2026 Clyde A. Hutchison: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	72	2082	1981	948	889	168	46748

Research.com Recognitions

1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Clyde A. Hutchison is affiliated with the J. Craig Venter Institute in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Epidemiology, and Infectious Diseases as subfields of study.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
DNA Repair Mechanisms
Fungal and yeast genetics research
HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
HIV Research and Treatment
Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction

Recent publications by Clyde A. Hutchison include:

Fundamental behaviors emerge from simulations of a living minimal cell (2022), published in Cell
Synthetic chromosomes, genomes, viruses, and cells (2022), published in Cell
Toward the Complete Functional Characterization of a Minimal Bacterial Proteome (2022), published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Activation regions in a yeast transposon have homology to mating type control sequences and to mammalian enhancers (2020), published by UNC Libraries
Gene content phylogeny of herpesviruses (2020), published by UNC Libraries

Frequent co-authors in their research include John I. Glass, Marshall H. Edgell, Hamilton O. Smith, Zaida Luthey-Schulten, and David Bianchi.

Publications are often dispersed among prominent venues such as UNC Libraries, Biophysical Journal, Cell, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, and International Journal of Molecular Sciences, with UNC Libraries being the most frequent venue for their work.

The scientist was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998.

Best Publications

Enzymatic assembly of DNA molecules up to several hundred kilobases

Daniel G Gibson;Lei Young;Ray-Yuan Chuang;J Craig Venter

10542
Citations
Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome

Daniel G. Gibson;John I. Glass;Carole Lartigue;Vladimir N. Noskov

3342
Citations
The minimal gene complement of Mycoplasma genitalium

Claire M. Fraser;Jeannine D. Gocayne;Owen White;Mark D. Adams

3341
Citations
Nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage G4 DNA.

G. N. Godson;G. N. Godson;B. G. Barrell;R. Staden;J. C. Fiddes;J. C. Fiddes

2860
Citations
Analysis of the Protein-Coding Content of the Sequence of Human Cytomegalovirus Strain AD169

M. S. Chee;A. T. Bankier;S. Beck;R. Bohni

1754
Citations
Complete chemical synthesis, assembly, and cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium genome.

Daniel G. Gibson;Gwynedd A. Benders;Cynthia Andrews-Pfannkoch;Evgeniya A. Denisova

1532
Citations
Design and synthesis of a minimal bacterial genome

Clyde A. Hutchison;Ray Yuan Chuang;Vladimir N. Noskov;Nacyra Assad-Garcia

1460
Citations
Global Transposon Mutagenesis and a Minimal Mycoplasma Genome

Clyde A. Hutchison;Scott N. Peterson;Steven R. Gill;Robin T. Cline

1201
Citations
E-CELL: software environment for whole-cell simulation.

Masaru Tomita;Kenta Hashimoto;Koichi Takahashi;Thomas Simon Shimizu

1139
Citations
Essential genes of a minimal bacterium

John I. Glass;Nacyra Assad-Garcia;Nina Alperovich;Shibu Yooseph

1103
Citations
The nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage φX174

F. Sanger;A.R. Coulson;T. Friedmann;G.M. Air

879
Citations
Generating a synthetic genome by whole genome assembly: φX174 bacteriophage from synthetic oligonucleotides

Hamilton O. Smith;Clyde A. Hutchison;Cynthia Pfannkoch;J. Craig Venter

820
Citations
Mutagenesis at a specific position in a DNA sequence.

C.A. Hutchison rd;S. Phillips;M.H. Edgell;S. Gillam

790
Citations
Maternal inheritance of mammalian mitochondrial DNA

Clyde A. Hutchison;John E. Newbold;S. Steven Potter;Marshall Hall Edgell

733
Citations
Genome transplantation in bacteria: changing one species to another.

Carole Lartigue;John I. Glass;Nina Alperovich;Rembert Pieper

591
Citations
Chemical synthesis of the mouse mitochondrial genome

Daniel G Gibson;Hamilton O Smith;Clyde A Hutchison;J Craig Venter

539
Citations
One-step assembly in yeast of 25 overlapping DNA fragments to form a complete synthetic Mycoplasma genitalium genome

Daniel G. Gibson;Gwynedd A. Benders;Kevin C. Axelrod;Jayshree Zaveri

533
Citations
Overlapping genes in bacteriophage phiX174.

B. G. Barrell;G. M. Air;C. A. Hutchison;C. A. Hutchison

452
Citations
Complete mutagenesis of the HIV-1 protease.

Daniel D. Loeb;Ronald I Swanstrom;Lorraine Everitt;Marianne Manchester

437
Citations
Master genes in mammalian repetitive DNA amplification.

Prescott L. Deininger;Mark A. Batzer;Clyde A. Hutchison;Marshall H. Edgell

406
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marshall H. Edgell University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Hamilton O. Smith J. Craig Venter Institute

John I. Glass J. Craig Venter Institute

J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter Institute

Ronald Swanstrom University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Zaida Luthey-Schulten University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Trygve O. Tollefsbol University of Alabama at Birmingham

Nancy L. Haigwood Oregon Health & Science University

Christopher L. Dupont J. Craig Venter Institute

Masaru Tomita Keio University

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