Marco Punta

25.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
59 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Marco Punta is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Marco Punta has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Materials Chemistry and 8 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Marco Punta's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (25 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (23 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). Marco Punta is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (25 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (23 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (16 papers). Marco Punta collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Marco Punta's co-authors include Alex Bateman, Jaina Mistry, ROBERT FINN, Sean R. Eddy, Ruth Y. Eberhardt, John Tate, Penelope Coggill, Andreas Heger, Jody Clements and Erik L. L. Sonnhammer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Marco Punta

57 papers receiving 15.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Pfam: the protein families database

2013 4.7k citations ROBERT FINN, Alex Bateman et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future

2015 4.1k citations ROBERT FINN, Penelope Coggill et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The Pfam protein families database

2011 3.0k citations Marco Punta, Penny Coggill et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Challenges in homology search: HMMER3 and convergent evolution of coiled-coil regions

2013 1.1k citations Jaina Mistry, ROBERT FINN et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
PredictProtein—an open resource for online prediction of protein structural and functional features

2014 455 citations Edda Kloppmann, Marco Punta 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						Papers	Cites
Marco Punta United States	29	10.5k	4.0k	2.1k	1.8k	845	59	15.3k
Ruth Y. Eberhardt United Kingdom	17	9.3k 0.9×	3.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.0×	449 0.5×	28	13.7k
Jody Clements United States	20	11.0k 1.0×	4.3k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	467 0.6×	25	16.2k
Andreas Heger United Kingdom	34	10.7k 1.0×	3.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	2.2k 1.3×	569 0.7×	55	15.9k
Simon Potter United Kingdom	13	8.4k 0.8×	3.6k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	485 0.6×	19	13.0k
Silvio C. E. Tosatto Italy	48	10.9k 1.0×	2.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.7×	182	14.8k
John Tate United Kingdom	19	14.0k 1.3×	5.1k 1.3×	2.8k 1.3×	2.5k 1.4×	723 0.9×	23	20.2k
Thomas Dandekar Germany	61	8.6k 0.8×	1.8k 0.4×	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	493 0.6×	369	14.8k
Gustavo A Salazar United Kingdom	11	7.7k 0.7×	3.7k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	383 0.5×	17	11.5k
Matloob Qureshi United Kingdom	6	7.5k 0.7×	3.6k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	377 0.4×	6	11.2k
Michael Remmert Germany	11	9.1k 0.9×	2.2k 0.5×	1.6k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	957 1.1×	14	14.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Marco Punta

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marco Punta

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20 of 20 papers shown

Laio, Alessandro, et al.. (2025). Unsupervised Domain Classification of AlphaFold2-Predicted Protein Structures. 3(2). 1 indexed citations

García‐Mulero, Sandra, Marco Punta, Stefano Lise, et al.. (2023). Driver mutations in GNAQ and GNA11 genes as potential targets for precision immunotherapy in uveal melanoma patients. OncoImmunology. 12(1). 2261278–2261278. 5 indexed citations

Arbore, Giuseppina, Luca Albarello, Gabriele Bucci, et al.. (2023). Preexisting Immunity Drives the Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Esophageal Adenocarcinoma. Cancer Research. 83(17). 2873–2888. 10 indexed citations

Bateman, Alex, et al.. (2022). DPCfam: Unsupervised protein family classification by Density Peak Clustering of large sequence datasets. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(10). e1010610–e1010610. 7 indexed citations

Pettitt, Stephen J., Jessica Frankum, Marco Punta, et al.. (2020). Clinical BRCA1/2 Reversion Analysis Identifies Hotspot Mutations and Predicted Neoantigens Associated with Therapy Resistance. Cancer Discovery. 10(10). 1475–1488. 114 indexed citations

Loga, Katharina von, Andrew Woolston, Marco Punta, et al.. (2020). Extreme intratumour heterogeneity and driver evolution in mismatch repair deficient gastro-oesophageal cancer. Nature Communications. 11(1). 139–139. 43 indexed citations

Punta, Marco, Victoria A. Jennings, Alan Melcher, & Stefano Lise. (2020). The Immunogenic Potential of Recurrent Cancer Drug Resistance Mutations: An In Silico Study. Frontiers in Immunology. 11. 524968–524968. 7 indexed citations

Liu, Qun, Oliver B. Clarke, Meagan Belcher Dufrisne, et al.. (2018). Structure-based analysis of CysZ-mediated cellular uptake of sulfate. eLife. 7. 27 indexed citations

FINN, ROBERT, Penelope Coggill, Ruth Y. Eberhardt, et al.. (2015). The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(D1). D279–D285. 4051 indexed citations breakdown →

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Natarajan, P., Marco Punta, Abhinav Kumar, et al.. (2015). Structure and sequence analyses of Bacteroides proteins BVU_4064 and BF1687 reveal presence of two novel predominantly-beta domains, predicted to be involved in lipid and cell surface interactions. BMC Bioinformatics. 16(1). 7–7. 6 indexed citations

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Kumar, Abhinav, Marco Punta, Herbert L. Axelrod, et al.. (2014). Crystal structures of three representatives of a new Pfam family PF14869 (DUF4488) suggest they function in sugar binding/uptake. Protein Science. 23(10). 1380–1391. 2 indexed citations

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Mistry, Jaina, Penny Coggill, Ruth Y. Eberhardt, et al.. (2013). The challenge of increasing Pfam coverage of the human proteome. Database. 2013. bat023–bat023. 23 indexed citations

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FINN, ROBERT, Alex Bateman, Jody Clements, et al.. (2013). Pfam: the protein families database. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D222–D230. 4740 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mistry, Jaina, Edda Kloppmann, Burkhard Rost, & Marco Punta. (2013). An estimated 5% of new protein structures solved today represent a new Pfam family. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 69(11). 2186–2193. 11 indexed citations

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Wu, Yibing, Marco Punta, Rong Xiao, et al.. (2012). NMR Structure of Lipoprotein YxeF from Bacillus subtilis Reveals a Calycin Fold and Distant Homology with the Lipocalin Blc from Escherichia coli. PLoS ONE. 7(6). e37404–e37404. 6 indexed citations

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Schlessinger, Avner, et al.. (2011). Protein disorder—a breakthrough invention of evolution?. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 21(3). 412–418. 115 indexed citations

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Shi, Wuxian, Marco Punta, Jen Bohon, et al.. (2011). Characterization of metalloproteins by high-throughput X-ray absorption spectroscopy. Genome Research. 21(6). 898–907. 36 indexed citations

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Kann, Maricel G., Yanay Ofran, Marco Punta, & Predrag Radivojac. (2007). PROTEIN INTERACTIONS AND DISEASE. 29 indexed citations

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Punta, Marco & Burkhard Rost. (2005). PROFcon: novel prediction of long-range contacts. Computer applications in the biosciences. 21(13). 2960–2968. 110 indexed citations

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Ofran, Yanay, Marco Punta, Reinhard Schneider, & Burkhard Rost. (2005). Beyond annotation transfer by homology: novel protein-function prediction methods to assist drug discovery. Drug Discovery Today. 10(21). 1475–1482. 63 indexed citations

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