Jean-François Gibrat

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Jean-François Gibrat is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Jean-François Gibrat has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Materials Chemistry and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Jean-François Gibrat's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (15 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers). Jean-François Gibrat is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (15 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers). Jean-François Gibrat collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Morocco. Jean-François Gibrat's co-authors include Barry Robson, Jean Garnier, J. Garnier, Juliette Martin, Jonathan M. Levin, Valérie Biou, Josselin Garnier, Valentin Loux, Antoine Marin and Jean-François Taly and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Jean-François Gibrat

33 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

[32] GOR method for predicting protein secondary structur... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 250 500 750 1000
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  1. [32] GOR method for predicting protein secondary structure from amino acid sequence
    1996 1.0k citations Jean Garnier, Jean-François Gibrat et al. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jean-François Gibrat France 13 1.9k 391 305 220 170 34 2.4k
Catherine H. Schein United States 34 2.0k 1.0× 229 0.6× 104 0.3× 479 2.2× 261 1.5× 113 3.7k
Enrique Querol Spain 32 2.5k 1.3× 503 1.3× 58 0.2× 230 1.0× 277 1.6× 155 3.7k
Xiang Gao China 31 1.4k 0.7× 114 0.3× 245 0.8× 282 1.3× 198 1.2× 84 2.4k
Jean Vandenhaute Belgium 28 2.7k 1.4× 81 0.2× 113 0.4× 255 1.2× 171 1.0× 50 3.5k
Zengyi Chang China 31 2.1k 1.1× 777 2.0× 133 0.4× 576 2.6× 190 1.1× 82 2.7k
Jean Garnier France 20 1.9k 1.0× 367 0.9× 46 0.2× 324 1.5× 107 0.6× 41 2.7k
Jaap Heringa Netherlands 33 2.9k 1.5× 417 1.1× 56 0.2× 463 2.1× 215 1.3× 103 3.7k
Christophe Combet France 22 2.0k 1.0× 190 0.5× 61 0.2× 499 2.3× 276 1.6× 37 3.4k
Veronica Canadien Canada 16 2.6k 1.3× 123 0.3× 146 0.5× 505 2.3× 163 1.0× 17 3.6k
Daniel Buchan United Kingdom 16 2.8k 1.4× 424 1.1× 43 0.1× 365 1.7× 240 1.4× 24 3.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jean-François Gibrat

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gibrat, Jean-François. (2018). A short note on dynamic programming in a band. BMC Bioinformatics. 19(1). 226–226. 2 indexed citations
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Loux, Valentin, et al.. (2014). Insyght: navigating amongst abundant homologues, syntenies and gene functional annotations in bacteria, it's that symbol!. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(21). e162–e162. 4 indexed citations
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Schbath, Sophie, et al.. (2012). Mapping Reads on a Genomic Sequence: An Algorithmic Overview and a Practical Comparative Analysis. Journal of Computational Biology. 19(6). 796–813. 53 indexed citations
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Launay, Guillaume, et al.. (2012). Automatic modeling of mammalian olfactory receptors and docking of odorants. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 25(8). 377–386. 52 indexed citations
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Launay, Guillaume, et al.. (2012). Modeling of mammalian olfactory receptors and docking of odorants. Biophysical Reviews. 4(3). 255–269. 14 indexed citations
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Launay, Guillaume, et al.. (2011). Statistical Significance of Threading Scores. Journal of Computational Biology. 19(1). 13–29. 1 indexed citations
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Zimmermann, Karel & Jean-François Gibrat. (2010). Amino acid "little Big Bang": Representing amino acid substitution matrices as dot products of Euclidian vectors. BMC Bioinformatics. 11(1). 4–4. 8 indexed citations
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Collet, Guillaume, Rumen Andonov, Nicola Yanev, & Jean-François Gibrat. (2010). Local protein threading by Mixed Integer Programming. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 159(16). 1707–1716. 2 indexed citations
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Wessner, Marc, Martin Senger, Franck Samson, et al.. (2008). BioWorkFlow: Web Services toolkit and workflow applications evaluation to deploy a confidence network. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 1 indexed citations
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Azé, Jérôme, Claire Toffano‐Nioche, Valentin Loux, et al.. (2008). Towards a semi-automatic functional annotation tool based on decision-tree techniques. BMC Proceedings. 2(S4). S3–S3. 3 indexed citations
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Tai, Chin‐Hsien, et al.. (2008). Towards an automatic classification of protein structural domains based on structural similarity. BMC Bioinformatics. 9(1). 74–74. 14 indexed citations
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Tai, Chin‐Hsien, et al.. (2006). ROC and confusion analysis of structure comparison methods identify the main causes of divergence from manual protein classification. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 206–206. 23 indexed citations
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Martin, Juliette, et al.. (2005). Protein secondary structure assignment revisited: a detailed analysis of different assignment methods. BMC Structural Biology. 5(1). 17–17. 130 indexed citations
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Andonov, Rumen, et al.. (2005). FROST: Revisited and Distributed. 200a–200a. 1 indexed citations
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Bryson, Kevin, G. Flucke, Mike Joy, et al.. (2002). From GeneWeaver to Agmial. Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick). 1 indexed citations
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Gibrat, Jean-François, et al.. (1998). In unison: regularization of protein secondary structure predictions that makes use of multiple sequence alignments. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 11(10). 861–865. 5 indexed citations
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Garnier, Jean, Jean-François Gibrat, & Barry Robson. (1996). [32] GOR method for predicting protein secondary structure from amino acid sequence. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 266. 540–553. 1031 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gibrat, Jean-François, et al.. (1988). Molecular modeling of two regulatory proteins, fix K and fn R, homologous to CAP. Journal of Molecular Graphics. 6(4). 218–218. 1 indexed citations
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Biou, Valérie, Jean-François Gibrat, Jonathan M. Levin, Barry Robson, & Josselin Garnier. (1988). Secondary structure prediction: combination of three different methods. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 2(3). 185–191. 167 indexed citations
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Gibrat, Jean-François, J. Garnier, & Barry Robson. (1987). Further developments of protein secondary structure prediction using information theory. Journal of Molecular Biology. 198(3). 425–443. 452 indexed citations

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