Jacob Engelbrecht

7.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
15 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Jacob Engelbrecht is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacob Engelbrecht has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 1 paper in Cell Biology and 0 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Jacob Engelbrecht's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Jacob Engelbrecht is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (10 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Jacob Engelbrecht collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Sweden and United Kingdom. Jacob Engelbrecht's co-authors include Søren Brunak, Gunnar von Heijne, Henrik Nielsen, Steen Knudsen, Jan Erik Hansen, Henrik Bohr, Ole Lund, Jens Nielsen, Anders Gorm Pedersen and A. V. Lukashin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, PLoS ONE and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Jacob Engelbrecht

15 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

Identification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic signal pepti... 1991 2026 2002 2014 1997 1991 1997 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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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.

  1. Identification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic signal peptides and prediction of their cleavage sites
    1997 4.9k citations Henrik Nielsen, Jacob Engelbrecht et al. Protein Engineering Design and Selection profile →
  2. Prediction of human mRNA donor and acceptor sites from the DNA sequence
    1991 627 citations Søren Brunak, Jacob Engelbrecht et al. Journal of Molecular Biology profile →
  3. A Neural Network Method for Identification of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Signal Peptides and Prediction of their Cleavage Sites
    1997 598 citations Henrik Nielsen, Jacob Engelbrecht et al. International Journal of Neural Systems profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jacob Engelbrecht Denmark 13 4.1k 1.1k 871 863 511 15 6.7k
Jannick Dyrløv Bendtsen Denmark 8 4.4k 1.1× 1.6k 1.5× 917 1.1× 853 1.0× 894 1.7× 12 7.7k
Ron D. Appel Switzerland 9 4.3k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 523 0.6× 646 0.7× 443 0.9× 9 6.3k
Tom Sargent United States 5 4.5k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 651 0.8× 493 1.0× 7 6.9k
Robert E. Rhoads United States 64 9.3k 2.2× 1.7k 1.5× 1.3k 1.5× 981 1.1× 577 1.1× 168 12.2k
Gilbert Deléage France 35 4.5k 1.1× 881 0.8× 1.1k 1.3× 562 0.7× 460 0.9× 87 7.1k
C. Geourjon France 28 3.7k 0.9× 786 0.7× 683 0.8× 468 0.5× 376 0.7× 48 5.6k
F. Corpet France 11 3.3k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 771 0.9× 363 0.4× 452 0.9× 12 5.4k
Paul D. Siebert United States 30 4.6k 1.1× 1.5k 1.4× 1.1k 1.3× 912 1.1× 435 0.9× 56 7.6k
Young Mi Park South Korea 13 4.4k 1.1× 1.5k 1.4× 753 0.9× 566 0.7× 801 1.6× 30 7.3k
Penny Coggill United Kingdom 16 5.4k 1.3× 1.7k 1.6× 1.0k 1.2× 595 0.7× 974 1.9× 23 7.7k

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All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Engelbrecht, Jacob, David Ewald, Lasse Langholm, et al.. (2015). Single Site Suppressors of a Fission Yeast Temperature-Sensitive Mutant in cdc48 Identified by Whole Genome Sequencing. PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0117779–e0117779. 6 indexed citations
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Nielsen, Henrik, Jacob Engelbrecht, Søren Brunak, & Gunnar von Heijne. (1997). Identification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic signal peptides and prediction of their cleavage sites. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 10(1). 1–6. 4855 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nielsen, Henrik, Jacob Engelbrecht, Søren Brunak, & Gunnar von Heijne. (1997). A Neural Network Method for Identification of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Signal Peptides and Prediction of their Cleavage Sites. International Journal of Neural Systems. 8(05n06). 581–599. 598 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brunak, Søren & Jacob Engelbrecht. (1996). Protein structure and the sequential structure of mRNA: α-Helix and β-sheet signals at the nucleotide level. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 25(2). 237–252. 46 indexed citations
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Nielsen, Henrik, Jacob Engelbrecht, Gunnar von Heijne, & Søren Brunak. (1996). Defining a similarity threshold for a functional protein sequence pattern: The signal peptide cleavage site. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 24(2). 165–177. 76 indexed citations
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Brunak, Søren & Jacob Engelbrecht. (1996). Protein structure and the sequential structure of mRNA: α‐helix and β‐sheet signals at the nucleotide level. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 25(2). 237–252. 36 indexed citations
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Engelbrecht, Jacob, et al.. (1995). Analysis of eukaryotic promoter sequences reveals a systematically occurring CT-signal. Nucleic Acids Research. 23(7). 1223–1230. 28 indexed citations
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Pedersen, Anders Gorm & Jacob Engelbrecht. (1995). Investigations of Escherichia coli promoter sequences with artificial neural networks: new signals discovered upstream of the transcriptional startpoint.. PubMed. 3. 292–9. 29 indexed citations
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Hansen, Jan Erik, Ole Lund, Jacob Engelbrecht, et al.. (1995). Prediction of O-glycosylation of mammalian proteins: specificity patterns of UDP-GalNAc:polypeptide N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase. Biochemical Journal. 308(3). 801–813. 222 indexed citations
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Baldi, Pierre, Søren Brunak, Yves Chauvin, Jacob Engelbrecht, & Anders Krogh. (1995). Periodic sequence patterns in human exons.. PubMed. 3. 30–8. 5 indexed citations
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Tolstrup, Niels, et al.. (1994). Neural Network Model of the Genetic Code is Strongly Correlated to the GES Scale of Amino Acid Transfer Free Energies. Journal of Molecular Biology. 243(5). 816–820. 25 indexed citations
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Engelbrecht, Jacob, Steen Knudsen, & Søren Brunak. (1992). G + C-rich tract in 5′ end of human introns. Journal of Molecular Biology. 227(1). 108–113. 39 indexed citations
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Lukashin, A. V., Jacob Engelbrecht, & Søren Brunak. (1992). Multiple alignment using simulated annealing: branch point definition in human mRNA splicing. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(10). 2511–2516. 41 indexed citations
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Brunak, Søren, Jacob Engelbrecht, & Steen Knudsen. (1991). Prediction of human mRNA donor and acceptor sites from the DNA sequence. Journal of Molecular Biology. 220(1). 49–65. 627 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brunak, Søren, Jacob Engelbrecht, & Steen Knudsen. (1990). Neural network detects errors in the assignment of mRNA splice sites. Nucleic Acids Research. 18(16). 4797–4801. 48 indexed citations

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