Ken Chu

21.3k citations

21 papers · 3.7k · 5 hit papers · h-index 17

Impact in

Ecology top 1%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Molecular Biology top 5%
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction

Papers in

Molecular Biology 18
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 17
- Gut microbiota and health 4
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction 2
Ecology 14
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 8
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 8

Co-authors: Nikos C. Kyrpides (19 shared papers)Natalia Ivanova (18 shared papers)I-Min A. Chen (17 shared papers)Victor Markowitz (14 shared papers)Krishna Palaniappan (15 shared papers)Anna Ratner (14 shared papers)Konstantinos Mavromatis (7 shared papers)Jinghua Huang (8 shared papers)
Journals: Nucleic Acids Research (11 papers)PLoS ONE (3 papers)Bioinformatics (1 paper)Optics and Photonics News (1 paper)mBio (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States Spain

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Ken Chu

21 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Ken Chu's Hit Papers

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IMG/VR v4: an expanded database of uncultivated virus genomes within a framework of extensive functional, taxonomic, and ecological metadata 2022 · 237 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.

2022 Nucleic Acids Research
2020 Nucleic Acids Research
2018 Nucleic Acids Research
2013 Nucleic Acids Research
2009 Bioinformatics

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1	IMG/M v.5.0: an integrated data management and comparative analysis system for microbial genomes and microbiomes Nucleic Acids Research ·I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Krishna Palaniappan, Manoj Pillay, Anna Ratner, Jinghua Huang, Marcel Huntemann, Neha Varghese, James R. White, R. Seshadri, Tatyana I. Smirnova, Edward Kirton, Sean P. Jungbluth, Tanja Woyke, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides Hit paper breakdown →	2018	606
2	IMG ER: a system for microbial genome annotation expert review and curation Bioinformatics ·Victor Markowitz, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Natalia Ivanova, I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Nikos C. Kyrpides Hit paper breakdown →	2009	558
3	IMG 4 version of the integrated microbial genomes comparative analysis system Nucleic Acids Research ·Victor Markowitz, I-Min A. Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, Ken Chu, Ernest Szeto, Manoj Pillay, Anna Ratner, Jinghua Huang, Tanja Woyke, Marcel Huntemann, Iain Anderson, Konstantinos Billis, Neha Varghese, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Amrita Pati, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides Hit paper breakdown →	2013	445
4	IMG/M: integrated genome and metagenome comparative data analysis system Nucleic Acids Research ·I-Min A. Chen, Victor Markowitz, Ken Chu, Krishna Palaniappan, Ernest Szeto, Manoj Pillay, Anna Ratner, Jinghua Huang, Evan Andersen, Marcel Huntemann, Neha Varghese, Michalis Hadjithomas, Kristin Tennessen, Torben Nielsen, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2016	342
5	The IMG/M data management and analysis system v.6.0: new tools and advanced capabilities Nucleic Acids Research ·I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Krishna Palaniappan, Anna Ratner, Jinghua Huang, Marcel Huntemann, Patrick Hajek, Stephan Ritter, Neha Varghese, R. Seshadri, Simon Roux, Tanja Woyke, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides Hit paper breakdown →	2020	305
6	IMG/VR v4: an expanded database of uncultivated virus genomes within a framework of extensive functional, taxonomic, and ecological metadata Nucleic Acids Research ·Antônio Pedro Camargo, Stephen Nayfach, I-Min A. Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, Anna Ratner, Ken Chu, Stephan Ritter, T. B. K. Reddy, Supratim Mukherjee, Frederik Schulz, Lee Call, Russell Y. Neches, Tanja Woyke, Natalia Ivanova, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Simon Roux Hit paper breakdown →	2022	237
7	IMG/VR v3: an integrated ecological and evolutionary framework for interrogating genomes of uncultivated viruses Nucleic Acids Research ·Simon Roux, David Páez-Espino, I-Min A. Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, Anna Ratner, Ken Chu, T. B. K. Reddy, Stephen Nayfach, Frederik Schulz, Lee Call, Russell Y. Neches, Tanja Woyke, Natalia Ivanova, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2020	230
8	IMG/M 4 version of the integrated metagenome comparative analysis system Nucleic Acids Research ·Victor Markowitz, I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Ernest Szeto, Krishna Palaniappan, Manoj Pillay, Anna Ratner, Jinghua Huang, Ioanna Pagani, Susannah G. Tringe, Marcel Huntemann, Konstantinos Billis, Neha Varghese, Kristin Tennessen, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Amrita Pati, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2013	220
9	The integrated microbial genomes system: an expanding comparative analysis resource Nucleic Acids Research ·Victor Markowitz, I-Min A. Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, Ken Chu, Ernest Szeto, Yuri Grechkin, Anna Ratner, Iain Anderson, Athanasios Lykidis, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2009	215
10	IMG/VR v.2.0: an integrated data management and analysis system for cultivated and environmental viral genomes Nucleic Acids Research ·David Páez-Espino, Simon Roux, I-Min A. Chen, Krishna Palaniappan, Anna Ratner, Ken Chu, Marcel Huntemann, T. B. K. Reddy, Joan Carles Pons, Mercè Llabrés, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2018	116
11	IMG-ABC v.5.0: an update to the IMG/Atlas of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters Knowledgebase Nucleic Acids Research ·Krishna Palaniappan, I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Anna Ratner, R. Seshadri, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova, Nigel J. Mouncey	2019	84
12	IMG-ABC: A Knowledge Base To Fuel Discovery of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters and Novel Secondary Metabolites mBio ·Michalis Hadjithomas, I-Min Amy Chen, Ken Chu, Anna Ratner, Krishna Palaniappan, Ernest Szeto, Jinghua Huang, T. B. K. Reddy, Peter Cimermančič, Michael A. Fischbach, Natalia Ivanova, Victor Markowitz, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Amrita Pati	2015	83
13	IMG-ABC: new features for bacterial secondary metabolism analysis and targeted biosynthetic gene cluster discovery in thousands of microbial genomes Nucleic Acids Research ·Michalis Hadjithomas, I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Jinghua Huang, Anna Ratner, Krishna Palaniappan, Evan Andersen, Victor Markowitz, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova	2016	68
14	Gene Context Analysis in the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) Data Management System PLoS ONE ·Konstantinos Mavromatis, Ken Chu, Natalia Ivanova, Sean Hooper, Victor Markowitz, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2009	49
15	Improving Microbial Genome Annotations in an Integrated Database Context PLoS ONE ·I-Min A. Chen, Victor Markowitz, Ken Chu, Iain Anderson, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova	2013	49
16	Supporting community annotation and user collaboration in the integrated microbial genomes (IMG) system BMC Genomics ·I-Min A. Chen, Victor Markowitz, Krishna Palaniappan, Ernest Szeto, Ken Chu, Jinghua Huang, Anna Ratner, Manoj Pillay, Michalis Hadjithomas, Marcel Huntemann, Natalia Mikhailova, Galina Ovchinnikova, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2016	40
17	IMG/M-HMP: A Metagenome Comparative Analysis System for the Human Microbiome Project PLoS ONE ·Victor Markowitz, I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Ernest Szeto, Krishna Palaniappan, Biju Jacob, Anna Ratner, Konstantinos Liolios, Ioanna Pagani, Marcel Huntemann, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2012	36
18	Ten Years of Maintaining and Expanding a Microbial Genome and Metagenome Analysis System Trends in Microbiology ·Victor Markowitz, I-Min A. Chen, Ken Chu, Amrita Pati, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides	2015	15
19	A data analysis and coordination center for the human microbiome project Genome Biology ·Jennifer R. Wortman, Michelle Giglio, Heather H. Creasy, Amy Chen, Konstantinos Liolios, Ken Chu, Noam J. Davidovics, Mark J. Mazaitis, Todd Z. DeSantis, Navjeet Singh, Joshua Orvis, Jonathan Crabtree, Victor Felix, Catherine Jordan, Anup Mahurkar, Rob Knight, Gary L. Andersen, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Victor Markowitz, Owen White	2010	7
20	Maintaining a microbial genome & metagenome data analysis system in an academic setting I-Min A. Chen, Victor Markowitz, Ernest Szeto, Krishna Palaniappan, Ken Chu	2014	5

About Ken Chu

Ken Chu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, Pharmacology and Information Systems and Management, having authored 21 papers that have together received 3.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers), Gut microbiota and health (4 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (3 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (3 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (2 papers) and Plant and Fungal Interactions Research (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (1.8k citations), Molecular Biology (2.4k citations), Endocrinology (149 citations), Biotechnology (207 citations) and Environmental Chemistry (238 citations). Ken Chu has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Spain. Frequent co-authors include Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova, I-Min A. Chen, Victor Markowitz, Krishna Palaniappan, Anna Ratner, Konstantinos Mavromatis, Jinghua Huang, Marcel Huntemann and Neha Varghese. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, PLoS ONE, Bioinformatics, Optics and Photonics News and mBio.

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