2026 Ivo L. Hofacker: 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	79	4192	3868	29	28	249	46706

Overview

Ivo L. Hofacker is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and conducts research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Epidemiology, Genetics, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The main topics of research covered by Hofacker include:

RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
RNA modifications and cancer
RNA Research and Splicing
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Viral Infections and Immunology Research

Hofacker has published extensively, with contributions to various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Bioinformatics
Nucleic Acids Research
RNA Biology
Methods in molecular biology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hofacker include:

"Zinc-finger protein CNBP alters the 3-D structure of lncRNA Braveheart in solution," 2020, Nature Communications
"Caveats to Deep Learning Approaches to RNA Secondary Structure Prediction," 2022, Frontiers in Bioinformatics
"Transcriptional profiling of human macrophages during infection with Bordetella pertussis," 2020, RNA Biology
"Investigating RNA-RNA interactions through computational and biophysical analysis," 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
"Modified RNAs and predictions with the ViennaRNA Package," 2023, Bioinformatics

Collaborations have been an integral part of Hofacker's work. Frequent co-authors include:

Ronny Lorenz
Maria Waldl
Peter F. Stadler
Hua-Ting Yao
Michael T. Wolfinger

Best Publications

Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

6099
Citations
ViennaRNA Package 2.0

Ronny Lorenz;Stephan H. F. Bernhart;Christian Höner zu Siederdissen;Hakim Tafer

5563
Citations
RNA Maps Reveal New RNA Classes and a Possible Function for Pervasive Transcription

Philipp Kapranov;Jill Cheng;Sujit Dike;David A. Nix

3052
Citations
Fast folding and comparison of RNA secondary structures

I. L. Hofacker;W. Fontana;P. F. Stadler;P. F. Stadler;L. S. Bonhoeffer

3017
Citations
Vienna RNA secondary structure server

Ivo L. Hofacker

2720
Citations
The Vienna RNA Websuite

Andreas R. Gruber;Ronny Lorenz;Stephan H. F. Bernhart;Richard Neuböck

2481
Citations
From Sequences to Shapes and Back: A Case Study in RNA Secondary Structures

Peter Schuster;Walter Fontana;Peter F. Stadler;Ivo L. Hofacker

1095
Citations
Fast and reliable prediction of noncoding RNAs

Stefan Washietl;Ivo L. Hofacker;Peter F. Stadler

880
Citations
Secondary structure prediction for aligned RNA sequences.

Ivo L. Hofacker;Martin Fekete;Peter F. Stadler;Peter F. Stadler

838
Citations
Complete suboptimal folding of RNA and the stability of secondary structures.

Stefan Wuchty;Walter Fontana;Walter Fontana;Ivo L. Hofacker;Peter Schuster;Peter Schuster

753
Citations
RNA Secondary Structures

Ivo L. Hofacker;Peter F. Stadler

718
Citations
RNAalifold: improved consensus structure prediction for RNA alignments

Stephan H. F. Bernhart;Ivo L. Hofacker;Sebastian Will;Andreas R. Gruber

666
Citations
Inferring noncoding RNA families and classes by means of genome-scale structure-based clustering.

Sebastian Will;Kristin Reiche;Ivo L Hofacker;Peter F Stadler

627
Citations
Inferring non-coding RNA families and classes by means of genome-scale structure-based clustering

Ivo Hofacker;Peter Stadler;Sebastian Will;Rolf Backofen

510
Citations
Mapping of conserved RNA secondary structures predicts thousands of functional noncoding RNAs in the human genome

Stefan Washietl;Ivo L Hofacker;Melanie Lukasser;Alexander Hüttenhofer

481
Citations
Forna (force-directed RNA): Simple and effective online RNA secondary structure diagrams

Peter Kerpedjiev;Stefan Hammer;Ivo L. Hofacker

454
Citations
The expansion of the metazoan microRNA repertoire

Jana Hertel;Manuela Lindemeyer;Kristin Missal;Claudia Fried

449
Citations
Thermodynamics of RNA--RNA binding

Ulrike Mückstein;Hakim Tafer;Jörg Hackermüller;Stephan H. Bernhart

437
Citations
RNAplex: a fast tool for RNA-RNA interaction search.

Hakim Tafer;Ivo L. Hofacker

432
Citations
RNA folding at elementary step resolution

Christoph Flamm;Walter Fontana;Ivo L. Hofacker;Peter Schuster

409
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter F. Stadler Leipzig University

Jan Gorodkin University of Copenhagen

Rolf Backofen University of Freiburg

Gerik Scheuermann Leipzig University

Martin von Bergen Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Martijn A. Huynen Radboud University Medical Center

Erich Bornberg-Bauer University of Münster

Walter L. Ruzzo University of Washington

Alexandre Reymond University of Lausanne

Thomas R. Gingeras Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

External Links

Personal website of Ivo L. Hofacker Google Scholar page

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