Cathy Wu

49.3k citations

223 papers · 10.1k · 3 hit papers · h-index 47

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Spectroscopy top 2%
- Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications

Papers in

Molecular Biology 169
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies 69
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 53
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 53
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks 51
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 15
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 14
Artificial Intelligence 40
- Semantic Web and Ontologies 22

Co-authors: Hongzhan Huang (59 shared papers)Peter B. McGarvey (18 shared papers)Barış Ethem Süzek (4 shared papers)Raja Mazumder (11 shared papers)Yuqi Wang (3 shared papers)Chuming Chen (25 shared papers)Cecilia N. Arighi (40 shared papers)K. Vijay‐Shanker (34 shared papers)
Journals: Database (14 papers)Bioinformatics (14 papers)PLoS ONE (12 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (11 papers)BMC Bioinformatics (10 papers)
Partner nations: United States Switzerland United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Cathy Wu

213 papers receiving 9.8k citations

Cathy Wu's Hit Papers

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UniRef clusters: a comprehensive and scalable alternative for improving sequence similarity searches 2014 · 1.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Bioinformatics
2007 Bioinformatics
2005 Nucleic Acids Research

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1	UniRef clusters: a comprehensive and scalable alternative for improving sequence similarity searches Bioinformatics ·Barış Ethem Süzek, Yuqi Wang, Hongzhan Huang, Peter B. McGarvey, Cathy Wu Hit paper breakdown →	2014	1213
2	UniRef: comprehensive and non-redundant UniProt reference clusters Bioinformatics ·Barış Ethem Süzek, Hongzhan Huang, Peter B. McGarvey, Raja Mazumder, Cathy Wu Hit paper breakdown →	2007	1104
3	The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt): an expanding universe of protein information Nucleic Acids Research ·Cathy Wu Hit paper breakdown →	2005	884
4	The Protein Information Resource Nucleic Acids Research ·Cathy Wu	2003	356
5	Accomplishments and challenges in literature data mining for biology Bioinformatics ·Lynette Hirschman, Jong Cheol Park, Jun’ichi Tsujii, Limsoon Wong, Cathy Wu	2002	239
6	SMIL: Multimodal Learning with Severely Missing Modality Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ·Mengmeng Ma, Jian Ren, L. Zhao, Sergey Tulyakov, Cathy Wu, Xi Peng	2021	179
7	Software for pre-processing Illumina next-generation sequencing short read sequences PubMed ·Chuming Chen, Sari Khaleel, Hongzhan Huang, Cathy Wu	2014	175
8	PIRSF: family classification system at the Protein Information Resource Nucleic Acids Research ·Cathy Wu	2003	172
9	The Protein Information Resource: an integrated public resource of functional annotation of proteins Nucleic Acids Research ·Cathy Wu	2002	172
10	Protein sequence databases Current Opinion in Chemical Biology ·Rolf Apweiler, Amos Bairoch, Cathy Wu	2003	170
11	Proteomic and Bioinformatic Characterization of the Biogenesis and Function of Melanosomes Journal of Proteome Research ·An Chi, Julio C. Valencia, Zhang‐Zhi Hu, Hidenori Watabe, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Nancy J. Mangini, Hongzhan Huang, Victor A. Canfield, Keith C. Cheng, Feng Yang, Riichiro Abe, Sho-Ichi Yamagishi, Jeffrey Shabanowitz, Vincent J. Hearing, Cathy Wu, Ettore Appella, Donald F. Hunt	2006	163
12	Protein Bioinformatics Databases and Resources Methods in molecular biology ·Chuming Chen, Hongzhan Huang, Cathy Wu	2017	160
13	The PIR-International Protein Sequence Database Nucleic Acids Research ·Winona C. Barker, John S. Garavelli, Peter B. McGarvey, C. R. Marzec, B.C. ORCUTT, G. Y. Srinivasarao, Li‐Tzu Yeh, Robert S. Ledley, Hans‐Werner Mewes, Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Akira Tsugita, Cathy Wu	1999	147
14	Human RhoGAP domain‐containing proteins: structure, function and evolutionary relationships FEBS Letters ·Jeremy W. Peck, Douglas Gilbert, Cathy Wu, Peter D. Burbelo	2002	143
15	iPTMnet: an integrated resource for protein post-translational modification network discovery Nucleic Acids Research ·Hongzhan Huang, Cecilia N. Arighi, Karen Ross, Jia Ren, Gang Li, Sheng‐Chih Chen, Qinghua Wang, Julie Cowart, K. Vijay‐Shanker, Cathy Wu	2017	130
16	BioC: a minimalist approach to interoperability for biomedical text processing Database ·D. C. Comeau, Rezarta Islamaj, Paolo Ciccarese, K. B. Cohen, Martin Krallinger, Florian Leitner, Zhiyong Lu, Yifan Peng, Fabio Rinaldi, Manabu Torii, Alfonso Valencia, Karin Verspoor, Thomas C. Wiegers, Cathy Wu, W. John Wilbur	2013	125
17	Text mining for the biocuration workflow Database ·Lynette Hirschman, Gully Burns, Martin Krallinger, Cecilia N. Arighi, K. B. Cohen, Alfonso Valencia, Cathy Wu, Andrew Chatr‐aryamontri, Karen Dowell, Eva Huala, Anália Lourenço, Robert S Nash, A.-L. Veuthey, T.A. Wiegers, Andrew Winter	2012	122
18	Oncogenic fusion protein EWS-FLI1 is a network hub that regulates alternative splicing Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Saravana P. Selvanathan, Garrett T. Graham, Hayriye V. Erkizan, Uta Dirksen, Thanemozhi G. Natarajan, Aleksandra Dakic, Songtao Yu, Xuefeng Liu, Michelle T. Paulsen, Mats Ljungman, Cathy Wu, Elizabeth R. Lawlor, Aykut Üren, Jeffrey A. Toretsky	2015	108
19	Prediction of catalytic residues using Support Vector Machine with selected protein sequence and structural properties BMC Bioinformatics ·Н. В. Петрова, Cathy Wu	2006	104
20	Protein classification artificial neural system Protein Science ·Cathy Wu, George Whitson, Jerry McLarty, Adisorn Ermongkonchai, Tzu‐Chung Chang	1992	98

About Cathy Wu

Cathy Wu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Spectroscopy, Genetics and Computational Theory and Mathematics, having authored 223 papers that have together received 10.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (69 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (53 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (53 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (51 papers), Semantic Web and Ontologies (22 papers), Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications (21 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (15 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (7.0k citations), Spectroscopy (554 citations), Artificial Intelligence (1.2k citations), Computational Theory and Mathematics (500 citations) and Cell Biology (404 citations). Cathy Wu has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Hongzhan Huang, Peter B. McGarvey, Barış Ethem Süzek, Raja Mazumder, Yuqi Wang, Chuming Chen, Cecilia N. Arighi, K. Vijay‐Shanker, Winona C. Barker and Karen Ross. Their work appears in journals such as Database, Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE, Nucleic Acids Research and BMC Bioinformatics.

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