William Bug

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

William Bug is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, William Bug has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in William Bug's work include Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (6 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (4 papers) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (3 papers). William Bug is often cited by papers focused on Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (6 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (4 papers) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (3 papers). William Bug collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. William Bug's co-authors include Alan Ruttenberg, Patricia L. Whetzel, Karen Eilbeck, Werner Ceusters, Amelia Ireland, Chris Mungall, Philippe Rocca‐Serra, Neocles B. Leontis, Susanna‐Assunta Sansone and Cornelius Rosse and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Journal of Neurochemistry and BMC Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

William Bug

11 papers receiving 1.7k 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 OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration

2007 1.6k citations Barry Smith, Michael Ashburner et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

Peers

William Bug

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Patricia L. Whetzel United States

Jane Lomax United Kingdom

Chih-Hsuan Wei United States

Francisco M. Couto Portugal

Rezarta Islamaj United States

Clément Jonquet France

Jacob Köhler Germany

Antonio Jimeno Yepes Australia

Mélanie Courtot United Kingdom

Fabian Neuhaus Germany

Patricia L. Whetzel United States

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1.7k ×1.8

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303 ×1.6

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328 ×2.0

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289 ×2.3

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Countries citing papers authored by William Bug

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Bug

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Bug

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Courtot, Mélanie, William Bug, F. Gibson, et al.. (2008). The OWL of Biomedical Investigations.. 18 indexed citations

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Bug, William, Giorgio A. Ascoli, Jeffrey S. Grethe, et al.. (2008). The NIFSTD and BIRNLex Vocabularies: Building Comprehensive Ontologies for Neuroscience. Neuroinformatics. 6(3). 175–194. 107 indexed citations

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Gupta, Amarnath, William Bug, Luis Marenco, et al.. (2008). Federated Access to Heterogeneous Information Resources in the Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF). Neuroinformatics. 6(3). 205–217. 50 indexed citations

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Larson, Stephen, Amarnath Gupta, William Bug, et al.. (2007). An Ontology-Driven Knowledge Environment For Subcellular Neuroanatomy.. 6 indexed citations

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Smith, Barry, Michael Ashburner, Cornelius Rosse, et al.. (2007). The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration. Nature Biotechnology. 25(11). 1251–1255. 1564 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bug, William, et al.. (2007). Brain Spatial Normalization. Methods in molecular biology. 401. 211–234. 3 indexed citations

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Bug, William, et al.. (2007). NeuroTerrain – a client-server system for browsing 3D biomedical image data sets. BMC Bioinformatics. 8(1). 40–40. 13 indexed citations

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Bug, William, G. Allan Johnson, Maryann E. Martone, et al.. (2007). Brain atlasing tool interoperation: NeuroTerrain-Smart Atlas synergistic visualization and analysis environment. 280–283. 1 indexed citations

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Bug, William. (2005). The Impact of the NIH Public Access Policy on Literature Informatics: What Role Can the Neuroinformaticists Play?. Neuroinformatics. 3(2). 81–92. 3 indexed citations

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Bug, William & Jonathan Nissanov. (2003). A Guide to Building Image-Centric Databases. Neuroinformatics. 1(4). 359–378. 8 indexed citations

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Bug, William, John T. Williams, & R. Alan North. (1986). Membrane Potential Measured During Potassium‐Evoked Release of Noradrenaline from Rat Brain Neurons: Effects of Normorphine. Journal of Neurochemistry. 47(2). 652–655. 7 indexed citations

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