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Volker Brendel 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 Volker Brendel sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 131 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Volker Brendel 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 Volker Brendel sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Volker Brendel is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a substantial focus on Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Genetics, and Insect Science.

The scientist's research primarily addresses topics such as Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA Research and Splicing, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

Brendel has published articles in multiple scientific venues. Frequent publication locations include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
  • Plant Communications
  • Genome Research
  • Molecular Ecology Resources

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Volker Brendel cover various aspects of plant genetics, transcription profiling, and DNA methylation. Notable publications include:

  • "The Xa7 resistance gene guards the rice susceptibility gene SWEET14 against exploitation by the bacterial blight pathogen," 2021, Plant Communications
  • "Simple and efficient profiling of transcription initiation and transcript levels with STRIPE-seq," 2020, Genome Research
  • "Flexible analysis of TSS mapping data and detection of TSS shifts with TSRexploreR," 2021, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
  • "Tools and applications for integrative analysis of DNA methylation in social insects," 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Tools and applications for integrative analysis of DNA methylation in social insects," 2021, Molecular Ecology Resources

Frequent collaborators in Brendel's research include:

  • Robert A. Policastro
  • Gabriel E. Zentner
  • R. Taylor Raborn
  • Daniel J. McDonald
  • Claire Morandin

Brendel was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016. This award acknowledges contributions in their scientific disciplines over years of research.

Best Publications

  • TAL Effector-Nucleotide Targeter (TALE-NT) 2.0: tools for TAL effector design and target prediction

    Erin L. Doyle;Nicholas J. Booher;Daniel S. Standage;Daniel F. Voytas

  • Genomewide comparative analysis of alternative splicing in plants

    Bing-Bing Wang;Volker Brendel

  • Methods and algorithms for statistical analysis of protein sequences.

    V Brendel;P Bucher;I R Nourbakhsh;B E Blaisdell

  • Engineering a software tool for gene structure prediction in higher organisms

    Gordon Gremme;Volker Brendel;Michael E. Sparks;Stefan Kurtz

  • A computer algorithm for testing potential prokaryotic terminators

    V. Brendel;E.N. Trifonov

  • PlantGDB: a resource for comparative plant genomics

    Jon Duvick;Ann Fu;Usha K. Muppirala;Mukul Sabharwal

  • Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms of Human STING Can Affect Innate Immune Response to Cyclic Dinucleotides

    Guanghui Yi;Volker P. Brendel;Chang Shu;Pingwei Li

  • Patchiness and correlations in DNA sequences

    Samuel Karlin;Volker Brendel

  • MaizeGDB, the community database for maize genetics and genomics

    Carolyn J. Lawrence;Qunfeng Dong;Mary L. Polacco;Trent E. Seigfried

  • PlantGDB, plant genome database and analysis tools.

    Qunfeng Dong;Shannon D. Schlueter;Volker Brendel

  • Two New Complete Genome Sequences Offer Insight into Host and Tissue Specificity of Plant Pathogenic Xanthomonas spp.

    Adam J. Bogdanove;Ralf Koebnik;Hong Lu;Ayako Furutani

  • Chance and statistical significance in protein and DNA sequence analysis

    Samuel Karlin;Volker Brendel

  • Linguistics of nucleotide sequences: morphology and comparison of vocabularies.

    Volker Brendel;Jacques S. Beckmann;Edward N. Trifonov

  • The ASRG database: identification and survey of Arabidopsis thaliana genes involved in pre-mRNA splicing.

    Bing-Bing Wang;Volker P. Brendel

  • Optimal spliced alignment of homologous cDNA to a genomic DNA template

    Jonathan Usuka;Wei Zhu;Volker Brendel

  • Evolutionary Comparisons of RecA-Like Proteins Across All Major Kingdoms of Living Organisms

    Volker Brendel;Luciano Brocchieri;Steven J. Sandler;Alvin J. Clark

  • A compilation of soybean ESTs: generation and analysis.

    Randy Shoemaker;Paul Keim;Lila Vodkin;Ernest Retzel

  • Bacterial classifications derived from recA protein sequence comparisons.

    S Karlin;G M Weinstock;V Brendel

  • Terminators of transcription with RNA polymerase from Escherichia coli: what they look like and how to find them.

    Volker Brendel;Greg H. Hamm;Edward N. Trifonov

  • Gene structure prediction from consensus spliced alignment of multiple ESTs matching the same genomic locus

    Volker Brendel;Liqun Xing;Wei Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Samuel Karlin
Samuel Karlin Stanford University
Virginia Walbot
Virginia Walbot Stanford University
Matthew D. Wilkerson
Matthew D. Wilkerson Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Edward N. Trifonov
Edward N. Trifonov University of Haifa
Marie-Anne Van Sluys
Marie-Anne Van Sluys Universidade de São Paulo
Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch Arizona State University
Adam J. Bogdanove
Adam J. Bogdanove Cornell University
Frank F. White
Frank F. White University of Florida
Steven L. Salzberg
Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University
Michael C. Schatz
Michael C. Schatz Johns Hopkins University

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