🏆 Finalist — NIH Data Sharing Index (“S-Index”) Challenge

Brian F. Pfleger

University of Wisconsin–Madison

ORCID: 0000-0002-9232-9959

Also affiliated with BEST - Bioenergy and Sustainable Technologies (Austria)

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyEngineeringEnergy

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

Top 3%percentile
1.0Author DataRank

Indexed papers

1in pilot corpus
datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology
Why this DataRank?

An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 1 indexed paper attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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Top data-sharing exemplar

The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

Model-driven analysis of mutant fitness experiments improves genome-scale metabolic models of Zymomonas mobilis ZM4

PLoS Computational Biology(2020)10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008137
Top 20%
1.0DataRank
Top 20%19 citations

Dylan K. Courtney, Shu Pan, Ramon Bonela Andrade, Patricia J. Kiley, Brian F. Pfleger +2 more

Papers

Driven by 23 papers — median percentile 80. Top paper: “Model-driven analysis of mutant fitness experiments improves genome-scale metabolic models of Zymomonas mobilis ZM4”.

Model-driven analysis of mutant fitness experiments improves genome-scale metabolic models of Zymomonas mobilis ZM4

PLoS Computational Biology(2020)10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008137
Top 20%
1.0DataRank
Top 20%19 citations

Dylan K. Courtney, Shu Pan, Ramon Bonela Andrade, Patricia J. Kiley, Brian F. Pfleger +2 more

Metabolic engineering of β-oxidation to leverage thioesterases for production of 2-heptanone, 2-nonanone and 2-undecanone

Metabolic Engineering(2020)10.1016/j.ymben.2020.05.008
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
57 citations

Trevor R. Simmons, William T. Cordell, Néstor J. Hernández Lozada, Christian J. Breckner, Xuanqi Chen +3 more

Production of 1-octanol in Escherichia coli by a high flux thioesterase route

Metabolic Engineering(2020)10.1016/j.ymben.2020.07.004
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
52 citations

Trevor R. Simmons, Ke Xu, Michael A. Jindra, Brian F. Pfleger, Néstor J. Hernández Lozada

Enhancing Photosynthetic Production of Glycogen-Rich Biomass for Use as a Fermentation Feedstock

Frontiers in Energy Research(2020)10.3389/fenrg.2020.00093
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
21 citations

Joshua P. Abraham, Alexander J. Steiner, Travis C. Korosh, Andrew L. Markley, Brian F. Pfleger +1 more

Structural and Biosynthetic Analysis of the Fabrubactins, Unusual Siderophores from Agrobacterium fabrum Strain C58

ACS Chemical Biology(2020)10.1021/acschembio.0c00809
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
21 citations

Fan Zhang, Hyunjun Park, Taylor W. Cook, Kurt Throckmorton, Brian F. Pfleger +3 more

Genome-Wide Analysis of RNA Decay in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. Strain PCC 7002

mSystems(2020)10.1128/msystems.00224-20
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Jeffrey C. Cameron, Sanjan T. P. Gupta, Michael D. Engstrom, Jennifer L. Reed, Brian F. Pfleger +1 more

Machine learning-guided acyl-ACP reductase engineering for improved in vivo fatty alcohol production

Nature Communications(2021)10.1038/s41467-021-25831-w
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
102 citations

Sarah A. Fahlberg, Brian F. Pfleger, Philip A. Romero, Jonathan C. Greenhalgh

Stepwise genetic engineering of Pseudomonas putida enables robust heterologous production of prodigiosin and glidobactin A

Metabolic Engineering(2021)10.1016/j.ymben.2021.06.004
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
32 citations

Tyler B. Jacobson, Maya V. Venkataraman, Heike Hofstetter, Daniel Amador‐Noguez, Michael G. Thomas +2 more

Accelerating strain phenotyping with desorption electrospray ionization-imaging mass spectrometry and untargeted analysis of intact microbial colonies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2021)10.1073/pnas.2109633118
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
15 citations

Piyoosh Kumar Babele, Jody C. May, Carl Hirschie Johnson, Brian F. Pfleger, Jamey D. Young +2 more

Machine learning-guided acyl-ACP reductase engineering for improved in vivo fatty alcohol production

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.05.21.445192
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Sarah A. Fahlberg, Brian F. Pfleger, Philip A. Romero, Jonathan C. Greenhalgh

Accelerating Strain Engineering using Desorption Electrospray Ionization-Imaging Mass Spectrometry and Untargeted Molecular Analysis of Intact Microbial Colonies

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.04.01.438078
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Piyoosh Kumar Babele, Jody C. May, Carl Hirschie Johnson, Brian F. Pfleger, Jamey D. Young +2 more

Comparative functional genomics identifies an iron-limited bottleneck in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain with a cytosolic-localized isobutanol pathway

Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology(2022)10.1016/j.synbio.2022.02.007
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
12 citations

Ellen R. Wagner, Tyler B. Jacobson, Mary Tremaine, Laura K. Muehlbauer, Mick McGee +18 more

Combinatorial library design for improving isobutanol production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology(2022)10.3389/fbioe.2022.1080024
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
9 citations

Joshua J. Dietrich, Justin J. Baerwald, Stephanie Brown, Yun Su, Brian F. Pfleger +1 more

Model-guided design of the diversity of a synthetic human gut community

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.03.14.484355
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
10 citations

Sarah Ertmer, Ryan L. Clark, Jaron Thompson, Brian F. Pfleger, Ophelia S. Venturelli +1 more

Synthetic Biology Toolbox for Nitrogen-Fixing Soil Microbes

ACS Synthetic Biology(2023)10.1021/acssynbio.3c00414
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
34 citations

Audrey E. Yñigez‐Gutierrez, Valentina Infante, April M. MacIntyre, Paulo Ivan Fernandes‐Júnior, Jean‐Michel Ané +2 more

Control points for design of taxonomic composition in synthetic human gut communities

Cell Systems(2023)10.1016/j.cels.2023.11.007
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
16 citations

Jaron Thompson, Sarah Ertmer, Ryan L. Clark, Brian F. Pfleger, Ophelia S. Venturelli +1 more

Relative Activities of the β-Ketoacyl-CoA and Acyl-CoA Reductases Influence the Product Profile and Flux in a Reversed β-Oxidation Pathway

ACS Catalysis(2023)10.1021/acscatal.3c00379
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Yun Su, Tyler B. Jacobson, Daven B. Khana, Aditya R. Ailiani, Daniel Amador‐Noguez +2 more

Overcoming barriers to medium-chain fatty alcohol production

Current Opinion in Biotechnology(2024)10.1016/j.copbio.2023.103063
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
13 citations

Anna Mangus, William T. Cordell, Brian F. Pfleger, Yun Su

A Novel Membrane-Associated Protein Aids Bacterial Colonization of Maize

ACS Synthetic Biology(2024)10.1021/acssynbio.4c00489
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Valentina Infante, Grzegorz Sabat, Kai Sanos-Giles, Jean‐Michel Ané, Brian F. Pfleger +1 more

ACAD10 and ACAD11 enable mammalian 4-hydroxy acid lipid catabolism

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.01.09.574893
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
9 citations

Abigail K. Bartlett, Daven B. Khana, Jingying Zhang, Raghav Jain, Andrew J. H. Smith +10 more

A metabolic engineering strategy for producing poly-(3-hydroxyoctanoic acid) in Escherichia coli from glycerol

Metabolic Engineering(2025)10.1016/j.ymben.2025.08.009
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Ke Xu, Madeline K Kuckuk, William T. Cordell, Néstor J. Hernández Lozada, Brian F. Pfleger +1 more

Rewiring yeast metabolism to synthesize products beyond ethanol

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology(2020)10.1016/j.cbpa.2020.08.005
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
63 citations

Joshua J. Dietrich, Qiang Yan, Brian F. Pfleger, Francesca V. Gambacorta

Uncovering the substrate of olefin synthase loading domains in cyanobacteria Picosynechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002

RSC Chemical Biology(2025)10.1039/d4cb00234b
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Erin Conley, Michael G. Thomas, Brian F. Pfleger, Audrey E. Yñigez‐Gutierrez