Yannis Nevers

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 345 citations indexed

About

Yannis Nevers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yannis Nevers has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 345 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 4 papers in Genetics and 2 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Yannis Nevers's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (7 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers). Yannis Nevers is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (7 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (6 papers). Yannis Nevers collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and United Kingdom. Yannis Nevers's co-authors include Christophe Dessimoz, Natasha Glover, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Adrian Altenhoff, Victor Rossier, David Moi, Odile Lecompte, Clément-Marie Train, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias and Kimberly J. Gilbert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Biotechnology and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Yannis Nevers

16 papers receiving 343 citations

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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.

Quality assessment of gene repertoire annotations with OMArk

2024 54 citations Yannis Nevers, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yannis Nevers Switzerland	8	267	89	54	24	20	18	345
David Moi Switzerland	9	179 0.7×	63 0.7×	35 0.6×	29 1.2×	14 0.7×	10	264
Yangyun Zou China	7	182 0.7×	54 0.6×	71 1.3×	20 0.8×	12 0.6×	19	267
Juan Antonio García-Martín Spain	13	340 1.3×	77 0.9×	79 1.5×	17 0.7×	12 0.6×	20	418
Johan Hallin France	9	364 1.4×	132 1.5×	145 2.7×	17 0.7×	18 0.9×	12	465
Kent Vander Velden United States	3	264 1.0×	56 0.6×	125 2.3×	19 0.8×	22 1.1×	5	381
Elliot A. Hershberg United States	7	256 1.0×	61 0.7×	95 1.8×	10 0.4×	9 0.5×	11	326
Snædís Kristmundsdóttir Iceland	7	212 0.8×	166 1.9×	81 1.5×	9 0.4×	11 0.6×	7	321
Sylvie Hermann‐Le Denmat France	14	635 2.4×	54 0.6×	74 1.4×	21 0.9×	40 2.0×	24	663
Pedro Seoane Spain	13	262 1.0×	119 1.3×	206 3.8×	20 0.8×	20 1.0×	34	468
Hannes P. Eggertsson Iceland	6	172 0.6×	145 1.6×	69 1.3×	7 0.3×	10 0.5×	8	265

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18 of 18 papers shown

Bernard, Charles, Yannis Nevers, Kimberly J. Gilbert, et al.. (2025). EdgeHOG: a method for fine-grained ancestral gene order inference at large scale. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(10). 1951–1961.

Nevers, Yannis, et al.. (2025). Annotation matters: the effect of structural gene annotation on orthology inference. Bioinformatics. 41(7). 4 indexed citations

Moi, David, et al.. (2025). Structural phylogenetics unravels the evolutionary diversification of communication systems in gram-positive bacteria and their viruses. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 32(12). 2492–2502. 6 indexed citations

Majidian, Sina, Yannis Nevers, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, et al.. (2025). Orthology inference at scale with FastOMA. Nature Methods. 22(2). 269–272. 8 indexed citations

Kress, Arnaud, et al.. (2025). Profylo: A Python Package for Phylogenetic Profile Comparison and Analysis. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 93(6). 806–819.

Rossier, Victor, et al.. (2024). Matreex: Compact and Interactive Visualization for Scalable Studies of Large Gene Families. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(6). 2 indexed citations

Nevers, Yannis, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Victor Rossier, et al.. (2024). Quality assessment of gene repertoire annotations with OMArk. Nature Biotechnology. 43(1). 124–133. 54 indexed citations breakdown →

Altenhoff, Adrian, Alex Warwick Vesztrocy, Charles Bernard, et al.. (2023). OMA orthology in 2024: improved prokaryote coverage, ancestral and extant GO enrichment, a revamped synteny viewer and more in the OMA Ecosystem. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(D1). D513–D521. 37 indexed citations

Nevers, Yannis, Natasha Glover, Christophe Dessimoz, & Odile Lecompte. (2023). Protein length distribution is remarkably uniform across the tree of life. Genome biology. 24(1). 135–135. 19 indexed citations

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Dessimoz, Christophe, et al.. (2022). A Linear Time Solution to the Labeled Robinson–Foulds Distance Problem. Systematic Biology. 71(6). 1391–1403. 1 indexed citations

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Nevers, Yannis, et al.. (2022). From pairwise to multiple spliced alignment. Bioinformatics Advances. 2(1). vbab044–vbab044. 3 indexed citations

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Poidevin, Laetitia, et al.. (2021). Novel Approach Combining Transcriptional and Evolutionary Signatures to Identify New Multiciliation Genes. Genes. 12(9). 1452–1452. 2 indexed citations

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Altenhoff, Adrian, Kimberly J. Gilbert, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, et al.. (2020). OMA orthology in 2021: website overhaul, conserved isoforms, ancestral gene order and more. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(D1). D373–D379. 119 indexed citations

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Ducrest, Anne‐Lyse, Samuel Neuenschwander, Emanuel Schmid‐Siegert, et al.. (2020). New genome assembly of the barn owl (Tyto alba alba). Ecology and Evolution. 10(5). 2284–2298. 8 indexed citations

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Kress, Arnaud, Yannis Nevers, Raymond Ripp, et al.. (2020). Proteome-Scale Detection of Differential Conservation Patterns at Protein and Subprotein Levels with BLUR. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(1). 2 indexed citations

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Nevers, Yannis, Arnaud Kress, Raymond Ripp, et al.. (2018). OrthoInspector 3.0: open portal for comparative genomics. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(D1). D411–D418. 40 indexed citations

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Allot, Alexis, Kirsley Chennen, Yannis Nevers, et al.. (2017). MyGeneFriends: A Social Network Linking Genes, Genetic Diseases, and Researchers. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 19(6). e212–e212. 5 indexed citations

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Nevers, Yannis, Megana Prasad, Laetitia Poidevin, et al.. (2017). Insights into Ciliary Genes and Evolution from Multi-Level Phylogenetic Profiling. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(8). 2016–2034. 35 indexed citations

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