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Ivica Letunic publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ivica Letunic sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 101 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Ivica Letunic D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ivica Letunic sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 72 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Ivica Letunic is affiliated with the European Bioinformatics Institute in the United Kingdom. Their body of work spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on molecular biology. Their research interests and topics include genomics and phylogenetic studies, gut microbiota and health, machine learning applications in bioinformatics, diet and metabolism studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, bioinformatics and genomic networks, and microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction.

Letunic's publication record includes several recent papers, exhibiting their engagement with phylogenetic tree visualization tools and large-scale functional annotation efforts. Notable publications include:

  • Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • eggNOG-mapper v2: Functional Annotation, Orthology Assignments, and Domain Prediction at the Metagenomic Scale, 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • InterPro in 2022, 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)
  • Interactive Tree of Life (iTOL) v6: recent updates to the phylogenetic tree display and annotation tool, 2024, Nucleic Acids Research

The venues where Letunic has frequently published include:

  • Nucleic Acids Research (12 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)
  • Nature Communications (3 publications)
  • Nature (2 publications)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution (1 publication)

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors, among them are:

  • Peer Bork (21 collaborations)
  • Thomas Schmidt (9 collaborations)
  • Luís Pedro Coelho (8 collaborations)
  • Sofia K. Forslund (6 collaborations)
  • Oleksandr M. Maistrenko (6 collaborations)

Ivica Letunic's multidisciplinary work integrates computational tools and bioinformatics methods to explore genetic and microbial data, contributing to phylogenetic tree visualization and functional annotation at large scales. Their research covers both fundamental molecular biology and applied topics related to microbial ecology and health.

Best Publications

  • Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation.

    Ivica Letunic;Peer Bork;Peer Bork;Peer Bork

  • Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

    Robert H. Waterston;Kerstin Lindblad-Toh;Ewan Birney;Jane Rogers

  • Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v4: recent updates and new developments.

    Ivica Letunic;Peer Bork

  • Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees

    Ivica Letunic;Peer Bork

  • 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

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

  • Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL): an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation

    Ivica Letunic;Peer Bork

  • The Genome Sequence of the Malaria Mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Robert A. Holt;G. Mani Subramanian;Aaron Halpern;Granger G. Sutton

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

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

  • eggNOG-mapper v2: Functional Annotation, Orthology Assignments, and Domain Prediction at the Metagenomic Scale.

    Carlos P Cantalapiedra;Ana Hernández-Plaza;Ivica Letunic;Peer Bork

  • InterPro: the integrative protein signature database

    Sarah Hunter;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch

  • The InterPro protein families and domains database: 20 years on.

    Matthias Blum;Hsin Yu Chang;Sara Chuguransky;Tiago Grego

  • SMART 7: recent updates to the protein domain annotation resource

    Ivica Letunic;Tobias Doerks;Peer Bork

  • The InterPro Database, 2003 brings increased coverage and new features

    Nicola J Mulder;Rolf Apweiler;Teresa K Attwood;Amos Marc Bairoch

  • 20 years of the SMART protein domain annotation resource.

    Ivica Letunic;Peer Bork

  • Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera

    George M. Weinstock;Gene E. Robinson;Richard A. Gibbs;Kim C. Worley

  • Interactive Tree Of Life v2: online annotation and display of phylogenetic trees made easy

    Ivica Letunic;Peer Bork

  • SMART: recent updates, new developments and status in 2015

    Ivica Letunic;Tobias Doerks;Peer Bork

  • InterPro in 2017-beyond protein family and domain annotations

    Robert D. Finn;Teresa K. Attwood;Patricia C. Babbitt;Alex Bateman

  • InterPro in 2019: improving coverage, classification and access to protein sequence annotations.

    Alex L. Mitchell;Teresa K. Attwood;Patricia C. Babbitt;Matthias Blum

Frequent Co-Authors

Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Richard R. Copley
Richard R. Copley Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics
Jeroen Raes
Jeroen Raes KU Leuven
Rodrigo Lopez
Rodrigo Lopez European Bioinformatics Institute
Alex Bateman
Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute
Teresa K. Attwood
Teresa K. Attwood University of Manchester
Fredrik Bäckhed
Fredrik Bäckhed University of Gothenburg
Julian Gough
Julian Gough University of Bristol
Daniel H. Haft
Daniel H. Haft National Institutes of Health
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

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