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. The variant call format and VCFtools (2011)
    Petr Danecek, Adam Auton et al. Bioinformatics
  4. Fast and accurate long-read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform (2010)
    Heng Li, Richard Durbin Bioinformatics
  5. An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes (2012)
    Gonçalo R. Abecasis, Adam Auton et al. Nature
  6. Systematic functional analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome using RNAi (2003)
    Ravi S. Kamath, Andrew Fraser et al. Nature
  7. Biological Sequence Analysis (1998)
    Richard Durbin, Sean R. Eddy et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks
  8. Mapping short DNA sequencing reads and calling variants using mapping quality scores (2008)
    Heng Li, Jue Ruan et al. Genome Research
  9. GeneWise and Genomewise (2004)
    Ewan Birney, Michèle Clamp et al. Genome Research
  10. Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences (2011)
    Heng Li, Richard Durbin Nature
  11. Pfam: A comprehensive database of protein domain families based on seed alignments (1997)
    Erik L. L. Sonnhammer, Sean R. Eddy et al. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
  12. EnsemblCompara GeneTrees: Complete, duplication-aware phylogenetic trees in vertebrates (2008)
    Albert J. Vilella, Jessica Severin et al. Genome Research
  13. Reference-based phasing using the Haplotype Reference Consortium panel (2016)
    Po‐Ru Loh, Petr Danecek et al. Nature Genetics
  14. A dot-matrix program with dynamic threshold control suited for genomic DNA and protein sequence analysis (1995)
    Erik L. L. Sonnhammer, Richard Durbin Gene
  15. Inferring human population size and separation history from multiple genome sequences (2014)
    Stephan Schiffels, Richard Durbin Nature Genetics
  16. Identifying and removing haplotypic duplication in primary genome assemblies (2020)
    Dengfeng Guan, Shane McCarthy et al. Bioinformatics
  17. A large genome center's improvements to the Illumina sequencing system (2008)
    Michael A. Quail, Iwanka Kozarewa et al. Nature Methods
  18. RNA sequence analysis using covariance models (1994)
    Sean R. Eddy, Richard Durbin Nucleic Acids Research
  19. Using probabilistic estimation of expression residuals (PEER) to obtain increased power and interpretability of gene expression analyses (2012)
    Oliver Stegle, Leopold Parts et al. Nature Protocols
  20. Efficient de novo assembly of large genomes using compressed data structures (2011)
    Jared T. Simpson, Richard Durbin Genome Research
  21. BCFtools/RoH: a hidden Markov model approach for detecting autozygosity from next-generation sequencing data (2016)
    Vagheesh M. Narasimhan, Petr Danecek et al. Bioinformatics
  22. Whole-genome sequences of Malawi cichlids reveal multiple radiations interconnected by gene flow (2018)
    Milan Malinsky, Hannes Svardal et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution
  23. YaHS: yet another Hi-C scaffolding tool (2022)
    Chenxi Zhou, Shane McCarthy et al. Bioinformatics
  24. Sequence locally, think globally: The Darwin Tree of Life Project (2022)
    Mark Blaxter, Nova Mieszkowska et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  25. Genome assembly in the telomere-to-telomere era (2024)
    Heng Li, Richard Durbin Nature Reviews Genetics

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Works of Richard Durbin being referenced

Detecting archaic introgression using an unadmixed outgroup
2018
The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
2009 Standout
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Richard Durbin 70817 41363 25951 164 126.6k
Heng Li 65684 34691 26061 277 117.2k
Steven L. Salzberg 106489 24093 45095 233 174.6k
Gonçalo R. Abecasis 40495 35101 12815 197 85.6k
Joseph Sambrook 77894 25639 23978 336 126.0k
Tom Maniatis 120104 34810 27282 278 188.4k
Prescott L. Deininger 62191 19915 22388 196 98.0k
Peer Bork 93864 14899 18121 510 140.1k
Desmond G. Higgins 65929 16763 26181 131 117.8k
Wolfgang Huber 64845 12160 17108 228 105.3k
Stephen F. Altschul 92241 19107 34037 69 150.8k

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