Tilmann Weber

26.2k total citations · 9 hit papers
137 papers, 15.9k citations indexed

About

Tilmann Weber is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tilmann Weber has authored 137 papers receiving a total of 15.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Molecular Biology, 97 papers in Pharmacology and 23 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Tilmann Weber's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (95 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (62 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (21 papers). Tilmann Weber is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (95 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (62 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (21 papers). Tilmann Weber collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Germany and South Korea. Tilmann Weber's co-authors include Kai Blin, Marnix H. Medema, Sang Yup Lee, Simon J. Shaw, Nadine Ziemert, Eriko Takano, Rainer Breitling, Michael A. Fischbach, Wolfgang Wohlleben and Gilles P. van Wezel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Tilmann Weber

132 papers receiving 15.7k citations

Hit Papers

antiSMASH 5.0: updates to... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2019 2021 2015 2011 2023 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. antiSMASH 5.0: updates to the secondary metabolite genome mining pipeline
    2019 2.2k citations Kai Blin, Simon J. Shaw et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  2. antiSMASH 6.0: improving cluster detection and comparison capabilities
    2021 1.8k citations Kai Blin, Simon J. Shaw et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  3. antiSMASH 3.0—a comprehensive resource for the genome mining of biosynthetic gene clusters
    2015 1.5k citations Tilmann Weber, Kai Blin et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  4. antiSMASH: rapid identification, annotation and analysis of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in bacterial and fungal genome sequences
    2011 1.5k citations Marnix H. Medema, Kai Blin et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  5. antiSMASH 7.0: new and improved predictions for detection, regulation, chemical structures and visualisation
    2023 1.1k citations Kai Blin, Simon J. Shaw et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  6. antiSMASH 4.0—improvements in chemistry prediction and gene cluster boundary identification
    2017 920 citations Kai Blin, Satria A. Kautsar et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  7. antiSMASH 2.0—a versatile platform for genome mining of secondary metabolite producers
    2013 645 citations Kai Blin, Marnix H. Medema et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  8. NRPSpredictor2—a web server for predicting NRPS adenylation domain specificity
    2011 487 citations Marnix H. Medema, Kai Blin et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
  9. The evolution of genome mining in microbes – a review
    2016 477 citations Tilmann Weber et al. Natural Product Reports profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Tilmann Weber 11.0k 8.1k 3.4k 2.9k 2.2k 137 15.9k
Marnix H. Medema 13.2k 1.2× 9.0k 1.1× 4.8k 1.4× 3.1k 1.1× 3.0k 1.4× 150 19.9k
Kai Blin 8.6k 0.8× 5.9k 0.7× 2.9k 0.8× 2.2k 0.7× 2.0k 0.9× 46 12.4k
Gilles P. van Wezel 7.9k 0.7× 6.0k 0.7× 3.5k 1.0× 2.3k 0.8× 1.9k 0.8× 199 13.7k
Eriko Takano 7.8k 0.7× 6.0k 0.7× 2.0k 0.6× 1.9k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 128 10.8k
Roderich D. Süßmuth 8.5k 0.8× 6.3k 0.8× 1.9k 0.6× 2.0k 0.7× 765 0.3× 321 14.4k
Christian Hertweck 11.0k 1.0× 12.8k 1.6× 5.3k 1.5× 3.8k 1.3× 1.1k 0.5× 473 23.1k
Jörn Piel 6.3k 0.6× 6.6k 0.8× 1.8k 0.5× 3.8k 1.3× 1.1k 0.5× 205 11.6k
Juan F. Martı́n 8.5k 0.8× 7.2k 0.9× 2.8k 0.8× 2.2k 0.8× 586 0.3× 352 12.8k
Nancy P. Keller 13.0k 1.2× 11.3k 1.4× 12.5k 3.6× 2.3k 0.8× 738 0.3× 339 26.5k
Mervyn J. Bibb 10.0k 0.9× 8.4k 1.0× 2.7k 0.8× 2.4k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 152 13.7k

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All Works

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Jarmusch, Scott A., Morten Dencker Schostag, Zhijie Yang, et al.. (2025). Lydicamycins induce morphological differentiation in actinobacterial interactions. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(6). e0029525–e0029525.
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Booth, Thomas, Simon J. Shaw, Pablo Cruz‐Morales, & Tilmann Weber. (2025). getphylo: rapid and automatic generation of multi-locus phylogenetic trees. PubMed. 26(1). 21–21. 2 indexed citations
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Kwon, Jin‐Kyung, et al.. (2025). AI and mechanistic modeling for characterizing biosynthetic pathways of natural products. Natural Product Reports.
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Wibowo, Mario, Sam E. Williams, Charlotte H. Gotfredsen, et al.. (2024). Maramycin, a Cytotoxic Isoquinolinequinone Terpenoid Produced through Heterologous Expression of a Bifunctional Indole Prenyltransferase/Tryptophan Indole-Lyase in S. albidoflavus. ACS Chemical Biology. 19(6). 1303–1310. 3 indexed citations
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Moreira, José M.A., et al.. (2024). Pepticinnamins N, O, and P, Nonribosomal Peptides from the Soil-Derived Streptomyces mirabilis P8-A2. Journal of Natural Products. 87(4). 1075–1083. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhijie, Jens Preben Morth, Grit Walther, et al.. (2024). Alligamycin A, an antifungal β-lactone spiroketal macrolide from Streptomyces iranensis. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9259–9259. 4 indexed citations
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Mohite, Omkar S., et al.. (2024). BGCFlow: systematic pangenome workflow for the analysis of biosynthetic gene clusters across large genomic datasets. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(10). 5478–5495. 13 indexed citations
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Schilling, Nadine A., Daniela Janek, Anne Berscheid, et al.. (2023). Commensal production of a broad-spectrum and short-lived antimicrobial peptide polyene eliminates nasal Staphylococcus aureus. Nature Microbiology. 9(1). 200–213. 26 indexed citations
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Kiesewalter, Heiko T., Carlos N. Lozano-Andrade, Mario Wibowo, et al.. (2021). Genomic and Chemical Diversity of Bacillus subtilis Secondary Metabolites against Plant Pathogenic Fungi. mSystems. 6(1). 86 indexed citations
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Jiang, Xinglin, Yulia Radko, Tetiana Gren, et al.. (2021). Distribution of ε-Poly- l -Lysine Synthetases in Coryneform Bacteria Isolated from Cheese and Human Skin. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87(10). 16 indexed citations
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Steinke, Kat, Omkar S. Mohite, Tilmann Weber, & Ákos T. Kovács. (2021). Phylogenetic Distribution of Secondary Metabolites in the Bacillus subtilis Species Complex. mSystems. 6(2). 56 indexed citations
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Scheiner, Matthias, Axel Zeeck, Tilmann Weber, et al.. (2021). The Structure of Cyclodecatriene Collinolactone, its Biosynthesis, and Semisynthetic Analogues: Effects of Monoastral Phenotype and Protection from Intracellular Oxidative Stress. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(43). 23212–23216. 7 indexed citations
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Kautsar, Satria A., Kai Blin, Simon J. Shaw, Tilmann Weber, & Marnix H. Medema. (2020). BiG-FAM: the biosynthetic gene cluster families database. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D490–D497. 146 indexed citations
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Blin, Kai, Simon J. Shaw, Satria A. Kautsar, Marnix H. Medema, & Tilmann Weber. (2020). The antiSMASH database version 3: increased taxonomic coverage and new query features for modular enzymes. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D639–D643. 101 indexed citations
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Jakočiūnas, Tadas, Andreas Klitgaard, Julie B. Nielsen, et al.. (2020). Programmable polyketide biosynthesis platform for production of aromatic compounds in yeast. Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology. 5(1). 11–18. 19 indexed citations
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Tong, Yaojun, Christopher M. Whitford, Kai Blin, et al.. (2019). Highly efficient DSB-free base editing for streptomycetes with CRISPR-BEST. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(41). 20366–20375. 137 indexed citations
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Apel, Alexander K., Tilmann Weber, Kay Nieselt, et al.. (2019). The Draft Whole-Genome Sequence of the Antibiotic Producer Empedobacter haloabium ATCC 31962 Provides Indications for Its Taxonomic Reclassification. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 8(45). 3 indexed citations
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Mohite, Omkar S., Tilmann Weber, Hyun Uk Kim, & Sang Yup Lee. (2018). Genome‐Scale Metabolic Reconstruction of Actinomycetes for Antibiotics Production. Biotechnology Journal. 14(1). e1800377–e1800377. 19 indexed citations
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Medema, Marnix H., Kai Blin, Peter Cimermančič, et al.. (2011). antiSMASH: rapid identification, annotation and analysis of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in bacterial and fungal genome sequences. Nucleic Acids Research. 39(suppl_2). W339–W346. 1481 indexed citations breakdown →
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Festag, Andreas, et al.. (2009). Towards Standards for Sustainable ITS in Europe. 7 indexed citations

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