2026 Rainer Breitling: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	78	4478	4134	338	315	270	26996

Overview

Rainer Breitling is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on subfields including Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Genetics, Biotechnology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics notably:

Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
Plant Biochemistry and Biosynthesis
Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
Silk-based Biomaterials and Applications

Recent publications by Rainer Breitling include:

"Host Systems for the Production of Recombinant Spider Silk," 2020, Trends in Biotechnology
"Engineering Escherichia coli towards de novo production of gatekeeper (2S)-flavanones: naringenin, pinocembrin, eriodictyol and homoeriodictyol," 2020, Synthetic Biology
"Rapid prototyping of microbial production strains for the biomanufacture of potential materials monomers," 2020, Metabolic Engineering
"Exploring novel bacterial terpene synthases," 2020, PLoS ONE
"Bioengineering horizon scan 2020," 2020, eLife

Frequent collaborators include:

Eriko Takano
Nigel S. Scrutton
Erik K. R. Hanko
Cunyu Yan
Francesco Del Carratore

The scientist has published frequently in the following venues:

OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
Materials Today Bio
ACS Synthetic Biology
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Bioinformatics

Best Publications

antiSMASH 3.0—a comprehensive resource for the genome mining of biosynthetic gene clusters

Tilmann Weber;Kai Blin;Srikanth Duddela;Daniel Krug

2027
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antiSMASH: rapid identification, annotation and analysis of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in bacterial and fungal genome sequences

Marnix H. Medema;Kai Blin;Peter Cimermancic;Victor de Jager;Victor de Jager

1988
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Rank products: a simple, yet powerful, new method to detect differentially regulated genes in replicated microarray experiments ☆

Rainer Breitling;Patrick Armengaud;Anna Amtmann;Pawel Herzyk

1824
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antiSMASH 4.0-improvements in chemistry prediction and gene cluster boundary identification.

Kai Blin;Thomas Wolf;Marc G. Chevrette;Xiaowen Lu

1252
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antiSMASH 2.0—a versatile platform for genome mining of secondary metabolite producers

Kai Blin;Marnix H. Medema;Daniyal Kazempour;Michael A. Fischbach

945
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Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

925
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RankProd: a bioconductor package for detecting differentially expressed genes in meta-analysis

Fangxin Hong;Rainer Breitling;Connor W. Mcentee;Ben S. Wittner

880
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Mass appeal: metabolite identification in mass spectrometry-focused untargeted metabolomics

Warwick B Dunn;Alexander Erban;Ralf J M Weber;Darren John Creek;Darren John Creek

641
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The Potassium-Dependent Transcriptome of Arabidopsis Reveals a Prominent Role of Jasmonic Acid in Nutrient Signaling

Patrick Armengaud;Rainer Breitling;Anna Amtmann

586
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C-elegans model identifies genetic modifiers of alpha-synuclein inclusion formation during aging

Tjakko J. van Ham;Karen L. Thijssen;Rainer Breitling;Robert M. W. Hofstra

461
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Toward global metabolomics analysis with hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry: improved metabolite identification by retention time prediction.

Darren J. Creek;Darren J. Creek;Andris Jankevics;Rainer Breitling;David G. Watson

399
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Regulation of ubiquitin-binding proteins by monoubiquitination.

Daniela Hoeller;Nicola Crosetto;Blagoy Blagoev;Camilla Raiborg

381
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Detecting sequence homology at the gene cluster level with MultiGeneBlast.

Marnix H. Medema;Eriko Takano;Eriko Takano;Rainer Breitling;Rainer Breitling;Rainer Breitling

376
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IDEOM : an Excel interface for analysis of LC-MS-based metabolomics data

Darren J. Creek;Darren J. Creek;Andris Jankevics;Karl E. V. Burgess;Rainer Breitling

348
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Mapping Determinants of Gene Expression Plasticity by Genetical Genomics in C. elegans

Yang Li;Olga Alda Álvarez;Evert W Gutteling;Marcel Tijsterman

347
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GeneRank: Using search engine technology for the analysis of microarray experiments

Julie L Morrison;Julie L Morrison;Rainer Breitling;Desmond J Higham;David R Gilbert

331
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A comparison of meta-analysis methods for detecting differentially expressed genes in microarray experiments

Fangxin Hong;Rainer Breitling

306
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System-wide molecular evidence for phenotypic buffering in Arabidopsis.

Jingyuan Fu;Joost J B Keurentjes;Harro Bouwmeester;Twan America

294
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DiffCoEx: A simple and sensitive method to find differentially coexpressed gene modules

Bruno M Tesson;Rainer Breitling;Rainer Breitling;Ritsert C Jansen;Ritsert C Jansen

284
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What is Systems Biology

Rainer Breitling;Rainer Breitling

129
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