Tal Pupko

22.2k citations

145 papers · 15.5k · 8 hit papers · h-index 51

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Endocrinology top 0.5%
Molecular Biology top 0.2%
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- RNA Research and Splicing
- RNA modifications and cancer
- vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches

Papers in

Molecular Biology 111
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 66
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 30
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 13
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 9
Genetics 40
- Genetic diversity and population structure 20

Co-authors: Nir Ben‐Tal (13 shared papers)Eric Martz (9 shared papers)Haim Ashkenazy (22 shared papers)Itay Mayrose (33 shared papers)Fabian Glaser (8 shared papers)Shiran Abadi (5 shared papers)Elona Erez (2 shared papers)Dan Graur (7 shared papers)
Journals: Bioinformatics (19 papers)Molecular Biology and Evolution (17 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (16 papers)Genome Biology and Evolution (7 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 papers)
Partner nations: Israel United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Tal Pupko

143 papers receiving 15.3k citations

Tal Pupko's Hit Papers

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Using evolutionary data to make sense of macromolecules with a “face‐lifted” ConSurf 2023 · 211 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.

2023 Protein Science
2019 Nature Communications
2016 Nucleic Acids Research
2015 Nucleic Acids Research
2010 Nucleic Acids Research
2010 Nucleic Acids Research
2005 Nucleic Acids Research
2002 Bioinformatics

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1	ConSurf 2016: an improved methodology to estimate and visualize evolutionary conservation in macromolecules Nucleic Acids Research ·Haim Ashkenazy, Shiran Abadi, Eric Martz, Ofer Chay, Itay Mayrose, Tal Pupko, Nir Ben‐Tal Hit paper breakdown →	2016	2253
2	ConSurf 2010: calculating evolutionary conservation in sequence and structure of proteins and nucleic acids Nucleic Acids Research ·Haim Ashkenazy, Elona Erez, Eric Martz, Tal Pupko, Nir Ben‐Tal Hit paper breakdown →	2010	1512
3	ConSurf 2005: the projection of evolutionary conservation scores of residues on protein structures Nucleic Acids Research ·Meytal Landau, Itay Mayrose, Y. Rosenberg, Fabian Glaser, Eric Martz, Tal Pupko, Nir Ben‐Tal Hit paper breakdown →	2005	1153
4	ConSurf: Identification of Functional Regions in Proteinsby Surface-Mapping of Phylogenetic Information Bioinformatics ·Fabian Glaser, Tal Pupko, Inbal Paz, Rachel E Bell, Dalit Bechor-Shental, Eric Martz, Nir Ben‐Tal Hit paper breakdown →	2002	1005
5	GUIDANCE2: accurate detection of unreliable alignment regions accounting for the uncertainty of multiple parameters Nucleic Acids Research ·Itamar Sela, Haim Ashkenazy, Kazutaka Katoh, Tal Pupko Hit paper breakdown →	2015	641
6	GUIDANCE: a web server for assessing alignment confidence scores Nucleic Acids Research ·O.C.K.M. Penn, Eran Privman, Haim Ashkenazy, Giddy Landan, Dan Graur, Tal Pupko Hit paper breakdown →	2010	540
7	Rate4Site: an algorithmic tool for the identification of functional regions in proteins by surface mapping of evolutionary determinants within their homologues Bioinformatics ·Tal Pupko, Rachel E. Bell, Itay Mayrose, Fabian Glaser, Nir Ben‐Tal	2002	490
8	ConSurf: Using Evolutionary Data to Raise Testable Hypotheses about Protein Function Israel Journal of Chemistry ·Gershon Celniker, Guy Nimrod, Haim Ashkenazy, Fabian Glaser, Eric Martz, Itay Mayrose, Tal Pupko, Nir Ben‐Tal	2013	422
9	ConSeq: the identification of functionally and structurally important residues in protein sequences Bioinformatics ·Carine Berezin, Fabian Glaser, Josef Rosenberg, Inbal Paz, Tal Pupko, Piero Fariselli, Rita Casadio, Nir Ben‐Tal	2004	409
10	An Alignment Confidence Score Capturing Robustness to Guide Tree Uncertainty Molecular Biology and Evolution ·O.C.K.M. Penn, Eran Privman, Giddy Landan, Dan Graur, Tal Pupko	2010	279
11	Model selection may not be a mandatory step for phylogeny reconstruction Nature Communications ·Shiran Abadi, Dana Azouri, Tal Pupko, Itay Mayrose Hit paper breakdown →	2019	270
12	Selecton 2007: advanced models for detecting positive and purifying selection using a Bayesian inference approach Nucleic Acids Research ·A. Stern, Adi Doron‐Faigenboim, Elona Erez, Eric Martz, Eran Bacharach, Tal Pupko	2007	266
13	FastML: a web server for probabilistic reconstruction of ancestral sequences Nucleic Acids Research ·Haim Ashkenazy, O.C.K.M. Penn, Adi Doron‐Faigenboim, Ofir Cohen, Gina Cannarozzi, Oren Zomer, Tal Pupko	2012	255
14	Comparative Analysis Identifies Exonic Splicing Regulatory Sequences—The Complex Definition of Enhancers and Silencers Molecular Cell ·Amir Goren, Oren Ram, Maayan Amit, Hadas Keren, Galit Lev-Maor, Ida Vig, Tal Pupko, Gil Ast	2006	246
15	A Fast Algorithm for Joint Reconstruction of Ancestral Amino Acid Sequences Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Tal Pupko, Itsik Pe, Ron Shamir, Dan Graur	2000	244
16	Rodent phylogeny revised: analysis of six nuclear genes from all major rodent clades BMC Evolutionary Biology ·Shani Blanga‐Kanfi, Hector C. Miranda, Osnat Penn, Tal Pupko, Ronald W. DeBry, Dorothée Huchon	2009	228
17	Differential GC Content between Exons and Introns Establishes Distinct Strategies of Splice-Site Recognition Cell Reports ·Maayan Amit, Maya Donyo, Dror Hollander, Amir Goren, Eddo Kim, Sahar Gelfman, Galit Lev-Maor, David Burstein, Schraga Schwartz, Benny Postolsky, Tal Pupko, Gil Ast	2012	220
18	Using evolutionary data to make sense of macromolecules with a “face‐lifted” ConSurf Protein Science ·Barak Yariv, Elon Yariv, Amit Kessel, Gal Masrati, Adi Ben Chorin, Eric Martz, Itay Mayrose, Tal Pupko, Nir Ben‐Tal Hit paper breakdown →	2023	211
19	Genome-Scale Identification of Legionella pneumophila Effectors Using a Machine Learning Approach PLoS Pathogens ·David Burstein, Tal Zusman, Elena Degtyar, Ram Viner, Gil Segal, Tal Pupko	2009	206
20	Genomic analysis of 38 Legionella species identifies large and diverse effector repertoires Nature Genetics ·David Burstein, Francisco Amaro, Tal Zusman, Ziv Lifshitz, Ofir Cohen, Jack A. Gilbert, Tal Pupko, Howard A. Shuman, Gil Segal	2016	202

About Tal Pupko

Tal Pupko is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Paleontology and Artificial Intelligence, having authored 145 papers that have together received 15.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (66 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (30 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (20 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (13 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (12 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (11 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (9 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Endocrinology (826 citations), Molecular Biology (10.2k citations), Genetics (2.6k citations), Molecular Medicine (342 citations) and Cell Biology (1.0k citations). Tal Pupko has collaborated with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Nir Ben‐Tal, Eric Martz, Haim Ashkenazy, Itay Mayrose, Fabian Glaser, Shiran Abadi, Elona Erez, Dan Graur, Ofir Cohen and Inbal Paz. Their work appears in journals such as Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Biology and Evolution and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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