Top articles since 2009

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51 Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome. Nat Biotechnol 2011 53.86
52 Global cancer statistics, 2012. CA Cancer J Clin 2015 53.52
53 New algorithms and methods to estimate maximum-likelihood phylogenies: assessing the performance of PhyML 3.0. Syst Biol 2010 53.37
54 MolProbity: all-atom structure validation for macromolecular crystallography. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 2009 53.36
55 BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features. Bioinformatics 2010 53.23
56 Safety, activity, and immune correlates of anti-PD-1 antibody in cancer. N Engl J Med 2012 52.99
57 Fast and accurate long-read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform. Bioinformatics 2010 52.01
58 Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST. Bioinformatics 2010 51.97
59 A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 50.94
60 Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2008. JAMA 2010 50.58
61 Preexposure chemoprophylaxis for HIV prevention in men who have sex with men. N Engl J Med 2010 50.17
62 Understanding the Warburg effect: the metabolic requirements of cell proliferation. Science 2009 49.82
63 RNA-guided human genome engineering via Cas9. Science 2013 48.29
64 A programmable dual-RNA-guided DNA endonuclease in adaptive bacterial immunity. Science 2012 48.17
65 Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma. Nature 2011 47.72
66 Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours. Nature 2012 47.39
67 Gefitinib or carboplatin-paclitaxel in pulmonary adenocarcinoma. N Engl J Med 2009 46.35
68 De novo assembly of human genomes with massively parallel short read sequencing. Genome Res 2009 45.91
69 Improved survival with vemurafenib in melanoma with BRAF V600E mutation. N Engl J Med 2011 45.46
70 Intratumor heterogeneity and branched evolution revealed by multiregion sequencing. N Engl J Med 2012 44.56
71 DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data. Bioinformatics 2009 44.48
72 Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data. Bioinformatics 2014 44.23
73 A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing. Nature 2010 43.63
74 ANNOVAR: functional annotation of genetic variants from high-throughput sequencing data. Nucleic Acids Res 2010 43.51
75 ABySS: a parallel assembler for short read sequence data. Genome Res 2009 43.20
76 Arlequin suite ver 3.5: a new series of programs to perform population genetics analyses under Linux and Windows. Mol Ecol Resour 2010 42.87
77 Integrative genomics viewer. Nat Biotechnol 2011 42.83
78 Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification. BMC Bioinformatics 2010 42.80
79 Emergence of a novel swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus in humans. N Engl J Med 2009 42.75
80 Health professionals for a new century: transforming education to strengthen health systems in an interdependent world. Lancet 2010 42.10
81 Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 291 diseases and injuries in 21 regions, 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 41.47
82 The MIQE guidelines: minimum information for publication of quantitative real-time PCR experiments. Clin Chem 2009 40.90
83 Emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance mechanism MCR-1 in animals and human beings in China: a microbiological and molecular biological study. Lancet Infect Dis 2015 40.89
84 Sequencing technologies - the next generation. Nat Rev Genet 2009 40.57
85 Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012. Int J Cancer 2014 40.30
86 MrBayes 3.2: efficient Bayesian phylogenetic inference and model choice across a large model space. Syst Biol 2012 40.23
87 Circos: an information aesthetic for comparative genomics. Genome Res 2009 40.02
88 Dabigatran versus warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation. N Engl J Med 2009 39.97
89 Galaxy: a comprehensive approach for supporting accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational research in the life sciences. Genome Biol 2010 39.63
90 Surviving sepsis campaign: international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock: 2012. Crit Care Med 2013 39.56
91 SOAP2: an improved ultrafast tool for short read alignment. Bioinformatics 2009 39.47
92 REFMAC5 for the refinement of macromolecular crystal structures. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 2011 39.32
93 Epithelial-mesenchymal transitions in development and disease. Cell 2009 39.17
94 Integrated genomic analysis identifies clinically relevant subtypes of glioblastoma characterized by abnormalities in PDGFRA, IDH1, EGFR, and NF1. Cancer Cell 2010 39.09
95 Regularization Paths for Generalized Linear Models via Coordinate Descent. J Stat Softw 2010 38.65
96 Predicting the effects of coding non-synonymous variants on protein function using the SIFT algorithm. Nat Protoc 2009 38.62
97 Reduced lung-cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomographic screening. N Engl J Med 2011 38.61
98 The Pfam protein families database. Nucleic Acids Res 2009 37.98
99 Prevalence of childhood and adult obesity in the United States, 2011-2012. JAMA 2014 36.94
100 Anaplastic lymphoma kinase inhibition in non-small-cell lung cancer. N Engl J Med 2010 36.78
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