Standout Papers

STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased co... 2014 2026 2018 2022 11.2k
  1. STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets (2018)
    Damian Szklarczyk, Annika L. Gable et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  2. STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life (2014)
    Damian Szklarczyk, Andrea Franceschini et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  3. Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation (2021)
    Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research
  4. The STRING database in 2017: quality-controlled protein–protein association networks, made broadly accessible (2016)
    Damian Szklarczyk, John H. Morris et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  5. The STRING database in 2021: customizable protein–protein networks, and functional characterization of user-uploaded gene/measurement sets (2020)
    Damian Szklarczyk, Annika L. Gable et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  6. Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v4: recent updates and new developments (2019)
    Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research
  7. Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees (2016)
    Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research
  8. STRING v9.1: protein-protein interaction networks, with increased coverage and integration (2012)
    Andrea Franceschini, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  9. SMART, a simple modular architecture research tool: Identification of signaling domains (1998)
    Jörg Schultz, Peer Bork et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  10. The STRING database in 2023: protein–protein association networks and functional enrichment analyses for any sequenced genome of interest (2022)
    Damian Szklarczyk, Rebecca Kirsch et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  11. The STRING database in 2011: functional interaction networks of proteins, globally integrated and scored (2010)
    Damian Szklarczyk, Andrea Franceschini et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  12. eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses (2018)
    Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  13. Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL): an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation (2006)
    Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Bioinformatics
  14. PAL2NAL: robust conversion of protein sequence alignments into the corresponding codon alignments (2006)
    Mikita Suyama, David Torrents et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  15. STRING 8--a global view on proteins and their functional interactions in 630 organisms (2008)
    Lars Juhl Jensen, Michael Kuhn et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  16. Fast Genome-Wide Functional Annotation through Orthology Assignment by eggNOG-Mapper (2017)
    Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Sofia K. Forslund et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution
  17. Comparative assessment of large-scale data sets of protein–protein interactions (2002)
    Christian von Mering, Roland Krause et al. Nature
  18. eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences (2015)
    Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  19. 20 years of the SMART protein domain annotation resource (2017)
    Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research
  20. SMART 7: recent updates to the protein domain annotation resource (2011)
    Ivica Letunić, Tobias Doerks et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  21. SMART: recent updates, new developments and status in 2015 (2014)
    Ivica Letunić, Tobias Doerks et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  22. ETE 3: Reconstruction, Analysis, and Visualization of Phylogenomic Data (2016)
    Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, François Serra et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution
  23. Extensive impact of non-antibiotic drugs on human gut bacteria (2018)
    Lisa Maier, Mihaela Pruteanu et al. Nature
  24. Interactive Tree Of Life v2: online annotation and display of phylogenetic trees made easy (2011)
    Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research
  25. SMART: recent updates, new developments and status in 2020 (2020)
    Ivica Letunić, Supriya Khedkar et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  26. Toward Automatic Reconstruction of a Highly Resolved Tree of Life (2006)
    Francesca D. Ciccarelli, Tobias Doerks et al. Science
  27. Comparative Metagenomics of Microbial Communities (2005)
    Susannah G. Tringe, Christian von Mering et al. Science
  28. STITCH 5: augmenting protein–chemical interaction networks with tissue and affinity data (2015)
    Damian Szklarczyk, Alberto Santos et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  29. Protein Disorder Prediction (2003)
    Rune Linding, Lars Juhl Jensen et al. Structure
  30. Drug Target Identification Using Side-Effect Similarity (2008)
    Mónica Campillos, Michael Kuhn et al. Science
  31. The SIDER database of drugs and side effects (2015)
    Michael Kuhn, Ivica Letunić et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  32. SMART 6: recent updates and new developments (2008)
    Ivica Letunić, Tobias Doerks et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  33. Interactive Tree of Life (iTOL) v6: recent updates to the phylogenetic tree display and annotation tool (2024)
    Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research
  34. mRNA degradation by miRNAs and GW182 requires both CCR4:NOT deadenylase and DCP1:DCP2 decapping complexes (2006)
    Isabelle Behm‐Ansmant, Jan Rehwinkel et al. Genes & Development
  35. The genome sequence of Bifidobacterium longum reflects its adaptation to the human gastrointestinal tract (2002)
    Mark A. Schell, ‎Berend Snel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  36. STITCH: interaction networks of chemicals and proteins (2007)
    Michael Kuhn, Christian von Mering et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  37. An ATPase domain common to prokaryotic cell cycle proteins, sugar kinases, actin, and hsp70 heat shock proteins. (1992)
    Peer Bork, Chris Sander et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  38. A side effect resource to capture phenotypic effects of drugs (2010)
    Michael Kuhn, Mónica Campillos et al. Molecular Systems Biology
  39. A superfamily of conserved domains in DNA damage‐ responsive cell cycle checkpoint proteins (1997)
    Peer Bork, Kay Hofmann et al. The FASEB Journal
  40. Genomic variation landscape of the human gut microbiome (2012)
    Siegfried Schloissnig, Manimozhiyan Arumugam et al. Nature
  41. The Immunoglobulin Fold (1994)
    Peer Bork, Liisa Holm et al. Journal of Molecular Biology
  42. Metabolic dependencies drive species co-occurrence in diverse microbial communities (2015)
    Aleksej Zelezniak, Sergej Andrejev et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  43. The modular architecture of a new family of growth regulators related to connective tissue growth factor (1993)
    Peer Bork FEBS Letters
  44. The Human Gut Microbiome: From Association to Modulation (2018)
    Thomas Schmidt, Jeroen Raes et al. Cell
  45. STRING 7--recent developments in the integration and prediction of protein interactions (2006)
    Christian von Mering, Lars Juhl Jensen et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  46. The human small intestinal microbiota is driven by rapid uptake and conversion of simple carbohydrates (2012)
    Erwin G. Zoetendal, Jeroen Raes et al. The ISME Journal
  47. Intestinal microbiome is related to lifetime antibiotic use in Finnish pre-school children (2016)
    Katri Korpela, Anne Salonen et al. Nature Communications
  48. eggNOG v4.0: nested orthology inference across 3686 organisms (2013)
    Sean Powell, Sofia K. Forslund et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  49. The CUB Domain (1993)
    Peer Bork, Georg Beckmann Journal of Molecular Biology
  50. Functional implications of microbial and viral gut metagenome changes in early stage L-DOPA-naïve Parkinson’s disease patients (2017)
    Janis R. Bedarf, Falk Hildebrand et al. Genome Medicine
  51. Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi (2015)
    Leho Tedersoo, Sten Anslan et al. MycoKeys
  52. Durable coexistence of donor and recipient strains after fecal microbiota transplantation (2016)
    Simone S. Li, Ana Zhu et al. Science
  53. Extensive transmission of microbes along the gastrointestinal tract (2019)
    Thomas Schmidt, Matthew R. Hayward et al. eLife
  54. Species-specific activity of antibacterial drug combinations (2018)
    Ana Rita Brochado, Anja Telzerow et al. Nature
  55. Correction to ‘The STRING database in 2021: customizable protein–protein networks, and functional characterization of user-uploaded gene/measurement sets’ (2021)
    Damian Szklarczyk, Annika L. Gable et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  56. Diversity within species: interpreting strains in microbiomes (2020)
    Thea Van Rossum, Pamela Ferretti et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology
  57. Polarization of microbial communities between competitive and cooperative metabolism (2021)
    Daniel Machado, Oleksandr M. Maistrenko et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution
  58. eggNOG 6.0: enabling comparative genomics across 12 535 organisms (2022)
    Ana Hernández-Plaza, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  59. Discovery of antimicrobial peptides in the global microbiome with machine learning (2024)
    Célio Dias Santos Júnior, Marcelo D. T. Torres et al. Cell
  60. Paternal microbiome perturbations impact offspring fitness (2024)
    Ayele Argaw-Denboba, Thomas Schmidt et al. Nature
  61. The STRING database in 2025: protein networks with directionality of regulation (2024)
    Damian Szklarczyk, Katerina Nastou et al. Nucleic Acids Research

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Works of Peer Bork being referenced

STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life
2014 Standout
STRING 8--a global view on proteins and their functional interactions in 630 organisms
2008 Standout
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Peer Bork 93864 15446 14899 18121 510 140.1k
Minoru Kanehisa 73697 10794 9876 13696 253 109.5k
David Botstein 106977 7162 27481 17553 413 156.4k
Matthias Mann 148683 4849 11805 9966 837 211.4k
Toby J. Gibson 64530 15931 15939 24274 146 114.2k
Stephen F. Altschul 92241 23959 19107 34037 69 150.8k
Wolfgang Huber 64845 5715 12160 17108 228 105.3k
Desmond G. Higgins 65929 17320 16763 26181 131 117.8k
Steven L. Salzberg 106489 20210 24093 45095 233 174.6k
Mark A. Bradford 109099 20661 14842 56032 224 236.6k
Eugene V. Koonin 84512 23489 21010 22905 886 114.8k

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