Florian P. Breitwieser

8.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
42 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Florian P. Breitwieser is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Spectroscopy and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian P. Breitwieser has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Spectroscopy and 6 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Florian P. Breitwieser's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (7 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (6 papers). Florian P. Breitwieser is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (7 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (6 papers). Florian P. Breitwieser collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and United Kingdom. Florian P. Breitwieser's co-authors include Steven L. Salzberg, Jennifer Lu, Peter Thielen, Li Song, Daehwan Kim, Daniel N. Baker, Jacques Colinge, Martin Steinegger, Keiryn L. Bennett and Giulio Superti‐Furga and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Immunology, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Florian P. Breitwieser

42 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Bracken: estimating species abundance in metagenomics data 2016 2026 2019 2022 2017 2016 2017 2022 250 500 750 1000
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. Bracken: estimating species abundance in metagenomics data
    2017 1.1k citations Jennifer Lu, Florian P. Breitwieser et al. PeerJ Computer Science profile →
  2. Centrifuge: rapid and sensitive classification of metagenomic sequences
    2016 820 citations Daehwan Kim, Li Song et al. Genome Research profile →
  3. A review of methods and databases for metagenomic classification and assembly
    2017 328 citations Florian P. Breitwieser, Jennifer Lu et al. Briefings in Bioinformatics profile →
  4. Metagenome analysis using the Kraken software suite
    2022 309 citations Jennifer Lu, Florian P. Breitwieser et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Florian P. Breitwieser United States 26 2.8k 1.1k 532 459 365 42 4.7k
Melanie Schirmer Germany 16 3.8k 1.3× 1.5k 1.3× 442 0.8× 577 1.3× 342 0.9× 30 5.7k
Lutz Krause Australia 44 3.2k 1.1× 1.9k 1.7× 383 0.7× 713 1.6× 493 1.4× 82 6.3k
Joshua Quick United Kingdom 13 2.5k 0.9× 1.4k 1.3× 437 0.8× 763 1.7× 422 1.2× 27 4.2k
Jean M. Macklaim Canada 23 3.1k 1.1× 952 0.8× 891 1.7× 395 0.9× 452 1.2× 33 5.5k
William Klimke United States 17 2.1k 0.8× 987 0.9× 438 0.8× 525 1.1× 395 1.1× 24 4.3k
Yuzhen Ye United States 35 3.2k 1.1× 1.2k 1.1× 250 0.5× 332 0.7× 407 1.1× 125 5.6k
Matthew R. Laird Canada 15 3.3k 1.2× 1.1k 1.0× 507 1.0× 547 1.2× 564 1.5× 17 5.2k
Luís Pedro Coelho Germany 30 3.4k 1.2× 1.2k 1.1× 241 0.5× 480 1.0× 587 1.6× 53 5.4k
Amnon Amir United States 29 4.1k 1.5× 1.2k 1.0× 620 1.2× 786 1.7× 429 1.2× 67 6.6k
Qiyun Zhu United States 30 2.4k 0.9× 730 0.6× 245 0.5× 331 0.7× 269 0.7× 72 3.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mirdita, Milot, Martin Steinegger, Florian P. Breitwieser, Johannes Söding, & Eli Levy Karin. (2021). Fast and sensitive taxonomic assignment to metagenomic contigs. Bioinformatics. 37(18). 3029–3031. 150 indexed citations
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Monaco, Daniel R., Sanjay Kottapalli, Florian P. Breitwieser, et al.. (2021). Deconvoluting virome-wide antibody epitope reactivity profiles. EBioMedicine. 75. 103747–103747. 24 indexed citations
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Yee, Rebecca, Florian P. Breitwieser, Stephanie Hao, et al.. (2020). Metagenomic next-generation sequencing of rectal swabs for the surveillance of antimicrobial-resistant organisms on the Illumina Miseq and Oxford MinION platforms. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. 40(1). 95–102. 21 indexed citations
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Bewick, Sharon, Eliezer Gurarie, JL Weissman, et al.. (2019). Trait-based analysis of the human skin microbiome. Microbiome. 7(1). 101–101. 26 indexed citations
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Breitwieser, Florian P. & Steven L. Salzberg. (2019). Pavian: interactive analysis of metagenomics data for microbiome studies and pathogen identification. Bioinformatics. 36(4). 1303–1304. 279 indexed citations
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El–Diwany, Ramy, Mary Soliman, Sho K. Sugawara, et al.. (2018). CMPK2 and BCL-G are associated with type 1 interferon–induced HIV restriction in humans. Science Advances. 4(8). eaat0843–eaat0843. 50 indexed citations
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Li, Zhigang, Florian P. Breitwieser, Jennifer Lu, et al.. (2018). Identifying Corneal Infections in Formalin-Fixed Specimens Using Next Generation Sequencing. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 59(1). 280–280. 51 indexed citations
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Pertea, Mihaela, Alaina Shumate, Geo Pertea, et al.. (2018). CHESS: a new human gene catalog curated from thousands of large-scale RNA sequencing experiments reveals extensive transcriptional noise. Genome biology. 19(1). 208–208. 170 indexed citations
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Breitwieser, Florian P., Jennifer Lu, & Steven L. Salzberg. (2017). A review of methods and databases for metagenomic classification and assembly. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 20(4). 1125–1136. 328 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mainali, Kumar P., Sharon Bewick, Peter Thielen, et al.. (2017). Statistical analysis of co-occurrence patterns in microbial presence-absence datasets. PLoS ONE. 12(11). e0187132–e0187132. 29 indexed citations
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Lu, Jennifer, Florian P. Breitwieser, Peter Thielen, & Steven L. Salzberg. (2017). Bracken: estimating species abundance in metagenomics data. PeerJ Computer Science. 3. e104–e104. 1124 indexed citations breakdown →
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Salzberg, Steven L., Florian P. Breitwieser, Anupama Kumar, et al.. (2016). Next-generation sequencing in neuropathologic diagnosis of infections of the nervous system. Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. 3(4). e251–e251. 121 indexed citations
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Kim, Daehwan, Li Song, Florian P. Breitwieser, & Steven L. Salzberg. (2016). Centrifuge: rapid and sensitive classification of metagenomic sequences. Genome Research. 26(12). 1721–1729. 820 indexed citations breakdown →
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Breitwieser, Florian P., Anupama Kumar, Peter C. Burger, et al.. (2016). Next-Generation Sequencing in Neuropathologic Diagnosis of Infections of the Nervous System (Open Access). 1 indexed citations
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Gridling, Manuela, Scott B. Ficarro, Florian P. Breitwieser, et al.. (2014). Identification of Kinase Inhibitor Targets in the Lung Cancer Microenvironment by Chemical and Phosphoproteomics. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 13(11). 2751–2762. 20 indexed citations
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Colinge, Jacques, Adrián César‐Razquin, K. Huber, et al.. (2014). Building and exploring an integrated human kinase network: Global organization and medical entry points. Journal of Proteomics. 107. 113–127. 14 indexed citations
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Ubaida‐Mohien, Ceereena, Jürgen Hartler, Florian P. Breitwieser, et al.. (2010). MASPECTRAS 2: An integration and analysis platform for proteomic data. PROTEOMICS. 10(14). 2719–2722. 18 indexed citations
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Haura, Eric B., André C. Müller, Florian P. Breitwieser, et al.. (2010). Using iTRAQ Combined with Tandem Affinity Purification to Enhance Low-Abundance Proteins Associated with Somatically Mutated EGFR Core Complexes in Lung Cancer. Journal of Proteome Research. 10(1). 182–190. 25 indexed citations
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Breitwieser, Florian P.. (1997). AVALIAÇAO DA POBREZA E DISTRIBUIÇAO DE RENDA EM MACROPÓLOS CONFORME O POLÍGONO INDUSTRIAL: O MACROPÓLO DE BELO HORIZONTE. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 25(3). 257–60. 5 indexed citations

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