Tomer Altman

4.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
12 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Tomer Altman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomer Altman has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 2 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Tomer Altman's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (9 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Tomer Altman is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (9 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (7 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Tomer Altman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Russia. Tomer Altman's co-authors include Peter D. Karp, Suzanne Paley, Markus Krummenacker, Ron Caspi, Mario Latendresse, Ingrid M. Keseler, Kate Dreher, Lukas A. Mueller, Anamika Kothari and Quang Ong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Tomer Altman

12 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases

2013 867 citations Ron Caspi, Tomer Altman et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Pathway Tools version 13.0: integrated software for pathway/genome informatics and systems biology

2009 538 citations Peter D. Karp, Suzanne Paley et al. Briefings in Bioinformatics profile →
Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery

2022 264 citations R. C. Edgar, Victor S.-Y. Lin et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tomer Altman United States	10	2.0k	442	391	365	205	12	2.7k
Daniel Weaver United States	11	2.5k 1.2×	468 1.1×	288 0.7×	434 1.2×	241 1.2×	12	3.2k
Wai Kit Ong United States	12	1.9k 0.9×	353 0.8×	166 0.4×	304 0.8×	268 1.3×	15	2.5k
Fenglou Mao United States	10	1.3k 0.6×	434 1.0×	511 1.3×	312 0.9×	184 0.9×	21	2.1k
Quang Ong United States	8	3.5k 1.7×	676 1.5×	420 1.1×	564 1.5×	380 1.9×	10	4.6k
Jeremy Zucker United States	20	2.1k 1.0×	722 1.6×	284 0.7×	295 0.8×	203 1.0×	36	3.0k
Paul Janssen Belgium	27	1.2k 0.6×	451 1.0×	528 1.4×	234 0.6×	242 1.2×	55	3.1k
Hartmut Foerster United States	7	3.5k 1.8×	508 1.1×	1.2k 3.2×	448 1.2×	396 1.9×	10	4.7k
Ricardo Silva Brazil	24	1.3k 0.7×	229 0.5×	278 0.7×	160 0.4×	151 0.7×	67	2.2k
Hugo Gramajo Argentina	31	2.4k 1.2×	198 0.4×	358 0.9×	289 0.8×	348 1.7×	92	3.3k
Sangyong Lim South Korea	28	1.3k 0.6×	451 1.0×	347 0.9×	202 0.6×	284 1.4×	133	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tomer Altman

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

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Edgar, R. C., Victor S.-Y. Lin, Tomer Altman, et al.. (2022). Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery. Nature. 602(7895). 142–147. 264 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yin, Xiaochen, Tomer Altman, Erica Rutherford, et al.. (2020). A Comparative Evaluation of Tools to Predict Metabolite Profiles From Microbiome Sequencing Data. Frontiers in Microbiology. 11. 595910–595910. 21 indexed citations

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Hahn, Aria S, Tomer Altman, Kishori M. Konwar, et al.. (2017). A geographically-diverse collection of 418 human gut microbiome pathway genome databases. Scientific Data. 4(1). 170035–170035. 7 indexed citations

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Shearer, Alexander G., et al.. (2014). Finding Sequences for over 270 Orphan Enzymes. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e97250–e97250. 14 indexed citations

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Hanson, Niels W., Kishori M. Konwar, Alyse K. Hawley, et al.. (2014). Metabolic pathways for the whole community. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 619–619. 37 indexed citations

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Caspi, Ron, Tomer Altman, Richard Billington, et al.. (2013). The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of Pathway/Genome Databases. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(D1). D459–D471. 867 indexed citations breakdown →

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Altman, Tomer, Michael Travers, Anamika Kothari, Ron Caspi, & Peter D. Karp. (2013). A systematic comparison of the MetaCyc and KEGG pathway databases. BMC Bioinformatics. 14(1). 118 indexed citations

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Karp, Peter D., Suzanne Paley, & Tomer Altman. (2012). Data Mining in the MetaCyc Family of Pathway Databases. Methods in molecular biology. 183–200. 6 indexed citations

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Caspi, Rachel R, Tomer Altman, Kate Dreher, et al.. (2011). The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases. Nucleic Acids Research. 40(D1). D742–D753. 457 indexed citations

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Trupp, Miles, Tomer Altman, Carol A. Fulcher, et al.. (2010). Beyond the genome (BTG) is a (PGDB) pathway genome database: HumanCyc. Genome Biology. 11(Suppl 1). O12–O12. 27 indexed citations

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Caspi, Ron, Tomer Altman, Kate Dreher, et al.. (2009). The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(suppl_1). D473–D479. 376 indexed citations

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Karp, Peter D., Suzanne Paley, Markus Krummenacker, et al.. (2009). Pathway Tools version 13.0: integrated software for pathway/genome informatics and systems biology. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 11(1). 40–79. 538 indexed citations breakdown →

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