Fabian Sievers

21.0k citations

16 papers · 14.2k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 13

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
Endocrinology top 1%

Papers in

Molecular Biology 14
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 14
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 6
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research 4
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 3
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 3
- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research 1
Agronomy and Crop Science 1

Co-authors: Desmond G. Higgins Andreas Wilm Johannes Söding Hamish McWilliam Julie Thompson Kevin Karplus Rodrigo López Michael Remmert
Journals: Bioinformatics (4 papers)BMC Bioinformatics (3 papers)Algorithms for Molecular Biology (2 papers)Protein Science (1 paper)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (1 paper)
Partner nations: Ireland Singapore United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Fabian Sievers

16 papers receiving 14.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Clustal Omega for making accurate alignments of many protein sequences 2017 · 1.3k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 Protein Science
2014 Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
2013 Methods in molecular biology
2011 Molecular Systems Biology

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All Works

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16 of 16 papers shown

#	Work
1	QuanTest2: benchmarking multiple sequence alignments using secondary structure prediction Bioinformatics ·Fabian Sievers, Desmond G. Higgins	2019	16
2	Clustal Omega for making accurate alignments of many protein sequences Protein Science ·Fabian Sievers, Desmond G. Higgins Hit paper breakdown →	2017	1271
3	Protein multiple sequence alignment benchmarking through secondary structure prediction Bioinformatics ·Quan Le, Fabian Sievers, Desmond G. Higgins	2017	24
4	OD-seq: outlier detection in multiple sequence alignments BMC Bioinformatics ·Peter Jehl, Fabian Sievers, Desmond G. Higgins	2015	24
5	Instability in progressive multiple sequence alignment algorithms Algorithms for Molecular Biology ·Kieran Boyce, Fabian Sievers, Desmond G. Higgins	2015	19
6	Multiple sequence alignment using Clustal Omega Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd ·Fabian Sievers, Desmond G. Higgins	2015	1
7	Using de novo protein structure predictions to measure the quality of very large multiple sequence alignments Bioinformatics ·Gearóid Fox, Fabian Sievers, Desmond G. Higgins	2015	13
8	Systematic exploration of guide-tree topology effects for small protein alignments BMC Bioinformatics ·Fabian Sievers, Graham M. Hughes, Desmond G. Higgins	2014	9
9	Clustal Omega Current Protocols in Bioinformatics ·Fabian Sievers, Desmond G. Higgins Hit paper breakdown →	2014	513
10	Simple chained guide trees give high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kieran Boyce, Fabian Sievers, Desmond G. Higgins	2014	27
11	Clustal Omega, Accurate Alignment of Very Large Numbers of Sequences Methods in molecular biology ·Fabian Sievers, Desmond G. Higgins Hit paper breakdown →	2013	917
12	Making automated multiple alignments of very large numbers of protein sequences Bioinformatics ·Fabian Sievers, David Dineen, Andreas Wilm, Desmond G. Higgins	2013	38
13	Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega Molecular Systems Biology ·Fabian Sievers, Andreas Wilm, David Dineen, Toby J. Gibson, Kevin Karplus, Weizhong Li, Rodrigo López, Hamish McWilliam, Michael Remmert, Johannes Söding, Julie Thompson, Desmond G. Higgins Hit paper breakdown →	2011	11202
14	Sequence embedding for fast construction of guide trees for multiple sequence alignment Algorithms for Molecular Biology ·Gordon Blackshields, Fabian Sievers, Weifeng Shi, Andreas Wilm, Desmond G. Higgins	2010	75
15	A Complete Analysis of HA and NA Genes of Influenza A Viruses PLoS ONE ·Weifeng Shi, Fumin Lei, Chao‐Dong Zhu, Fabian Sievers, Desmond G. Higgins	2010	32
16	Haplotype frequency estimation error analysis in the presence of missing genotype data BMC Bioinformatics ·Enda D Kelly, Fabian Sievers, Ross McManus	2004	7

About Fabian Sievers

Fabian Sievers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Agronomy and Crop Science, Artificial Intelligence, Materials Chemistry and Information Systems, having authored 16 papers that have together received 14.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (6 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (4 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (3 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (2 papers) and Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (8.9k citations), Endocrinology (513 citations), Biotechnology (772 citations), Molecular Medicine (395 citations) and Infectious Diseases (1.3k citations). Fabian Sievers has collaborated with scholars based in Ireland, Singapore and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Desmond G. Higgins, Andreas Wilm, Johannes Söding, Hamish McWilliam, Julie Thompson, Kevin Karplus, Rodrigo López, Michael Remmert, Toby J. Gibson and Weizhong Li. Their work appears in journals such as Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Algorithms for Molecular Biology, Protein Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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