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About the npj Systems Biology and Applications format

npj Systems Biology and Applications is a peer-reviewed journal published by Springer Nature, covering Gene Regulatory Network Analysis, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction. Over its lifetime it has published 800 papers, which have received 13,159 citations.

PublisherSpringer Nature
Reference styleSuperscript numbered (Nature)
Superscript — small raised numerals in the text
1. Smith, A., Jones, B. & Lee, C. A representative article title. npj Systems Biology and Applications 12, 45–58 (2023).

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Publishes research inGene Regulatory Network Analysis Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics Computational Drug Discovery Methods
ISSN2056-7189
Citation impact (2-yr)4.27
h-index56
i10-index321
Article processing charge$2,990
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Journal websitewww.nature.com
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Papers published in npj Systems Biology and Applications per year

1
1997
9
2015
21
2016
41
2017
40
2018
40
2019
40
2020
49
2021
50
2022
64
2023
151
2024
169
2025

Citation impact of npj Systems Biology and Applications by publication year

0
1997
351
2015
1.7K
2016
1.7K
2017
1.8K
2018
1.5K
2019
1.1K
2020
1.3K
2021
791
2022
1.1K
2023
1.3K
2024
556
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in npj Systems Biology and Applications

L1000CDS2: LINCS L1000 characteristic direction signatures search engine

Qiaonan Duan, St. Patrick Reid, Neil R. Clark et al. · 4 Aug 2016

The library of integrated network-based cellular signatures (LINCS) L1000 data set currently comprises of over a million gene expression profiles of chemically perturbed human cell lines. Through unique several intrinsic and extrinsic benchmarking schemes, we demonstrate that processing the L1000 data with the characteristic direction (CD) method significantly improves signal to noise compared with the…

A machine learning approach to predict metabolic pathway dynamics from time-series multiomics data

Zak Costello, Héctor García Martín · 28 May 2018

New synthetic biology capabilities hold the promise of dramatically improving our ability to engineer biological systems. However, a fundamental hurdle in realizing this potential is our inability to accurately predict biological behavior after modifying the corresponding genotype. Kinetic models have traditionally been used to predict pathway dynamics in bioengineered systems, but they take significant time…

Synthetic and systems biology for microbial production of commodity chemicals

Victor Chubukov, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Christopher J. Petzold et al. · 7 Apr 2016

The combination of synthetic and systems biology is a powerful framework to study fundamental questions in biology and produce chemicals of immediate practical application such as biofuels, polymers, or therapeutics. However, we cannot yet engineer biological systems as easily and precisely as we engineer physical systems. In this review, we describe the path from the…

Regulation of amino-acid metabolism controls flux to lipid accumulation in Yarrowia lipolytica

Eduard J. Kerkhoven, Kyle Pomraning, Scott Baker et al. · 3 Mar 2016

Yarrowia lipolytica is a promising microbial cell factory for the production of lipids to be used as fuels and chemicals, but there are few studies on regulation of its metabolism. Here we performed the first integrated data analysis of Y. lipolytica grown in carbon and nitrogen limited chemostat cultures. We first reconstructed a genome-scale metabolic…

From expression footprints to causal pathways: contextualizing large signaling networks with CARNIVAL

Anika Liu, Panuwat Trairatphisan, Enio Gjerga et al. · 11 Nov 2019

While gene expression profiling is commonly used to gain an overview of cellular processes, the identification of upstream processes that drive expression changes remains a challenge. To address this issue, we introduce CARNIVAL, a causal network contextualization tool which derives network architectures from gene expression footprints. CARNIVAL (CAusal Reasoning pipeline for Network identification using Integer…

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What reference style does npj Systems Biology and Applications use?
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Nature Portfolio journal (Springer Nature). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by Springer Nature.
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