Jan Zrimec

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 681 citations indexed

About

Jan Zrimec is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Zrimec has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 681 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jan Zrimec's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (4 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (4 papers). Jan Zrimec is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (4 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (4 papers). Jan Zrimec collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Slovenia and Denmark. Jan Zrimec's co-authors include Aleksej Zelezniak, Jens Nielsen, Filip Buric, Vykintas Jauniškis, Aleš Lapanje, Sandra Viknander, Martin K. M. Engqvist, Francisco Zorrilla, Sara Jonasson and Verena Siewers and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

In The Last Decade

Jan Zrimec

27 papers receiving 667 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Expanding functional protein sequence spaces using generative adversarial networks

2021 202 citations Vykintas Jauniškis, Elzbieta Rembeza et al. Nature Machine Intelligence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan Zrimec Sweden	11	488	101	87	65	55	27	681
Gargi Bhattacharjee India	14	341 0.7×	110 1.1×	79 0.9×	42 0.6×	31 0.6×	36	667
Johannes Hemmerich Germany	14	535 1.1×	249 2.5×	126 1.4×	69 1.1×	21 0.4×	27	704
Nisarg Gohil India	14	364 0.7×	98 1.0×	14 0.2×	45 0.7×	14 0.3×	39	661
Chong Feng China	11	412 0.8×	53 0.5×	54 0.6×	42 0.6×	14 0.3×	15	606
Ruben Heck Netherlands	10	380 0.8×	135 1.3×	38 0.4×	89 1.4×	28 0.5×	11	499
Xuanming Liu China	16	435 0.9×	181 1.8×	22 0.3×	52 0.8×	77 1.4×	61	914
Sa Yang China	13	124 0.3×	38 0.4×	77 0.9×	160 2.5×	102 1.9×	49	549
Keiran Stevenson United Kingdom	3	197 0.4×	70 0.7×	26 0.3×	75 1.2×	16 0.3×	3	379
Sung Sun Yim South Korea	20	1.1k 2.2×	334 3.3×	25 0.3×	177 2.7×	53 1.0×	35	1.3k
Myung Hyun Noh South Korea	14	554 1.1×	251 2.5×	20 0.2×	75 1.2×	29 0.5×	27	644

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Zrimec

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Zrimec, Jan, Marko Petek, Katja Stare, et al.. (2025). Evaluating plant growth–defense trade-offs by modeling the interaction between primary and secondary metabolism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(32). e2502160122–e2502160122. 1 indexed citations

Buric, Filip, Sandra Viknander, Xiaozhi Fu, et al.. (2024). Amino acid sequence encodes protein abundance shaped by protein stability at reduced synthesis cost. Protein Science. 34(1). e5239–e5239. 1 indexed citations

Buric, Filip, Sandra Viknander, Xiaozhi Fu, et al.. (2023). The amino acid sequence determines protein abundance through its conformational stability and reduced synthesis cost. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Zrimec, Jan, Aleksej Zelezniak, & Kristina Gruden. (2022). Toward learning the principles of plant gene regulation. Trends in Plant Science. 27(12). 1206–1208. 6 indexed citations

Li, Gang, Filip Buric, Jan Zrimec, et al.. (2022). Learning deep representations of enzyme thermal adaptation. Protein Science. 31(12). e4480–e4480. 20 indexed citations

Petek, Marko, Tjaša Lukan, Katja Stare, et al.. (2022). A mini-TGA protein modulates gene expression through heterogeneous association with transcription factors. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 191(3). 1934–1952. 7 indexed citations

Zrimec, Jan & Aleksej Zelezniak. (2022). Controlling gene expression with deep generative design of regulatory DNA. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 5 indexed citations

Zrimec, Jan, Xiaozhi Fu, Azam Sheikh Muhammad, et al.. (2022). Controlling gene expression with deep generative design of regulatory DNA. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5099–5099. 57 indexed citations

Zrimec, Jan & Aleksej Zelezniak. (2021). Plastic-degrading potential across the global microbiome correlates with recent pollution trends. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Jauniškis, Vykintas, Elzbieta Rembeza, Jan Zrimec, et al.. (2021). Expanding functional protein sequence spaces using generative adversarial networks. Nature Machine Intelligence. 3(4). 324–333. 202 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Gang, Yating Hu, Jan Zrimec, et al.. (2021). Bayesian genome scale modelling identifies thermal determinants of yeast metabolism. Nature Communications. 12(1). 190–190. 31 indexed citations

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Zrimec, Jan, et al.. (2021). Plastic-Degrading Potential across the Global Microbiome Correlates with Recent Pollution Trends. mBio. 12(5). e0215521–e0215521. 83 indexed citations

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Zrimec, Jan, et al.. (2021). Learning the Regulatory Code of Gene Expression. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 8. 673363–673363. 22 indexed citations

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Zrimec, Jan, Filip Buric, Azam Sheikh Muhammad, et al.. (2020). Deep learning suggests that gene expression is encoded in all parts of a co-evolving interacting gene regulatory structure. Nature Communications. 11(1). 6141–6141. 111 indexed citations

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Zrimec, Jan. (2020). Multiple plasmid origin‐of‐transfer regions might aid the spread of antimicrobial resistance to human pathogens. MicrobiologyOpen. 9(12). e1129–e1129. 7 indexed citations

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Buric, Filip, Jan Zrimec, & Aleksej Zelezniak. (2020). Parallel Factor Analysis Enables Quantification and Identification of Highly Convolved Data-Independent-Acquired Protein Spectra. Patterns. 1(9). 100137–100137. 2 indexed citations

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Dijl, Jan Maarten van, Natacha Couto, Jan Zrimec, et al.. (2019). Determining the Virulence Properties of Escherichia coli ST131 Containing Bacteriocin-Encoding Plasmids Using Short- and Long-Read Sequencing and Comparing Them with Those of Other E. coli Lineages. Microorganisms. 7(11). 534–534. 6 indexed citations

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Rijavec, Tomaž, Jan Zrimec, Rob J. M. van Spanning, & Aleš Lapanje. (2019). Natural Microbial Communities Can Be Manipulated by Artificially Constructed Biofilms. Advanced Science. 6(22). 1901408–1901408. 19 indexed citations

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Zrimec, Jan & Aleš Lapanje. (2018). DNA structure at the plasmid origin-of-transfer indicates its potential transfer range. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 1820–1820. 15 indexed citations

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Rijavec, Tomaž, Jan Zrimec, Manca Kovač Viršek, et al.. (2016). Development of Highly Sensitive, Automatized and Portable Whole-Cell Hg Biosensor Based on Environmentally Relevant Microorganisms. Geomicrobiology Journal. 34(7). 596–605. 11 indexed citations

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