| The free-energy cost of accurate biochemical oscillations Y Cao, H Wang, Q Ouyang, Y Tu Nature physics 11 (9), 772-778, 2015 | 194 | 2015 |
| The energy cost and optimal design for synchronization of coupled molecular oscillators D Zhang, Y Cao, Q Ouyang, Y Tu Nature physics 16 (1), 95-100, 2020 | 80 | 2020 |
| The energy cost and optimal design for synchronization of coupled molecular oscillators D Zhang, Y Cao, Q Ouyang, Y Tu Nature Physics, 0 | 80* | |
| Flower-like patterns in multi-species bacterial colonies L Xiong, Y Cao, R Cooper, WJ Rappel, J Hasty, L Tsimring eLife, 2020 | 76 | 2020 |
| Tissue topography steers migrating Drosophila border cells W Dai, X Guo, Y Cao, JA Mondo, JP Campanale, BJ Montell, H Burrous, ... Science 370 (6519), 987-990, 2020 | 70 | 2020 |
| Design principles for enhancing phase sensitivity and suppressing phase fluctuations simultaneously in biochemical oscillatory systems C Fei, Y Cao, Q Ouyang, Y Tu Nature communications 9 (1), 1434, 2018 | 54 | 2018 |
| The mechanics and dynamics of cancer cells sensing noisy 3D contact guidance J Kim, Y Cao, C Eddy, Y Deng, H Levine, WJ Rappel, B Sun Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (10), e2024780118, 2021 | 39 | 2021 |
| Cell motility dependence on adhesive wetting Y Cao, R Karmakar, E Ghabache, E Gutierrez, Y Zhao, A Groisman, ... Soft Matter 15 (9), 2043-2050, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
| Plasticity of cell migration resulting from mechanochemical coupling Y Cao, E Ghabache, WJ Rappel eLife, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
| A minimal computational model for three-dimensional cell migration Y Cao, E Ghabache, Y Miao, C Niman, H Hakozaki, SL Reck-Peterson, ... Journal of the Royal Society Interface 16 (161), 20190619, 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
| Thermodynamics of information processing based on enzyme kinetics: An exactly solvable model of an information pump Y Cao, Z Gong, HT Quan Physical Review E 91 (6), 062117, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| Design principles and optimal performance for molecular motors under realistic constraints Y Tu, Y Cao Physical Review E 97 (2), 022403, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
| Coupling traction force patterns and actomyosin wave dynamics reveals mechanics of cell motion E Ghabache, Y Cao, Y Miao, A Groisman, PN Devreotes, WJ Rappel Molecular systems biology 17 (12), e10505, 2021 | 14 | 2021 |
| Site Maintained By Y Li, Y Jiang, J Paxman, R O’Laughlin, S Klepin, Y Zhu, L Pillus, ... Science advances 2020 (6), 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| Rational design of a biosensor circuit with semi-log dose-response function in Escherichia coli H Zhang, Y Sheng, Q Wu, A Liu, Y Lu, Z Yin, Y Cao, W Zeng, Q Ouyang Quantitative Biology 1 (3), 209–220, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| Modeling bacterial flagellar motor with new structure information: Rotational dynamics of two interacting protein nano-rings Y Cao, T Li, Y Tu Frontiers in Microbiology 13, 866141, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
| Stochastic thermodynamics for biological functions Y Cao, S Liang Quantitative Biology 13 (1), e75, 2025 | 1 | 2025 |
| Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of coupled molecular oscillators: The energy cost and optimal design for synchronization D Zhang, Y Cao, Q Ouyang, Y Tu arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.10479, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| An altruistic resource-sharing mechanism for synchronization: The energy-speed-accuracy tradeoff D Zhang, Y Cao, Q Ouyang, Y Tu arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.02242, 2025 | | 2025 |
| Dietary amino acids promote glucagon-like hormone release to generate global calcium waves in adipose tissues in Drosophila M Ahmad, S Wu, S Luo, W Shi, X Guo, Y Cao, N Perrimon, L He Nature Communications 16 (1), 247, 2025 | | 2025 |
Wouter-Jan RappelDistinguished research scientist, UC San DiegoVerified email at physics.ucsd.edu