Wai Kit Ong

4.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
15 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Wai Kit Ong is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Wai Kit Ong has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Wai Kit Ong's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (14 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (6 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (6 papers). Wai Kit Ong is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (14 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (6 papers) and Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (6 papers). Wai Kit Ong collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Mexico. Wai Kit Ong's co-authors include Peter D. Karp, Peter Midford, Markus Krummenacker, Suzanne Paley, Pallavi Subhraveti, Ingrid M. Keseler, Ron Caspi, Richard Billington, Anamika Kothari and Mario Latendresse and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and The FASEB Journal.

In The Last Decade

Wai Kit Ong

15 papers receiving 2.5k 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 - a 2019 update

2019 795 citations Ron Caspi, Richard Billington et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes

2017 597 citations Ron Caspi, Richard Billington et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
The BioCyc collection of microbial genomes and metabolic pathways

2017 594 citations Peter D. Karp, Richard Billington et al. Briefings in Bioinformatics profile →

Peers

Wai Kit Ong

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ECOLO

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GENET

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Daniel Weaver United States

Tomer Altman United States

Vineet K. Sharma India

Jeremy Zucker United States

Xiangmin Lin China

Meina Neumann‐Schaal Germany

Quang Ong United States

Sergej Andrejev Germany

Yue Shen China

Boyang Ji Sweden

Daniel Weaver United States

Wai Kit Ong

2.5k ×1.3

MB

468 ×1.3

ECOLO

434 ×1.4

BE

241 ×0.9

GENET

175 ×1.0

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Citations per year, relative to Wai Kit Ong Wai Kit Ong (= 1×) peers Daniel Weaver

Countries citing papers authored by Wai Kit Ong

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wai Kit Ong

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Wai Kit Ong. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Wai Kit Ong. The network helps show where Wai Kit Ong may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wai Kit Ong

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

All Works

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Keseler, Ingrid M., Socorro Gama‐Castro, Amanda Mackie, et al.. (2021). The EcoCyc Database in 2021. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 711077–711077. 146 indexed citations

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Latendresse, Mario, Wai Kit Ong, & Peter D. Karp. (2021). Metabolic Modeling with MetaFlux. Methods in molecular biology. 2349. 259–289. 4 indexed citations

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Ong, Wai Kit, et al.. (2020). Model-driven analysis of mutant fitness experiments improves genome-scale metabolic models of Zymomonas mobilis ZM4. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(8). e1008137–e1008137. 12 indexed citations

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French, Shawn, et al.. (2020). Gene Dispensability in Escherichia coli Grown in Thirty Different Carbon Environments. mBio. 11(5). 29 indexed citations

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Felczak, Magdalena M., Tyler B. Jacobson, Wai Kit Ong, Daniel Amador‐Noguez, & Michaela A. TerAvest. (2019). Expression of Phosphofructokinase Is Not Sufficient to Enable Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas Glycolysis in Zymomonas mobilis ZM4. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 2270–2270. 14 indexed citations

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Karp, Peter D., Natalia Ivanova, Markus Krummenacker, et al.. (2019). A Comparison of Microbial Genome Web Portals. Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. 208–208. 18 indexed citations

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Caspi, Ron, Richard Billington, Carol A. Fulcher, et al.. (2019). BioCyc: A Genomic and Metabolic Web Portal with Multiple Omics Analytical Tools. The FASEB Journal. 33(S1). 8 indexed citations

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Caspi, Ron, Richard Billington, Ingrid M. Keseler, et al.. (2019). The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes - a 2019 update. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(D1). D445–D453. 795 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ong, Wai Kit, Peter Midford, & Peter D. Karp. (2019). Taxonomic weighting improves the accuracy of a gap-filling algorithm for metabolic models. Bioinformatics. 36(6). 1823–1830. 3 indexed citations

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Karp, Peter D., Peter Midford, Richard Billington, et al.. (2019). Pathway Tools version 23.0 update: software for pathway/genome informatics and systems biology. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 22(1). 109–126. 135 indexed citations

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Karp, Peter D., Wai Kit Ong, Suzanne Paley, et al.. (2018). The EcoCyc Database. EcoSal Plus. 8(1). 66 indexed citations

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Caspi, Ron, Richard Billington, Carol A. Fulcher, et al.. (2017). The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(D1). D633–D639. 597 indexed citations breakdown →

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Karp, Peter D., Richard Billington, Ron Caspi, et al.. (2017). The BioCyc collection of microbial genomes and metabolic pathways. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 20(4). 1085–1093. 594 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ong, Wai Kit, et al.. (2015). Computational methods in metabolic engineering for strain design. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 34. 135–141. 82 indexed citations

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Ong, Wai Kit, Trang T. Vu, Klaus N. Lovendahl, et al.. (2014). Comparisons of Shewanella strains based on genome annotations, modeling, and experiments. BMC Systems Biology. 8(1). 31–31. 29 indexed citations

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