Standout Papers

Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology... 1979 2026 1994 2010 28.9k
  1. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology (2000)
    Michael Ashburner, Catherine A. Ball et al. Nature Genetics
  2. The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration (2007)
    Barry Smith, Michael Ashburner et al. Nature Biotechnology
  3. The induction of gene activity in drosophila by heat shock (1979)
    Michael Ashburner, J. José Bonner Cell
  4. The Bacterial Symbiont Wolbachia Induces Resistance to RNA Viral Infections in Drosophila melanogaster (2008)
    Luı́s Teixeira, Álvaro Ferreira et al. PLoS Biology
  5. ChEBI: a database and ontology for chemical entities of biological interest (2007)
    Kirill Degtyarenko, Paula de Matos et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  6. FlyBase: enhancing Drosophila Gene Ontology annotations (2008)
    Susan Tweedie, Michael Ashburner et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  7. The product of the Drosophila gene vasa is very similar to eukaryotic initiation factor-4A (1988)
    Paul Lasko, Michael Ashburner Nature
  8. Systematic determination of patterns of gene expression during Drosophila embryogenesis (2002)
    Pavel Tomančák, Amy Beaton et al. Genome biology
  9. Temporal Control of Puffing Activity in Polytene Chromosomes (1974)
    Michael Ashburner, Carol J. Chihara et al. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
  10. Constitutive Activation of Toll-Mediated Antifungal Defense in Serpin-Deficient Drosophila (1999)
    Elena A. Levashina, Emma Langley et al. Science

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21 by Nobel laureates 49 from Science/Nature 110 standout
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Works of Michael Ashburner being referenced

The Sequence Ontology: a tool for the unification of genome annotations
2005
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
2000 Standout
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Author Peers

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Michael Ashburner 32949 7879 3440 6241 178 46.5k
Søren Brunak 33653 5409 1861 7674 336 53.3k
George M. Church 71437 15558 2221 7173 523 87.7k
Lars Juhl Jensen 47759 6291 1473 5699 232 71.9k
Lior Pachter 35321 7543 1622 12097 163 53.7k
Joel T. Dudley 16340 5806 854 8176 191 41.4k
Gavin Sherlock 33340 6070 843 5252 123 46.6k
Sean R. Eddy 52449 8865 1278 17858 125 72.9k
Alex Bateman 39518 6694 1290 13384 156 55.7k
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer 29897 5235 1573 10095 151 43.5k
Eugene W. Myers 49131 11559 2641 18924 113 84.9k

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