Novakovic;Mandy Sibson;Hong Kiat Ng;Hong Kiat Ng;Ursula Chandini Manuelpillai

  • BioJava: an open-source framework for bioinformatics

    Richard C. G. Holland;Thomas A. Down;Matthew R. Pocock;Andreas Prlic

  • Ensembl 2002: accommodating comparative genomics

    M. Clamp;D. Andrews;D. Barker;P. Bevan

  • NestedMICA: sensitive inference of over-represented motifs in nucleic acid sequence.

    Thomas A. Down;Tim J. P. Hubbard

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Hubbard
Tim Hubbard King's College London
Vardhman K. Rakyan
Vardhman K. Rakyan Queen Mary University of London
Stephan Beck
Stephan Beck University College London
Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin University of Cambridge
Richard Saffery
Richard Saffery University of Melbourne
Jeffrey M. Craig
Jeffrey M. Craig Deakin University
M. Azim Surani
M. Azim Surani University of Cambridge
Paul Flicek
Paul Flicek The Jackson Laboratory
Andreas Prlić
Andreas Prlić Invitae (United States)

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