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Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Benjamin Buchfink
Max Planck Institute for Biology
2
Liis Kolberg
University of Tartu
3
Tomáš Brůna
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
4
Alex Chklovski
Translational Research Institute
5
Francesco Beghini
Yale University
6
Aitor Blanco‐Míguez
University of Trento
7
Pierre-Alain Chaumeil
Ecogenomics (Japan)
8
Matthias Blum
European Bioinformatics Institute
9
Jianmin Xie
Shantou University
10
Ieva Rauluševičiūtė
University of Oslo

Papers

1
InterPro: the protein sequence classification resource in 2025
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
885 cit.
2
GeneMark-ETP significantly improves the accuracy of automatic annotation of large eukaryotic genomes
Genome Research|2024
134 cit.
3
Gut microbiome strain-sharing within isolated village social networks
Nature|2024
43 cit.
4
Navigating Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipelines: A Route Map to Using BRAKER, Galba, and TSEBRA
Methods in molecular biology|2025
9 cit.
5
Evolutionary and methodological considerations when interpreting gene presence–absence variation in pangenomes
NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics|2026
5 cit.
6
Publication in Nucleic Acids Research (2024) [4 citations, W4402101332]
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
4 cit.
7
Characterization of gut microbiomes in rural Honduras reveals uncharacterized species and associations with human genetic variation
Cell Reports|2025
0 cit.
8
InterProScan 6: a modern large-scale protein function annotation pipeline
Bioinformatics Advances|2026
0 cit.
9
Publication in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026) [W7162670070]
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2026
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Rui Xia
Yangtze University
2
Martin Steinegger
Institute of Molecular Biology
3
Sergey Ovchinnikov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4
Mari Ishiguro-Watanabe
Tokyo University of Science
5
Donovan H. Parks
Ecogenomics (Japan)
6
Douglas Teodoro
University of Geneva
7
Jian Zhang
Shandong Agricultural University
8
Weizhong Chang
Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
9
Alexander Rives
New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
10
Halil Akin
Lokman Hekim Üniversitesi

Papers

1
ColabFold: making protein folding accessible to all
Nature Methods|2022
9.7k cit.
2
UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023
Nucleic Acids Research|2022
7k cit.
3
KEGG for taxonomy-based analysis of pathways and genomes
Nucleic Acids Research|2022
6.5k cit.
4
DAVID: a web server for functional enrichment analysis and functional annotation of gene lists (2021 update)
Nucleic Acids Research|2022
6.3k cit.
5
Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic-level protein structure with a language model
Science|2023
4.9k cit.
6
TBtools-II: A “one for all, all for one” bioinformatics platform for biological big-data mining
Molecular Plant|2023
3.5k cit.
7
Fast and accurate protein structure search with Foldseek
Nature Biotechnology|2023
2.4k cit.
8
KEGG: biological systems database as a model of the real world
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
2.1k cit.
9
GTDB-Tk v2: memory friendly classification with the genome taxonomy database
Bioinformatics|2022
1.9k cit.
10
Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model
Science|2025
603 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Steven L. Salzberg
Johns Hopkins University
2
Richard Durbin
Wellcome Sanger Institute
3
Sudhir Kumar
World Healthal Trust
4
Koichiro Tamura
Tokyo Metropolitan University
5
Peer Bork
Max Delbrück Center
6
Toby J. Gibson
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
7
Albert Cardona
University of Cambridge
8
Pavel Tomančák
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
9
Björn Usadel
Forschungszentrum Jülich
10
John P. Huelsenbeck
University of California, Berkeley

Papers

1
Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
Nature Methods|2012
70.9k cit.
2
Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data
Bioinformatics|2014
69.7k cit.
3
CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
Nucleic Acids Research|1994
64.9k cit.
4
Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform
Bioinformatics|2009
62.8k cit.
5
Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
Nature Methods|2012
61.1k cit.
6
MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2013
47.9k cit.
7
MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2016
45.6k cit.
8
MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2011
40.3k cit.
9
MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms
Molecular Biology and Evolution|2018
38.8k cit.
10
MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models
Bioinformatics|2003
29.4k cit.

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