Standout Papers

MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput 2004 2026 2011 2018 33.5k
  1. MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput (2004)
    R. C. Edgar Nucleic Acids Research
  2. Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST (2010)
    R. C. Edgar Bioinformatics
  3. UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads (2013)
    R. C. Edgar Nature Methods
  4. UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection (2011)
    R. C. Edgar, Brian J. Haas et al. Bioinformatics
  5. MUSCLE: a multiple sequence alignment method with reduced time and space complexity (2004)
    R. C. Edgar BMC Bioinformatics
  6. Defining the core Arabidopsis thaliana root microbiome (2012)
    Derek S. Lundberg, Sarah L. Lebeis et al. Nature
  7. Error filtering, pair assembly and error correction for next-generation sequencing reads (2015)
    R. C. Edgar, Henrik Flyvbjerg Bioinformatics
  8. Updating the 97% identity threshold for 16S ribosomal RNA OTUs (2018)
    R. C. Edgar Bioinformatics
  9. Muscle5: High-accuracy alignment ensembles enable unbiased assessments of sequence homology and phylogeny (2022)
    R. C. Edgar Nature Communications
  10. Petabase-scale sequence alignment catalyses viral discovery (2022)
    R. C. Edgar, Victor S.-Y. Lin et al. Nature

Immediate Impact

8 by Nobel laureates 53 from Science/Nature 127 standout
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MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput
2004 Standout
MUSCLE: a multiple sequence alignment method with reduced time and space complexity
2004 Standout

Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
R. C. Edgar 40802 24913 21261 46 87.5k
David J. Lipman 64340 17686 22284 77 109.1k
Eugene W. Myers 49131 13732 18924 113 84.9k
Warren Gish 45510 13530 17951 19 78.2k
Stephen F. Altschul 92241 23959 34037 69 150.8k
Desmond G. Higgins 65929 17320 26181 131 117.8k
Toby J. Gibson 64530 15931 24274 146 114.2k
Julie Thompson 72797 23267 33640 121 136.0k
Webb Miller 42601 13220 17209 10 74.2k
M Nei 66461 31263 41398 68 149.7k
Joseph Felsenstein 43951 23925 21487 94 94.5k

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