Roberto Vera Alvarez

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Roberto Vera Alvarez is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Vera Alvarez has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Roberto Vera Alvarez's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (6 papers) and Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (5 papers). Roberto Vera Alvarez is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (6 papers) and Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (5 papers). Roberto Vera Alvarez collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hungary and Italy. Roberto Vera Alvarez's co-authors include David Landsman, Michael Y. Galperin, Yuri I. Wolf, Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova, Leonardo Mariño‐Ramírez, Lőrinc Sándor Pongor, Sándor Pongor, Balázs Ligeti and Yasset Pérez‐Riverol and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Vera Alvarez

32 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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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.

COG database update: focus on microbial diversity, model organisms, and widespread pathogens

2020 530 citations Michael Y. Galperin, Yuri I. Wolf et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Roberto Vera Alvarez

ECOLO

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Barış Ethem Süzek United States

Mark D’Souza United States

Gopal Gopinath United States

Mahmut Uludağ Saudi Arabia

Michele Magrane United Kingdom

Toshiaki Katayama Japan

Valerie Wood United Kingdom

Sylvain Poux Switzerland

Yuichi Kodama Japan

Emmanuel Boutet Switzerland

Barış Ethem Süzek United States

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ECOLO

221 ×0.8

283 ×1.5

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121 ×0.7

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Vera Alvarez

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Roberto Vera Alvarez. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Roberto Vera Alvarez based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Roberto Vera Alvarez. Roberto Vera Alvarez is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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García‐Pérez, Ana L., D. Ferrer, Jesús F. Barandika, et al.. (2025). Combination of serology and PCR analysis of environmental samples to assess Coxiella burnetii infection status in small ruminant farms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(10). e0093125–e0093125.

Wang, Min, Josephine C. Ferreon, Phoebe S. Tsoi, et al.. (2025). Structural proteomics defines a sequential priming mechanism for the progesterone receptor. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4403–4403.

Galperin, Michael Y., Roberto Vera Alvarez, Svetlana Karamycheva, et al.. (2024). COG database update 2024. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(D1). D356–D363. 32 indexed citations

Alvarez, Roberto Vera & David Landsman. (2024). GTax: improving de novo transcriptome assembly by removing foreign RNA contamination. Genome biology. 25(1). 12–12. 1 indexed citations

Boratyn, Grzegorz M., et al.. (2023). ElasticBLAST: accelerating sequence search via cloud computing. BMC Bioinformatics. 24(1). 117–117. 60 indexed citations

Galperin, Michael Y., Natalya Yutin, Yuri I. Wolf, Roberto Vera Alvarez, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2022). Conservation and Evolution of the Sporulation Gene Set in Diverse Members of the Firmicutes. Journal of Bacteriology. 204(6). e0007922–e0007922. 43 indexed citations

Pongor, Lőrinc Sándor, Roberto Vera Alvarez, Junko Murai, et al.. (2020). BAMscale: quantification of next-generation sequencing peaks and generation of scaled coverage tracks. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 13(1). 21–21. 38 indexed citations

Zhang, Ning, Yuting Chen, Feiyang Zhao, et al.. (2020). MutaBind2: Predicting the Impacts of Single and Multiple Mutations on Protein-Protein Interactions. iScience. 23(3). 100939–100939. 122 indexed citations

Rodríguez, Fernando, et al.. (2019). Banana (Musa acuminata) transcriptome profiling in response to rhizobacteria: Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Bs006 and Pseudomonas fluorescens Ps006. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 378–378. 28 indexed citations

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Alvarez, Roberto Vera, Lőrinc Sándor Pongor, Leonardo Mariño‐Ramírez, & David Landsman. (2018). TPMCalculator: one-step software to quantify mRNA abundance of genomic features. Bioinformatics. 35(11). 1960–1962. 145 indexed citations

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Li, Shan, Roberto Vera Alvarez, Roded Sharan, David Landsman, & Ivan Ovcharenko. (2016). Quantifying deleterious effects of regulatory variants. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(5). gkw1263–gkw1263. 11 indexed citations

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Ligeti, Balázs, Roberto Vera Alvarez, János Juhász, & Sándor Pongor. (2016). CX, DPX, and PCW: Web Servers for the Visualization of Interior and Protruding Regions of Protein Structures in 3D and 1D. Methods in molecular biology. 1484. 301–309. 4 indexed citations

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Hudaiberdiev, Sanjarbek, Kumari Sonal Choudhary, Roberto Vera Alvarez, et al.. (2015). Census of solo LuxR genes in prokaryotic genomes. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 5. 20–20. 67 indexed citations

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Ligeti, Balázs, et al.. (2015). A Network-Based Target Overlap Score for Characterizing Drug Combinations: High Correlation with Cancer Clinical Trial Results. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0129267–e0129267. 8 indexed citations

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Pongor, Lőrinc Sándor, Roberto Vera Alvarez, & Balázs Ligeti. (2014). Fast and Sensitive Alignment of Microbial Whole Genome Sequencing Reads to Large Sequence Datasets on a Desktop PC: Application to Metagenomic Datasets and Pathogen Identification. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e103441–e103441. 8 indexed citations

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Dogša, Iztok, Kumari Sonal Choudhary, Sanjarbek Hudaiberdiev, et al.. (2014). ComQXPA Quorum Sensing Systems May Not Be Unique to Bacillus subtilis: A Census in Prokaryotic Genomes. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e96122–e96122. 35 indexed citations

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Alvarez, Roberto Vera, Yasset Pérez‐Riverol, Stephanie M. Perez, et al.. (2013). JBioWH: an open-source Java framework for bioinformatics data integration. Database. 2013(0). bat051–bat051. 7 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Riverol, Yasset, et al.. (2012). A Parallel Systematic-Monte Carlo Algorithm for Exploring Conformational Space. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 12(16). 1790–1796. 4 indexed citations

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Pérez‐Riverol, Yasset, Aniel Sánchez, Yassel Ramos, et al.. (2011). In silico analysis of accurate proteomics, complemented by selective isolation of peptides. Journal of Proteomics. 74(10). 2071–2082. 30 indexed citations

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Alvarez, Roberto Vera, et al.. (2003). El cuestionario de Calidad de Vida para cáncer colorectal EORTC QLQ-CR38. Estudio de validación para nuestro país. 26(9). 37–44. 5 indexed citations

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