Christophe Dessimoz

17.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
96 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Christophe Dessimoz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Christophe Dessimoz has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Molecular Biology, 33 papers in Genetics and 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Christophe Dessimoz's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (61 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (19 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (18 papers). Christophe Dessimoz is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (61 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (19 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (18 papers). Christophe Dessimoz collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Christophe Dessimoz's co-authors include Adrian Altenhoff, Manuel Gil, Maria Anisimova, Gastón H. Gonnet, Nives Škunca, Jean-François Dufayard, Olivier Gascuel, Nick Goldman, Natasha Glover and Alex Warwick Vesztrocy and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Christophe Dessimoz

94 papers receiving 7.5k citations

Hit Papers

Survey of Branch Support Methods Demonstrates Accuracy, P... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2013 2018 2013 2017 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Survey of Branch Support Methods Demonstrates Accuracy, Power, and Robustness of Fast Likelihood-based Approximation Schemes
    2011 874 citations Maria Anisimova, Christophe Dessimoz et al. Systematic Biology profile →
  2. Towards practical, high-capacity, low-maintenance information storage in synthesized DNA
    2013 738 citations Christophe Dessimoz et al. profile →
  3. GOATOOLS: A Python library for Gene Ontology analyses
    2018 724 citations Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Christophe Dessimoz et al. Scientific Reports profile →
  4. Approximate Bayesian Computation
    2013 378 citations Christophe Dessimoz et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →
  5. Transient structural variations have strong effects on quantitative traits and reproductive isolation in fission yeast
    2017 361 citations Christophe Dessimoz, Fritz J. Sedlazeck et al. profile →
  6. Structural variant calling: the long and the short of it
    2019 354 citations Christophe Dessimoz, Fritz J. Sedlazeck et al. Genome biology profile →
  7. Quality assessment of gene repertoire annotations with OMArk
    2024 54 citations Yannis Nevers, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy 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
Christophe Dessimoz Switzerland 40 5.0k 1.8k 1.5k 923 538 96 7.6k
William R. Taylor United Kingdom 45 9.7k 1.9× 1.6k 0.9× 1.8k 1.2× 1.0k 1.1× 467 0.9× 154 14.0k
Vincent Moulton United Kingdom 42 3.8k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 3.1k 2.0× 557 0.6× 677 1.3× 239 8.0k
Tal Pupko Israel 50 10.7k 2.1× 2.7k 1.5× 1.7k 1.1× 1.5k 1.6× 713 1.3× 142 15.1k
Mark A. Ragan Australia 55 5.2k 1.0× 1.5k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 2.6k 2.8× 895 1.7× 222 11.0k
Andreas Wagner United States 62 9.7k 1.9× 5.3k 3.0× 1.4k 0.9× 1.0k 1.1× 827 1.5× 247 13.5k
Fabian Sievers Ireland 13 8.9k 1.8× 1.7k 1.0× 2.3k 1.5× 1.6k 1.8× 452 0.8× 16 14.2k
Christian J. Stoeckert United States 44 7.4k 1.5× 1.8k 1.0× 2.1k 1.4× 914 1.0× 403 0.7× 118 11.6k
Sitao Wu United States 23 6.7k 1.3× 1.0k 0.6× 1.6k 1.0× 2.1k 2.3× 425 0.8× 47 10.4k
Gary Benson United States 25 5.4k 1.1× 2.1k 1.2× 2.5k 1.7× 889 1.0× 724 1.3× 57 8.5k
Cédric Notredame Spain 41 9.5k 1.9× 1.8k 1.0× 1.8k 1.2× 982 1.1× 339 0.6× 105 13.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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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.
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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
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Nevers, Yannis, et al.. (2025). Annotation matters: the effect of structural gene annotation on orthology inference. Bioinformatics. 41(7). 4 indexed citations
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Moi, David, et al.. (2025). Structural phylogenetics unravels the evolutionary diversification of communication systems in gram-positive bacteria and their viruses. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(12). 2492–2502. 6 indexed citations
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Dessimoz, Christophe, et al.. (2024). When less is more: sketching with minimizers in genomics. Genome biology. 25(1). 270–270. 5 indexed citations
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Bordin, Nicola, Salvatore Cosentino, Natasha Glover, et al.. (2024). Quest for Orthologs in the Era of Biodiversity Genomics. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(10). 8 indexed citations
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Rossier, Victor, et al.. (2024). Matreex: Compact and Interactive Visualization for Scalable Studies of Large Gene Families. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(6). 2 indexed citations
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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
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Dessimoz, Christophe, et al.. (2022). A Linear Time Solution to the Labeled Robinson–Foulds Distance Problem. Systematic Biology. 71(6). 1391–1403. 1 indexed citations
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Gori, Kevin, Luis Sánchez‐Pulido, David Moi, et al.. (2021). Citrullination Was Introduced into Animals by Horizontal Gene Transfer from Cyanobacteria. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(2). 21 indexed citations
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Glover, Natasha, et al.. (2021). Homoeolog Inference Methods Requiring Bidirectional Best Hits or Synteny Miss Many Pairs. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(6). 4 indexed citations
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Rossier, Victor, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Marc Robinson‐Rechavi, & Christophe Dessimoz. (2021). OMAmer: tree-driven and alignment-free protein assignment to subfamilies outperforms closest sequence approaches. Bioinformatics. 37(18). 2866–2873. 11 indexed citations
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Moi, David, et al.. (2020). Scalable phylogenetic profiling using MinHash uncovers likely eukaryotic sexual reproduction genes. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(7). e1007553–e1007553. 14 indexed citations
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Benton, Richard, Christophe Dessimoz, & David Moi. (2020). A putative origin of the insect chemosensory receptor superfamily in the last common eukaryotic ancestor. eLife. 9. 16 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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Farias, Tarcisio Mendes de, Maria Anisimova, M. Gil, et al.. (2019). Enabling semantic queries across federated bioinformatics databases. Database. 2019. 17 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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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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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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Tsagkogeorga, Georgia, Steven Müller, Christophe Dessimoz, & Stephen J. Rossiter. (2017). Comparative genomics reveals contraction in olfactory receptor genes in bats. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 259–259. 15 indexed citations

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