2026 J. Michael Cherry: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	74	1915	1822	876	824	148	103629

Research.com Recognitions

1976 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

J. Michael Cherry is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and works primarily in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Food Science, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
Genomics and Rare Diseases
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

J. Michael Cherry has coauthored research frequently with the following scholars:

Suzi Aleksander
Stuart R. Miyasato
Stacia R. Engel
Robert S Nash
Edith D. Wong

Their publications have appeared mainly in these venues:

Nature (8 publications)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (8 publications)
Genetics (6 publications)
Nucleic Acids Research (3 publications)
Cell (2 publications)

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by J. Michael Cherry include:

"The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
"Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes," 2020, Nature
"The Gene Ontology knowledgebase in 2023," 2023, Genetics
"An atlas of dynamic chromatin landscapes in mouse fetal development," 2020, Nature
"GA4GH: International policies and standards for data sharing across genomic research and healthcare," 2021, Cell Genomics

J. Michael Cherry has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1976.

Best Publications

Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

M Ashburner;C A Ball;J A Blake;D Botstein

48018
Citations
The genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster

M. D. Adams;S. E. Celniker;R. A. Holt;C. A. Evans

8171
Citations
The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource.

Harris Ma;Clark J;Ireland A;Lomax J

5235
Citations
The Gene Ontology resource: enriching a GOld mine

Seth Carbon;Eric Douglass;Benjamin M Good

3766
Citations
Annotation of functional variation in personal genomes using RegulomeDB

Alan P. Boyle;Eurie L. Hong;Manoj Hariharan;Yong Cheng

2838
Citations
Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes

Jill E. Moore;Michael J. Purcaro;Henry E. Pratt;Charles B. Epstein

2519
Citations
GO: :TermFinder---open source software for accessing Gene Ontology information and finding significantly enriched Gene Ontology terms associated with a list of genes

Elizabeth I. Boyle;Shuai Weng;Jeremy Gollub;Heng Jin

2277
Citations
Comparative Genomics of the Eukaryotes

Gerald M. Rubin;Mark D. Yandell;Jennifer R. Wortman;George L. Gabor

2161
Citations
Saccharomyces Genome Database: the genomics resource of budding yeast

J. Michael Cherry;Eurie L. Hong;Craig Amundsen;Rama Balakrishnan

2085
Citations
The Encyclopedia of DNA elements (ENCODE): data portal update

Carrie A Davis;Benjamin C Hitz;Cricket A Sloan;Esther T Chan

1698
Citations
SGD: Saccharomyces Genome Database

J. Michael Cherry;Caroline Adler;Catherine A. Ball;Stephen A. Chervitz

1317
Citations
Arabidopsis thaliana: A Model Plant for Genome Analysis

D.W. Meinke;J.M. Cherry;C. Dean;S.D. Rounsley

961
Citations
Macronuclear Genome Sequence of the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a Model Eukaryote

Jonathan A. Eisen;Robert S Coyne;Martin Wu;Dongying Wu

865
Citations
Gene ontology annotations and resources

Blake Ja;Dolan M;Drabkin H

749
Citations
Genetic and physical maps of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

J. Michael Cherry;Catherine Ball;Shuai Weng;Gail Juvik

732
Citations
Yeast as a Model Organism

David Botstein;Steven A. Chervitz;J. Michael Cherry

723
Citations
The Gene Ontology project in 2008

Midori A Harris;Jennifer I. Deegan;Amelia Ireland;Jane Lomax

717
Citations
New developments on the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) data portal.

Yunhai Luo;Benjamin C Hitz;Idan Gabdank;Jason A Hilton

664
Citations
Saccharomyces Genome Database.

Laurie Issel-Tarver;Karen R. Christie;Kara Dolinski;Rey Andrada

643
Citations
The Stanford Microarray Database

Gavin Sherlock;Tina Hernandez-Boussard;Andrew Kasarskis;Gail Binkley

597
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Botstein Princeton University

Kara Dolinski Princeton University

Judith A. Blake Edith Cowan University

Len A. Pennacchio Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Axel Visel Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute

Suzanna E. Lewis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Pascale Gaudet Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Gavin Sherlock Stanford University

Michael Snyder Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of J. Michael Cherry

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