Tim Sackton

Tim Sackton

Harvard University

H-index: 36

North America-United States

About Tim Sackton

Tim Sackton, With an exceptional h-index of 36 and a recent h-index of 30 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Harvard University, specializes in the field of Comparative genomics, Population genetics, Molecular evolution.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

A fast, reproducible, high-throughput variant calling workflow for population genomics

A phylogenetic method linking nucleotide substitution rates to rates of continuous trait evolution

Convergent evolution of noncoding elements associated with short tarsus length in birds

Building better genome annotations across the tree of life

Interpreting the pervasive observation of U-shaped Site Frequency Spectra

Convergence in hearing-related genes between echolocating birds and mammals

Species Tree Inference: A Guide to Methods and Applications

PhyloAcc-GT: A Bayesian method for inferring patterns of substitution rate shifts on targeted lineages accounting for gene tree discordance

Tim Sackton Information

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Citations(all)

8434

Citations(since 2020)

3332

Cited By

6498

hIndex(all)

36

hIndex(since 2020)

30

i10Index(all)

47

i10Index(since 2020)

41

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Tim Sackton Skills & Research Interests

Comparative genomics

Population genetics

Molecular evolution

Top articles of Tim Sackton

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

A fast, reproducible, high-throughput variant calling workflow for population genomics

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Cade D Mirchandani

Allison J Shultz

Gregg WC Thomas

Sara J Smith

Mara Baylis

...

2024/1

A phylogenetic method linking nucleotide substitution rates to rates of continuous trait evolution

bioRxiv

Patrick Gemmell

Timothy B Sackton

Scott V Edwards

Jun S Liu

2023

Convergent evolution of noncoding elements associated with short tarsus length in birds

bioRxiv

Subir B Shakya

Scott V Edwards

Timothy B Sackton

2024

Building better genome annotations across the tree of life

bioRxiv

Adam H Freedman

Timothy B Sackton

2024

Interpreting the pervasive observation of U-shaped Site Frequency Spectra

PLoS genetics

Fabian Freund

Elise Kerdoncuff

Sebastian Matuszewski

Marguerite Lapierre

Marcel Hildebrandt

...

2023/3/23

Convergence in hearing-related genes between echolocating birds and mammals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Keren R Sadanandan

Meng-Ching Ko

Gabriel W Low

Manfred Gahr

Scott V Edwards

...

2023/10/24

Species Tree Inference: A Guide to Methods and Applications

Paul D Blischak

Jeremy M Brown

Zhen Cao

Alison Cloutier

Kerry Cobb

...

2023/3/14

PhyloAcc-GT: A Bayesian method for inferring patterns of substitution rate shifts on targeted lineages accounting for gene tree discordance

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Han Yan

Zhirui Hu

Gregg WC Thomas

Scott V Edwards

Timothy B Sackton

...

2023/9

Sizing Up the Onychophoran Genome: Repeats, Introns, and Gene Family Expansion Contribute to Genome Gigantism in Epiperipatus broadwayi

Genome Biology and Evolution

Shoyo Sato

Tauana J Cunha

Bruno AS De Medeiros

Danielle E Khost

Timothy B Sackton

...

2023/3/1

Widespread but spotty: Atlantic cod is a complex of five species through ecological speciation.

bioRxiv

Katrín Halldórsdóttir

Alejandro Llanos-Garrido

Axel Wilhelm Einarsson

Timothy B Sackton

Einar Árnason

2023/6/14

Expanding on Our Knowledge of Ecdysozoan Genomes: A Contiguous Assembly of the Meiofaunal Priapulan Tubiluchus corallicola

Genome Biology and Evolution

Arianna Lord

Tauana J Cunha

Bruno AS de Medeiros

Shoyo Sato

Danielle E Khost

...

2023/6

Patterns of lineage-specific genome evolution in the brood parasitic black-headed duck (Heteronetta atricapilla)

BioRxiv

Sara JS Wuitchik

LaDeana W Hillier

Christopher N Balakrishnan

Michael D Sorenson

Wesley C Warren

...

2022/5/22

Genomic signature of sexual reproduction in the bdelloid rotifer Macrotrachella quadricornifera

Genetics

Veronika N Laine

Timothy B Sackton

Matthew Meselson

2022/2/1

HieRFIT: a hierarchical cell type classification tool for projections from complex single-cell atlas datasets

Bioinformatics

Yasin Kaymaz

Florian Ganglberger

Ming Tang

Christian Haslinger

Francesc Fernandez-Albert

...

2021/12/1

The genome of the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, reveals potential mechanisms underlying reproduction, host interactions, and novel targets for pest control

BMC biology

Pia U Olafson

Serap Aksoy

Geoffrey M Attardo

Greta Buckmeier

Xiaoting Chen

...

2021/12

Early origin of sweet perception in the songbird radiation

Science

Yasuka Toda

Meng-Ching Ko

Qiaoyi Liang

Eliot T Miller

Alejandro Rico-Guevara

...

2021/7/9

Deeply altered genome architecture in the endoparasitic flowering plant Sapria himalayana Griff.(Rafflesiaceae)

Current Biology

Liming Cai

Brian J Arnold

Zhenxiang Xi

Danielle E Khost

Niki Patel

...

2021/3/8

Error, noise and bias in de novo transcriptome assemblies

Molecular Ecology Resources

Adam H Freedman

Michele Clamp

Timothy B Sackton

2021/1

Short paired-end reads trump long single-end reads for expression analysis

BMC bioinformatics

Adam H Freedman

John M Gaspar

Timothy B Sackton

2020/12

Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

Nature

Shaohong Feng

Josefin Stiller

Yuan Deng

Joel Armstrong

QI Fang

...

2020/11/12

See List of Professors in Tim Sackton University(Harvard University)

Co-Authors

H-index: 123
Daniel L. Hartl

Daniel L. Hartl

Harvard University

H-index: 95
Jun S Liu

Jun S Liu

Harvard University

H-index: 84
Scott V. Edwards

Scott V. Edwards

Harvard University

H-index: 49
David M Rand

David M Rand

Brown University

H-index: 49
Brian P. Lazzaro

Brian P. Lazzaro

Cornell University

H-index: 34
Alex Wong

Alex Wong

Carleton University

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