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97
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1708
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951

Sean R. Eddy 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 Sean R. Eddy sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 162 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sean R. Eddy 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 Sean R. Eddy sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Sean R. Eddy is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields including molecular biology, cancer research, plant science, nephrology, and social psychology.

The main topics of Sean R. Eddy's work include:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Sean R. Eddy include:

  • "Rfam 14: expanded coverage of metagenomic, viral and microRNA families," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "A genetic, genomic, and computational resource for exploring neural circuit function," 2020, eLife
  • "Many, but not all, lineage-specific genes can be explained by homology detection failure," 2020, PLoS Biology
  • "Estimating the power of sequence covariation for detecting conserved RNA structure," 2020, Bioinformatics
  • "Mixing genome annotation methods in a comparative analysis inflates the apparent number of lineage-specific genes," 2022, Current Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sean R. Eddy include:

  • Caroline M. Weisman
  • Andrew W. Murray
  • Matthias Kretzler
  • Elena Rivas
  • Samantha Petti

The publication venues where Sean R. Eddy most often appears are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Bioinformatics

In recognition of contributions to the scientific community, Sean R. Eddy was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

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

  • The Pfam protein families database

    Marco Punta;Penny C. Coggill;Ruth Y. Eberhardt;Jaina Mistry

  • tRNAscan-SE: a program for improved detection of transfer RNA genes in genomic sequence.

    Todd M. Lowe;Sean R. Eddy

  • Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

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

  • Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids

    Richard Durbin;Sean Eddy;Anders Stærmose Krogh;Graeme Mitchison

  • Profile hidden Markov models.

    Sean R. Eddy

  • Pfam: the protein families database.

    Robert D. Finn;Alex Bateman;Jody Clements;Penelope Coggill

  • Accelerated Profile HMM Searches

    Sean R. Eddy

  • The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future

    Robert D. Finn;Penelope Coggill;Ruth Y. Eberhardt;Ruth Y. Eberhardt;Sean R. Eddy;Sean R. Eddy

  • HMMER web server: interactive sequence similarity searching

    Robert D. Finn;Jody Clements;Sean R. Eddy

  • The Pfam protein families database in 2019.

    Sara El-Gebali;Jaina Mistry;Alex Bateman;Sean R Eddy

  • Infernal 1.1: 100-fold faster RNA homology searches

    Eric P. Nawrocki;Sean R. Eddy

  • Pfam: clans, web tools and services

    Robert D. Finn;Jaina Mistry;Benjamin Schuster-Böckler;Sam Griffiths-Jones

  • A uniform system for microRNA annotation

    Victor R. Ambros;Bonnie Bartel;David P. Bartel;Christopher B. Burge

  • Infernal 1.0

    Eric P. Nawrocki;Diana L. Kolbe;Sean R. Eddy

  • Non-coding RNA genes and the modern RNA world.

    Sean R. Eddy

  • HMMER web server: 2018 update.

    Simon C Potter;Aurélien Luciani;Sean R Eddy;Youngmi Park

  • Rfam: an RNA family database

    Sam Griffiths-Jones;Alex Bateman;Mhairi Marshall;Ajay Khanna

  • Rfam: annotating non-coding RNAs in complete genomes

    Sam Griffiths-Jones;Simon Moxon;Mhairi Marshall;Ajay Khanna

  • What is dynamic programming

    Sean R Eddy

Frequent Co-Authors

Alex Bateman
Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute
Anders Krogh
Anders Krogh University of Copenhagen
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin University of Cambridge
Elaine R. Mardis
Elaine R. Mardis The Ohio State University
John Douglas Mcpherson
John Douglas Mcpherson University of California, Davis
Robert H. Waterston
Robert H. Waterston University of Washington
Sam Griffiths-Jones
Sam Griffiths-Jones University of Manchester
Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Patrick Minx
Patrick Minx Washington University in St. Louis
Marco A. Marra
Marco A. Marra University of British Columbia

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