Standout Papers

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools 2009 2026 2014 2020 38.6k
  1. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools (2009)
    Heng Li, Robert E. Handsaker et al. Bioinformatics
  2. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform (2009)
    Heng Li, Richard Durbin Bioinformatics
  3. Fast and accurate long-read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform (2010)
    Heng Li, Richard Durbin Bioinformatics
  4. Minimap2: pairwise alignment for nucleotide sequences (2018)
    Heng Li Bioinformatics
  5. Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools (2021)
    Petr Danecek, James Bonfield et al. GigaScience
  6. A statistical framework for SNP calling, mutation discovery, association mapping and population genetical parameter estimation from sequencing data (2011)
    Heng Li Bioinformatics
  7. Mapping short DNA sequencing reads and calling variants using mapping quality scores (2008)
    Heng Li, Jue Ruan et al. Genome Research
  8. Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences (2011)
    Heng Li, Richard Durbin Nature
  9. EnsemblCompara GeneTrees: Complete, duplication-aware phylogenetic trees in vertebrates (2008)
    Albert J. Vilella, Jessica Severin et al. Genome Research
  10. Minimap and miniasm: fast mapping and de novo assembly for noisy long sequences (2016)
    Heng Li Bioinformatics
  11. Fast and accurate long-read assembly with wtdbg2 (2019)
    Jue Ruan, Heng Li Nature Methods
  12. A polymer scaffold for self-healing perovskite solar cells (2016)
    Yicheng Zhao, Jing Wei et al. Nature Communications
  13. Toward better understanding of artifacts in variant calling from high-coverage samples (2014)
    Heng Li Bioinformatics
  14. New strategies to improve minimap2 alignment accuracy (2021)
    Heng Li Bioinformatics
  15. A survey of sequence alignment algorithms for next-generation sequencing (2010)
    Heng Li, Natalie Homer Briefings in Bioinformatics
  16. New Variants of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus, China, 2011 (2012)
    Wentao Li, Heng Li et al. Emerging infectious diseases
  17. New Variants of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus, China, 2011 (2012)
    Wentao Li, Heng Li et al. Emerging infectious diseases
  18. Three-dimensional genome structures of single diploid human cells (2018)
    Longzhi Tan, Dong Xing et al. Science
  19. The Date of Interbreeding between Neandertals and Modern Humans (2012)
    Sriram Sankararaman, Hon‐Cheong So et al. PLoS Genetics
  20. Haplotype-resolved assembly of diploid genomes without parental data (2022)
    Haoyu Cheng, Erich D. Jarvis et al. Nature Biotechnology
  21. HTSlib: C library for reading/writing high-throughput sequencing data (2021)
    James Bonfield, John Marshall et al. GigaScience
  22. Protein-to-genome alignment with miniprot (2023)
    Heng Li Bioinformatics
  23. compleasm: a faster and more accurate reimplementation of BUSCO (2023)
    Neng Huang, Heng Li Bioinformatics
  24. Genome assembly in the telomere-to-telomere era (2024)
    Heng Li, Richard Durbin Nature Reviews Genetics

Immediate Impact

72 by Nobel laureates 51 from Science/Nature 196 standout
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Works of Heng Li being referenced

The Date of Interbreeding between Neandertals and Modern Humans
2012 StandoutNobel
A direct characterization of human mutation based on microsatellites
2012
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Heng Li 65684 26061 34691 277 117.2k
Richard Durbin 70817 25951 41363 164 126.6k
Joseph Sambrook 77894 23978 25639 336 126.0k
Steven L. Salzberg 106489 45095 24093 233 174.6k
Peer Bork 93864 18121 14899 510 140.1k
Tom Maniatis 120104 27282 34810 278 188.4k
Prescott L. Deininger 62191 22388 19915 196 98.0k
Gonçalo R. Abecasis 40495 12815 35101 197 85.6k
Desmond G. Higgins 65929 26181 16763 131 117.8k
Wolfgang Huber 64845 17108 12160 228 105.3k
Minoru Kanehisa 73697 13696 9876 253 109.5k

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