Kai Blin

20.5k total citations · 8 hit papers
46 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

Kai Blin is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Blin has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Molecular Biology, 35 papers in Pharmacology and 8 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Kai Blin's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (35 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (22 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (10 papers). Kai Blin is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (35 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (22 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (10 papers). Kai Blin collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Germany and Netherlands. Kai Blin's co-authors include Tilmann Weber, Marnix H. Medema, Simon J. Shaw, Sang Yup Lee, Eriko Takano, Rainer Breitling, Michael A. Fischbach, Gilles P. van Wezel, Nadine Ziemert and Kat Steinke and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kai Blin

43 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

antiSMASH 5.0: updates to the secondary... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2019 2021 2015 2011 2023 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. antiSMASH 5.0: updates to the secondary metabolite genome mining pipeline
    2019 2.2k citations Kai Blin, Simon J. Shaw et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. antiSMASH 6.0: improving cluster detection and comparison capabilities
    2021 1.8k citations Kai Blin, Simon J. Shaw et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. antiSMASH 3.0—a comprehensive resource for the genome mining of biosynthetic gene clusters
    2015 1.5k citations Tilmann Weber, Kai Blin et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. antiSMASH: rapid identification, annotation and analysis of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in bacterial and fungal genome sequences
    2011 1.5k citations Marnix H. Medema, Kai Blin et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  5. antiSMASH 7.0: new and improved predictions for detection, regulation, chemical structures and visualisation
    2023 1.1k citations Kai Blin, Simon J. Shaw et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  6. antiSMASH 4.0—improvements in chemistry prediction and gene cluster boundary identification
    2017 920 citations Kai Blin, Thomas Wolf et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  7. antiSMASH 2.0—a versatile platform for genome mining of secondary metabolite producers
    2013 645 citations Kai Blin, Marnix H. Medema et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  8. NRPSpredictor2—a web server for predicting NRPS adenylation domain specificity
    2011 487 citations Marc Röttig, Marnix H. Medema et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kai Blin Denmark 25 8.6k 5.9k 2.9k 2.2k 2.0k 46 12.4k
Tilmann Weber Denmark 45 11.0k 1.3× 8.1k 1.4× 3.4k 1.2× 2.9k 1.3× 2.2k 1.1× 137 15.9k
Marnix H. Medema Netherlands 53 13.2k 1.5× 9.0k 1.5× 4.8k 1.6× 3.1k 1.4× 3.0k 1.5× 150 19.9k
Eriko Takano United Kingdom 45 7.8k 0.9× 6.0k 1.0× 2.0k 0.7× 1.9k 0.9× 1.1k 0.5× 128 10.8k
Juan F. Martı́n Spain 62 8.5k 1.0× 7.2k 1.2× 2.8k 1.0× 2.2k 1.0× 586 0.3× 352 12.8k
Jörn Kalinowski Germany 58 9.9k 1.2× 1.9k 0.3× 2.2k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 435 14.3k
Jörn Piel Switzerland 62 6.3k 0.7× 6.6k 1.1× 1.8k 0.6× 3.8k 1.7× 1.1k 0.6× 205 11.6k
Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen Denmark 55 3.9k 0.5× 3.5k 0.6× 3.6k 1.2× 1.6k 0.7× 504 0.2× 229 10.3k
Mervyn J. Bibb United Kingdom 66 10.0k 1.2× 8.4k 1.4× 2.7k 0.9× 2.4k 1.1× 1.2k 0.6× 152 13.7k
Wolfgang Wohlleben Germany 51 6.8k 0.8× 5.6k 0.9× 1.7k 0.6× 1.6k 0.7× 827 0.4× 202 9.6k
Sean F. Brady United States 53 6.0k 0.7× 3.6k 0.6× 733 0.3× 1.5k 0.7× 1.8k 0.9× 134 8.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Blin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Blin, Kai, Catarina Loureiro, Jorge C. Navarro-Muñoz, et al.. (2025). Strategies for community-sourced biocuration in bioinformatics: a case study on MIBiG 4.0. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 26(6).
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Bağcı, Caner, Luděk Sehnal, Kai Blin, et al.. (2024). BGC Atlas: a web resource for exploring the global chemical diversity encoded in bacterial genomes. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(D1). D618–D624. 13 indexed citations
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Blin, Kai, Simon J. Shaw, Hannah E. Augustijn, et al.. (2023). antiSMASH 7.0: new and improved predictions for detection, regulation, chemical structures and visualisation. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(W1). W46–W50. 1116 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jørgensen, Tue Sparholt, Martin Schou Pedersen, Kai Blin, et al.. (2022). SpikeSeq: A rapid, cost efficient and simple method to identify SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern by Sanger sequencing part of the spike protein gene. Journal of Virological Methods. 312. 114648–114648. 9 indexed citations
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Blin, Kai, Simon J. Shaw, Satria A. Kautsar, Marnix H. Medema, & Tilmann Weber. (2020). The antiSMASH database version 3: increased taxonomic coverage and new query features for modular enzymes. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D639–D643. 101 indexed citations
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Kautsar, Satria A., Kai Blin, Simon J. Shaw, Tilmann Weber, & Marnix H. Medema. (2020). BiG-FAM: the biosynthetic gene cluster families database. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D490–D497. 146 indexed citations
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Jakočiūnas, Tadas, Andreas Klitgaard, Julie B. Nielsen, et al.. (2020). Programmable polyketide biosynthesis platform for production of aromatic compounds in yeast. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 5(1). 11–18. 19 indexed citations
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Blin, Kai, et al.. (2020). Disclosing the Potential of the SARP-Type Regulator PapR2 for the Activation of Antibiotic Gene Clusters in Streptomycetes. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 225–225. 38 indexed citations
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Blin, Kai, Simon J. Shaw, Yaojun Tong, & Tilmann Weber. (2020). Designing sgRNAs for CRISPR-BEST base editing applications with CRISPy-web 2.0. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 5(2). 99–102. 20 indexed citations
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Tong, Yaojun, Christopher M. Whitford, Kai Blin, et al.. (2019). Highly efficient DSB-free base editing for streptomycetes with CRISPR-BEST. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(41). 20366–20375. 137 indexed citations
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Jiang, Xinglin, Mostafa M. H. Ellabaan, Pep Charusanti, et al.. (2017). Dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes from antibiotic producers to pathogens. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15784–15784. 326 indexed citations
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Alanjary, Mohammad, Brent A. Kronmiller, Martina Adamek, et al.. (2017). The Antibiotic Resistant Target Seeker (ARTS), an exploration engine for antibiotic cluster prioritization and novel drug target discovery. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(W1). W42–W48. 141 indexed citations
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Kautsar, Satria A., Hernando G. Suárez Duran, Kai Blin, Anne Osbourn, & Marnix H. Medema. (2017). plantiSMASH: automated identification, annotation and expression analysis of plant biosynthetic gene clusters. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(W1). W55–W63. 225 indexed citations
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Kim, Hyun Uk, Kai Blin, Sang Yup Lee, & Tilmann Weber. (2017). Recent development of computational resources for new antibiotics discovery. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 39. 113–120. 25 indexed citations
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Blin, Kai, Thomas Wolf, Marc G. Chevrette, et al.. (2017). antiSMASH 4.0—improvements in chemistry prediction and gene cluster boundary identification. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(W1). W36–W41. 920 indexed citations breakdown →
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Blin, Kai, Marnix H. Medema, Renzo Kottmann, Sang Yup Lee, & Tilmann Weber. (2016). The antiSMASH database, a comprehensive database of microbial secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(D1). D555–D559. 175 indexed citations
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Blin, Kai, Daniyal Kazempour, Wolfgang Wohlleben, & Tilmann Weber. (2014). Improved Lanthipeptide Detection and Prediction for antiSMASH. PLoS ONE. 9(2). e89420–e89420. 39 indexed citations
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Blin, Kai, Marnix H. Medema, Daniyal Kazempour, et al.. (2013). antiSMASH 2.0—a versatile platform for genome mining of secondary metabolite producers. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(W1). W204–W212. 645 indexed citations breakdown →
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Medema, Marnix H., Kai Blin, Peter Cimermančič, et al.. (2011). antiSMASH: rapid identification, annotation and analysis of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in bacterial and fungal genome sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(suppl_2). W339–W346. 1481 indexed citations breakdown →
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Röttig, Marc, Marnix H. Medema, Kai Blin, et al.. (2011). NRPSpredictor2—a web server for predicting NRPS adenylation domain specificity. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(suppl_2). W362–W367. 487 indexed citations breakdown →

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