Peter Cock

13.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Peter Cock is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Cock has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Plant Science, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Peter Cock's work include Nematode management and characterization studies (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Resistance (13 papers). Peter Cock is often cited by papers focused on Nematode management and characterization studies (16 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Resistance (13 papers). Peter Cock collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Peter Cock's co-authors include Brad Chapman, Thomas Hamelryck, Andrew Dalke, Cymon J. Cox, Bartek Wilczyński, Tiago Antão, Frank Kauff, Michiel de Hoon, Jeffrey T. Chang and Iddo Friedberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Peter Cock

58 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Biopython: freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology and bioinformatics

2009 3.5k citations Peter Cock, Brad Chapman et al. Bioinformatics profile →
The Sanger FASTQ file format for sequences with quality scores, and the Solexa/Illumina FASTQ variants

2009 1.2k citations Peter Cock, Christopher J. Fields et al. profile →
Using Tablet for visual exploration of second-generation sequencing data

2012 702 citations Peter Cock, Leighton Pritchard et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Cock United Kingdom	24	4.4k	2.2k	1.0k	985	480	59	7.4k
Penelope Coggill United States	5	5.9k 1.3×	2.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	1.0k 1.1×	395 0.8×	8	8.9k
Konstantin Berlin United States	11	3.5k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	1.0k 1.0×	694 0.7×	360 0.8×	19	6.0k
Lorna Richardson United Kingdom	15	5.3k 1.2×	2.4k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	849 0.9×	322 0.7×	31	7.8k
Renata C. Geer United States	10	3.9k 0.9×	1.9k 0.9×	828 0.8×	653 0.7×	334 0.7×	12	6.4k
Noreen R. Gonzales United States	14	4.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	867 0.8×	640 0.6×	344 0.7×	18	6.8k
Ian Longden United Kingdom	2	4.7k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	341 0.7×	2	7.3k
Lisanna Paladin Italy	11	5.3k 1.2×	2.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	815 0.8×	313 0.7×	17	7.6k
David Binns United Kingdom	8	4.6k 1.0×	2.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	981 1.0×	509 1.1×	9	7.5k
Maxim Scheremetjew United Kingdom	6	3.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	841 0.9×	486 1.0×	10	6.4k
Frank Wright United Kingdom	26	3.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	736 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	400 0.8×	59	6.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Cock

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Cock

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Cock

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cooke, David E. L., Louise Barwell, Bethan V. Purse, et al.. (2025). The prevalence of Phytophthora in British plant nurseries; high‐risk hosts and substrates and opportunities to implement best practice. Plant Pathology. 74(3). 696–717. 2 indexed citations

Cooke, David E. L., Ivan Milenković, Zoltán Á. Nagy, et al.. (2024). Hidden Phytophthora diversity unveiled in tree nurseries of the Czech Republic with traditional and metabarcoding techniques. European Journal of Plant Pathology. 170(1). 131–156. 7 indexed citations

Bray, Simon, John Chilton, Matthias Bernt, et al.. (2023). The Planemo toolkit for developing, deploying, and executing scientific data analyses in Galaxy and beyond. Genome Research. 33(2). 261–268. 4 indexed citations

Hedley, Pete E., et al.. (2023). Phytophthora in Horticultural Nursery Green Waste—A Risk to Plant Health. Horticulturae. 9(6). 616–616. 7 indexed citations

Véronneau, Pierre‐Yves, Peter Thorpe, Peter Cock, et al.. (2020). The Genomic Impact of Selection for Virulence against Resistance in the Potato Cyst Nematode, Globodera pallida. Genes. 11(12). 1429–1429. 11 indexed citations

Vélez, María Laura, et al.. (2020). Phytophthora austrocedri in Argentina and Co-Inhabiting Phytophthoras: Roles of Anthropogenic and Abiotic Factors in Species Distribution and Diversity. Forests. 11(11). 1223–1223. 8 indexed citations

Pritchard, Leighton, et al.. (2019). widdowquinn/pyani: v0.2.8. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 15 indexed citations

Thorpe, Peter, Carmen Escudero-Martinez, Peter Cock, Sebastian Eves‐van den Akker, & Jorunn I. B. Bos. (2018). Shared Transcriptional Control and Disparate Gain and Loss of Aphid Parasitism Genes. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10(10). 2716–2733. 42 indexed citations

Harris, Nomi L., Peter Cock, Hilmar Lapp, et al.. (2016). The 2015 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2015). PLoS Computational Biology. 12(2). e1004691–e1004691. 2 indexed citations

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Palomares‐Rius, Juan E., Pete E. Hedley, Peter Cock, et al.. (2016). Gene expression changes in diapause or quiescent potato cyst nematode,Globodera pallida, eggs after hydration or exposure to tomato root diffusate. PeerJ. 4. e1654–e1654. 8 indexed citations

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Cock, Peter, John Chilton, Björn Grüning, James E. Johnson, & Nicola Soranzo. (2015). NCBI BLAST+ integrated into Galaxy. GigaScience. 4(1). 39–39. 187 indexed citations

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Espada, Margarida, et al.. (2015). Identification and characterization of parasitism genes from the pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus reveals a multilayered detoxification strategy. Molecular Plant Pathology. 17(2). 286–295. 91 indexed citations

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Thorpe, Peter, Sophie Mantelin, Peter Cock, et al.. (2014). Genomic characterisation of the effector complement of the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 923–923. 56 indexed citations

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Akker, Sebastian Eves‐van den, Catherine J. Lilley, Étienne Danchin, et al.. (2014). The Transcriptome of Nacobbus aberrans Reveals Insights into the Evolution of Sedentary Endoparasitism in Plant-Parasitic Nematodes. Genome Biology and Evolution. 6(9). 2181–2194. 34 indexed citations

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Harris, Nomi L., et al.. (2014). The Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2013. Bioinformatics. 31(2). 299–300. 2 indexed citations

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Möller, Steffen, Enis Afgan, Peter Cock, et al.. (2013). Sprints, Hackathons and Codefests as community gluons in computational biology. EMBnet journal. 19(B). 40–40. 2 indexed citations

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Jupe, Florian, Leighton Pritchard, Graham Etherington, et al.. (2012). Identification and localisation of the NB-LRR gene family within the potato genome. BMC Genomics. 13(1). 75–75. 234 indexed citations

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Talevich, Eric, Brandon M. Invergo, Peter Cock, & Brad Chapman. (2012). Bio.Phylo: A unified toolkit for processing, analyzing and visualizing phylogenetic trees in Biopython. BMC Bioinformatics. 13(1). 209–209. 103 indexed citations

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Swanson, Maud M., B. Reavy, Kira S. Makarova, et al.. (2012). Novel Bacteriophages Containing a Genome of Another Bacteriophage within Their Genomes. PLoS ONE. 7(7). e40683–e40683. 35 indexed citations

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McNally, Randall, Ian K. Toth, Peter Cock, et al.. (2011). Genetic characterization of the HrpL regulon of the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora reveals novel virulence factors. Molecular Plant Pathology. 13(2). 160–173. 57 indexed citations

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