Adrian Altenhoff

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Adrian Altenhoff is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Adrian Altenhoff has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Adrian Altenhoff's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (22 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (9 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers). Adrian Altenhoff is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (22 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (9 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers). Adrian Altenhoff collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Adrian Altenhoff's co-authors include Christophe Dessimoz, Gastón H. Gonnet, Natasha Glover, Clément-Marie Train, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Nives Škunca, Armin Schneider, Romain A. Studer, Marc Robinson‐Rechavi and David Dylus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Adrian Altenhoff

30 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Quality assessment of gene repertoire annotations with OMArk

2024 54 citations Yannis Nevers, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Adrian Altenhoff Switzerland	20	1.3k	407	314	204	189	31	1.9k
Stefanie Hartmann Germany	22	759 0.6×	398 1.0×	346 1.1×	413 2.0×	141 0.7×	55	1.8k
Samuel Blanquart France	13	1.1k 0.9×	454 1.1×	208 0.7×	486 2.4×	107 0.6×	21	1.7k
Guy Perrière France	22	2.1k 1.6×	483 1.2×	655 2.1×	544 2.7×	43 0.2×	42	3.3k
Edward Susko Canada	27	1.8k 1.4×	862 2.1×	332 1.1×	675 3.3×	127 0.7×	90	2.4k
William H. Piel United States	17	523 0.4×	351 0.9×	144 0.5×	278 1.4×	124 0.7×	36	1.4k
Francisco Prosdocimi Brazil	18	602 0.5×	312 0.8×	145 0.5×	267 1.3×	104 0.6×	87	1.1k
David L. Des Marais United States	19	762 0.6×	478 1.2×	1.1k 3.6×	123 0.6×	154 0.8×	43	2.0k
Karen Moore United Kingdom	30	1.4k 1.1×	322 0.8×	575 1.8×	495 2.4×	85 0.4×	107	2.7k
Yun‐Xia Luan China	16	363 0.3×	200 0.5×	123 0.4×	167 0.8×	78 0.4×	58	1.2k
David Weese United States	20	928 0.7×	235 0.6×	165 0.5×	269 1.3×	133 0.7×	40	1.4k

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Bernard, Charles, Yannis Nevers, Kimberly J. Gilbert, et al.. (2025). EdgeHOG: a method for fine-grained ancestral gene order inference at large scale. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(10). 1951–1961.

Altenhoff, Adrian, et al.. (2025). OrthoXML-Tools: A Toolkit for Manipulating OrthoXML Files for Orthology Data. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 93(6). 800–805. 1 indexed citations

Nevers, Yannis, et al.. (2025). Annotation matters: the effect of structural gene annotation on orthology inference. Bioinformatics. 41(7). 4 indexed citations

Bolleman, Jerven, Vincent Emonet, Adrian Altenhoff, et al.. (2025). A large collection of bioinformatics question–query pairs over federated knowledge graphs: methodology and applications. GigaScience. 14. 2 indexed citations

Majidian, Sina, Yannis Nevers, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, et al.. (2025). Orthology inference at scale with FastOMA. Nature Methods. 22(2). 269–272. 8 indexed citations

Nevers, Yannis, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Victor Rossier, et al.. (2024). Quality assessment of gene repertoire annotations with OMArk. Nature Biotechnology. 43(1). 124–133. 54 indexed citations breakdown →

Dylus, David, Adrian Altenhoff, Sina Majidian, Fritz J. Sedlazeck, & Christophe Dessimoz. (2023). Inference of phylogenetic trees directly from raw sequencing reads using Read2Tree. Nature Biotechnology. 42(1). 139–147. 22 indexed citations

Altenhoff, Adrian, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Charles Bernard, et al.. (2023). OMA orthology in 2024: improved prokaryote coverage, ancestral and extant GO enrichment, a revamped synteny viewer and more in the OMA Ecosystem. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(D1). D513–D521. 37 indexed citations

Altenhoff, Adrian, et al.. (2022). OMAMO: orthology-based alternative model organism selection. Bioinformatics. 38(10). 2965–2966. 2 indexed citations

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Altenhoff, Adrian, Kimberly J. Gilbert, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, et al.. (2020). OMA orthology in 2021: website overhaul, conserved isoforms, ancestral gene order and more. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D373–D379. 119 indexed citations

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Altenhoff, Adrian, Jeremy Levy, Magdalena Zarowiecki, et al.. (2019). OMA standalone: orthology inference among public and custom genomes and transcriptomes. Genome Research. 29(7). 1152–1163. 95 indexed citations

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Glover, Natasha, Adrian Altenhoff, & Christophe Dessimoz. (2019). Assigning confidence scores to homoeologs using fuzzy logic. PeerJ. 6. e6231–e6231. 6 indexed citations

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Train, Clément-Marie, Miguel Pignatelli, Adrian Altenhoff, & Christophe Dessimoz. (2018). iHam and pyHam: visualizing and processing hierarchical orthologous groups. Bioinformatics. 35(14). 2504–2506. 22 indexed citations

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Piližota, Ivana, Clément-Marie Train, Adrian Altenhoff, Henning Redestig, & Christophe Dessimoz. (2018). Phylogenetic approaches to identifying fragments of the same gene, with application to the wheat genome. Bioinformatics. 35(7). 1159–1166. 1 indexed citations

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Altenhoff, Adrian, Natasha Glover, Clément-Marie Train, et al.. (2017). The OMA orthology database in 2018: retrieving evolutionary relationships among all domains of life through richer web and programmatic interfaces. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(D1). D477–D485. 149 indexed citations

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Altenhoff, Adrian, Nives Škunca, Natasha Glover, et al.. (2014). The OMA orthology database in 2015: function predictions, better plant support, synteny view and other improvements. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(D1). D240–D249. 150 indexed citations

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Škunca, Nives, Adrian Altenhoff, & Christophe Dessimoz. (2012). Quality of Computationally Inferred Gene Ontology Annotations. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(5). e1002533–e1002533. 84 indexed citations

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Altenhoff, Adrian, Romain A. Studer, Marc Robinson‐Rechavi, & Christophe Dessimoz. (2012). Resolving the Ortholog Conjecture: Orthologs Tend to Be Weakly, but Significantly, More Similar in Function than Paralogs. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(5). e1002514–e1002514. 147 indexed citations

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Altenhoff, Adrian, Armin Schneider, Gastón H. Gonnet, & Christophe Dessimoz. (2010). OMA 2011: orthology inference among 1000 complete genomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(Database). D289–D294. 153 indexed citations

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Altenhoff, Adrian & Christophe Dessimoz. (2009). Phylogenetic and Functional Assessment of Orthologs Inference Projects and Methods. PLoS Computational Biology. 5(1). e1000262–e1000262. 300 indexed citations

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