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Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research

Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 33k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the challenges and innovations in bioinformatics education, including the need to analyze biological big data, defining core competencies, incorporating bioinformatics into life sciences curriculum, and addressing the training needs for genomics and data science. It also explores the development of sustainable capacity for bioinformatics training in Africa, the integration of computational biology into undergraduate education, and the establishment of bioinformatics postgraduate degree programs.

  • Bioinformatics
  • Education
  • Training
  • Big Data
  • Curriculum
  • Genomics
  • Undergraduate
  • Skills Development
  • Computational Biology
  • Capacity Building
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research

Which countries lead Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.8k and 717 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 India 717 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 515 works
  4. 4 China 380 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 314 works
  6. 6 Germany 181 works
  7. 7 Canada 132 works
  8. 8 France 124 works
  9. 9 Brazil 122 works
  10. 10 Russia 120 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 41.3%India: 16.1%Indonesia: 11.6%China: 8.6%6 others listed: 22.4%41%largest
United States1,836 · 41.3%India717 · 16.1%Indonesia515 · 11.6%China380 · 8.6%6 others listed993 · 22.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publishes the most Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 42 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 36 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 36 works
  4. 4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 34 works
  5. 5 The Nature ConservancyUnited States 28 works
  6. 6 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 26 works
  7. 7 The University of TokyoJapan 23 works
  8. 8 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 20 works
  9. 9 University of California San DiegoUnited States 19 works
  10. 10 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research include Eric S. Lander, Rob Knight and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  5. 5 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  6. 6 Stacey L. Gabriel United States 402k citations
  7. 7 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  8. 8 Bert Vogelstein United States 373k citations
  9. 9 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  10. 10 Gad A. Getz United States 364k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research?

The most cited paper in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research is "Molecular cloning: A laboratory manual" (Prescott L. Deininger, 1990), with 86,239 citations. Next come "Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis" (73,171) and "Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data" (71,819).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Molecular cloning: A laboratory manual Prescott L. Deininger · Analytical Biochemistry Apr 1990 86,239
2 Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis Johannes Schindelin, Ignacio Arganda‐Carreras, Erwin Frise et al. · Nature Methods Open access 28 Jun 2012 73,171
3 Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data Anthony Bolger, Marc Lohse, Björn Usadel · Bioinformatics Open access Apr 2014 71,819
4 NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis Caroline A Schneider, Wayne S. Rasband, Kevin W. Eliceiri · Nature Methods Open access 28 Jun 2012 67,169
5 KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes Minoru I. Kanehisa · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 2000 40,289
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Where is Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research research done?

The largest centres of Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Beijing (China) and New Delhi (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Arlington, Cambridge and San Diego.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 84 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 82 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 65 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 62 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 54 works
  6. 6 JakartaIndonesia 53 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 51 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 50 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 50 works
  10. 10 BandungIndonesia 49 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ArlingtonUS · 34.0 works8.3×
  2. CambridgeGB · 48.2 works4.7×
  3. San DiegoUS · 47.5 works4.4×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of California San Diego and University of Toronto score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 17.72%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Califo…Saveetha UniversityUniversity of TorontoHarvard University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Harvard UniversityUnited States 80.816.2%1.9×34 +2.8%
2University of California San DiegoUnited States 71.922.4%3.6×19 -5.3%
3University of TorontoCanada 70.219.5%1.6×18 +25.9%
4Saveetha UniversityIndia 65.021.8%2.1×11 +444.1%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 63.720.2%2.1×17 -23.3%
6Cornell UniversityUnited States 61.514.9%2.4×18 +26.1%
7University of WashingtonUnited States 61.414.5%2.5×16 +38.3%
8Columbia UniversityUnited States 61.08.4%2.9×17 +73.4%
9University College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.919.0%1.5×14 +2.2%
10University of Cape TownSouth Africa 60.320.3%4.8×9 -15.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research, country by country

Is Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research0.028% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research11.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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