2026 Bernhard O. Palsson: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
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Genetics	175	55	52	32	31	813	125480

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Genetics in United States Leader Award
2012 - Promega Biotechnology Research Award, American Society for Microbiology
2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2006 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For scholarship, technological advances, and entrepreneurial activities in metabolic engineering.
1996 - Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Overview

Bernhard O. Palsson is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research output spans biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology, genetics, pharmacology, infectious diseases, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work covers key topics including microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, genomics and phylogenetic studies, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, gene regulatory network analysis, microbial natural products and biosynthesis, and evolution and genetic dynamics.

Some recent papers by Bernhard O. Palsson include:

MEMOTE for standardized genome-scale metabolic model testing, 2020, Nature Biotechnology
An atlas of human metabolism, 2020, Science Signaling
Reconstructing organisms in silico: genome-scale models and their emerging applications, 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
SBML Level 3: an extensible format for the exchange and reuse of biological models, 2020, Molecular Systems Biology
Mini review: Genome mining approaches for the identification of secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters in Streptomyces, 2020, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Frequent co-authors of Bernhard O. Palsson include:

Richard Szubin
Anand V. Sastry
Jonathan M. Monk
Adam M. Feist
Kevin Rychel

Throughout their career, Palsson has published extensively in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), mSystems, Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Honors awarded include:

Promega Biotechnology Research Award, American Society for Microbiology, 2012
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2010
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2006, for scholarship, technological advances, and entrepreneurial activities in metabolic engineering
Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), 1996

Best Publications

Sharing and community curation of mass spectrometry data with Global Natural Products Social Molecular Networking

Mingxun Wang;Jeremy J Carver;Vanessa V Phelan;Laura M Sanchez

4441
Citations
A protocol for generating a high-quality genome-scale metabolic reconstruction.

Ines Thiele;Ines Thiele;Bernhard Ø Palsson

1952
Citations
Quantitative prediction of cellular metabolism with constraint-based models: the COBRA Toolbox v2.0

Jan Schellenberger;Richard Que;Ronan M T Fleming;Ines Thiele

1836
Citations
A genome-scale metabolic reconstruction for Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 that accounts for 1260 ORFs and thermodynamic information.

Adam M Feist;Christopher S Henry;Jennifer L Reed;Markus Krummenacker

1782
Citations
Global reconstruction of the human metabolic network based on genomic and bibliomic data

Natalie C. Duarte;Scott A. Becker;Neema Jamshidi;Ines Thiele

1662
Citations
Genome-Scale Reconstruction of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Metabolic Network

Jochen Förster;Iman Famili;Patrick Fu;Bernhard Ø. Palsson

1378
Citations
An expanded genome-scale model of Escherichia coli K-12 (iJR904 GSM/GPR)

Jennifer L Reed;Thuy D Vo;Christophe H Schilling;Bernhard O Palsson

1319
Citations
Stoichiometric flux balance models quantitatively predict growth and metabolic by-product secretion in wild-type Escherichia coli W3110.

Amit Varma;B. O. Palsson

1307
Citations
In silico predictions of Escherichia coli metabolic capabilities are consistent with experimental data

Jeremy S. Edwards;Jeremy S. Edwards;Rafael U. Ibarra;Bernhard O. Palsson

1276
Citations
Genome-scale models of microbial cells: evaluating the consequences of constraints

Nathan D. Price;Jennifer L. Reed;Bernhard Ø. Palsson

1273
Citations
A comprehensive genome‐scale reconstruction of Escherichia coli metabolism—2011

Jeffrey D Orth;Tom M Conrad;Jessica Na;Joshua A Lerman

1241
Citations
A community-driven global reconstruction of human metabolism

Ines Thiele;Neil Swainston;Ronan M T Fleming;Andreas Hoppe

1238
Citations
The Escherichia coli MG1655 in silico metabolic genotype: Its definition, characteristics, and capabilities

J. S. Edwards;B. O. Palsson

1237
Citations
Metabolic Flux Balancing: Basic Concepts, Scientific and Practical Use

Amit Varma;Bernhard O. Palsson

1201
Citations
Systems Biology: Properties of Reconstructed Networks

Bernhard O. Palsson

1115
Citations
Reconstruction of biochemical networks in microorganisms

Adam M. Feist;Markus J. Herrgård;Ines Thiele;Jennie L. Reed

1082
Citations
Escherichia coli K-12 undergoes adaptive evolution to achieve in silico predicted optimal growth

Rafael U. Ibarra;Jeremy S. Edwards;Bernhard O. Palsson

1057
Citations
Integrating high-throughput and computational data elucidates bacterial networks

Markus W. Covert;Eric M. Knight;Jennifer L. Reed;Markus J. Herrgard

1022
Citations
Applications of genome-scale metabolic reconstructions

Matthew A Oberhardt;Bernhard Ø Palsson;Jason A Papin

981
Citations
Cancer cell lines

John R. W. Masters;Bernhard Palsson

86
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Adam M. Feist University of California, San Diego

Byung-Kwan Cho Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Nathan E. Lewis University of California, San Diego

Ines Thiele University of Galway

Gyun Min Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Jens Nielsen Chalmers University of Technology

Ronan M. T. Fleming Leiden University

Stephen G. Emerson Columbia University

Nathan D. Price University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Karsten Zengler University of California, San Diego

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