Standout Papers

Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets 2006 2026 2012 2019 3.6k
  1. Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets (2011)
    Robert Schmieder, Robert A. Edwards Bioinformatics
  2. The SEED and the Rapid Annotation of microbial genomes using Subsystems Technology (RAST) (2013)
    Ross Overbeek, Robert Olson et al. Nucleic Acids Research
  3. The metagenomics RAST server – a public resource for the automatic phylogenetic and functional analysis of metagenomes (2008)
    Folker Meyer, M. D'Souza et al. BMC Bioinformatics
  4. RASTtk: A modular and extensible implementation of the RAST algorithm for building custom annotation pipelines and annotating batches of genomes (2015)
    Thomas Brettin, James J. Davis et al. Scientific Reports
  5. Community Genomics Among Stratified Microbial Assemblages in the Ocean's Interior (2006)
    Edward F. DeLong, Christina M. Preston et al. Science
  6. The Marine Viromes of Four Oceanic Regions (2006)
    Florent Angly, Ben Felts et al. PLoS Biology
  7. Viral metagenomics (2005)
    Robert A. Edwards, Forest Rohwer Nature Reviews Microbiology
  8. A highly abundant bacteriophage discovered in the unknown sequences of human faecal metagenomes (2014)
    Bas E. Dutilh, Noriko A. Cassman et al. Nature Communications
  9. Nitrogen control in bacteria (1995)
    M. J. Merrick, Robert A. Edwards Microbiological Reviews
  10. Gene-centric metagenomics of the fiber-adherent bovine rumen microbiome reveals forage specific glycoside hydrolases (2009)
    Jennifer M. Brulc, Dionysios A. Antonopoulos et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  11. Fast Identification and Removal of Sequence Contamination from Genomic and Metagenomic Datasets (2011)
    Robert Schmieder, Robert A. Edwards PLoS ONE

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8 by Nobel laureates 55 from Science/Nature 122 standout
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The metagenomics RAST server – a public resource for the automatic phylogenetic and functional analysis of metagenomes
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Robert A. Edwards 15371 14551 2860 4441 213 29.2k
George M Garrity 13911 9946 2507 4170 234 27.7k
Gary L. Andersen 15405 10424 2379 4625 210 33.7k
Wolfgang Ludwig 22479 22768 3992 4239 301 49.0k
Jack A. Gilbert 17518 13334 2405 4855 377 37.7k
Christopher Quince 16684 13644 2500 4729 109 33.4k
Mitchell L. Sogin 22592 15364 2352 2627 211 38.2k
James R. Cole 15878 12770 2875 4598 88 34.9k
Norman R. Pace 24028 13795 2154 2307 251 37.1k
Frank Oliver Glöckner 27457 24693 3995 7483 155 55.1k
Donovan H. Parks 22687 19208 3348 5198 62 42.2k

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