Hamish McWilliam

62.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
18 papers, 46.3k citations indexed

About

Hamish McWilliam is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Information Systems and Management and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hamish McWilliam has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 46.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Information Systems and Management and 4 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Hamish McWilliam's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (5 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (4 papers). Hamish McWilliam is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (14 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (5 papers) and T-cell and B-cell Immunology (4 papers). Hamish McWilliam collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Hamish McWilliam's co-authors include Rodrigo López, Toby J. Gibson, Julie Thompson, Desmond G. Higgins, Andreas Wilm, F. Valentin, Nigel P. Brown, Chenna Ramu, Gordon Blackshields and Paul McGettigan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and Molecular Systems Biology.

In The Last Decade

Hamish McWilliam

18 papers receiving 45.7k citations

Hit Papers

Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2011 2014 2010 2013 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k 20.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hamish McWilliam United Kingdom 15 25.5k 10.7k 6.7k 6.1k 4.4k 18 46.3k
Rodrigo López United Kingdom 32 32.5k 1.3× 13.2k 1.2× 7.9k 1.2× 7.3k 1.2× 5.0k 1.2× 68 57.4k
Marc Lohse Germany 23 25.7k 1.0× 13.5k 1.3× 8.4k 1.3× 7.2k 1.2× 2.9k 0.7× 25 48.8k
Anthony Bolger Germany 16 22.6k 0.9× 11.2k 1.0× 8.1k 1.2× 6.7k 1.1× 2.9k 0.7× 20 44.4k
Andreas Wilm Singapore 21 21.0k 0.8× 8.3k 0.8× 5.4k 0.8× 5.0k 0.8× 2.5k 0.6× 29 37.5k
Michael W. Pfaffl Germany 47 30.7k 1.2× 9.5k 0.9× 4.3k 0.6× 6.7k 1.1× 7.1k 1.6× 247 62.0k
Daniel G. Peterson United States 32 15.8k 0.6× 12.6k 1.2× 7.6k 1.1× 6.0k 1.0× 2.1k 0.5× 118 38.8k
Alex Bateman United Kingdom 69 40.4k 1.6× 13.7k 1.3× 7.4k 1.1× 6.8k 1.1× 2.8k 0.6× 158 57.2k
Björn Usadel Germany 62 30.3k 1.2× 21.6k 2.0× 8.6k 1.3× 7.5k 1.2× 2.9k 0.7× 187 58.7k
Erik L. L. Sonnhammer Sweden 51 30.6k 1.2× 10.3k 1.0× 5.6k 0.8× 5.3k 0.9× 2.8k 0.6× 153 44.6k
Alan Filipski United States 11 16.4k 0.6× 12.6k 1.2× 8.0k 1.2× 6.4k 1.0× 2.2k 0.5× 14 41.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Hamish McWilliam

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hamish McWilliam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hamish McWilliam

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hamish McWilliam. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hamish McWilliam 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 Hamish McWilliam. Hamish McWilliam is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Squizzato, Silvano, Young Mi Park, Nicola Buso, et al.. (2015). The EBI Search engine: providing search and retrieval functionality for biological data from EMBL-EBI. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(W1). W585–W588. 27 indexed citations
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Li, Weizhong, Mahmut Uludağ, Tamer Gür, et al.. (2015). The EMBL-EBI bioinformatics web and programmatic tools framework. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(W1). W580–W584. 791 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jones, Philip, David Binns, Hsin-Yu Chang, et al.. (2014). InterProScan 5: genome-scale protein function classification. Bioinformatics. 30(9). 1236–1240. 5753 indexed citations breakdown →
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López, Rodrigo, et al.. (2014). Using EMBL‐EBI Services via Web Interface and Programmatically via Web Services. Current Protocols in Bioinformatics. 48(1). 3.12.1–3.12.50. 14 indexed citations
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McWilliam, Hamish, Weizhong Li, Mahmut Uludağ, et al.. (2013). Analysis Tool Web Services from the EMBL-EBI. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(W1). W597–W600. 1304 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ison, Jon, Matúš Kalaš, Inge Jonassen, et al.. (2013). EDAM: an ontology of bioinformatics operations, types of data and identifiers, topics and formats. Bioinformatics. 29(10). 1325–1332. 153 indexed citations
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Li, Weizhong, et al.. (2013). The Annotation-enriched non-redundant patent sequence databases. Database. 2013. bat005–bat005. 12 indexed citations
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Robinson, James, Jason A. Halliwell, Hamish McWilliam, et al.. (2012). The IMGT/HLA database. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(D1). D1222–D1227. 443 indexed citations
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Li, Weizhong, et al.. (2012). PSI-Search: iterative HOE-reduced profile SSEARCH searching. Bioinformatics. 28(12). 1650–1651. 27 indexed citations
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Sievers, Fabian, Andreas Wilm, Toby J. Gibson, et al.. (2011). Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega. Molecular Systems Biology. 7(1). 539–539. 11202 indexed citations breakdown →
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Goujon, M., Hamish McWilliam, Weizhong Li, et al.. (2010). A new bioinformatics analysis tools framework at EMBL-EBI. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(Web Server). W695–W699. 1429 indexed citations breakdown →
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Valentin, F., et al.. (2010). Fast and efficient searching of biological data resources--using EB-eye. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 11(4). 375–384. 27 indexed citations
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Robinson, James, Kavita Mistry, Hamish McWilliam, et al.. (2010). The IMGT/HLA database. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(Database). D1171–D1176. 274 indexed citations
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Li, Weizhong, et al.. (2009). Non-redundant patent sequence databases with value-added annotations at two levels. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(suppl_1). D52–D56. 12 indexed citations
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Robinson, James, Kavita Mistry, Hamish McWilliam, Rodrigo López, & Steven G. E. Marsh. (2009). IPD—the Immuno Polymorphism Database. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(suppl_1). D863–D869. 325 indexed citations
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McWilliam, Hamish, F. Valentin, M. Goujon, et al.. (2009). Web services at the European Bioinformatics Institute-2009. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(Web Server). W6–W10. 54 indexed citations
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Robinson, James, Matthew Waller, Hamish McWilliam, et al.. (2008). The IMGT/HLA database. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(Database). D1013–D1017. 570 indexed citations breakdown →
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Blackshields, Gordon, Nigel P. Brown, Chenna Ramu, et al.. (2007). Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0. Bioinformatics. 23(21). 2947–2948. 23845 indexed citations breakdown →

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