Silvio C. E. Tosatto

41.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
182 papers, 14.8k citations indexed

About

Silvio C. E. Tosatto is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Silvio C. E. Tosatto has authored 182 papers receiving a total of 14.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Molecular Biology, 40 papers in Materials Chemistry and 20 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Silvio C. E. Tosatto's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (76 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (39 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (36 papers). Silvio C. E. Tosatto is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (76 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (39 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (36 papers). Silvio C. E. Tosatto collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Germany. Silvio C. E. Tosatto's co-authors include Damiano Piovesan, Lisanna Paladin, Gustavo A Salazar, Alex Bateman, Erik L. L. Sonnhammer, Matloob Qureshi, Jaina Mistry, ROBERT FINN, Lorna Richardson and Ian Walsh and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Silvio C. E. Tosatto

178 papers receiving 14.7k 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.

Pfam: The protein families database in 2021

2020 3.8k citations Jaina Mistry, Sara Chuguransky et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The Pfam protein families database in 2019

2018 3.2k citations Sara El-Gebali, Jaina Mistry et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
QMEAN: A comprehensive scoring function for model quality assessment

2007 818 citations Silvio C. E. Tosatto et al. profile →

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Nicolas Guex Switzerland

Michael Remmert Germany

Lawrence A. Kelley United Kingdom

Gabriel Studer Switzerland

Marc A. Martı́-Renom Spain

Marco Punta United States

John‐Marc Chandonia United States

Stefan Bienert Switzerland

Tal Pupko Israel

Martino Bertoni Switzerland

Nicolas Guex Switzerland

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Blum, Matthias, Giulio Tesei, Sören von Bülow, et al.. (2025). MobiDB-lite 4.0: faster prediction of intrinsic protein disorder and structural compactness. Bioinformatics. 41(5).

Tosatto, Silvio C. E., et al.. (2025). Advances in the determination of disordered protein ensemble. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 96. 103198–103198. 1 indexed citations

Quaglia, Federica, Anastasia Chasapi, María Victoria Nugnes, et al.. (2024). Best practices for the manual curation of intrinsically disordered proteins in DisProt. Database. 2024. 1 indexed citations

Clementel, Damiano, Pablo Lorenzano Menna, Carlo Ferrari, et al.. (2024). RepeatsDB in 2025: expanding annotations of structured tandem repeats proteins on AlphaFoldDB. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(D1). D575–D581. 7 indexed citations

Piovesan, Damiano, Alessio Del Conte, Maria Cristina Aspromonte, et al.. (2024). MOBIDB in 2025: integrating ensemble properties and function annotations for intrinsically disordered proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(D1). D495–D503. 13 indexed citations

Clementel, Damiano, et al.. (2024). STRPsearch: fast detection of structured tandem repeat proteins. Bioinformatics. 40(12). 2 indexed citations

Paysan‐Lafosse, Typhaine, Antonina Andreeva, Matthias Blum, et al.. (2024). The Pfam protein families database: embracing AI/ML. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(D1). D523–D534. 49 indexed citations

Peralta, E G, et al.. (2024). Diversity and structural‐functional insights of alpha‐solenoid proteins. Protein Science. 33(11). e5189–e5189. 3 indexed citations

Clementel, Damiano, Konstantinos Kyritsis, Emidio Capriotti, et al.. (2024). DOME Registry: implementing community-wide recommendations for reporting supervised machine learning in biology. GigaScience. 13. 1 indexed citations

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Martínez‐Pérez, Elizabeth, Mátyás Pajkos, Silvio C. E. Tosatto, et al.. (2023). Pipeline for transferring annotations between proteins beyond globular domains. Protein Science. 32(7). e4655–e4655. 3 indexed citations

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Monzón, Alexander Miguel, Arne Elofsson, Pablo Mier, et al.. (2023). A STRP-ed definition of Structured Tandem Repeats in Proteins. Journal of Structural Biology. 215(4). 108023–108023. 6 indexed citations

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Hatos, András, João M. C. Teixeira, Susana Barrera-Vilarmau, et al.. (2023). FuzPred: a web server for the sequence-based prediction of the context-dependent binding modes of proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(W1). W198–W206. 14 indexed citations

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Quaglia, Federica, Edoardo Salladini, Marco Carraro, et al.. (2022). SARS‐CoV‐2 variants preferentially emerge at intrinsically disordered protein sites helping immune evasion. FEBS Journal. 289(14). 4240–4250. 26 indexed citations

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Hatos, András, Federica Quaglia, Damiano Piovesan, & Silvio C. E. Tosatto. (2021). APICURON: a database to credit and acknowledge the work of biocurators. Database. 2021. 10 indexed citations

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Paladin, Lisanna, et al.. (2021). ProSeqViewer: an interactive, responsive and efficient TypeScript library for visualization of sequences and alignments in web applications. Bioinformatics. 38(4). 1129–1130. 4 indexed citations

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Erdős, Gábor, Hedvig Tordai, Rita Padányi, et al.. (2020). The MemMoRF database for recognizing disordered protein regions interacting with cellular membranes. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D355–D360. 8 indexed citations

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Mészáros, Bálint, Gábor Erdős, Beáta Szabó, et al.. (2019). PhaSePro: the database of proteins driving liquid–liquid phase separation. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(D1). D360–D367. 138 indexed citations

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El-Gebali, Sara, Jaina Mistry, Alex Bateman, et al.. (2018). The Pfam protein families database in 2019. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(D1). D427–D432. 3202 indexed citations breakdown →

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Scaini, Maria Chiara, Giovanni Minervini, Lisa Elefanti, et al.. (2014). CDKN2AUnclassified Variants in Familial Malignant Melanoma: Combining Functional and Computational Approaches for Their Assessment. Human Mutation. 35(7). 828–840. 15 indexed citations

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Walsh, Ian, Tomás Di Domenico, & Silvio C. E. Tosatto. (2013). RUBI: rapid proteomic-scale prediction of lysine ubiquitination and factors influencing predictor performance. Amino Acids. 46(4). 853–862. 27 indexed citations

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