Amos Bairoch

66.2k total citations · 17 hit papers
155 papers, 38.7k citations indexed

About

Amos Bairoch is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Amos Bairoch has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 38.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 132 papers in Molecular Biology, 39 papers in Spectroscopy and 22 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Amos Bairoch's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (42 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (39 papers) and Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (38 papers). Amos Bairoch is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (42 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (39 papers) and Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (38 papers). Amos Bairoch collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Amos Bairoch's co-authors include Rolf Apweiler, Elisabeth Gasteiger, Denis F. Hochstrasser, Marc R. Wilkins, Kay Hofmann, Bernard Henrissat, Philip Bucher, Ron D. Appel, Keith L. Williams and Jean‐Charles Sanchez and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Amos Bairoch

155 papers receiving 37.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Protein Identification and Analysis Tools in the ExPASy Server

2003 5.3k citations Elisabeth Gasteiger, Amos Bairoch et al. Humana Press eBooks profile →
The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt)

2004 3.0k citations Amos Bairoch Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The SWISS-PROT protein sequence data bank and its supplement TrEMBL in 1999

1999 2.6k citations Amos Bairoch, Rolf Apweiler Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The SWISS-PROT protein sequence database and its supplement TrEMBL in 2000

2000 2.3k citations Amos Bairoch Nucleic Acids Research profile →
New families in the classification of glycosyl hydrolases based on amino acid sequence similarities

1993 1.7k citations Amos Bairoch et al. profile →
The PROSITE database, its status in 1997

1997 1.5k citations Amos Bairoch et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
ScanProsite: detection of PROSITE signature matches and ProRule-associated functional and structural residues in proteins

2006 1.3k citations Elisabeth Gasteiger, Amos Bairoch et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The UDP glycosyltransferase gene superfamily: recommended nomenclature update based on evolutionary divergence

1997 985 citations Amos Bairoch et al. profile →
The PROSITE database, its status in 1999

1999 936 citations Amos Bairoch et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Prosite: a dictionary of sites and patterns in proteins

1992 788 citations Amos Bairoch Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The ENZYME database in 2000

2000 778 citations Amos Bairoch Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Arac/XylS family of transcriptional regulators

1997 662 citations Amos Bairoch et al. profile →
PROSITE, a protein domain database for functional characterization and annotation

2009 660 citations Amos Bairoch et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot

2007 569 citations Emmanuel Boutet, Damien Lieberherr et al. Humana Press eBooks profile →
The SWISS-PROT protein sequence data bank and its supplement TrEMBL

1997 555 citations Amos Bairoch, Rolf Apweiler Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Molecular basis of symbiosis between Rhizobium and legumes

1997 551 citations Amos Bairoch et al. profile →
The Cellosaurus, a Cell-Line Knowledge Resource

2018 429 citations Amos Bairoch profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A large collection of bioinformatics question–query pairs over federated knowledge graphs: methodology and applications 2025 ·GigaScience ·Jerven Bolleman, Vincent Emonet, Adrian Altenhoff, Amos Bairoch, Marie-Claude Blatter, Alan Bridge, Séverine Duvaud, Elisabeth Gasteiger, Dmitry Kuznetsov, Sébastien Moretti, Pierre-André Michel, Anne Morgat, Marco Pagni, Nicole Redaschi, Monique Zahn‐Zabal, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, (unknown)	2
2	CLASTR: The Cellosaurus STR similarity search tool ‐ A precious help for cell line authentication 2019 ·International Journal of Cancer ·(unknown), Amanda Capes‐Davis, Amos Bairoch	50
3	Large-Scale Reanalysis of Publicly Available HeLa Cell Proteomics Data in the Context of the Human Proteome Project 2018 ·Journal of Proteome Research ·(unknown), Amos Bairoch, Markus Müller, Frédérique Lisacek, Lydie Lane	16
4	Mass spectrometry in high-throughput proteomics: ready for the big time 2010 ·Nature Methods ·Tommy Nilsson, Matthias Mann, Ruedi Aebersold, John R. Yates, Amos Bairoch, John Bergeron	375
5	Managing the Data Explosion A Report on the HUPO‐PSI Workshop August 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2009 ·PROTEOMICS ·Sandra Orchard, Christine Hoogland, Amos Bairoch, Martin Eisenacher, Hans‐Joachim Kraus, Pierre‐Alain Binz	12
6	UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot breakdown → 2007 ·Humana Press eBooks ·Emmanuel Boutet, Damien Lieberherr, Michael Tognolli, Michel Schneider, Amos Bairoch	569
7	The Swiss-Prot protein knowledgebase and ExPASy: providing the plant community with high quality proteomic data and tools 2004 ·Plant Physiology and Biochemistry ·Michel Schneider, Michael Tognolli, Amos Bairoch	60
8	Annotation of post‐translational modifications in the Swiss‐Prot knowledge base 2004 ·PROTEOMICS ·(unknown), John S. Garavelli, Brigitte Boeckmann, Séverine Duvaud, Elisabeth Gasteiger, Alain Gateau, Anne‐Lise Veuthey, Amos Bairoch	88
9	Swiss-Prot: Juggling between evolution and stability 2004 ·Briefings in Bioinformatics ·Amos Bairoch	281
10	SWISS-PROT: Connecting Biomolecular Knowledge Via a Protein Database 2001 ·Current Issues in Molecular Biology ·Elisabeth Gasteiger, E. Jung, Amos Bairoch	151
11	Serendipity in bioinformatics, the tribulations of a Swiss bioinformatician through exciting times! 2000 ·Bioinformatics ·Amos Bairoch	20
12	The SWISS-2DPAGE database: what has changed during the last year 1999 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Christine Hoogland, Jean‐Charles Sanchez, (unknown), Amos Bairoch, D Hochstrasser, Ron D. Appel	8
13	Representation of functional information in the SWISS-PROT Data Bank 1999 ·Bioinformatics ·(unknown), Rolf Apweiler, Amos Bairoch	33
14	New insulin-like proteins with atypical disulfide bond pattern characterized in Caenorhabditis elegans by comparative sequence analysis and homology modeling 1998 ·Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) ·Laurent Duret, Nicolas Guex, Manuel C. Peitsch, Amos Bairoch	8
15	Sequences and topology predicting evolution 1997 ·Current Opinion in Structural Biology ·Amos Bairoch, (unknown)	6
16	Go hunting in sequence databases but watch out for the traps 1996 ·Trends in Genetics ·Peer Bork, Amos Bairoch	83
17	Integrating two-dimensional gel databases using the melanie II software 1996 ·Trends in Biochemical Sciences ·M. H. F. Wilkins, D Hochstrasser, Juana Sánchez, Amos Bairoch, Ron D. Appel	22
18	Human liver protein map: Update 1993 1993 ·Electrophoresis ·Graham J. Hughes, Séverine Frutiger, Nicole Paquet, Christian Pasquali, Jean‐Charles Sanchez, Jean‐Daniel Tissot, Amos Bairoch, Ron D. Appel, Denis F. Hochstrasser	70
19	A diverse transketolase family that includes the RecP protein of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a protein implicated in genetic recombination 1993 ·Research in Microbiology ·(unknown), Aiala Reizer, Amos Bairoch, Milton H. Saier	21
20	SEQANALREF: a sequence analysis bibliographic reference databank 1991 ·Computer applications in the biosciences ·Amos Bairoch	6

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