John C. Wootton

14.5k total citations · 7 hit papers
83 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

John C. Wootton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, John C. Wootton has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Plant Science and 18 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in John C. Wootton's work include Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism (18 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers). John C. Wootton is often cited by papers focused on Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism (18 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers). John C. Wootton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. John C. Wootton's co-authors include Scott Federhen, Stephen F. Altschul, Mark S. Boguski, Charles E. Lawrence, Andrew F. Neuwald, Jun S. Liu, Martin Drummond, Roland A. Cooper, Michael T. Ferdig and Warren Gish and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

John C. Wootton

83 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Hit Papers

Detecting Subtle Sequence Signals: a Gibbs Sampling Strat... 1993 2026 2004 2015 1993 2000 2005 1994 1996 400 800 1.2k
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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. Detecting Subtle Sequence Signals: a Gibbs Sampling Strategy for Multiple Alignment
    1993 1.3k citations Stephen F. Altschul, Mark S. Boguski et al. Science profile →
  2. Mutations in the P. falciparum Digestive Vacuole Transmembrane Protein PfCRT and Evidence for Their Role in Chloroquine Resistance
    2000 1.1k citations David A. Fidock, Takashi Nomura et al. profile →
  3. Protein database searches using compositionally adjusted substitution matrices
    2005 827 citations Stephen F. Altschul, John C. Wootton et al. profile →
  4. Issues in searching molecular sequence databases
    1994 648 citations Stephen F. Altschul, Mark S. Boguski et al. Nature Genetics profile →
  5. [33] Analysis of compositionally biased regions in sequence databases
    1996 614 citations John C. Wootton, Scott Federhen Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology profile →
  6. Statistics of local complexity in amino acid sequences and sequence databases
    1993 562 citations John C. Wootton, Scott Federhen profile →
  7. Genetic diversity and chloroquine selective sweeps in Plasmodium falciparum
    2002 551 citations John C. Wootton, Roland A. Cooper et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John C. Wootton United Kingdom 42 6.0k 2.2k 1.3k 1.2k 1.2k 83 10.9k
Kiyoshi Kita Japan 52 5.0k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 397 0.3× 1.6k 1.3× 730 0.6× 341 9.8k
Thomas Dandekar Germany 61 8.6k 1.4× 536 0.2× 1.3k 1.0× 397 0.3× 1.8k 1.5× 369 14.8k
Elizabeth A. Winzeler United States 55 7.8k 1.3× 5.9k 2.7× 1.3k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 175 14.1k
Lawrence A. Kelley United Kingdom 22 10.0k 1.7× 593 0.3× 1.9k 1.4× 380 0.3× 2.6k 2.2× 40 15.3k
Kevin Karplus United States 36 12.5k 2.1× 556 0.3× 1.9k 1.5× 378 0.3× 2.3k 1.9× 83 18.8k
Daniel J. Rigden United Kingdom 52 7.1k 1.2× 770 0.4× 805 0.6× 352 0.3× 1.4k 1.1× 259 10.2k
William R. Pearson United States 44 16.4k 2.7× 545 0.2× 3.0k 2.3× 661 0.5× 3.2k 2.7× 100 22.6k
B. Larsson Sweden 13 6.3k 1.1× 507 0.2× 1.1k 0.9× 399 0.3× 2.2k 1.9× 49 10.6k
Darren R. Flower United Kingdom 53 9.4k 1.6× 647 0.3× 551 0.4× 414 0.3× 317 0.3× 194 13.7k
Aron Marchler‐Bauer United States 29 8.6k 1.4× 480 0.2× 1.4k 1.0× 337 0.3× 3.5k 2.9× 50 12.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Behnke, Michael S., Asis Khan, John C. Wootton, et al.. (2011). Virulence differences in Toxoplasma mediated by amplification of a family of polymorphic pseudokinases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(23). 9631–9636. 174 indexed citations
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Altschul, Stephen F., John C. Wootton, Elena Zaslavsky, & Yi‐Kuo Yu. (2010). The Construction and Use of Log-Odds Substitution Scores for Multiple Sequence Alignment. PLoS Computational Biology. 6(7). e1000852–e1000852. 51 indexed citations
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Taylor, S., Antonio Barragán, Chunlei Su, et al.. (2006). A Secreted Serine-Threonine Kinase Determines Virulence in the Eukaryotic Pathogen Toxoplasma gondii. Science. 314(5806). 1776–1780. 411 indexed citations
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Khan, Asis, S. Taylor, Chunlei Su, et al.. (2005). Composite genome map and recombination parameters derived from three archetypal lineages of Toxoplasma gondii. Nucleic Acids Research. 33(9). 2980–2992. 127 indexed citations
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Wootton, John C., et al.. (2002). Algorithms for computing lengths of chains in integral partition lattices. Theoretical Computer Science. 289(1). 783–800. 3 indexed citations
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Nomura, Takashi, Jane M. Carlton, J. Kevin Baird, et al.. (2001). Evidence for Different Mechanisms of Chloroquine Resistance in 2PlasmodiumSpecies That Cause Human Malaria. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 183(11). 1653–1661. 138 indexed citations
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Gladyshev, Vadim N., Michael Krause, Konstantin V. Korotkov, et al.. (1999). Selenocysteine-Containing Thioredoxin Reductase in C. elegans. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 259(2). 244–249. 75 indexed citations
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Kulaeva, Olga I., et al.. (1998). Unusual insertion element polymorphisms in the promoter and terminator regions of the mucAB-like genes of R471a and R446b. Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. 397(2). 247–262. 27 indexed citations
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Wellems, Thomas E., John C. Wootton, Hisashi Fujioka, et al.. (1998). P. falciparum CG2, Linked to Chloroquine Resistance, Does Not Resemble Na+/H+ Exchangers. Cell. 94(3). 285–286. 20 indexed citations
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Wootton, John C. & Scott Federhen. (1996). [33] Analysis of compositionally biased regions in sequence databases. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 266. 554–571. 614 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kokubo, Tetsuro, Da‐Wei Gong, John C. Wootton, et al.. (1994). Molecular cloning of Drosophila TFIID subunits. Nature. 367(6462). 484–487. 103 indexed citations
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Altschul, Stephen F., Mark S. Boguski, Warren Gish, & John C. Wootton. (1994). Issues in searching molecular sequence databases. Nature Genetics. 6(2). 119–129. 648 indexed citations breakdown →
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Takao, Masashi, Marija Abramić, Malcolm Moos, et al.. (1993). A 127 kDa component of a UV-damaged DNA-binding complex, which is defective in some xeroderma pigmentosum group E patients, is homologous to a slime mold protein. Nucleic Acids Research. 21(17). 4111–4118. 89 indexed citations
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Rizkallah, P.J., Teresa K. Attwood, John C. Wootton, et al.. (1993). Crystallization of the NADP+-dependent Glutamate Dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli. Journal of Molecular Biology. 234(4). 1270–1273. 10 indexed citations
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Sikorski, R, William A. Michaud, John C. Wootton, et al.. (1991). TPR Proteins as Essential Components of the Yeast Cell Cycle. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 56(0). 663–673. 68 indexed citations
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Wootton, John C., et al.. (1991). Enzymes depending on the pterin molybdenum cofactor: sequence families, spectroscopic properties of molybdenum and possible cofactor-binding domains. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1057(2). 157–185. 141 indexed citations
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Peakman, Timothy C., Joël Crouzet, Stephen Busby, et al.. (1990). Nucleotide sequence, organisation and structural analysis of the products of genes in the nirB–cysG region of the Escherichia coli K‐12 chromosome. European Journal of Biochemistry. 191(2). 315–323. 117 indexed citations
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Hall, B G, et al.. (1989). DNA sequence analysis of artificially evolved ebg enzyme and ebg repressor genes.. Genetics. 123(4). 635–648. 35 indexed citations
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Davison, Matt, Michael D. Baron, David R. Critchley, & John C. Wootton. (1989). Structural analysis of homologous repeated domains in α-actinin and spectrin. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 11(2). 81–90. 63 indexed citations
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