François Enault

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

François Enault is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, François Enault has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Ecology, 16 papers in Plant Science and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in François Enault's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (22 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (15 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers). François Enault is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (22 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (15 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers). François Enault collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. François Enault's co-authors include Simon Roux, Matthew B. Sullivan, Bonnie L. Hurwitz, Didier Debroas, Marie‐Agnès Petit, Mart Krupovìč, Clovis Galiez, Arnaud Briet, Antoine Mahul and Gisèle Bronner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

François Enault

32 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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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.

VirSorter: mining viral signal from microbial genomic data

2015 721 citations Simon Roux, François Enault et al. profile →
PHROG: families of prokaryotic virus proteins clustered using remote homology

2021 218 citations Éric Olo Ndela, Clovis Galiez et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Enault

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Clouds influence the functioning of airborne microorganisms 2025 ·Biogeosciences ·(unknown), Florent Rossi, Muriel Joly, Engy Nasr, Bérénice Batut, François Enault, Barbara Ervens, Pierre Amato	0
2	Empathi: embedding-based phage protein annotation tool by hierarchical assignment 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Audrey Leprince, François Enault, Elsa Rousseau, Clovis Galiez	1
3	EnVhogDB: an extended view of the viral protein families on Earth through a vast collection of HMM profiles 2025 ·Peer Community Journal ·(unknown), François Enault, Clovis Galiez	1
4	Establishing Host–Virus Link Through Host Metabolism: Viral DNA SIP Validation Using T4 Bacteriophage and E. coli 2024 ·Current Microbiology ·(unknown), (unknown), Angéline Guenne, Mahendra Mariadassou, Mart Krupovìč, François Enault, Ariane Bize	1
5	New Microviridae isolated from Sulfitobacter reveals two cosmopolitan subfamilies of single-stranded DNA phages infecting marine and terrestrial Alphaproteobacteria 2022 ·Virus Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), Éric Olo Ndela, (unknown), Anja Poehlein, Heike M. Freese, Simon Roux, Meinhard Simon, François Enault, Cristina Moraru	14
6	Reekeekee- and roodoodooviruses, two different Microviridae clades constituted by the smallest DNA phages 2022 ·Virus Evolution ·Éric Olo Ndela, Simon Roux, Christian Henke, Alexander Sczyrba, Télesphore Sime‐Ngando, Arvind Varsani, François Enault	11
7	Mieux connaître les virus présents sur Terre grâce aux métagénomes 2022 ·médecine/sciences ·Éric Olo Ndela, (unknown), Simon Roux, François Enault	0
8	Assemblages of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria in tank bromeliads exhibit a host‐specific signature 2021 ·Journal of Ecology ·(unknown), (unknown), Corinne Bardot, François Enault, (unknown), Jean‐François Carrias, Bruno Corbara, Régis Céréghino, Céline Leroy, Christian Jeanthon, Éric Giraud, Isabelle Mary, Anne‐Catherine Lehours	7
9	Biogeographic patterns of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria reveal an ecological consistency of phylogenetic clades in different oceanic biomes 2018 ·Scientific Reports ·Anne‐Catherine Lehours, François Enault, Dominique Boeuf, Christian Jeanthon	15
10	Phages rarely encode antibiotic resistance genes: a cautionary tale for virome analyses 2016 ·The ISME Journal ·François Enault, Arnaud Briet, (unknown), Simon Roux, Matthew B. Sullivan, Marie‐Agnès Petit	301
11	Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: update from the ICTV bacterial and archaeal viruses subcommittee 2016 ·Archives of Virology ·Mart Krupovìč, Bas E. Dutilh, Evelien M. Adriaenssens, Johannes Wittmann, (unknown), (unknown), J. Rumnieks, David Prangishvili, Rob Lavigne, Andrew M. Kropinski, Jochen Klumpp, Annika Gillis, François Enault, Robert A. Edwards, Siobain Duffy, Martha R. J. Clokie, Jakub Barylski, Hans‐Wolfgang Ackermann, Jens H. Kuhn	64
12	Metavir 2: new tools for viral metagenome comparison and assembled virome analysis 2014 ·BMC Bioinformatics ·Simon Roux, (unknown), Antoine Mahul, Didier Debroas, François Enault	166
13	Chimeric viruses blur the borders between the major groups of eukaryotic single-stranded DNA viruses 2013 ·Nature Communications ·Simon Roux, François Enault, Gisèle Bronner, Daniel Vaulot, Patrick Forterre, Mart Krupovìč	83
14	Assessing the Diversity and Specificity of Two Freshwater Viral Communities through Metagenomics 2012 ·PLoS ONE ·Simon Roux, François Enault, Agnès Robin, Viviane Ravet, Sébastien Personnic, Sébastien Theil, Jonathan Colombet, Télesphore Sime‐Ngando, Didier Debroas	172
15	Evolution and Diversity of the Microviridae Viral Family through a Collection of 81 New Complete Genomes Assembled from Virome Reads 2012 ·PLoS ONE ·Simon Roux, Mart Krupovìč, Axel Poulet, Didier Debroas, François Enault	147
16	Comparison of 16S rRNA and protein-coding genes as molecular markers for assessing microbial diversity (Bacteria and Archaea) in ecosystems 2011 ·FEMS Microbiology Ecology ·Simon Roux, François Enault, Gisèle Bronner, Didier Debroas	49
17	Metagenomic approach studying the taxonomic and functional diversity of the bacterial community in a mesotrophic lake (Lac du Bourget – France) 2009 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Didier Debroas, Jean François Humbert, François Enault, Gisèle Bronner, (unknown), Emmanuel Cornillot	90
18	Alvira: comparative genomics of viral strains 2007 ·Bioinformatics ·François Enault, (unknown), Éric Baranowski, Thomas Faraut	4
19	Phydbac2: improved inference of gene function using interactive phylogenomic profiling and chromosomal location analysis 2004 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·François Enault, Karsten Suhre, Olivier Poirot, Chantal Abergel, Jean‐Michel Claverie	27
20	Phydbac (phylogenomic display of bacterial genes): an interactive resource for the annotation of bacterial genomes 2003 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·François Enault	14

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