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2026

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49
Citations
50752
World Ranking
4194
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10

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  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in South Africa Leader Award

Overview

Nicola Mulder is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Their work primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with 132 publications. They also contribute substantially to Medical research, with 92 publications.

Their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, and Microbiology. These areas reflect a broad engagement with biological sciences and health-related research.

Mulder's research interests address topics such as Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Gut Microbiota and Health, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Biomedical and Engineering Education, and Ethics in Clinical Research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mulder include:

  • Emile R. Chimusa
  • Mamana Mbiyavanga
  • Imane Allali
  • Lyndon Zass
  • Judit Kumuthini

Mulder's recent scholarly contributions feature peer-reviewed papers published between 2020 and 2022. Some examples include:

  • High-depth African genomes inform human migration and health (2020) - Nature
  • Machine Learning and Network Analyses Reveal Disease Subtypes of Pancreatic Cancer and their Molecular Characteristics (2020) - Scientific Reports
  • Lactic acid from vaginal microbiota enhances cervicovaginal epithelial barrier integrity by promoting tight junction protein expression (2022) - Microbiome
  • Integrated molecular characterisation of the MAPK pathways in human cancers reveals pharmacologically vulnerable mutations and gene dependencies (2021) - Communications Biology
  • Africa: sequence 100,000 species to safeguard biodiversity (2022) - Nature

The venues where Nicola Mulder frequently publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Microbiome
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • InterProScan: protein domains identifier.

    Emmanuel Quevillon;Ville Silventoinen;Sharmila Pillai;Nicola Harte

  • InterPro: the integrative protein signature database

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

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

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

  • The InterPro database, an integrated documentation resource for protein families, domains and functional sites

    Rolf Apweiler;Terri K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch;Alex Bateman

  • InterPro in 2011: new developments in the family and domain prediction database

    Sarah Hunter;Philip Jones;Alex Mitchell;Rolf Apweiler

  • InterPro, progress and status in 2005

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

  • The Gene Ontology project in 2008

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

  • New developments in the InterPro database

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

  • InterPro and InterProScan: tools for protein sequence classification and comparison.

    Nicola Mulder;Rolf Apweiler

  • The Gene Ontology Annotation (GOA) project: implementation of GO in SWISS-PROT, TrEMBL, and InterPro.

    Evelyn Camon;Michele Magrane;Daniel Barrell;David Binns

  • Integrative Annotation of 21,037 Human Genes Validated by Full-Length cDNA Clones

    Tadashi Imanishi;Takeshi Itoh;Yutaka Suzuki;Claire O'Donovan

  • InterPro--an integrated documentation resource for protein families, domains and functional sites

    Rolf Apweiler;Terri K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch;Alex Bateman

  • The minimum information required for reporting a molecular interaction experiment (MIMIx)

    Sandra Orchard;Lukasz Salwinski;Samuel Kerrien;Luisa Montecchi-Palazzi

  • InterPro: An integrated documentation resource for protein families, domains and functional sites

    Nicola J. Mulder;Rolf Apweiler;Terri K. Attwood;Amos Bairoch

  • A federated ecosystem for sharing genomic, clinical data

    A Page;D Baker;M Bobrow;K Boycott

  • H3ABioNet, a sustainable pan-African bioinformatics network for human heredity and health in Africa.

    Nicola J. Mulder;Ezekiel Adebiyi;Raouf Alami;Alia Benkahla

  • Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software

    Rafael C. Jiménez;Mateusz Kuzak;Monther Alhamdoosh;Michelle Barker

  • Manual GO annotation of predictive protein signatures: the InterPro approach to GO curation

    Sarah Burge;Elizabeth Kelly;David Lonsdale;Prudence Mutowo-Muellenet

  • Erratum: Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome: International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium (Nature (2001) 409 (860-921))

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • Function Prediction and Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Hypothetical Proteins

    Gaston K. Mazandu;Nicola J. Mulder

  • The development and application of bioinformatics core competencies to improve bioinformatics training and education.

    Nicola J. Mulder;Russell Schwartz;Michelle D. Brazas;Cath Brooksbank

  • Bioinformatics Education—Perspectives and Challenges out of Africa

    Özlem Tastan Bishop;Ezekiel F. Adebiyi;Ahmed M. Alzohairy;Dean Everett

  • From sets to graphs

    Ludwig Geistlinger;Gergely Csaba;Robert Küffner;Nicola Mulder

  • Gene Ontology semantic similarity tools: survey on features and challenges for biological knowledge discovery

    Gaston K. Mazandu;Gaston K. Mazandu;Emile R. Chimusa;Nicola J. Mulder

  • The H3Africa policy framework: negotiating fairness in genomics

    Jantina de Vries;Paulina Tindana;Katherine Littler;Michèle Ramsay

  • Machine Learning and Network Analyses Reveal Disease Subtypes of Pancreatic Cancer and their Molecular Characteristics.

    Musalula Sinkala;Nicola Mulder;Darren Martin

  • In silico characterization of proteins: UniProt, InterPro and Integr8.

    Nicola Jane Mulder;Paul Kersey;Manuela Pruess;Rolf Apweiler

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Apweiler
Rolf Apweiler European Bioinformatics Institute
Teresa K. Attwood
Teresa K. Attwood University of Manchester
Michèle Ramsay
Michèle Ramsay University of the Witwatersrand
Alex Bateman
Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute
Rodrigo Lopez
Rodrigo Lopez European Bioinformatics Institute
Henning Hermjakob
Henning Hermjakob European Bioinformatics Institute
Daniel Kahn
Daniel Kahn Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Paul Kersey
Paul Kersey European Bioinformatics Institute
Winston Hide
Winston Hide Harvard Medical School
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin University of Cambridge

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