AI + genetics – ETO Research Almanac

ETO Research Almanac

Between 2017 and 2022, researchers published roughly

5,000

English-language articles on AI + genetics

The global AI + genetics literature grew

180%

between 2017 and 2022

Articles on AI + genetics made up

<1%

of all articles on artificial intelligence

Authors from private companies contributed to

of AI + genetics articles

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Data last updated October 15, 2024

Vital signs

5,180
AI + genetics articles were released between 2017 and 2022 (estd.)
180%
growth in research between 2017 and 2022
<1%
of all artificial intelligence articles focused on AI + genetics

Citation impact

16
citations for the average AI + genetics article
20
citations for the average artificial intelligence article

Countries

25%
of AI + genetics articles have American authors
28%
have Chinese authors
14%
have European authors

Country	Articles (2017-2022)	Growth (2017-2022)	Global share	Citations per article
China	1,442	248%	28%	18.8
United States	1,279	135%	25%	27.4
India	559	81%	11%	8.4

Top-cited articles

Reversed graph embedding resolves complex single-cell trajectories
2017: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 2,966 citations
Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning
2020: Nature. 2,636 citations
Predicting Splicing from Primary Sequence with Deep Learning
2019: Cell. 1,481 citations
SignalP 6.0 predicts all five types of signal peptides using protein language models
2022: Nature biotechnology. 1,158 citations
Dictionary learning for integrative, multimodal and scalable single-cell analysis
2022: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 494 citations
Deep generative models of genetic variation capture mutation effects
2017: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 474 citations
A cargo-sorting DNA robot
2017: Science (New York, N.Y.). 461 citations
Modeling aspects of the language of life through transfer-learning protein sequences
2019: BMC bioinformatics. 429 citations
Language models enable zero-shot prediction of the effects of mutations on protein function
2021: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 408 citations
DeepConv-DTI: Prediction of drug-target interactions via deep learning with convolution on protein sequences
2018: PLoS computational biology. 401 citations

Research organizations

Top producers of AI + genetics research (by article count)

#1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
#2 Tsinghua University (China)
#3 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)

Organization	Articles (2017-2022)	Citations per article	Country
Chinese Academy of Sciences	60	18.7	China
Tsinghua University	56	31.7	China
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	54	73	China

Patents and industry

6%
of AI + genetics articles are cited in patents
6%
of artificial intelligence articles are cited in patents
5%
of AI + genetics articles had authors from private companies (vs 6% of artificial intelligence articles in general)

Top industry organizations by publication count

Company	Articles (2017-2022)	Citations per article	Country
Microsoft	14	33.6	United States
Google	11	313.5	United States
Tencent	9	13.2	China

The Research Almanac runs on bibliometric data from Clarivate Web of Science and other sources. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.