The emergence of large-scale, high-throughput technologies for analyzing epigenetic modifications and RNAs has fueled growth in these fields. Seminal publications appeared describing DNA nanotechnology, characterizing the gut microbiome and disclosing new platforms for DNA/RNA sequencing. China continues its march in terms of numbers of papers, but US institutions still accrue the most citations.

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Top 25 institutions publishing in biotech in 2009

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Number of biotech articles published by region

Top cited papers published in 2009 by field