Chen Cao

4.8k citations

104 papers · 3.4k · 3 hit papers · h-index 26

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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition top 2%
- Face recognition and analysis
- Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
Cancer Research top 5%
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics

Papers in

Molecular Biology 55
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics 13
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks 12
- Gene expression and cancer classification 7
Genetics 19
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology 15

Co-authors: Yanyi Huang (8 shared papers)Kun Zhou (2 shared papers)Yanlin Weng (2 shared papers)Quan Zou (9 shared papers)Feifei Cui (8 shared papers)Zilong Zhang (8 shared papers)Fuchou Tang (3 shared papers)Stephen Lin (1 shared paper)
Journals: Nucleic Acids Research (7 papers)ACM Transactions on Graphics (5 papers)PLoS ONE (3 papers)Bioinformatics (3 papers)PLoS Genetics (3 papers)
Partner nations: China United States Canada

In The Last Decade

Chen Cao

95 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Chen Cao's Hit Papers

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webTWAS: a resource for disease candidate susceptibility genes identified by transcriptome-wide association study 2021 · 321 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 Nucleic Acids Research
2016 Cell Research
2013 ACM Transactions on Graphics

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1	Single-cell triple omics sequencing reveals genetic, epigenetic, and transcriptomic heterogeneity in hepatocellular carcinomas Cell Research ·Yu Hou, Huahu Guo, Chen Cao, Xianlong Li, Boqiang Hu, Ping Zhu, Xinglong Wu, Lu Wen, Fuchou Tang, Yanyi Huang, Jirun Peng Hit paper breakdown →	2016	487
2	webTWAS: a resource for disease candidate susceptibility genes identified by transcriptome-wide association study Nucleic Acids Research ·Chen Cao, Jianhua Wang, Devin Kwok, Feifei Cui, Zilong Zhang, Zhao Da, Mulin Jun Li, Quan Zou Hit paper breakdown →	2021	321
3	Chemoproteomics reveals baicalin activates hepatic CPT1 to ameliorate diet-induced obesity and hepatic steatosis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jianye Dai, Kai Liang, Shan Zhao, Wentong Jia, Yuan Liu, Hongkun Wu, Jia Lv, Chen Cao, Tao Chen, Shentian Zhuang, Xiaomeng Hou, Shijie Zhou, Xiannian Zhang, Xiaowei Chen, Yanyi Huang, Rui‐Ping Xiao, Yanling Wang, Tuoping Luo, Junyu Xiao, Chu Wang	2018	286
4	3D shape regression for real-time facial animation ACM Transactions on Graphics ·Chen Cao, Yanlin Weng, Stephen Lin, Kun Zhou Hit paper breakdown →	2013	269
5	Microfluidic single-cell whole-transcriptome sequencing Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Aaron Streets, Xiannian Zhang, Chen Cao, Yuhong Pang, Xinglong Wu, Liang Xiong, Lu Yang, Yusi Fu, Liang Zhao, Fuchou Tang, Yanyi Huang	2014	238
6	Melt Blending In situ Enhances the Interaction between Polystyrene and Graphene through π–π Stacking ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces ·Bin Shen, Wentao Zhai, Chen Cao, Dingding Lu, Jing Wang, Wenge Zheng	2011	218
7	Real-time facial animation with image-based dynamic avatars ACM Transactions on Graphics ·Chen Cao, Hongzhi Wu, Yanlin Weng, Tianjia Shao, Kun Zhou	2016	117
8	Is Mate Choice in Humans MHC-Dependent? PLoS Genetics ·Raphaëlle Chaix, Chen Cao, Peter Donnelly	2008	112
9	Single-cell RNA analysis reveals the potential risk of organ-specific cell types vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2 infections Computers in Biology and Medicine ·Zilong Zhang, Feifei Cui, Chen Cao, Qingsuo Wang, Quan Zou	2021	74
10	Short-term meditation modulates brain activity of insight evoked with solution cue Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience ·Xiaoqian Ding, Yi‐Yuan Tang, Chen Cao, Yuqin Deng, Yan Wang, Xiu Xin, Michael I. Posner	2014	64
11	3D Guided Fine-Grained Face Manipulation Zhenglin Geng, Chen Cao, Sergey Tulyakov	2019	61
12	GWAS and drug targets BMC Genomics ·Chen Cao, John Moult	2014	58
13	Elucidating tumor heterogeneity from spatially resolved transcriptomics data by multi-view graph collaborative learning Nature Communications ·Chunman Zuo, Yijian Zhang, Chen Cao, Jinwang Feng, Mingqi Jiao, Luonan Chen	2022	52
14	Label-Free Digital Quantification of Lipid Droplets in Single Cells by Stimulated Raman Microscopy on a Microfluidic Platform Analytical Chemistry ·Chen Cao, Dong Zhou, Tao Chen, Aaron Streets, Yanyi Huang	2016	51
15	Association between urinary concentration of phthalate metabolites and impaired renal function in Shanghai adults Environmental Pollution ·Jingsi Chen, Xiaofeng Zhou, Han Zhang, Yueming Liu, Chen Cao, Ruihua Dong, Yaqun Yuan, Min Wang, Yuanan Lu, Min Wu, Shuguang Li, Bo Chen	2018	48
16	Power analysis of transcriptome-wide association study: Implications for practical protocol choice PLoS Genetics ·Chen Cao, Bowei Ding, Qing Li, Devin Kwok, Jingjing Wu, Quan Long	2021	44
17	Efficient Neural Networks for Real-time Motion Style Transfer Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques ·Harrison Jesse Smith, Chen Cao, Michael Neff, Yingying Wang	2019	42
18	kTWAS: integrating kernel machine with transcriptome-wide association studies improves statistical power and reveals novel genes Briefings in Bioinformatics ·Chen Cao, Devin Kwok, Shannon Edie, Qing Li, Bowei Ding, Pathum Kossinna, Simone Campbell, Jingjing Wu, Matthew Greenberg, Quan Long	2020	37
19	Style Transfer Via Image Component Analysis IEEE Transactions on Multimedia ·Wayne Zhang, Chen Cao, Shifeng Chen, Jianzhuang Liu, Xiaoou Tang	2013	37
20	A novel method for drug-target interaction prediction based on graph transformers model BMC Bioinformatics ·Hongmei Wang, Fang Guo, Mengyan Du, Guishen Wang, Chen Cao	2022	34

About Chen Cao

Chen Cao is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computational Mechanics and Computational Theory and Mathematics, having authored 104 papers that have together received 3.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (15 papers), Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (13 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (12 papers), 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (9 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (8 papers), Face recognition and analysis (8 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (7 papers) and Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (607 citations), Cancer Research (355 citations), Molecular Biology (1.4k citations), Biophysics (113 citations) and Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design (59 citations). Chen Cao has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Yanyi Huang, Kun Zhou, Yanlin Weng, Quan Zou, Feifei Cui, Zilong Zhang, Fuchou Tang, Stephen Lin, Xinglong Wu and Devin Kwok. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, ACM Transactions on Graphics, PLoS ONE, Bioinformatics and PLoS Genetics.

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