Everything about S-expression

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: S-expressionA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The Effect of Nitrogen Fertilization on the Expression of Slow-Mildewing Resistance in Knox WheatInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Via western express & stagecoachThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT MethodCited 168,051 times
5. Go sideways: Canonical S-expressionsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: HomoiconicityA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method

  Kenneth J. Livak, Thomas D. Schmittgen · 2001 · Methods · 168,051 citations

• Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

  Aravind Subramanian, Pablo Tamayo, Vamsi K. Mootha · 2005 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 51,029 citations

• edgeR : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

  Mark D. Robinson, Davis J. McCarthy, Gordon K. Smyth · 2009 · Bioinformatics · 41,302 citations

• limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies

  Matthew E. Ritchie, Belinda Phipson, Di Wu · 2015 · Nucleic Acids Research · 39,421 citations

• Differential expression analysis for sequence count data

  Simon Anders, Wolfgang Huber · 2010 · Genome Biology · 14,272 citations

• Salmon provides fast and bias-aware quantification of transcript expression

  Rob Patro, Geet Duggal, Michael I Love · 2017 · Nature Methods · 13,443 citations

• Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns

  Michael B. Eisen, Paul T. Spellman, Patrick O. Brown · 1998 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 12,620 citations

• Gene Expression Omnibus: NCBI gene expression and hybridization array data repository

  R. Edgar · 2002 · Nucleic Acids Research · 12,171 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The Effect of Nitrogen Fertilization on the Expression of Slow-Mildewing Resistance in Knox Wheat

  Gregory Shaner, Robert E. Finney · 2025 · Phytopathology® · 1,511 citations

• Deep Facial Expression Recognition: A Survey

  Shan Li, Weihong Deng · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing · 1,413 citations

• Lactic acid promotes PD-1 expression in regulatory T cells in highly glycolytic tumor microenvironments

  Shogo Kumagai, Shohei Koyama, Kota Itahashi · 2022 · Cancer Cell · 892 citations

• hdWGCNA identifies co-expression networks in high-dimensional transcriptomics data

  Samuel Morabito, Fairlie Reese, Negin Rahimzadeh · 2023 · Cell Reports Methods · 810 citations

• Cell type and gene expression deconvolution with BayesPrism enables Bayesian integrative analysis across bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing in oncology

  Tinyi Chu, Zhong Wang, Dana Pe’er · 2022 · Nature Cancer · 666 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Via western express & stagecoachOscar Osburn Winther · 1945
• Mountain CharleyElsa Jane Guerin · 1861
• T.S. Eliot and the Romantic critical traditionEdward Lobb · 1981
• StagecoachPhilip L. Fradkin · 2002
• U.S. WestLucius Morris Beebe, Charles M. Clegg · 1949
• 📕T. S. Eliot's Romantic DilemmaEugenia M. Gunner · 2015
• Riding the Pony ExpressDeborah Kent · 2005
• Readymade CV'sLynn Williams · 1996

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