Stephan Waack

9.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
47 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Stephan Waack is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Waack has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 6 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Stephan Waack's work include Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (14 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers). Stephan Waack is often cited by papers focused on Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (14 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers). Stephan Waack collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland. Stephan Waack's co-authors include Mario Stanke, Burkhard Morgenstern, Irfan Gunduz, Ashley Hayes, O. Keller, Ralph Steinkamp, Oliver Keller, Martin Kollmar, Carsten Damm and W. Florian Fricke and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Waack

42 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

AUGUSTUS: ab initio prediction of alternative transcripts

2006 1.6k citations Mario Stanke, O. Keller et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Gene prediction with a hidden Markov model and a new intron submodel

2003 1.1k citations Mario Stanke, Stephan Waack profile →
AUGUSTUS: a web server for gene finding in eukaryotes

2004 903 citations Mario Stanke, Ralph Steinkamp et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Gene prediction in eukaryotes with a generalized hidden Markov model that uses hints from external sources

2006 837 citations Mario Stanke, Burkhard Morgenstern et al. BMC Bioinformatics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephan Waack Germany	17	3.3k	2.2k	1.0k	703	650	47	5.6k
John Maslen United Kingdom	3	3.6k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	835 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	443 0.7×	3	6.2k
A. F. Quinn United Kingdom	4	3.3k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	811 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	442 0.7×	5	5.9k
David Binns United Kingdom	8	4.6k 1.4×	2.2k 1.0×	981 0.9×	1.3k 1.8×	497 0.8×	9	7.5k
Philip Jones United Kingdom	23	4.4k 1.3×	2.1k 0.9×	920 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	493 0.8×	54	7.8k
Sarah Hunter United Kingdom	6	3.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	829 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	449 0.7×	10	5.9k
Siew-Yit Yong United Kingdom	3	3.3k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	818 0.8×	1.2k 1.7×	446 0.7×	3	5.9k
Stefan Götz Germany	21	3.2k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	960 0.9×	786 1.1×	348 0.5×	54	7.2k
Sebastien Pesseat United Kingdom	4	3.4k 1.0×	2.1k 0.9×	819 0.8×	1.3k 1.8×	442 0.7×	4	6.0k
Konstantin Berlin United States	11	3.5k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	694 0.7×	1.0k 1.4×	402 0.6×	19	6.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephan Waack

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephan Waack

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Waack

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stephan Waack. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stephan Waack 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 Stephan Waack. Stephan Waack is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Habeck, Michael, et al.. (2021). A graph-based algorithm for detecting rigid domains in protein structures. BMC Bioinformatics. 22(1). 66–66. 1 indexed citations

Hatje, Klas, et al.. (2021). Critical assessment of coiled-coil predictions based on protein structure data. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 12439–12439. 15 indexed citations

Hua, Xu, et al.. (2015). PC-TraFF: identification of potentially collaborating transcription factors using pointwise mutual information. BMC Bioinformatics. 16(1). 400–400. 21 indexed citations

Odronitz, Florian, et al.. (2013). GenePainter: a fast tool for aligning gene structures of eukaryotic protein families, visualizing the alignments and mapping gene structures onto protein structures. BMC Bioinformatics. 14(1). 77–77. 23 indexed citations

Gültaş, Mehmet, Martin Haubrock, Nesrin Tüysüz, & Stephan Waack. (2012). Coupled mutation finder: A new entropy-based method quantifying phylogenetic noise for the detection of compensatory mutations. BMC Bioinformatics. 13(1). 225–225. 8 indexed citations

Hatje, Klas, et al.. (2011). Cross-species protein sequence and gene structure prediction with fine-tuned Webscipio 2.0 and Scipio. BMC Research Notes. 4(1). 265–265. 38 indexed citations

Keller, Oliver, Florian Odronitz, Mario Stanke, Martin Kollmar, & Stephan Waack. (2008). Scipio: Using protein sequences to determine the precise exon/intron structures of genes and their orthologs in closely related species. BMC Bioinformatics. 9(1). 278–278. 99 indexed citations

Odronitz, Florian, et al.. (2008). WebScipio: An online tool for the determination of gene structures using protein sequences. BMC Genomics. 9(1). 422–422. 26 indexed citations

Stanke, Mario, et al.. (2006). Gene prediction in eukaryotes with a generalized hidden Markov model that uses hints from external sources. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 62–62. 837 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stanke, Mario, O. Keller, Irfan Gunduz, et al.. (2006). AUGUSTUS: ab initio prediction of alternative transcripts. Nucleic Acids Research. 34(Web Server). W435–W439. 1642 indexed citations breakdown →

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Waack, Stephan, Oliver Keller, Carsten Damm, et al.. (2006). Score-based prediction of genomic islands in prokaryotic genomes using hidden Markov models. BMC Bioinformatics. 7(1). 142–142. 285 indexed citations

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Damm, Carsten, Matthias Krause, Christoph Meinel, & Stephan Waack. (2004). On relations between counting communication complexity classes. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 69(2). 259–280. 10 indexed citations

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Stanke, Mario, Ralph Steinkamp, Stephan Waack, & Burkhard Morgenstern. (2004). AUGUSTUS: a web server for gene finding in eukaryotes. Nucleic Acids Research. 32(Web Server). W309–W312. 903 indexed citations breakdown →

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Waack, Stephan. (2001). On the Descriptive and Algorithmic Power of Parity Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams. Information and Computation. 166(1). 61–70. 1 indexed citations

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Meinel, Christoph & Stephan Waack. (1994). The Möbius Function, Variations Ranks, and Theta(n)-Bounds on the Modular Communication Complexity of the Undirected Graph Connectivity Problem. Electronic colloquium on computational complexity. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Krause, Matthias, Christoph Meinel, & Stephan Waack. (1991). Separating the eraser Turing machine classes Le, NLe, co-NLe and Pe. Theoretical Computer Science. 86(2). 267–275. 19 indexed citations

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Krause, Matthias & Stephan Waack. (1991). On oblivious branching programs of linear length. Information and Computation. 94(2). 232–249. 13 indexed citations

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Waack, Stephan. (1990). The Parallel Complexity of Some Constructions in Combinatorial Group Theory.. Journal of automata, languages and combinatorics. 26. 265–281. 3 indexed citations

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Meinel, Christoph, et al.. (1988). Algebraic and topological properties of finite partially ordered sets. 10 indexed citations

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Waack, Stephan, et al.. (1982). On the Halting Problem for Automata in Cones.. Journal of automata, languages and combinatorics. 18. 489–499. 1 indexed citations

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