Top articles since 2009

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1 Structure validation in chemical crystallography. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 2009 1216.15
2 Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome. Genome Biol 2009 235.12
3 The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools. Bioinformatics 2009 232.39
4 MEGA5: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis using maximum likelihood, evolutionary distance, and maximum parsimony methods. Mol Biol Evol 2011 220.97
5 Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform. Bioinformatics 2009 190.94
6 Global cancer statistics. CA Cancer J Clin 2011 185.92
7 Crystal structure refinement with SHELXL. Acta Crystallogr C Struct Chem 2015 158.65
8 Hallmarks of cancer: the next generation. Cell 2011 140.01
9 Systematic and integrative analysis of large gene lists using DAVID bioinformatics resources. Nat Protoc 2009 137.99
10 A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing. Nature 2010 121.13
11 MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 6.0. Mol Biol Evol 2013 112.81
12 PHENIX: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 2010 108.52
13 Cancer statistics, 2010. CA Cancer J Clin 2010 103.28
14 The Genome Analysis Toolkit: a MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data. Genome Res 2010 97.51
15 MicroRNAs: target recognition and regulatory functions. Cell 2009 92.17
16 Estimates of worldwide burden of cancer in 2008: GLOBOCAN 2008. Int J Cancer 2010 90.16
17 Features and development of Coot. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 2010 89.46
18 Cancer statistics, 2012. CA Cancer J Clin 2012 87.38
19 QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data. Nat Methods 2010 85.34
20 Cancer statistics, 2013. CA Cancer J Clin 2013 84.72
21 NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis. Nat Methods 2012 84.41
22 Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2. Nat Methods 2012 83.79
23 Cancer statistics, 2009. CA Cancer J Clin 2009 83.57
24 TopHat: discovering splice junctions with RNA-Seq. Bioinformatics 2009 81.13
25 A method and server for predicting damaging missense mutations. Nat Methods 2010 78.53
26 New response evaluation criteria in solid tumours: revised RECIST guideline (version 1.1). Eur J Cancer 2009 77.71
27 Introducing mothur: open-source, platform-independent, community-supported software for describing and comparing microbial communities. Appl Environ Microbiol 2009 77.55
28 Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation. Nat Biotechnol 2010 75.21
29 Cancer statistics, 2014. CA Cancer J Clin 2014 72.81
30 A new equation to estimate glomerular filtration rate. Ann Intern Med 2009 71.41
31 Prevention of HIV-1 infection with early antiretroviral therapy. N Engl J Med 2011 69.36
32 Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases. Nature 2009 67.95
33 Overview of the CCP4 suite and current developments. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 2011 67.55
34 XDS. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 2010 67.46
35 Improved survival with ipilimumab in patients with metastatic melanoma. N Engl J Med 2010 67.34
36 edgeR: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data. Bioinformatics 2009 67.17
37 Clinical utility of sperm DNA fragmentation testing: practice recommendations based on clinical scenarios. Transl Androl Urol 2016 66.58
38 Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: the PRISMA statement. PLoS Med 2009 65.36
39 GenAlEx 6.5: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research--an update. Bioinformatics 2012 65.14
40 An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome. Nature 2012 64.73
41 Differential expression analysis for sequence count data. Genome Biol 2010 64.56
42 SPAdes: a new genome assembly algorithm and its applications to single-cell sequencing. J Comput Biol 2012 62.36
43 An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes. Nature 2012 59.82
44 A framework for variation discovery and genotyping using next-generation DNA sequencing data. Nat Genet 2011 59.36
45 RNA-Seq: a revolutionary tool for transcriptomics. Nat Rev Genet 2009 58.77
46 Cancer statistics, 2015. CA Cancer J Clin 2015 57.51
47 Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis. Nat Methods 2012 56.92
48 Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. Lancet 2012 56.72
49 Multiplex genome engineering using CRISPR/Cas systems. Science 2013 55.53
50 Potential etiologic and functional implications of genome-wide association loci for human diseases and traits. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009 54.68
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