Most-cited Genetics and Biochemistry papers of 2017, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Genetics and Biochemistry research papers published in 2017, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Ror2 signaling regulates Golgi structure and transport through IFT20 for tumor invasiveness
   Michiru Nishita, Seung‐Yeol Park et al. · 2017 · 15,803 citations · Free PDF
2. UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation
   Diep Thi Hoang, Olga Chernomor et al. · 2017 · 10,876 citations · Free PDF
3. GEPIA: a web server for cancer and normal gene expression profiling and interactive analyses
   Zefang Tang, Chenwei Li et al. · 2017 · 9,861 citations
4. MAFFT online service: multiple sequence alignment, interactive sequence choice and visualization
   Kazutaka Katoh, John Rozewicki et al. · 2017 · 8,919 citations
5. Unicycler: Resolving bacterial genome assemblies from short and long sequencing reads
   Ryan R. Wick, Louise M. Judd et al. · 2017 · 8,757 citations · Free PDF
6. NF-κB signaling in inflammation
   Ting Liu, Lingyun Zhang et al. · 2017 · 8,409 citations · Free PDF
7. DnaSP 6: DNA Sequence Polymorphism Analysis of Large Data Sets
   Julio Rozas, Albert Ferrer-Mata et al. · 2017 · 7,670 citations
8. Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers
   Dakota E. McCoy, Teresa J. Feo et al. · 2017 · 7,424 citations · Free PDF
9. Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cells
   Grace X. Y. Zheng, Jessica M. Terry et al. · 2017 · 7,405 citations · Free PDF
10. UALCAN: A Portal for Facilitating Tumor Subgroup Gene Expression and Survival Analyses
    Darshan Shimoga Chandrashekar, Bhuwan Bashel et al. · 2017 · 6,113 citations
11. ImageJ2: ImageJ for the next generation of scientific image data
    Curtis Rueden, Johannes Schindelin et al. · 2017 · 6,019 citations · Free PDF
12. Lanthanum Chloride Inhibits LPS Mediated Expressions of Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines and Adhesion Molecules in HUVECs: Involvement of NF-κB-Jmjd3 Signaling
    Xia Chen, Min Xiu et al. · 2017 · 5,746 citations
13. Interpreting findings from Mendelian randomization using the MR-Egger method
    Stephen Burgess, Simon G. Thompson · 2017 · 4,592 citations · Free PDF
14. xCell: digitally portraying the tissue cellular heterogeneity landscape
    Dvir Aran, Zicheng Hu et al. · 2017 · 4,404 citations · Free PDF
15. Liquid phase condensation in cell physiology and disease
    Yongdae Shin, Clifford P. Brangwynne · 2017 · 4,216 citations
16. ClinVar: improving access to variant interpretations and supporting evidence
    Melissa Landrum, Jennifer M. Lee et al. · 2017 · 4,204 citations
17. Functional mapping and annotation of genetic associations with FUMA
    Kyoko Watanabe, Erdogan Taskesen et al. · 2017 · 4,119 citations · Free PDF
18. Genetic effects on gene expression across human tissues
    François Aguet, Ayellet V. Segrè et al. · 2017 · 4,092 citations · Free PDF
19. mixOmics: An R package for ‘omics feature selection and multiple data integration
    Florian Rohart, Benoît Gautier et al. · 2017 · 4,030 citations · Free PDF
20. Nucleic acid detection with CRISPR-Cas13a/C2c2
    Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Omar O. Abudayyeh et al. · 2017 · 3,861 citations
21. Introduction to the human gut microbiota
    Elizabeth Thursby, Nathalie Juge · 2017 · 3,580 citations
22. Robust inference in summary data Mendelian randomization via the zero modal pleiotropy assumption
    Fernando Pires Hartwig, George Davey Smith et al. · 2017 · 3,516 citations
23. Oxidative Stress
    Helmut Sies, Carsten Berndt et al. · 2017 · 3,493 citations
24. Targeting the KEAP1-NRF2 System to Prevent Kidney Disease Progression
    Masahiro Nezu, Norio Suzuki et al. · 2017 · 3,451 citations
25. HMDB 4.0: the human metabolome database for 2018
    David Scott Wishart, Yannick Djoumbou-Feunang et al. · 2017 · 3,451 citations

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