Mihaela Pertea

51.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
44 papers, 19.8k citations indexed

About

Mihaela Pertea is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mihaela Pertea has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 19.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Mihaela Pertea's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (31 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (23 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers). Mihaela Pertea is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (31 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (23 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (10 papers). Mihaela Pertea collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and South Korea. Mihaela Pertea's co-authors include Steven L. Salzberg, Geo Pertea, Tsung-Cheng Chang, Joshua T. Mendell, Corina Antonescu, Jeffrey T. Leek, Daehwan Kim, William H. Majoros, Jonathan Allen and C. Robin Buell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mihaela Pertea

44 papers receiving 19.7k 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.

StringTie enables improved reconstruction of a transcriptome from RNA-seq reads

2015 8.5k citations Mihaela Pertea, Geo Pertea et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Transcript-level expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with HISAT, StringTie and Ballgown

2016 4.4k citations Mihaela Pertea, Daehwan Kim et al. Nature Protocols profile →
Automated eukaryotic gene structure annotation using EVidenceModeler and the Program to Assemble Spliced Alignments

2008 2.3k citations Brian J. Haas, Steven L. Salzberg et al. Genome biology profile →
TigrScan and GlimmerHMM: two open source ab initio eukaryotic gene-finders

2004 1.2k citations William H. Majoros, Mihaela Pertea et al. profile →
Transcriptome assembly from long-read RNA-seq alignments with StringTie2

2019 1.1k citations Sam Kovaka, Aleksey V. Zimin et al. Genome biology profile →
Defective HIV-1 Proviruses Are Expressed and Can Be Recognized by Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes, which Shape the Proviral Landscape

2017 254 citations Mihaela Pertea et al. profile →
Improved transcriptome assembly using a hybrid of long and short reads with StringTie

2022 224 citations Alaina Shumate, Geo Pertea et al. profile →
Major data analysis errors invalidate cancer microbiome findings

2023 99 citations Abraham Gihawi, Yuchen Ge et al. mBio profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Combining DNA and protein alignments to improve genome annotation with LiftOn 2024 ·Genome Research ·(unknown), Jakob Heinz, (unknown), (unknown), Alaina Shumate, Mihaela Pertea, Steven L. Salzberg	2
2	Splam: a deep-learning-based splice site predictor that improves spliced alignments 2024 ·Genome biology ·(unknown), (unknown), Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea	4
3	Detecting differential transcript usage in complex diseases with SPIT 2024 ·Cell Reports Methods ·(unknown), Ales Varabyou, Stephanie C. Hicks, Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea	2
4	Major data analysis errors invalidate cancer microbiome findings breakdown → 2023 ·mBio ·Abraham Gihawi, Yuchen Ge, Jennifer Lu, Daniela Puiu, (unknown), Colin S. Cooper, Daniel Brewer, Mihaela Pertea, Steven L. Salzberg	99
5	Investigating open reading frames in known and novel transcripts using ORFanage 2023 ·Nature Computational Science ·Ales Varabyou, (unknown), Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea	12
6	The first gapless, reference-quality, fully annotated genome from a Southern Han Chinese individual 2023 ·G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·(unknown), Aleksey V. Zimin, Mihaela Pertea, Steven L. Salzberg	10
7	CHESS 3: an improved, comprehensive catalog of human genes and transcripts based on large-scale expression data, phylogenetic analysis, and protein structure 2023 ·Genome biology ·Ales Varabyou, Markus J. Sommer, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jakob Heinz, Christopher Pockrandt, Alaina Shumate, Natalia Rincon, Daniela Puiu, Martin Steinegger, Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea	16
8	A reference-quality, fully annotated genome from a Puerto Rican individual 2021 ·Genetics ·Aleksey V. Zimin, Alaina Shumate, (unknown), Jakob Heinz, Daniela Puiu, Mihaela Pertea, Steven L. Salzberg	8
9	Effects of transcriptional noise on estimates of gene and transcript expression in RNA sequencing experiments 2020 ·Genome Research ·Ales Varabyou, Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea	14
10	Human contamination in bacterial genomes has created thousands of spurious proteins 2019 ·Genome Research ·Florian P. Breitwieser, Mihaela Pertea, Aleksey V. Zimin, Steven L. Salzberg	90
11	Transcriptome assembly from long-read RNA-seq alignments with StringTie2 breakdown → 2019 ·Genome biology ·Sam Kovaka, Aleksey V. Zimin, Geo Pertea, Roham Razaghi, Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea	1057
12	CHESS: a new human gene catalog curated from thousands of large-scale RNA sequencing experiments reveals extensive transcriptional noise 2018 ·Genome biology ·Mihaela Pertea, Alaina Shumate, Geo Pertea, Ales Varabyou, Florian P. Breitwieser, (unknown), Anil K. Madugundu, Akhilesh Pandey, Steven L. Salzberg	170
13	Transcript-level expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with HISAT, StringTie and Ballgown breakdown → 2016 ·Nature Protocols ·Mihaela Pertea, Daehwan Kim, Geo Pertea, Jeffrey T. Leek, Steven L. Salzberg	4416
14	StringTie enables improved reconstruction of a transcriptome from RNA-seq reads breakdown → 2015 ·Nature Biotechnology ·Mihaela Pertea, Geo Pertea, Corina Antonescu, Tsung-Cheng Chang, Joshua T. Mendell, Steven L. Salzberg	8492
15	Between a chicken and a grape: estimating the number of human genes 2010 ·Genome Biology ·Mihaela Pertea, Steven L. Salzberg	133
16	Automated eukaryotic gene structure annotation using EVidenceModeler and the Program to Assemble Spliced Alignments breakdown → 2008 ·Genome biology ·Brian J. Haas, Steven L. Salzberg, Wei Zhu, Mihaela Pertea, Jonathan Allen, Joshua Orvis, Owen White, C. Robin Buell, Jennifer R. Wortman	2294
17	OperonDB: a comprehensive database of predicted operons in microbial genomes 2008 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Mihaela Pertea, (unknown), (unknown), Steven L. Salzberg	78
18	JIGSAW, GeneZilla, and GlimmerHMM: puzzling out the features of human genes in the ENCODE regions 2006 ·Genome biology ·Jonathan Allen, William H. Majoros, Mihaela Pertea, Steven L. Salzberg	44
19	Efficient decoding algorithms for generalized hidden Markov model gene finders 2005 ·BMC Bioinformatics ·William H. Majoros, Mihaela Pertea, Arthur L. Delcher, Steven L. Salzberg	22
20	Interpolated Markov Models for Eukaryotic Gene Finding 1999 ·Genomics ·Steven L. Salzberg, Mihaela Pertea, Arthur L. Delcher, Malcolm J. Gardner, Hervé Tettelin	143

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