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  • 2026 - Research.com Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
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  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Germany Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2014 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Peer Bork is affiliated with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany and has made substantial contributions to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, alongside medicine. Their research spans several subfields including molecular biology, ecology, infectious diseases, epidemiology, and genetics.

The main topics in their work include:

  • Gut microbiota and health
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Microbial community ecology and physiology
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Liver disease diagnosis and treatment
  • Metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies

Peer Bork has published extensively in multiple venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • Journal of Hepatology

Some of their recent significant papers include:

  • Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v5: an online tool for phylogenetic tree display and annotation, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • The STRING database in 2021: customizable protein-protein networks, and functional characterization of user-uploaded gene/measurement sets, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • The STRING database in 2023: protein-protein association networks and functional enrichment analyses for any sequenced genome of interest, 2022, 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

Collaborations have been a significant part of their career. Peer Bork has frequently co-authored publications with the following researchers:

  • Thomas Schmidt
  • Anthony Fullam
  • Michael Kuhn
  • Shinichi Sunagawa
  • Luís Pedro Coelho

Peer Bork has received several distinctions including membership in notable scientific organizations. These awards include:

  • Member of the Academia Europaea, 2018
  • German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2014, in the field of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

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

  • STRING v11: protein-protein association networks with increased coverage, supporting functional discovery in genome-wide experimental datasets.

    Damian Szklarczyk;Annika L. Gable;David Lyon;Alexander Junge

  • A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations.

    Ivan A Adzhubei;Steffen Schmidt;Leonid Peshkin;Vasily E Ramensky

  • A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

    Junjie Qin;Ruiqiang Li;Jeroen Raes;Manimozhiyan Arumugam

  • STRING v10: protein–protein interaction networks, integrated over the tree of life

    Damian Szklarczyk;Andrea Franceschini;Stefan Wyder;Kristoffer Forslund

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

    Ivica Letunic;Peer Bork;Peer Bork;Peer Bork

  • Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

    Manimozhiyan Arumugam;Jeroen Raes;Eric Pelletier;Denis Le Paslier

  • Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

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

  • The STRING database in 2021: customizable protein-protein networks, and functional characterization of user-uploaded gene/measurement sets.

    Damian Szklarczyk;Annika L. Gable;Katerina C. Nastou;David Lyon

  • The STRING database in 2017: quality-controlled protein-protein association networks, made broadly accessible.

    Damian Szklarczyk;John H. Morris;Helen Cook;Michael Kuhn

  • Functional organization of the yeast proteome by systematic analysis of protein complexes

    Anne-Claude Gavin;Markus Bösche;Roland Krause;Paola Grandi

  • Richness of human gut microbiome correlates with metabolic markers

    Trine Nielsen;Junjie Qin;Edi Prifti

  • 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

  • STRING v9.1: protein-protein interaction networks, with increased coverage and integration

    Andrea Franceschini;Damian Szklarczyk;Sune Frankild;Michael Kuhn

  • 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

  • SMART, a simple modular architecture research tool: Identification of signaling domains

    Jörg Schultz;Frank Milpetz;Peer Bork;Chris P. Ponting

  • The STRING database in 2011: functional interaction networks of proteins, globally integrated and scored

    Damian Szklarczyk;Andrea Franceschini;Michael Kuhn;Milan Simonovic

  • Proteome survey reveals modularity of the yeast cell machinery

    Anne-Claude Gavin;Patrick Aloy;Paola Grandi;Roland Krause

  • SMART, a simple modular architecture research tool

    J Schultz;F Milpetz;P Bork;Chris Ponting

Frequent Co-Authors

Shinichi Sunagawa
Shinichi Sunagawa Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Jeroen Raes
Jeroen Raes KU Leuven
Ivica Letunic
Ivica Letunic European Bioinformatics Institute
Christian von Mering
Christian von Mering University of Zurich
Chris P. Ponting
Chris P. Ponting University of Edinburgh
Patrick Wincker
Patrick Wincker University of Paris-Saclay
Manimozhiyan Arumugam
Manimozhiyan Arumugam University of Copenhagen
Anne-Claude Gavin
Anne-Claude Gavin University of Geneva
Richard R. Copley
Richard R. Copley Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics
Jörg Schultz
Jörg Schultz University of Würzburg

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