AI + genetics – ETO Research Almanac

ETO Research Almanac

Between 2018 and 2023, researchers published roughly

7,000

English-language articles on AI + genetics

The global AI + genetics literature grew

109%

between 2018 and 2023

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 January 6, 2025

Vital signs

6,943
AI + genetics articles were released between 2018 and 2023 (estd.)
109%
growth in research between 2018 and 2023
<1%
of all artificial intelligence articles focused on AI + genetics

Citation impact

14
citations for the average AI + genetics article
16
citations for the average artificial intelligence article

Countries

23%
of AI + genetics articles have American authors
30%
have Chinese authors
14%
have European authors

Country	Articles (2018-2023)	Growth (2018-2023)	Global share	Citations per article
China	2,068	184%	30%	15
United States	1,612	108%	23%	22.8
India	745	70%	11%	8.2

Top-cited articles

Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning
2020: Nature. 2,797 citations
Predicting Splicing from Primary Sequence with Deep Learning
2019: Cell. 1,621 citations
NicheNet: modeling intercellular communication by linking ligands to target genes
2019: Nature methods. 1,186 citations
Dictionary learning for integrative, multimodal and scalable single-cell analysis
2022: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 798 citations
Identifying facial phenotypes of genetic disorders using deep learning
2018: Nature medicine. 579 citations
DNABERT: pre-trained Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers model for DNA-language in genome
2020: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 562 citations
Large language models generate functional protein sequences across diverse families
2023: Nature biotechnology. 536 citations
SpaGCN: Integrating gene expression, spatial location and histology to identify spatial domains and spatially variable genes by graph convolutional network
2021: Nature methods. 497 citations
Language models enable zero-shot prediction of the effects of mutations on protein function
2021: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 479 citations
Disease variant prediction with deep generative models of evolutionary data
2021: Nature. 477 citations

Research organizations

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

#1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
#2 Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
#3 University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (China)

Organization	Articles (2018-2023)	Citations per article	Country
Chinese Academy of Sciences	96	15.2	China
Shanghai Jiao Tong University	91	17.3	China
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	71	30.7	China

Patents and industry

5%
of AI + genetics articles are cited in patents
5%
of artificial intelligence articles are cited in patents
4%
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 (2018-2023)	Citations per article	Country
Google	17	235.4	United States
Microsoft	17	21.5	United States
Tencent	12	11.9	China

The Research Almanac runs on bibliometric data from Clarivate Web of Science and other sources. Research subject classifications are based on work supported in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2023-22358. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.