Alex Bateman

151.2k total citations · 22 hit papers
158 papers, 57.2k citations indexed

About

Alex Bateman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Bateman has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 57.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Genetics and 22 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alex Bateman's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (58 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (42 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (36 papers). Alex Bateman is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (58 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (42 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (36 papers). Alex Bateman collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. Alex Bateman's co-authors include ROBERT FINN, Sean R. Eddy, Jaina Mistry, Erik L. L. Sonnhammer, John Tate, Neil D. Rawlings, Marco Punta, A. John Barrett, Ruth Y. Eberhardt and Gustavo A Salazar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alex Bateman

158 papers receiving 56.6k citations

Hit Papers

The Pfam Protein Families Database 2000 2026 2008 2017 2002 2013 2015 2020 2018 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. The Pfam Protein Families Database
    2002 12.0k citations Alex Bateman Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. Pfam: the protein families database
    2013 4.7k citations ROBERT FINN, Alex Bateman et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future
    2015 4.1k citations ROBERT FINN, Penelope Coggill et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. Pfam: The protein families database in 2021
    2020 3.8k citations Jaina Mistry, Sara Chuguransky et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  5. The Pfam protein families database in 2019
    2018 3.2k citations Sara El-Gebali, Jaina Mistry et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  6. The Pfam protein families database
    2011 3.0k citations Marco Punta, Penny Coggill et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  7. The Pfam protein families database
    2003 2.6k citations Alex Bateman Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  8. The Pfam protein families database
    2009 2.4k citations ROBERT FINN, Jaina Mistry et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  9. The Pfam protein families database
    2007 1.6k citations ROBERT FINN, John Tate et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  10. MEROPS: the database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors
    2011 1.3k citations Neil D. Rawlings, A. John Barrett et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  11. The MEROPS database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors in 2017 and a comparison with peptidases in the PANTHER database
    2017 1.2k citations Neil D. Rawlings, A. John Barrett et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  12. Challenges in homology search: HMMER3 and convergent evolution of coiled-coil regions
    2013 1.1k citations Jaina Mistry, ROBERT FINN et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  13. The Pfam Protein Families Database
    2000 1.1k citations Alex Bateman Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  14. Rfam 12.0: updates to the RNA families database
    2014 805 citations Eric P. Nawrocki, Alex Bateman et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  15. Rfam: updates to the RNA families database
    2008 733 citations John Tate, Eric P. Nawrocki et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  16. MEROPS: the peptidase database
    2009 731 citations Neil D. Rawlings, A. John Barrett et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  17. MEROPS: the database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors
    2013 716 citations Neil D. Rawlings, A. John Barrett et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  18. HMMER web server: 2015 update
    2015 696 citations ROBERT FINN, Jody Clements et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  19. Rfam 13.0: shifting to a genome-centric resource for non-coding RNA families
    2017 639 citations Ioanna Kalvari, Joanna Argasinska et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  20. Rfam 11.0: 10 years of RNA families
    2012 615 citations Ruth Y. Eberhardt, John Tate et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  21. Rfam 14: expanded coverage of metagenomic, viral and microRNA families
    2020 584 citations Ioanna Kalvari, Eric P. Nawrocki et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  22. Using deep learning to annotate the protein universe
    2022 164 citations Maxwell L. Bileschi, David Belanger et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alex Bateman United Kingdom 69 40.4k 13.7k 7.4k 6.8k 2.8k 158 57.2k
ROBERT FINN United Kingdom 57 33.4k 0.8× 12.7k 0.9× 7.4k 1.0× 5.3k 0.8× 2.2k 0.8× 151 48.5k
Sean R. Eddy United States 80 54.3k 1.3× 18.3k 1.3× 13.1k 1.8× 9.1k 1.3× 3.2k 1.1× 127 75.9k
Rodrigo López United Kingdom 32 32.5k 0.8× 13.2k 1.0× 7.9k 1.1× 7.3k 1.1× 5.0k 1.8× 68 57.4k
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer Sweden 51 30.6k 0.8× 10.3k 0.8× 5.6k 0.8× 5.3k 0.8× 2.8k 1.0× 153 44.6k
Hamish McWilliam United Kingdom 15 25.5k 0.6× 10.7k 0.8× 6.7k 0.9× 6.1k 0.9× 4.4k 1.5× 18 46.3k
Eugene W. Myers United States 49 50.9k 1.3× 19.4k 1.4× 14.0k 1.9× 11.8k 1.7× 4.9k 1.8× 126 88.6k
Søren Brunak Denmark 83 35.2k 0.9× 7.8k 0.6× 3.6k 0.5× 5.5k 0.8× 6.1k 2.2× 350 55.8k
Warren Gish United States 17 46.9k 1.2× 18.4k 1.3× 13.8k 1.9× 10.5k 1.5× 4.9k 1.7× 20 80.8k
L. Aravind United States 123 39.4k 1.0× 6.5k 0.5× 6.1k 0.8× 9.0k 1.3× 4.4k 1.6× 381 52.4k
Andreas Wilm Singapore 21 21.0k 0.5× 8.3k 0.6× 5.4k 0.7× 5.0k 0.7× 2.5k 0.9× 29 37.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Bateman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Bateman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pei, Jimin, Antonina Andreeva, Sara Chuguransky, et al.. (2024). Bridging the Gap between Sequence and Structure Classifications of Proteins with AlphaFold Models. Journal of Molecular Biology. 436(22). 168764–168764. 5 indexed citations
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Andreeva, Antonina, et al.. (2024). Isopeptor: a tool for detecting intramolecular isopeptide bonds in protein structures. Bioinformatics Advances. 5(1). vbaf049–vbaf049. 1 indexed citations
3.
Ontiveros‐Palacios, Nancy, Emma J. Cooke, Eric P. Nawrocki, et al.. (2024). Rfam 15: RNA families database in 2025. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(D1). D258–D267. 30 indexed citations
4.
Blum, Matthias, et al.. (2024). Keeping it in the family: using protein family templates to rescue low confidence AlphaFold2 models. Bioinformatics Advances. 4(1). vbae188–vbae188. 1 indexed citations
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Durairaj, Janani, Andrew Waterhouse, Toomas Mets, et al.. (2023). Uncovering new families and folds in the natural protein universe. Nature. 622(7983). 646–653. 78 indexed citations
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Lafita, Aleix, Vivian Monzon, Catherine R. Back, et al.. (2023). Domain shuffling of a highly mutable ligand‐binding fold drives adhesin generation across the bacterial kingdom. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 91(8). 1007–1020. 2 indexed citations
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Monzon, Vivian, Typhaine Paysan‐Lafosse, Valerie Wood, & Alex Bateman. (2022). Reciprocal best structure hits: using AlphaFold models to discover distant homologues. Bioinformatics Advances. 2(1). vbac072–vbac072. 23 indexed citations
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Bileschi, Maxwell L., David Belanger, Drew Bryant, et al.. (2022). Using deep learning to annotate the protein universe. Nature Biotechnology. 40(6). 932–937. 164 indexed citations breakdown →
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Monzon, Vivian & Alex Bateman. (2022). Large-Scale Discovery of Microbial Fibrillar Adhesins and Identification of Novel Members of Adhesive Domain Families. Journal of Bacteriology. 204(6). e0010722–e0010722. 10 indexed citations
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Bateman, Alex, et al.. (2022). DPCfam: Unsupervised protein family classification by Density Peak Clustering of large sequence datasets. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(10). e1010610–e1010610. 7 indexed citations
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Whelan, Fiona, Aleix Lafita, Samuel C. Griffiths, et al.. (2021). Periscope Proteins are variable-length regulators of bacterial cell surface interactions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(23). 14 indexed citations
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Wang, Han, et al.. (2020). Caenorhabditis elegans AF4/FMR2 Family Homolog affl-2 Regulates Heat-Shock-Induced Gene Expression. Genetics. 215(4). 1039–1054. 2 indexed citations
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Kalvari, Ioanna, Eric P. Nawrocki, Nancy Ontiveros‐Palacios, et al.. (2020). Rfam 14: expanded coverage of metagenomic, viral and microRNA families. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D192–D200. 584 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tonelli, Marco, Woonghee Lee, Ziqing Lin, et al.. (2019). Solution structure of human myeloid-derived growth factor suggests a conserved function in the endoplasmic reticulum. Nature Communications. 10(1). 5612–5612. 14 indexed citations
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El-Gebali, Sara, Jaina Mistry, Alex Bateman, et al.. (2018). The Pfam protein families database in 2019. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(D1). D427–D432. 3202 indexed citations breakdown →
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FINN, ROBERT, Penelope Coggill, Ruth Y. Eberhardt, et al.. (2015). The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(D1). D279–D285. 4051 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mistry, Jaina, Penny Coggill, Ruth Y. Eberhardt, et al.. (2013). The challenge of increasing Pfam coverage of the human proteome. Database. 2013. bat023–bat023. 23 indexed citations
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FINN, ROBERT, Alex Bateman, Jody Clements, et al.. (2013). Pfam: the protein families database. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D222–D230. 4740 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rawlings, Neil D., A. John Barrett, & Alex Bateman. (2011). MEROPS: the database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(D1). D343–D350. 1273 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bateman, Alex, et al.. (1999). The SIS domain: a phosphosugar-binding domain. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 24(3). 94–95. 76 indexed citations

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