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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018

Systematic prediction of genes functionally linked to CRISPR-Cas systems by gene neighborhood analysis.

Sergey A Shmakov, Kira S Makarova, Yuri I Wolf, Konstantin V Severinov, Eugene V Koonin

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 96 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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96citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

96 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 167 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sergey A ShmakovCenter for Data-Intensive Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 143025 Skolkovo, Russia.
Kira S MakarovaNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894.
Yuri I WolfNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894.
Konstantin V SeverinovCenter for Data-Intensive Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 143025 Skolkovo, Russia.
Eugene V KooninNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894; koonin@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ORCID 0000-0003-3943-8299
National Center for Biotechnology Information · USRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · USSkolkovo Institute of Science and Technology · RU

Funding

Comparative Analysis Of Completely Sequenced GenomesZIALM000073 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI KOONIN, EUGENE V · 2009 to 2025
$43.1M
Finding Protein Sequence Motifs--Methods And ApplicationsZIALM000061 · NLM · NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE · PI KOONIN, EUGENE V · 2009 to 2025
$10.6M
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The CRISPR-Cas systems of bacterial and archaeal adaptive immunity consist of direct repeat arrays separated by unique spacers and multiple CRISPR-associated (

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ArchaeaBacteriaBase SequenceClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsComputer SimulationCRISPR-Associated ProteinsCRISPR-Cas SystemsEvolution, MolecularGenes, BacterialGenetic TestingGenome, ArchaealGenome, BacterialPhylogenyCRISPR-Associated Proteinscomputational genomicsCRISPR-Casgene neighborhoodsmembrane proteinssignaling

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PMID29784811
PMCPMC6003329
OpenAlexW2803102575

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