Feiran Li

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 952 citations indexed

About

Feiran Li is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Feiran Li has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 952 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 3 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Feiran Li's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (23 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (13 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (6 papers). Feiran Li is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (23 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (13 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (6 papers). Feiran Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Sweden and Denmark. Feiran Li's co-authors include Jens Nielsen, Eduard J. Kerkhoven, Yu Chen, Hongzhong Lu, Gang Li, Le Yuan, Martin K. M. Engqvist, Mihail Anton, Benjamín J. Sánchez and Iván Domenzain and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Feiran Li

35 papers receiving 940 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Deep learning-based kcat prediction enables improved enzyme-constrained model reconstruction

2022 235 citations Feiran Li, Le Yuan et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Feiran Li China	14	801	320	63	57	47	40	952
Hongzhong Lu China	14	731 0.9×	333 1.0×	46 0.7×	38 0.7×	43 0.9×	41	889
Shekhar Mishra United States	9	627 0.8×	236 0.7×	30 0.5×	17 0.3×	18 0.4×	19	751
Ezequiel Franco‐Lara Germany	21	717 0.9×	340 1.1×	46 0.7×	69 1.2×	14 0.3×	46	1.0k
Fengguang Zhao China	12	266 0.3×	210 0.7×	37 0.6×	64 1.1×	48 1.0×	41	546
Benjamín J. Sánchez Denmark	14	1.4k 1.8×	570 1.8×	79 1.3×	17 0.3×	32 0.7×	26	1.5k
Toshiro Kobori Japan	14	259 0.3×	99 0.3×	67 1.1×	126 2.2×	18 0.4×	44	645
Haseong Kim South Korea	16	839 1.0×	214 0.7×	16 0.3×	59 1.0×	16 0.3×	70	1.1k
Joonhoon Kim United States	14	842 1.1×	404 1.3×	15 0.2×	18 0.3×	17 0.4×	33	972
Howard H. Chou United States	9	633 0.8×	283 0.9×	18 0.3×	27 0.5×	7 0.1×	10	749

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Feiran Li

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Lemke, Oliver, Benjamin M. Heineike, Sandra Viknander, et al.. (2025). The role of metabolism in shaping enzyme structures over 400 million years. Nature. 644(8075). 280–289. 6 indexed citations

Zhao, Yanming, Rujie Sun, Zitian Wang, et al.. (2025). Engineered Hydrogels as Functional Components in Controllable Neuromodulation for Translational Therapeutics. ACS Applied Bio Materials. 8(9). 7587–7615. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Xiaoqin, et al.. (2025). Rewiring energy homeostasis in Yarrowia lipolytica enables efficient terpenoid biosynthesis. Chemical Engineering Journal. 527. 171676–171676.

Li, Huanxin, Yiming Guo, Bochen Li, et al.. (2025). A quasi-solid-state high-rate lithium sulfur positive electrode incorporating Li10GeP2S12. Communications Materials. 6(1). 175–175.

Wu, Ke, Yuanyuan Huang, Mihail Anton, et al.. (2025). GotEnzymes2: expanding coverage of enzyme kinetics and thermal properties. Nucleic Acids Research. 54(D1). D583–D592. 1 indexed citations

Sánchez, Benjamín J., Feiran Li, William T. Scott, et al.. (2024). Yeast9: a consensus genome-scale metabolic model for S. cerevisiae curated by the community. Molecular Systems Biology. 20(10). 1134–1150. 13 indexed citations

Chen, Yu, Johan Gustafsson, Mihail Anton, et al.. (2024). Reconstruction, simulation and analysis of enzyme-constrained metabolic models using GECKO Toolbox 3.0. Nature Protocols. 19(3). 629–667. 45 indexed citations

Chen, Yu & Feiran Li. (2024). Metabolomes evolve faster than metabolic network structures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(11). e2400519121–e2400519121. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Xin, et al.. (2024). Model-assisted CRISPRi/a library screening reveals central carbon metabolic targets for enhanced recombinant protein production in yeast. Metabolic Engineering. 88. 1–13. 3 indexed citations

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Yuan, Qianqian, Fan Wei, Zhenkun Shi, et al.. (2023). Reconstruction and metabolic profiling of the genome-scale metabolic network model of Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 8(4). 688–696. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Feiran, Yu Chen, Johan Gustafsson, et al.. (2023). Genome‐scale metabolic models applied for human health and biopharmaceutical engineering. Quantitative Biology. 11(4). 363–375. 1 indexed citations

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Yuan, Le, Hongzhong Lu, Feiran Li, Jens Nielsen, & Eduard J. Kerkhoven. (2023). HGTphyloDetect: facilitating the identification and phylogenetic analysis of horizontal gene transfer. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 24(2). 11 indexed citations

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Li, Feiran, Le Yuan, Hongzhong Lu, et al.. (2022). Deep learning-based kcat prediction enables improved enzyme-constrained model reconstruction. Nature Catalysis. 5(8). 662–672. 235 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Feiran, Yu Chen, Yanyan Wang, et al.. (2022). Improving recombinant protein production by yeast through genome-scale modeling using proteome constraints. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2969–2969. 41 indexed citations

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Li, Feiran, et al.. (2022). Transcriptome profiling of lung immune responses potentially related to acute respiratory distress syndrome in forest musk deer. BMC Genomics. 23(1). 701–701.

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Fu, Yaru, et al.. (2021). Heterophylly Quantitative Trait Loci Respond to Salt Stress in the Desert Tree Populus euphratica. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 692494–692494. 6 indexed citations

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Yang, Xue, Qianqian Yuan, Hao Luo, et al.. (2019). Systematic design and in vitro validation of novel one-carbon assimilation pathways. Metabolic Engineering. 56. 142–153. 67 indexed citations

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Sánchez, Benjamín J., Feiran Li, Eduard J. Kerkhoven, & Jens Nielsen. (2019). SLIMEr: probing flexibility of lipid metabolism in yeast with an improved constraint-based modeling framework. BMC Systems Biology. 13(1). 4–4. 33 indexed citations

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Li, Feiran, Wei Xie, Qianqian Yuan, et al.. (2018). Genome-scale metabolic model analysis indicates low energy production efficiency in marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea. AMB Express. 8(1). 106–106. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Yongfei, Feiran Li, Xiaoran Zhang, et al.. (2014). A fast and sensitive coupled enzyme assay for the measurement of l-threonine and application to high-throughput screening of threonine-overproducing strains. Enzyme and Microbial Technology. 67. 1–7. 11 indexed citations

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