Peer Bork

378.1k total citations · 64 hit papers
524 papers, 145.9k citations indexed

About

Peer Bork is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peer Bork has authored 524 papers receiving a total of 145.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 456 papers in Molecular Biology, 68 papers in Ecology and 56 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Peer Bork's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (171 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (99 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (90 papers). Peer Bork is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (171 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (99 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (90 papers). Peer Bork collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Peer Bork's co-authors include Ivica Letunić, Lars Juhl Jensen, Christian von Mering, Damian Szklarczyk, Michael Kuhn, Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Milan Simonovic, Tobias Doerks, Nadezhda T. Doncheva and Stefan Wyder and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Peer Bork

518 papers receiving 144.0k citations

Hit Papers

STRING v11: protei... 1992 2026 2003 2014 2018 2014 2021 2016 2020 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k
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. STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets
    2018 11.7k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Annika L. Gable et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life
    2014 7.8k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Andrea Franceschini et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation
    2021 6.6k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. The STRING database in 2017: quality-controlled protein–protein association networks, made broadly accessible
    2016 5.2k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Michael Kuhn et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  5. The STRING database in 2021: customizable protein–protein networks, and functional characterization of user-uploaded gene/measurement sets
    2020 5.0k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Annika L. Gable et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  6. Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v4: recent updates and new developments
    2019 4.3k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  7. Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees
    2016 3.8k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  8. The STRING database in 2023: protein–protein association networks and functional enrichment analyses for any sequenced genome of interest
    2022 3.6k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Rebecca Kirsch et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  9. STRING v9.1: protein-protein interaction networks, with increased coverage and integration
    2012 3.5k citations Andrea Franceschini, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  10. SMART, a simple modular architecture research tool: Identification of signaling domains
    1998 3.1k citations Peer Bork, Chris P. Ponting et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  11. eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses
    2018 2.8k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  12. The STRING database in 2011: functional interaction networks of proteins, globally integrated and scored
    2010 2.8k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Andrea Franceschini et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  13. Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL): an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation
    2006 2.4k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Bioinformatics profile →
  14. PAL2NAL: robust conversion of protein sequence alignments into the corresponding codon alignments
    2006 2.3k citations Peer Bork et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  15. STRING 8--a global view on proteins and their functional interactions in 630 organisms
    2008 1.9k citations Lars Juhl Jensen, Michael Kuhn et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  16. Fast Genome-Wide Functional Annotation through Orthology Assignment by eggNOG-Mapper
    2017 1.8k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Sofia K. Forslund et al. profile →
  17. Comparative assessment of large-scale data sets of protein–protein interactions
    2002 1.7k citations Christian von Mering, Peer Bork et al. profile →
  18. eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences
    2015 1.5k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  19. 20 years of the SMART protein domain annotation resource
    2017 1.4k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  20. SMART 7: recent updates to the protein domain annotation resource
    2011 1.4k citations Ivica Letunić, Tobias Doerks et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  21. ETE 3: Reconstruction, Analysis, and Visualization of Phylogenomic Data
    2016 1.3k citations Jaime Huerta‐Cepas, Peer Bork et al. profile →
  22. SMART: recent updates, new developments and status in 2015
    2014 1.3k citations Ivica Letunić, Tobias Doerks et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  23. Extensive impact of non-antibiotic drugs on human gut bacteria
    2018 1.3k citations Mihaela Pruteanu, Michael Kuhn et al. profile →
  24. SMART: recent updates, new developments and status in 2020
    2020 1.3k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  25. Interactive Tree Of Life v2: online annotation and display of phylogenetic trees made easy
    2011 1.2k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  26. STITCH 5: augmenting protein–chemical interaction networks with tissue and affinity data
    2015 1.1k citations Damian Szklarczyk, Alberto Santos et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  27. Toward Automatic Reconstruction of a Highly Resolved Tree of Life
    2006 1.1k citations Tobias Doerks, Christian von Mering et al. Science profile →
  28. Comparative Metagenomics of Microbial Communities
    2005 1.1k citations Christian von Mering, Peer Bork et al. Science profile →
  29. Interactive Tree of Life (iTOL) v6: recent updates to the phylogenetic tree display and annotation tool
    2024 1.1k citations Ivica Letunić, Peer Bork Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  30. Protein Disorder Prediction
    2003 971 citations Lars Juhl Jensen, Peer Bork et al. profile →
  31. Drug Target Identification Using Side-Effect Similarity
    2008 969 citations Michael Kuhn, Anne‐Claude Gavin et al. Science profile →
  32. The SIDER database of drugs and side effects
    2015 920 citations Michael Kuhn, Ivica Letunić et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  33. SMART 6: recent updates and new developments
    2008 815 citations Ivica Letunić, Tobias Doerks et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  34. mRNA degradation by miRNAs and GW182 requires both CCR4:NOT deadenylase and DCP1:DCP2 decapping complexes
    2006 751 citations Tobias Doerks, Peer Bork et al. profile →
  35. The genome sequence of Bifidobacterium longum reflects its adaptation to the human gastrointestinal tract
    2002 738 citations Peer Bork et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  36. STITCH: interaction networks of chemicals and proteins
    2007 729 citations Michael Kuhn, Christian von Mering et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  37. A side effect resource to capture phenotypic effects of drugs
    2010 704 citations Michael Kuhn, Ivica Letunić et al. Molecular Systems Biology profile →
  38. An ATPase domain common to prokaryotic cell cycle proteins, sugar kinases, actin, and hsp70 heat shock proteins.
    1992 677 citations Peer Bork et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  39. Genomic variation landscape of the human gut microbiome
    2012 623 citations Shinichi Sunagawa, Peer Bork et al. profile →
  40. A superfamily of conserved domains in DNA damage‐ responsive cell cycle checkpoint proteins
    1997 617 citations Peer Bork, Kay Hofmann et al. profile →
  41. The Immunoglobulin Fold
    1994 601 citations Peer Bork et al. profile →
  42. Metabolic dependencies drive species co-occurrence in diverse microbial communities
    2015 601 citations Aleksej Zelezniak, Sergej Andrejev et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  43. The Human Gut Microbiome: From Association to Modulation
    2018 557 citations Jeroen Raes, Peer Bork et al. profile →
  44. The modular architecture of a new family of growth regulators related to connective tissue growth factor
    1993 554 citations Peer Bork profile →
  45. STRING 7--recent developments in the integration and prediction of protein interactions
    2006 524 citations Christian von Mering, Lars Juhl Jensen et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  46. The human small intestinal microbiota is driven by rapid uptake and conversion of simple carbohydrates
    2012 512 citations Jeroen Raes, Peer Bork et al. profile →
  47. Genome phylogeny based on gene content
    1999 506 citations Peer Bork et al. profile →
  48. Intestinal microbiome is related to lifetime antibiotic use in Finnish pre-school children
    2016 505 citations Sofia K. Forslund, Peer Bork et al. profile →
  49. Charting the Proteomes of Organisms with Unsequenced Genomes by MALDI-Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry and BLAST Homology Searching
    2001 503 citations Peer Bork et al. profile →
  50. eggNOG v4.0: nested orthology inference across 3686 organisms
    2013 492 citations Sean Powell, Sofia K. Forslund et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  51. The CUB Domain
    1993 483 citations Peer Bork et al. profile →
  52. Functional implications of microbial and viral gut metagenome changes in early stage L-DOPA-naïve Parkinson’s disease patients
    2017 461 citations Falk Hildebrand, Luís Pedro Coelho et al. profile →
  53. Shotgun metagenomes and multiple primer pair-barcode combinations of amplicons reveal biases in metabarcoding analyses of fungi
    2015 398 citations Falk Hildebrand, Peer Bork et al. profile →
  54. Durable coexistence of donor and recipient strains after fecal microbiota transplantation
    2016 389 citations Vladimı́r Beneš, Paul Igor Costea et al. Science profile →
  55. Extensive transmission of microbes along the gastrointestinal tract
    2019 376 citations Luís Pedro Coelho, Paul Igor Costea et al. profile →
  56. STITCH 4: integration of protein–chemical interactions with user data
    2013 362 citations Michael Kuhn, Damian Szklarczyk et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  57. Species-specific activity of antibacterial drug combinations
    2018 267 citations Peer Bork, Athanasios Typas et al. profile →
  58. Correction to ‘The STRING database in 2021: customizable protein–protein networks, and functional characterization of user-uploaded gene/measurement sets’
    2021 264 citations Damian Szklarczyk, Annika L. Gable et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  59. Diversity within species: interpreting strains in microbiomes
    2020 256 citations Peer Bork et al. profile →
  60. Polarization of microbial communities between competitive and cooperative metabolism
    2021 208 citations Sergej Andrejev, Peer Bork et al. profile →
  61. Discovery of antimicrobial peptides in the global microbiome with machine learning
    2024 157 citations Michael Kuhn, Xing‐Ming Zhao et al. profile →
  62. eggNOG 6.0: enabling comparative genomics across 12 535 organisms
    2022 144 citations Damian Szklarczyk, Rebecca Kirsch et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  63. The STRING database in 2025: protein networks with directionality of regulation
    2024 93 citations Damian Szklarczyk, Katerina Nastou et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  64. Paternal microbiome perturbations impact offspring fitness
    2024 72 citations Peer Bork et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peer Bork Germany 151 97.1k 18.8k 15.9k 15.3k 10.0k 524 145.9k
Minoru Kanehisa Japan 75 76.3k 0.8× 14.1k 0.8× 11.1k 0.7× 10.1k 0.7× 8.7k 0.9× 266 114.1k
Stephen F. Altschul United States 42 95.6k 1.0× 34.8k 1.9× 24.4k 1.5× 19.4k 1.3× 9.1k 0.9× 70 156.2k
Steven L. Salzberg United States 96 110.2k 1.1× 46.6k 2.5× 20.8k 1.3× 24.8k 1.6× 13.3k 1.3× 244 185.4k
David Botstein United States 150 111.9k 1.2× 18.2k 1.0× 7.7k 0.5× 29.0k 1.9× 8.2k 0.8× 425 163.8k
David J. Lipman United States 50 66.4k 0.7× 22.8k 1.2× 18.0k 1.1× 15.0k 1.0× 6.9k 0.7× 80 112.8k
Toby J. Gibson Germany 69 65.8k 0.7× 24.7k 1.3× 16.2k 1.0× 16.2k 1.1× 7.9k 0.8× 148 116.5k
Desmond G. Higgins Ireland 56 67.4k 0.7× 26.7k 1.4× 17.6k 1.1× 17.1k 1.1× 7.8k 0.8× 132 120.5k
Wolfgang Huber Germany 72 67.0k 0.7× 17.8k 0.9× 5.9k 0.4× 12.6k 0.8× 12.8k 1.3× 249 109.8k
Matthias Mann Germany 214 150.8k 1.6× 10.2k 0.5× 4.9k 0.3× 12.0k 0.8× 18.1k 1.8× 845 215.4k
Christian von Mering Switzerland 68 45.6k 0.5× 7.0k 0.4× 6.0k 0.4× 6.3k 0.4× 5.6k 0.6× 134 69.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Letunić, Ivica & Peer Bork. (2025). SMART v10: three decades of the protein domain annotation resource. Nucleic Acids Research. 54(D1). D499–D503. 2 indexed citations
2.
Cacace, Elisabetta, Askarbek Orakov, F. Huber, et al.. (2024). Systematic mapping of antibiotic cross-resistance and collateral sensitivity with chemical genetics. Nature Microbiology. 10(1). 202–216. 10 indexed citations
3.
Chen, Jingchao, Chuqing Sun, Senying Lai, et al.. (2024). Efficient Recovery of Complete Gut Viral Genomes by Combined Short‐ and Long‐Read Sequencing. Advanced Science. 11(13). e2305818–e2305818. 10 indexed citations
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Hoffmann, Nils, Irena Maus, Sebastian Beier, et al.. (2023). Embedding the de.NBI Cloud in the National Research Data Infrastructure Activities. FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg). 1. 1 indexed citations
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Szklarczyk, Damian, Rebecca Kirsch, Mikaela Koutrouli, et al.. (2022). The STRING database in 2023: protein–protein association networks and functional enrichment analyses for any sequenced genome of interest. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(D1). D638–D646. 3589 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hao, Xiaowen, Túlio de Lima Campos, Neil D. Young, et al.. (2020). OGEE v3: Online GEne Essentiality database with increased coverage of organisms and human cell lines. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D998–D1003. 53 indexed citations
7.
Szklarczyk, Damian, Annika L. Gable, Katerina Nastou, et al.. (2020). The STRING database in 2021: customizable protein–protein networks, and functional characterization of user-uploaded gene/measurement sets. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D605–D612. 5035 indexed citations breakdown →
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Letunić, Ivica & Peer Bork. (2019). Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v4: recent updates and new developments. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(W1). W256–W259. 4278 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Yuanyue, Michael Kuhn, Anne‐Claude Gavin, & Peer Bork. (2019). Identification of metabolites from tandem mass spectra with a machine learning approach utilizing structural features. Bioinformatics. 36(4). 1213–1218. 28 indexed citations
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Andrejev, Sergej, Mihaela Pruteanu, Martina Klünemann, et al.. (2018). Nutritional preferences of human gut bacteria reveal their metabolic idiosyncrasies. Nature Microbiology. 3(4). 514–522. 179 indexed citations
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Kushugulova, Аlmagul, Sofia K. Forslund, Paul Igor Costea, et al.. (2018). Metagenomic analysis of gut microbial communities from a Central Asian population. BMJ Open. 8(7). e021682–e021682. 27 indexed citations
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Costea, Paul Igor, Luís Pedro Coelho, Shinichi Sunagawa, et al.. (2017). Subspecies in the global human gut microbiome. Molecular Systems Biology. 13(12). 960–960. 88 indexed citations
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Mínguez, Pablo, et al.. (2015). Operon structure and cotranslational subunit association direct protein assembly in bacteria. Science. 350(6261). 678–680. 127 indexed citations
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Szklarczyk, Damian, Andrea Franceschini, Stefan Wyder, et al.. (2014). STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life. Nucleic Acids Research. 43(D1). D447–D452. 7783 indexed citations breakdown →
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Trachana, Kalliopi, Sofia K. Forslund, Tomas Larsson, et al.. (2014). A Phylogeny-Based Benchmarking Test for Orthology Inference Reveals the Limitations of Function-Based Validation. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e111122–e111122. 12 indexed citations
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Gallego, Oriol, Matthew J. Betts, Jelena Gvozdenovic‐Jeremic, et al.. (2010). A systematic screen for protein–lipid interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Systems Biology. 6(1). 430–430. 137 indexed citations
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Gianoulis, Tara A., Jeroen Raes, Robert Bjornson, et al.. (2009). Quantifying environmental adaptation of metabolic pathways in metagenomics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(5). 1374–1379. 139 indexed citations
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Taxis, Christof, Philipp Keller, Lars Juhl Jensen, et al.. (2005). Spore number control and breeding in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The Journal of Cell Biology. 171(4). 627–640. 65 indexed citations
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Iyer, Lakshminarayan M., L. Aravind, Peer Bork, et al.. (2001). Quod erat demonstrandum?The mystery of experimental validation of apparently erroneous computational analyses of protein sequences. Genome biology. 2(12). RESEARCH0051–RESEARCH0051. 53 indexed citations
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Millevoi, Stefania, et al.. (1998). Conformational stability studies of the pleckstrin DEP domain. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1385(1). 1 indexed citations

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