| A novel method for nucleic acid sequence determination. W Bains, GC Smith Journal of theoretical biology 135 (3), 303-307, 1988 | 549 | 1988 |
| Silicon chemistry as a novel source of chemical diversity in drug design. W Bains, R Tacke Current opinion in drug discovery & development 6 (4), 526-543, 2003 | 297 | 2003 |
| Photochemistry in terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres. I. Photochemistry model and benchmark cases R Hu, S Seager, W Bains The Astrophysical Journal 761 (2), 166, 2012 | 273 | 2012 |
| Many chemistries could be used to build living systems W Bains Astrobiology 4 (2), 137-167, 2004 | 221 | 2004 |
| Cardiac actin is the major actin gene product in skeletal muscle cell differentiation in vitro. W Bains, P Ponte, H Blau, L Kedes Molecular and cellular biology 4 (8), 1449-1453, 1984 | 218 | 1984 |
| Exoplanet biosignatures: a framework for their assessment DC Catling, J Krissansen-Totton, NY Kiang, D Crisp, TD Robinson, ... Astrobiology 18 (6), 709-738, 2018 | 198 | 2018 |
| Toward a list of molecules as potential biosignature gases for the search for life on exoplanets and applications to terrestrial biochemistry S Seager, W Bains, JJ Petkowski Astrobiology 16 (6), 465-485, 2016 | 178 | 2016 |
| Biosignature gases in H2-dominated atmospheres on rocky exoplanets S Seager, W Bains, R Hu The Astrophysical Journal 777 (2), 95, 2013 | 155 | 2013 |
| Differential patterns of transcript accumulation during human myogenesis. P Gunning, E Hardeman, R Wade, P Ponte, W Bains, HM Blau, L Kedes Molecular and cellular biology 7 (11), 4100-4114, 1987 | 152 | 1987 |
| Biotechnology from A to Z W Bains, W Bains Oxford University Press, 1993 | 151 | 1993 |
| Phosphine as a Biosignature Gas in Exoplanet Atmospheres C Sousa-Silva, S Seager, S Ranjan, JJ Petkowski, Z Zhan, R Hu, W Bains Astrobiology, 2019 | 134 | 2019 |
| Exoplanet biosignatures: future directions SI Walker, W Bains, L Cronin, S DasSarma, S Danielache, ... Astrobiology 18 (6), 779-824, 2018 | 133 | 2018 |
| Photochemistry in terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres. II. H2S and SO2 photochemistry in anoxic atmospheres R Hu, S Seager, W Bains The Astrophysical Journal 769 (1), 6, 2013 | 126 | 2013 |
| An astrophysical view of Earth-based metabolic biosignature gases S Seager, M Schrenk, W Bains Astrobiology 12 (1), 61-82, 2012 | 126 | 2012 |
| A biomass-based model to estimate the plausibility of exoplanet biosignature gases S Seager, W Bains, R Hu The Astrophysical Journal 775 (2), 104, 2013 | 120 | 2013 |
| Natural products containing a Nitrogen–Sulfur bond JJ Petkowski, W Bains, S Seager Journal of natural products 81 (2), 423-446, 2018 | 106 | 2018 |
| Hybridization methods for DNA sequencing W Bains Genomics 11 (2), 294-301, 1991 | 104 | 1991 |
| HERG binding specificity and binding site structure: evidence from a fragment-based evolutionary computing SAR study W Bains, A Basman, C White Progress in biophysics and molecular biology 86 (2), 205-233, 2004 | 100 | 2004 |
| The multiple origins of human Alu sequences W Bains Journal of molecular evolution 23 (3), 189-199, 1986 | 91 | 1986 |
| The search for signs of life on exoplanets at the interface of chemistry and planetary science S Seager, W Bains Science advances 1 (2), e1500047, 2015 | 90 | 2015 |
