Cameron L. M. Gilchrist

5.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
23 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Cameron L. M. Gilchrist is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cameron L. M. Gilchrist has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Pharmacology and 4 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Cameron L. M. Gilchrist's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (12 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (4 papers). Cameron L. M. Gilchrist is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (12 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (4 papers). Cameron L. M. Gilchrist collaborates with scholars based in Australia, South Korea and China. Cameron L. M. Gilchrist's co-authors include Yit‐Heng Chooi, Martin Steinegger, Milot Mirdita, Johannes Söding, Charlotte Tumescheit, Stephanie Kim, Michel van Kempen, Jeong-Jae Lee, Marnix H. Medema and Thomas Booth and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Cameron L. M. Gilchrist

22 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Fast and accurate protein structure search with Foldseek
    2023 956 citations Michel van Kempen, Stephanie Kim et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  2. clinker & clustermap.js: automatic generation of gene cluster comparison figures
    2021 783 citations Cameron L. M. Gilchrist, Yit‐Heng Chooi Bioinformatics profile →
  3. Clustering predicted structures at the scale of the known protein universe
    2023 160 citations Inigo Barrio‐Hernandez, Jürgen Jänes et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cameron L. M. Gilchrist Australia 16 1.5k 516 489 410 194 23 2.5k
Alla Mikheenko Russia 13 1.3k 0.9× 521 1.0× 304 0.6× 421 1.0× 157 0.8× 18 2.0k
Ralf Dieckmann Germany 32 1.0k 0.7× 212 0.4× 483 1.0× 315 0.8× 371 1.9× 73 2.5k
Aaron A. Klammer United States 8 2.5k 1.7× 808 1.6× 217 0.4× 840 2.0× 233 1.2× 8 3.6k
Ilya А. Osterman Russia 25 1.2k 0.8× 319 0.6× 338 0.7× 160 0.4× 135 0.7× 107 1.8k
Atsuko Matsumoto Japan 30 1.3k 0.9× 445 0.9× 1.1k 2.2× 580 1.4× 437 2.3× 133 2.6k
Menno van der Voort Netherlands 21 1.4k 0.9× 599 1.2× 344 0.7× 1.8k 4.4× 295 1.5× 36 3.5k
Gareth A. Roberts United Kingdom 23 1.4k 0.9× 221 0.4× 854 1.7× 290 0.7× 200 1.0× 53 2.1k
Sacha J. Pidot Australia 27 1.1k 0.7× 156 0.3× 610 1.2× 301 0.7× 191 1.0× 82 2.4k
Victor de Jager Netherlands 11 1.3k 0.9× 404 0.8× 874 1.8× 688 1.7× 317 1.6× 13 2.2k
Alexandra Koumoutsi Germany 13 1.3k 0.9× 427 0.8× 313 0.6× 1.3k 3.2× 228 1.2× 15 2.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cameron L. M. Gilchrist

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Rey, Carine, Cameron L. M. Gilchrist, Joana L. Rocha, et al.. (2025). Evolutionary characterization of antiviral SAMD9/9L across kingdoms supports ancient convergence and lineage-specific adaptations. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(12). 2206–2222. 1 indexed citations
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Mirdita, Milot, et al.. (2025). Easy and interactive taxonomic profiling with Metabuli App. Bioinformatics. 41(10).
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Shang, Zhuo, Amr A. Arishi, Changzheng Wu, et al.. (2024). Self‐Resistance Gene‐Guided Discovery of the Molecular Basis for Biosynthesis of the Fatty Acid Synthase Inhibitor Cerulenin. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(2). e202414941–e202414941. 4 indexed citations
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Shang, Zhuo, Amr A. Arishi, Changzheng Wu, et al.. (2024). Self‐Resistance Gene‐Guided Discovery of the Molecular Basis for Biosynthesis of the Fatty Acid Synthase Inhibitor Cerulenin. Angewandte Chemie. 137(2). 1 indexed citations
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Barrio‐Hernandez, Inigo, Jürgen Jänes, Milot Mirdita, et al.. (2023). Clustering predicted structures at the scale of the known protein universe. Nature. 622(7983). 637–645. 160 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kempen, Michel van, Stephanie Kim, Charlotte Tumescheit, et al.. (2023). Fast and accurate protein structure search with Foldseek. Nature Biotechnology. 42(2). 243–246. 956 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gilchrist, Cameron L. M., et al.. (2023). CAGECAT: The CompArative GEne Cluster Analysis Toolbox for rapid search and visualisation of homologous gene clusters. BMC Bioinformatics. 24(1). 181–181. 57 indexed citations
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Kim, Dongwook, Cameron L. M. Gilchrist, Jongsik Chun, & Martin Steinegger. (2022). UFCG: database of universal fungal core genes and pipeline for genome-wide phylogenetic analysis of fungi. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(D1). D777–D784. 24 indexed citations
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Gilchrist, Cameron L. M. & Yit‐Heng Chooi. (2021). clinker & clustermap.js: automatic generation of gene cluster comparison figures. Bioinformatics. 37(16). 2473–2475. 783 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gilchrist, Cameron L. M., et al.. (2021). cblaster: a remote search tool for rapid identification and visualization of homologous gene clusters. Bioinformatics Advances. 1(1). vbab016–vbab016. 146 indexed citations
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Gilchrist, Cameron L. M. & Yit‐Heng Chooi. (2021). Synthaser: a CD-Search enabled Python toolkit for analysing domain architecture of fungal secondary metabolite megasynth(et)ases. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8(1). 13–13. 18 indexed citations
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Gilchrist, Cameron L. M.. (2020). gamcil/cblaster: cblaster v1.1.0. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xianghui, Megan C. McDonald, Cameron L. M. Gilchrist, et al.. (2020). Victorin, the host-selective cyclic peptide toxin from the oat pathogen Cochliobolus victoriae , is ribosomally encoded. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(39). 24243–24250. 43 indexed citations
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Gilchrist, Cameron L. M.. (2020). gamcil/synthaser: synthaser v1.1.0. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Li, Hang, Cameron L. M. Gilchrist, Chin‐Soon Phan, et al.. (2020). Biosynthesis of a New Benzazepine Alkaloid Nanangelenin A from Aspergillus nanangensis Involves an Unusual l-Kynurenine-Incorporating NRPS Catalyzing Regioselective Lactamization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(15). 7145–7152. 44 indexed citations
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Hu, Jinyu, et al.. (2020). CRISPR-Mediated Activation of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters for Bioactive Molecule Discovery in Filamentous Fungi. ACS Synthetic Biology. 9(7). 1843–1854. 58 indexed citations
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Li, Hang, John A. Kalaitzis, Daniel Vuong, et al.. (2020). Hancockiamides: phenylpropanoid piperazines from Aspergillus hancockii are biosynthesised by a versatile dual single-module NRPS pathway. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 19(3). 587–595. 29 indexed citations
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Gilchrist, Cameron L. M., Heather J. Lacey, Daniel Vuong, et al.. (2020). Comprehensive chemotaxonomic and genomic profiling of a biosynthetically talented Australian fungus, Aspergillus burnettii sp. nov.. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 143. 103435–103435. 17 indexed citations
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Lacey, Heather J., Cameron L. M. Gilchrist, Andrew Crombie, et al.. (2019). Nanangenines: drimane sesquiterpenoids as the dominant metabolite cohort of a novel Australian fungus, Aspergillus nanangensis. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 15. 2631–2643. 23 indexed citations
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Gilchrist, Cameron L. M., Hang Li, & Yit‐Heng Chooi. (2018). Panning for gold in mould: can we increase the odds for fungal genome mining?. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 16(10). 1620–1626. 21 indexed citations

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