Edouard de Castro

19.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
32 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Edouard de Castro is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Aging. According to data from OpenAlex, Edouard de Castro has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Aging. Recurrent topics in Edouard de Castro's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (6 papers). Edouard de Castro is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (9 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (6 papers). Edouard de Castro collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Edouard de Castro's co-authors include Christian J A Sigrist, Amos Bairoch, Petra Langendijk-Genevaux, Lorenzo Cerutti, Nicolas Hulo, Lydie Bougueleret, Ioannis Xénarios, Elisabeth Gasteiger, Alexandre Gattiker and Alan Bridge and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Edouard de Castro

32 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit 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.

ScanProsite: detection of PROSITE signature matches and ProRule-associated functional and structural residues in proteins

2006 1.3k citations Edouard de Castro, Christian J A Sigrist et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
New and continuing developments at PROSITE

2012 1.1k citations Christian J A Sigrist, Edouard de Castro et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
PROSITE, a protein domain database for functional characterization and annotation

2009 660 citations Christian J A Sigrist, Edouard de Castro et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Edouard de Castro

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Edouard de Castro's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Edouard de Castro with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Edouard de Castro more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Edouard de Castro

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Edouard de Castro. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Edouard de Castro. The network helps show where Edouard de Castro may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Edouard de Castro

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Edouard de Castro. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Edouard de Castro based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Edouard de Castro. Edouard de Castro is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The PROSITE database for protein families, domains, and sites 2025 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Christian J A Sigrist, (unknown), Edouard de Castro, Elisabeth Coudert, Nicole Redaschi, Alan Bridge	1
2	EnzChemRED, a rich enzyme chemistry relation extraction dataset 2024 ·Scientific Data ·Po‐Ting Lai, Elisabeth Coudert, Lucila Aimo, Kristian B. Axelsen, Lionel Breuza, Edouard de Castro, Marc Feuermann, Anne Morgat, Lucille Pourcel, Ivo Pedruzzi, Sylvain Poux, Nicole Redaschi, Catherine Rivoire, Anastasia Sveshnikova, Chih-Hsuan Wei, Robert Leaman, Ling Luo, Zhiyong Lu, Alan Bridge	3
3	ViralZone 2024 provides higher-resolution images and advanced virus-specific resources 2023 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Edouard de Castro, Chantal Hulo, Patrick Masson, Andrea H Auchincloss, Alan Bridge, Philippe Le Mercier	13
4	SwissBioPics—an interactive library of cell images for the visualization of subcellular location data 2022 ·Database ·Philippe Le Mercier, Jerven Bolleman, Edouard de Castro, Elisabeth Gasteiger, Parit Bansal, Andrea H Auchincloss, Emmanuel Boutet, Lionel Breuza, Cristina Casals‐Casas, Anne Estreicher, Marc Feuermann, Damien Lieberherr, Catherine Rivoire, Ivo Pedruzzi, Nicole Redaschi, Alan Bridge	7
5	Diverse Taxonomies for Diverse Chemistries: Enhanced Representation of Natural Product Metabolism in UniProtKB 2021 ·Metabolites ·Marc Feuermann, Emmanuel Boutet, Anne Morgat, Kristian B. Axelsen, Parit Bansal, Jerven Bolleman, Edouard de Castro, Elisabeth Coudert, Elisabeth Gasteiger, Sébastien Géhant, Damien Lieberherr, Thierry Lombardot, Teresa Batista Neto, Ivo Pedruzzi, Sylvain Poux, Monica Pozzato, Nicole Redaschi, Alan Bridge	3
6	HAMAP as SPARQL rules—A portable annotation pipeline for genomes and proteomes 2020 ·GigaScience ·Jerven Bolleman, Edouard de Castro, Delphine Baratin, Sébastien Géhant, (unknown), Andrea H Auchincloss, Elisabeth Coudert, Chantal Hulo, Patrick Masson, Ivo Pedruzzi, Catherine Rivoire, Ioannis Xénarios, Nicole Redaschi, Alan Bridge	7
7	Enzyme annotation in UniProtKB using Rhea 2019 ·Bioinformatics ·Anne Morgat, Thierry Lombardot, Elisabeth Coudert, Kristian B. Axelsen, (unknown), Sébastien Géhant, Parit Bansal, Jerven Bolleman, Elisabeth Gasteiger, Edouard de Castro, Delphine Baratin, Monica Pozzato, Ioannis Xénarios, Sylvain Poux, Nicole Redaschi, Alan Bridge	69
8	Bacterial Virus Ontology; Coordinating across Databases 2017 ·Viruses ·Chantal Hulo, Patrick Masson, Ariane Toussaint, David Osumi-Sutherland, Edouard de Castro, Andrea H Auchincloss, Sylvain Poux, Lydie Bougueleret, Ioannis Xénarios, Philippe Le Mercier	2
9	The ins and outs of eukaryotic viruses: Knowledge base and ontology of a viral infection 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Chantal Hulo, Patrick Masson, Edouard de Castro, Andrea H Auchincloss, Rebecca E. Foulger, Sylvain Poux, Jane Lomax, Lydie Bougueleret, Ioannis Xénarios, Philippe Le Mercier	7
10	An Integrated Ontology Resource to Explore and Study Host-Virus Relationships 2014 ·PLoS ONE ·Patrick Masson, Chantal Hulo, Edouard de Castro, Rebecca E. Foulger, Sylvain Poux, Alan Bridge, Jane Lomax, Lydie Bougueleret, Ioannis Xénarios, Philippe Le Mercier	12
11	Genome and transcriptome sequencing identifies breeding targets in the orphan crop tef (Eragrostis tef) 2014 ·BMC Genomics ·Gina Cannarozzi, Sonia Plaza‐Wüthrich, Korinna Esfeld, (unknown), (unknown), Dejene Girma, Edouard de Castro, Solomon Chanyalew, Regula Blösch, Laurent Farinelli, Eric Lyons, Michel Schneider, Laurent Falquet, Cris Kuhlemeier, Kebebew Assefa, Zerihun Tadele	123
12	HAMAP in 2013, new developments in the protein family classification and annotation system 2012 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Ivo Pedruzzi, Catherine Rivoire, Andrea H Auchincloss, Elisabeth Coudert, G. Keller, Edouard de Castro, Delphine Baratin, (unknown), Lydie Bougueleret, Sylvain Poux, Nicole Redaschi, Ioannis Xénarios, Alan Bridge	47
13	ViralZone: recent updates to the virus knowledge resource 2012 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Patrick Masson, Chantal Hulo, Edouard de Castro, Hans Bitter, Lore Gruenbaum, Laurent Essioux, Lydie Bougueleret, Ioannis Xénarios, Philippe Le Mercier	39
14	ViralZone: a knowledge resource to understand virus diversity 2010 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Chantal Hulo, Edouard de Castro, Patrick Masson, Lydie Bougueleret, Amos Bairoch, Ioannis Xénarios, Philippe Le Mercier	297
15	HAMAP: a database of completely sequenced microbial proteome sets and manually curated microbial protein families in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot 2008 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Tânia Lima, Andrea H Auchincloss, Elisabeth Coudert, G. Keller, (unknown), Catherine Rivoire, (unknown), Edouard de Castro, C. Lachaize, Delphine Baratin, Isabelle Phan, Lydie Bougueleret, Amos Bairoch	122
16	ScanProsite: detection of PROSITE signature matches and ProRule-associated functional and structural residues in proteins breakdown → 2006 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Edouard de Castro, Christian J A Sigrist, Alexandre Gattiker, (unknown), Petra Langendijk-Genevaux, Elisabeth Gasteiger, Amos Bairoch, (unknown)	1270
17	Ca2+ Signaling via the Neuronal Calcium Sensor-1 Regulates Associative Learning and Memory in C. elegans 2001 ·Neuron ·Marie Gomez, Edouard de Castro, Ernesto Guarin, Hiroyuki Sasakura, Atsushi Kuhara, Ikue Mori, Tamás Bartfai, Cornelia I. Bargmann, Patrick Nef	190
18	Relationship between increased longevity and stress resistance as assessed through gerontogene mutations in Caenorhabditis elegans 2001 ·Experimental Gerontology ·Thomas E. Johnson, Edouard de Castro, (unknown), James R. Cypser, Sam W. Henderson, Pat Tedesco	128
19	Gerontogenes mediate health and longevity in nematodes through increasing resistance to environmental toxins and stressors 2000 ·Experimental Gerontology ·Thomas E. Johnson, James R. Cypser, Edouard de Castro, (unknown), Samuel T. Henderson, Shin Murakami, Brad A. Rikke, Pat Tedesco, Chris D. Link	102
20	Olfaction in birds: differential embryonic expression of nine putative odorant receptor genes in the avian olfactory system 1996 ·Mechanisms of Development ·Serge Nef, Igor Allaman, Hubert Fiumelli, Edouard de Castro, Patrick Nef	71

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact