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Marnix H. Medema publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marnix H. Medema sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 158 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Marnix H. Medema D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marnix H. Medema sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Marnix H. Medema is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research spans various domains within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a focus on microbial natural products and biosynthesis.

The scientist's work is characterized by contributions to multiple specialized topics, including:

  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Plant Biochemistry and Biosynthesis

Main fields of study include biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, reflected in over 200 publications, and medicine with a significant number of related works.

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues known for research dissemination in molecular biology and bioinformatics, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)
  • mSystems

Collaborative efforts are a notable part of their career, with frequent co-authors including Justin J. J. van der Hooft, Gilles P. van Wezel, Hannah E. Augustijn, Satria A. Kautsar, and Michelle Schorn.

Recent publications offer a glimpse into the scientist's current research directions and impact:

  • "antiSMASH 6.0: improving cluster detection and comparison capabilities", 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "antiSMASH 7.0: new and improved predictions for detection, regulation, chemical structures and visualisation", 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics", 2021, Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • "Ecology and genomics of Actinobacteria: new concepts for natural product discovery", 2020, Nature Reviews Microbiology
  • "MIBiG 3.0: a community-driven effort to annotate experimentally validated biosynthetic gene clusters", 2022, Nucleic Acids Research

Among these, the focus is largely placed on improving tools for genomic cluster detection and comparison, sustainable antibiotic discovery, and expanding annotation efforts in biosynthetic gene clusters, highlighting the intersection of bioinformatics and microbial natural product research.

Best Publications

  • antiSMASH 5.0: updates to the secondary metabolite genome mining pipeline

    Kai Blin;Simon Shaw;Katharina Steinke;Rasmus Villebro

  • Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome.

    Mohammad Bahram;Mohammad Bahram;Mohammad Bahram;Falk Hildebrand;Sofia K. Forslund;Sofia K. Forslund;Jennifer L. Anderson

  • antiSMASH 3.0—a comprehensive resource for the genome mining of biosynthetic gene clusters

    Tilmann Weber;Kai Blin;Srikanth Duddela;Daniel Krug

  • antiSMASH 6.0: improving cluster detection and comparison capabilities.

    Kai Blin;Simon Shaw;Alexander M Kloosterman;Zach Charlop-Powers

  • antiSMASH: rapid identification, annotation and analysis of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in bacterial and fungal genome sequences

    Marnix H. Medema;Kai Blin;Peter Cimermancic;Victor de Jager;Victor de Jager

  • antiSMASH 4.0-improvements in chemistry prediction and gene cluster boundary identification.

    Kai Blin;Thomas Wolf;Marc G. Chevrette;Xiaowen Lu

  • Towards the sustainable discovery and development of new antibiotics

    Marcus Miethke;Marco Pieroni;Tilmann Weber;Mark Brönstrup

  • Insights into secondary metabolism from a global analysis of prokaryotic biosynthetic gene clusters.

    Peter Cimermancic;Marnix H. Medema;Jan Claesen;Kenji Kurita

  • A computational framework to explore large-scale biosynthetic diversity

    Jorge C. Navarro-Muñoz;Nelly Selem-Mojica;Michael W. Mullowney;Satria A. Kautsar

  • antiSMASH 2.0—a versatile platform for genome mining of secondary metabolite producers

    Kai Blin;Marnix H. Medema;Daniyal Kazempour;Michael A. Fischbach

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Pathogen-induced activation of disease-suppressive functions in the endophytic root microbiome

    Víctor J. Carrión;Juan Perez-Jaramillo;Viviane Cordovez;Vittorio Tracanna

  • NRPSpredictor2-a web server for predicting NRPS adenylation domain specificity

    Marc Röttig;Marnix H. Medema;Kai Blin;Tilmann Weber

  • MIBiG 2.0: a repository for biosynthetic gene clusters of known function.

    Satria A Kautsar;Kai Blin;Simon Shaw;Jorge C Navarro-Muñoz

  • A metabolic pathway for bile acid dehydroxylation by the gut microbiome

    Masanori Funabashi;Masanori Funabashi;Tyler L. Grove;Min Wang;Yug Varma

  • Denitrifying bacteria anaerobically oxidize methane in the absence of Archaea.

    Katharina F. Ettwig;Seigo Shima;Katinka T. Van De Pas-Schoonen;Jörg Kahnt

  • Computational approaches to natural product discovery.

    Marnix H Medema;Michael A Fischbach

  • The Natural Products Atlas: An Open Access Knowledge Base for Microbial Natural Products Discovery.

    Jeffrey A. van Santen;Gregoire Jacob;Amrit Leen Singh;Victor Aniebok

  • Detecting sequence homology at the gene cluster level with MultiGeneBlast.

    Marnix H. Medema;Eriko Takano;Eriko Takano;Rainer Breitling;Rainer Breitling;Rainer Breitling

  • MolNetEnhancer: Enhanced Molecular Networks by Integrating Metabolome Mining and Annotation Tools

    Madeleine Ernst;Madeleine Ernst;Kyo Bin Kang;Kyo Bin Kang;Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodríguez;Louis Felix Nothias

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer Breitling
Rainer Breitling University of Manchester
Eriko Takano
Eriko Takano University of Manchester
Justin J. J. van der Hooft
Justin J. J. van der Hooft Wageningen University & Research
Pieter C. Dorrestein
Pieter C. Dorrestein University of California, San Diego
Michael A. Fischbach
Michael A. Fischbach Stanford University
Gilles P. van Wezel
Gilles P. van Wezel Leiden University
Anne Osbourn
Anne Osbourn John Innes Centre
Jos M. Raaijmakers
Jos M. Raaijmakers Leiden University
Sang Yup Lee
Sang Yup Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Hyun Uk Kim
Hyun Uk Kim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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