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Christian von Mering

Christian von Mering

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Biology and Biochemistry
Switzerland
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
88
Citations
115233
World Ranking
1134
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Christian von Mering is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Molecular Biology. They have contributed extensively to topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, and Gut microbiota and health.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including Ecology, Cancer Research, Genetics, and Spectroscopy. Their scholarly output includes analyses that involve RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Gene expression and cancer classification, as well as advanced proteomics techniques and applications.

Christian von Mering has published frequently in a number of scientific venues. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Nature Communications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature

Collaborations have been a notable aspect of their career. Frequent co-authors comprise:

  • Damian Szklarczyk
  • Lukas Malfertheiner
  • João F. Matias Rodrigues
  • Annika L Gable
  • Peer Bork

Among recent publications involving or related to their research are:

  • "The STRING database in 2021: customizable protein-protein networks, and functional characterization of user-uploaded gene/measurement sets," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "The STRING database in 2023: protein-protein association networks and functional enrichment analyses for any sequenced genome of interest," 2022, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution," 2021, Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent)
  • "Analyses of non-coding somatic drivers in 2,658 cancer whole genomes," 2020, Nature
  • "Correction to 'The STRING database in 2021: customizable protein-protein networks, and functional characterization of user-uploaded gene/measurement sets'," 2021, Nucleic Acids Research

Best Publications

  • STRING v11: protein-protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets.

    Damian Szklarczyk;Annika L. Gable;David Lyon;Alexander Junge

  • STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life

    Damian Szklarczyk;Andrea Franceschini;Stefan Wyder;Kristoffer Forslund

  • The STRING database in 2021: customizable protein-protein networks, and functional characterization of user-uploaded gene/measurement sets.

    Damian Szklarczyk;Annika L. Gable;Katerina C. Nastou;David Lyon

  • The STRING database in 2017: quality-controlled protein-protein association networks, made broadly accessible.

    Damian Szklarczyk;John H. Morris;Helen Cook;Michael Kuhn

  • STRING v9.1: protein-protein interaction networks, with increased coverage and integration

    Andrea Franceschini;Damian Szklarczyk;Sune Frankild;Michael Kuhn

  • eggNOG 5.0: a hierarchical, functionally and phylogenetically annotated orthology resource based on 5090 organisms and 2502 viruses.

    Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Damian Szklarczyk;Davide Heller;Ana Hernández-Plaza

  • The STRING database in 2011: functional interaction networks of proteins, globally integrated and scored

    Damian Szklarczyk;Andrea Franceschini;Michael Kuhn;Milan Simonovic

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Comparative assessment of large-scale data sets of protein-protein interactions.

    Christian von Mering;Roland Krause;Berend Snel;Michael Cornell

  • Fast Genome-Wide Functional Annotation through Orthology Assignment by eggNOG-Mapper

    Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Kristoffer Forslund;Luis Pedro Coelho;Damian Szklarczyk;Damian Szklarczyk

  • STRING 8—a global view on proteins and their functional interactions in 630 organisms

    Lars J Jensen;Michael Kuhn;Manuel Stark;Samuel Chaffron

  • Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

    Ladeana W. Hillier;Webb Miller;Ewan Birney;Wesley Warren

  • STRING: a database of predicted functional associations between proteins.

    Christian von Mering;Martijn A. Huynen;Daniel Jaeggi;Steffen Schmidt

  • eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences

    Jaime Huerta-Cepas;Damian Szklarczyk;Damian Szklarczyk;Kristoffer Forslund;Helen Cook

  • Comparative Metagenomics of Microbial Communities

    Susannah Green Tringe;Christian von Mering;Arthur Kobayashi;Asaf A. Salamov

  • STRING: known and predicted protein-protein associations, integrated and transferred across organisms

    Christian von Mering;Lars Juhl Jensen;Berend Snel;Sean D. Hooper

  • Toward Automatic Reconstruction of a Highly Resolved Tree of Life

    Francesca D. Ciccarelli;Tobias Doerks;Christian von Mering;Christopher J. Creevey

  • STITCH 5: augmenting protein–chemical interaction networks with tissue and affinity data

    Damian Szklarczyk;Alberto Santos;Christian von Mering;Lars Juhl Jensen

  • Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium exploits inflammation to compete with the intestinal microbiota

    Bärbel Stecher;Riccardo Robbiani;Alan W. Walker;Astrid M. Westendorf

  • Immunity-Related Genes and Gene Families in Anopheles gambiae

    George K. Christophides;Evgeny Zdobnov;Carolina Barillas-Mury;Ewan Birney

Frequent Co-Authors

Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Jaime Huerta-Cepas
Jaime Huerta-Cepas Technical University of Madrid
Lars Juhl Jensen
Lars Juhl Jensen University of Copenhagen
Mark D. Robinson
Mark D. Robinson University of Zurich
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Ivica Letunic
Ivica Letunic European Bioinformatics Institute
Jernej Ule
Jernej Ule The Francis Crick Institute

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