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Rainer Breitling

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
78
Citations
26996
World Ranking
4478
National Ranking
338

Rainer Breitling publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rainer Breitling sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 270 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Rainer Breitling D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rainer Breitling sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Rainer Breitling is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research spans primarily the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on subfields including Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Genetics, Biotechnology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics notably:

  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
  • Plant Biochemistry and Biosynthesis
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
  • Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
  • Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
  • Silk-based Biomaterials and Applications

Recent publications by Rainer Breitling include:

  • "Host Systems for the Production of Recombinant Spider Silk," 2020, Trends in Biotechnology
  • "Engineering Escherichia coli towards de novo production of gatekeeper (2S)-flavanones: naringenin, pinocembrin, eriodictyol and homoeriodictyol," 2020, Synthetic Biology
  • "Rapid prototyping of microbial production strains for the biomanufacture of potential materials monomers," 2020, Metabolic Engineering
  • "Exploring novel bacterial terpene synthases," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Bioengineering horizon scan 2020," 2020, eLife

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Eriko Takano
  • Nigel S. Scrutton
  • Erik K. R. Hanko
  • Cunyu Yan
  • Francesco Del Carratore

The scientist has published frequently in the following venues:

  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Materials Today Bio
  • ACS Synthetic Biology
  • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Bioinformatics

Best Publications

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

    Tilmann Weber;Kai Blin;Srikanth Duddela;Daniel Krug

  • 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

  • Rank products: a simple, yet powerful, new method to detect differentially regulated genes in replicated microarray experiments ☆

    Rainer Breitling;Patrick Armengaud;Anna Amtmann;Pawel Herzyk

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

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

  • 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

  • RankProd: a bioconductor package for detecting differentially expressed genes in meta-analysis

    Fangxin Hong;Rainer Breitling;Connor W. Mcentee;Ben S. Wittner

  • Mass appeal: metabolite identification in mass spectrometry-focused untargeted metabolomics

    Warwick B Dunn;Alexander Erban;Ralf J M Weber;Darren John Creek;Darren John Creek

  • The Potassium-Dependent Transcriptome of Arabidopsis Reveals a Prominent Role of Jasmonic Acid in Nutrient Signaling

    Patrick Armengaud;Rainer Breitling;Anna Amtmann

  • C-elegans model identifies genetic modifiers of alpha-synuclein inclusion formation during aging

    Tjakko J. van Ham;Karen L. Thijssen;Rainer Breitling;Robert M. W. Hofstra

  • Toward global metabolomics analysis with hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry: improved metabolite identification by retention time prediction.

    Darren J. Creek;Darren J. Creek;Andris Jankevics;Rainer Breitling;David G. Watson

  • Regulation of ubiquitin-binding proteins by monoubiquitination.

    Daniela Hoeller;Nicola Crosetto;Blagoy Blagoev;Camilla Raiborg

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

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

  • IDEOM : an Excel interface for analysis of LC-MS-based metabolomics data

    Darren J. Creek;Darren J. Creek;Andris Jankevics;Karl E. V. Burgess;Rainer Breitling

  • Mapping Determinants of Gene Expression Plasticity by Genetical Genomics in C. elegans

    Yang Li;Olga Alda Álvarez;Evert W Gutteling;Marcel Tijsterman

  • GeneRank: Using search engine technology for the analysis of microarray experiments

    Julie L Morrison;Julie L Morrison;Rainer Breitling;Desmond J Higham;David R Gilbert

  • A comparison of meta-analysis methods for detecting differentially expressed genes in microarray experiments

    Fangxin Hong;Rainer Breitling

  • System-wide molecular evidence for phenotypic buffering in Arabidopsis.

    Jingyuan Fu;Joost J B Keurentjes;Harro Bouwmeester;Twan America

  • DiffCoEx: A simple and sensitive method to find differentially coexpressed gene modules

    Bruno M Tesson;Rainer Breitling;Rainer Breitling;Ritsert C Jansen;Ritsert C Jansen

  • What is Systems Biology

    Rainer Breitling;Rainer Breitling

Frequent Co-Authors

Eriko Takano
Eriko Takano University of Manchester
Nigel S. Scrutton
Nigel S. Scrutton University of Manchester
Marnix H. Medema
Marnix H. Medema Wageningen University & Research
Michael P. Barrett
Michael P. Barrett University of Glasgow
Ritsert C. Jansen
Ritsert C. Jansen University of Groningen
David Gilbert
David Gilbert Brunel University London
Jean-Loup Faulon
Jean-Loup Faulon University of Paris-Saclay
Neil Swainston
Neil Swainston Epoch BioDesign
Philip Shapira
Philip Shapira University of Manchester
Jean-Claude Dujardin
Jean-Claude Dujardin Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp

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