AI + genetics – ETO Research Almanac

ETO Research Almanac

Between 2017 and 2022, researchers published roughly

3,000

English-language articles on AI + genetics

The global AI + genetics literature grew

162%

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 March 14, 2024

Vital signs

2,904
AI + genetics articles were released between 2017 and 2022 (estd.)
162%
growth in research between 2017 and 2022
<1%
of all artificial intelligence articles focused on AI + genetics

Citation impact

13
citations for the average AI + genetics article
16
citations for the average artificial intelligence article

Countries

27%
of AI + genetics articles have American authors
29%
have Chinese authors
12%
have European authors

Country	Articles (2017-2021)	Growth (2017-2021)	Global share	Citations per article
China	639	227%	29%	16.1
United States	587	113%	27%	26.6
India	156	54%	7%	9.4

Top-cited articles

Predicting Splicing from Primary Sequence with Deep Learning
2019: Cell. 1,198 citations
A cargo-sorting DNA robot
2017: Science (New York, N.Y.). 424 citations
Deep generative models of genetic variation capture the effects of mutations
2018: Nature methods. 377 citations
Deep-Learning Convolutional Neural Networks Accurately Classify Genetic Mutations in Gliomas
2018: American Journal of Neuroradiology. 336 citations
Generative models for graph-based protein design
2019: neural information processing systems. 311 citations
Deep learning at base-resolution reveals cis-regulatory motif syntax
2019: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 308 citations
Predicting the clinical impact of human mutation with deep neural networks
2018: Nature genetics. 271 citations
Learning protein sequence embeddings using information from structure
2019: arXiv. 235 citations
A statistical framework for cross-tissue transcriptome-wide association analysis
2018: bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). 224 citations
Applying and improving AlphaFold at CASP14
2021: Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics. 209 citations

Research organizations

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

#1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
#2 Harvard University (United States)
#3 Northwestern Polytechnical University (China)

Organization	Articles (2017-2022)	Citations per article	Country
Chinese Academy of Sciences	42	15	China
Harvard University	42	52.3	United States
Northwestern Polytechnical University	39	21.5	China

Patents and industry

5%
of AI + genetics articles are cited in patents
5%
of artificial intelligence articles are cited in patents
2%
of AI + genetics articles had authors from private companies (vs 4% of artificial intelligence articles in general)

Top industry organizations by publication count

Company	Articles (2017-2022)	Citations per article	Country
Google	8	58.6	United States
Microsoft	8	32.6	United States
Novo Nordisk	7	28	Denmark

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.