Alan Christoffels

12.1k total citations
98 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Alan Christoffels is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Christoffels has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Genetics and 13 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Alan Christoffels's work include Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (11 papers). Alan Christoffels is often cited by papers focused on Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (14 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (11 papers). Alan Christoffels collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Singapore and Kenya. Alan Christoffels's co-authors include Sydney Brenner, Byrappa Venkatesh, Esther G. L. Koh, Jer-Ming Chia, Samuel Aparício, Vladimir B. Bajić, László Orbán, Richárd Bártfai, Walter Hunziker and Soraya Bardien and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Alan Christoffels

93 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Alan Christoffels 1.5k 564 362 228 188 98 2.6k
Nicolas Hulo 2.7k 1.8× 327 0.6× 567 1.6× 261 1.1× 120 0.6× 31 3.8k
Silvano Squizzato 2.2k 1.5× 472 0.8× 565 1.6× 284 1.2× 149 0.8× 8 3.6k
Noemí del‐Toro 2.5k 1.6× 309 0.5× 309 0.9× 333 1.5× 98 0.5× 17 3.7k
Caroline E. Shamu 2.8k 1.8× 792 1.4× 260 0.7× 436 1.9× 167 0.9× 22 4.4k
Arminja N. Kettenbach 2.9k 1.9× 276 0.5× 367 1.0× 231 1.0× 100 0.5× 100 4.2k
John A. Capra 3.8k 2.6× 918 1.6× 398 1.1× 115 0.5× 124 0.7× 111 4.9k
Russell L. Finley 2.5k 1.7× 315 0.6× 217 0.6× 419 1.8× 201 1.1× 67 3.3k
Christopher M. Sanderson 2.7k 1.8× 517 0.9× 261 0.7× 480 2.1× 290 1.5× 56 4.4k
Shmuel Pietrokovski 4.3k 2.8× 818 1.5× 743 2.1× 202 0.9× 157 0.8× 87 5.7k
Kenton H. Zavitz 2.2k 1.5× 709 1.3× 145 0.4× 361 1.6× 408 2.2× 38 4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Christoffels

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All Works

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Chen, Christine Y., Alan Christoffels, Juan E. Gilbert, et al.. (2024). Increasing the presence of BIPOC researchers in computational science. Nature Computational Science. 4(9). 646–653.
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Mboowa, Gerald, et al.. (2024). Africa in the era of pathogen genomics: Unlocking data barriers. Cell. 187(19). 5146–5150. 4 indexed citations
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Nyirenda, Clement, et al.. (2024). Artificial intelligence in antidiabetic drug discovery: The advances in QSAR and the prediction of α-glucosidase inhibitors. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 23. 2964–2977. 16 indexed citations
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Konongoi, Samson, James Akoko, Rosemary Sang, et al.. (2023). Using Multiplex Amplicon PCR Technology to Efficiently and Timely Generate Rift Valley Fever Virus Sequence Data for Genomic Surveillance. Viruses. 15(2). 477–477. 3 indexed citations
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Christoffels, Alan, et al.. (2023). Investigation of distinct gene expression profile patterns that can improve the classification of intermediate-risk prognosis in AML patients. Frontiers in Genetics. 14. 1131159–1131159. 4 indexed citations
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Heusden, Peter Van, et al.. (2022). The COMBAT-TB Workbench: Making Powerful Mycobacterium tuberculosis Bioinformatics Accessible. mSphere. 7(1). e0099121–e0099121. 5 indexed citations
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Heusden, Peter Van, et al.. (2022). microRNA profile of Hermetia illucens (black soldier fly) and its implications on mass rearing. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0265492–e0265492. 3 indexed citations
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Cloete, Ruben, et al.. (2021). Prioritization of candidate genes for a South African family with Parkinson’s disease using in-silico tools. PLoS ONE. 16(3). e0249324–e0249324. 12 indexed citations
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Cloete, Ruben, Mohd Shahbaaz, Melanie Grobbelaar, Samantha L. Sampson, & Alan Christoffels. (2021). In silico repurposing of a Novobiocin derivative for activity against latency associated Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug target nicotinate-nucleotide adenylyl transferase (Rv2421c). PLoS ONE. 16(11). e0259348–e0259348. 4 indexed citations
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Beiswanger, Christine M., Alash’le Abimiku, Alan Christoffels, et al.. (2017). Accessing Biospecimens from the H3Africa Consortium. Biopreservation and Biobanking. 15(2). 95–98. 8 indexed citations
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Merino-Martinez, Roxana, et al.. (2017). Baobab Laboratory Information Management System: Development of an Open-Source Laboratory Information Management System for Biobanking. Biopreservation and Biobanking. 15(2). 116–120. 10 indexed citations
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Kyobe, Samuel, Edgar Kigozi, Fred Ashaba Katabazi, et al.. (2017). Selecting a Laboratory Information Management System for Biorepositories in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The H3Africa Experience and Lessons Learned. Biopreservation and Biobanking. 15(2). 111–115. 7 indexed citations
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Harkins, Gordon W., Darren P. Martin, Alan Christoffels, & Arvind Varsani. (2013). Towards inferring the global movement of beak and feather disease virus. Virology. 450-451. 24–33. 61 indexed citations
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Sreenivasan, Rajini, Junhui Jiang, Xingang Wang, et al.. (2013). Gonad Differentiation in Zebrafish Is Regulated by the Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathway1. Biology of Reproduction. 90(2). 45–45. 82 indexed citations
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Li, Yang, Richárd Bártfai, Alan Christoffels, et al.. (2004). Comparative analysis of the testis and ovary transcriptomes in zebrafish by combining experimental and computational tools: Research Articles. Comparative and Functional Genomics. 5(5). 403–418. 3 indexed citations
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Christoffels, Alan, et al.. (2004). Extensive Expansion of the Claudin Gene Family in the Teleost Fish, Fugu rubripes. Genome Research. 14(7). 1248–1257. 153 indexed citations
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Kelso, Janet, Grégory Theiler, Alan Christoffels, et al.. (2003). eVOC: A Controlled Vocabulary for Unifying Gene Expression Data. Genome Research. 13(6a). 1222–1230. 120 indexed citations
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Christoffels, Alan, et al.. (1999). A Comprehensive Approach to Clustering of Expressed Human Gene Sequence: The Sequence Tag Alignment and Consensus Knowledge Base. Genome Research. 9(11). 1143–1155. 154 indexed citations
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Hayashizaki, Yoshihide, John F. Burke, Alan Christoffels, & Robert D. Miller. (1997). A Novel Approach Towards a Comprehensive Consensus Representation of the Expressed Human Genome. Proceedings Genome Informatics Workshop/Genome informatics. 8(8). 187–196. 6 indexed citations

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