Leaderboards/Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Tianzhi Wu
University of California, San Francisco
2
Doudou Tang
Central South University
3
Zhuorui Xie
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
4
Zuguang Gu
German Cancer Research Center
5
Liis Kolberg
University of Tartu
6
Giovanni Palla
Helmholtz Zentrum München
7
Cameron L. M. Gilchrist
Seoul National University
8
Áron Bartha
Semmelweis University
9
John M. Elizarraras
Baylor College of Medicine
10
Aleksandr Ianevski
Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland

Papers

1
WebGestalt 2024: faster gene set analysis and new support for metabolomics and multi-omics
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
371 cit.
2
Single-cell transcriptomes identify patient-tailored therapies for selective co-inhibition of cancer clones
Nature Communications|2024
50 cit.
3
The combination of pleconaril, rupintrivir, and remdesivir efficiently inhibits enterovirus infections in vitro, delaying the development of drug-resistant virus variants
Antiviral Research|2024
23 cit.
4
RepurposeDrugs: an interactive web-portal and predictive platform for repurposing mono- and combination therapies
Briefings in Bioinformatics|2024
20 cit.
5
simona: a comprehensive R package for semantic similarity analysis on bio-ontologies
BMC Genomics|2024
13 cit.
6
Early transcriptional responses reveal cell type-specific vulnerability and neuroprotective mechanisms in the neonatal ischemic hippocampus
Acta Neuropathologica Communications|2025
5 cit.
7
ATRA-induced NEAT1 upregulation promotes autophagy during APL cell granulocytic differentiation
PLoS ONE|2024
4 cit.
8
Melanoma Proteomics Unveiled: Harmonizing Diverse Data Sets for Biomarker Discovery and Clinical Insights via MEL-PLOT
Journal of Proteome Research|2025
3 cit.
9
Multiomics Profiling of T-cell Leukemia and Lymphoma Enables Targeted Therapeutic Discovery
Cancer Research|2025
3 cit.
10
TNMplot: An enhanced platform for pharmacological target identification through cross‐stage and pan‐cancer gene expression analysis
British Journal of Pharmacology|2026
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Rui Xia
Yangtze University
2
Chenwei Li
Ningbo University Affiliated Hospital
3
Kanae Morishima
Kyoto Bunkyo University
4
Mari Ishiguro-Watanabe
Tokyo University of Science
5
Weizhong Chang
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
6
Runan Yao
South Dakota State University
7
Hengyu Yan
China Agricultural University
8
Yue Liu
Hefei University of Technology
9
Alex H. Wagner
European Bioinformatics Institute
10
Mingjie Chen
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Papers

1
KEGG for taxonomy-based analysis of pathways and genomes
Nucleic Acids Research|2022
6.5k cit.
2
DAVID: a web server for functional enrichment analysis and functional annotation of gene lists (2021 update)
Nucleic Acids Research|2022
6.3k cit.
3
TBtools-II: A “one for all, all for one” bioinformatics platform for biological big-data mining
Molecular Plant|2023
3.5k cit.
4
KEGG: biological systems database as a model of the real world
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
2.1k cit.
5
DGIdb 5.0: rebuilding the drug–gene interaction database for precision medicine and drug discovery platforms
Nucleic Acids Research|2023
445 cit.
6
A painless way to customize Circos plot: From data preparation to visualization using TBtools
iMeta|2022
136 cit.
7
DAVID Ortholog: an integrative tool to enhance functional analysis through orthologs
Bioinformatics|2024
88 cit.
8
Room-temperature co-upcycling of polyvinyl chloride and polypropylene
Nature Sustainability|2024
44 cit.
9
sRNAminer: A multifunctional toolkit for next-generation sequencing small RNA data mining in plants
Science Bulletin|2023
42 cit.
10
Effect of Crystalline Structure on the Catalytic Hydrolysis of Cellulose in Subcritical Water
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering|2022
39 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Jill P. Mesirov
University of California San Diego
2
Trey Ideker
Moores Cancer Center
3
Christian von Mering
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
4
Peer Bork
Max Delbrück Center
5
Lars Juhl Jensen
University of Copenhagen
6
Gavin Sherlock
Stanford University
7
Qing‐Yu He
Jinan University
8
Steve Horvath
University of California, Los Angeles
9
Pak C. Sham
University of Hong Kong
10
Nikolaus Schultz
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Papers

1
Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2005
56.7k cit.
2
Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
Genome Research|2003
54.3k cit.
3
Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
Nature Genetics|2000
44.6k cit.
4
clusterProfiler: an R Package for Comparing Biological Themes Among Gene Clusters
OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology|2012
38.3k cit.
5
PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
The American Journal of Human Genetics|2007
36.1k cit.
6
WGCNA: an R package for weighted correlation network analysis
BMC Bioinformatics|2008
29.1k cit.
7
STRING v11: protein–protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets
Nucleic Acids Research|2018
19.2k cit.
8
The cBio Cancer Genomics Portal: An Open Platform for Exploring Multidimensional Cancer Genomics Data
Cancer Discovery|2012
18.4k cit.
9
Integrative Analysis of Complex Cancer Genomics and Clinical Profiles Using the cBioPortal
Science Signaling|2013
15.9k cit.
10
Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation
Nucleic Acids Research|2021
11.7k cit.

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