Ben Langmead

129.4k total citations · 9 hit papers
79 papers, 79.0k citations indexed

About

Ben Langmead is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Langmead has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 79.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 11 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Ben Langmead's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (47 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (23 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (17 papers). Ben Langmead is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (47 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (23 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (17 papers). Ben Langmead collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Italy. Ben Langmead's co-authors include Steven L. Salzberg, Daehwan Kim, Mihai Pop, Cole Trapnell, Jennifer Lu, Derrick E. Wood, Rafael A. Irizarry, Kasper D. Hansen, Jeffrey T. Leek and Héctor Corrada Bravo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Ben Langmead

73 papers receiving 78.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

2012 36.4k citations Ben Langmead, Steven L. Salzberg Nature Methods profile →
Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

2009 16.3k citations Ben Langmead, Steven L. Salzberg et al. Genome biology profile →
HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

2015 15.6k citations Daehwan Kim, Ben Langmead et al. Nature Methods profile →
Improved metagenomic analysis with Kraken 2

2019 3.6k citations Ben Langmead et al. Genome biology profile →
Tackling the widespread and critical impact of batch effects in high-throughput data

2010 1.4k citations Jeffrey T. Leek, Ben Langmead et al. profile →
Aligning Short Sequencing Reads with Bowtie

2010 955 citations Ben Langmead profile →
Increased methylation variation in epigenetic domains across cancer types

2011 752 citations Kasper D. Hansen, Ben Langmead et al. profile →
Scaling read aligners to hundreds of threads on general-purpose processors

2018 492 citations Ben Langmead, Christopher Wilks et al. Bioinformatics profile →
Metagenome analysis using the Kraken software suite

2022 309 citations Ben Langmead, Steven L. Salzberg et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ben Langmead United States	31	49.5k	18.4k	11.2k	8.7k	8.2k	79	79.0k
Simon Anders Germany	31	51.5k 1.0×	15.8k 0.9×	9.6k 0.9×	11.8k 1.4×	5.6k 0.7×	59	87.9k
Jun Wang China	107	34.0k 0.7×	11.7k 0.6×	9.5k 0.8×	7.9k 0.9×	4.3k 0.5×	1.9k	66.2k
Michael I. Love United States	31	39.1k 0.8×	11.3k 0.6×	7.0k 0.6×	8.9k 1.0×	4.6k 0.6×	93	68.1k
Wolfgang Huber Germany	72	67.0k 1.4×	17.8k 1.0×	12.6k 1.1×	14.6k 1.7×	5.9k 0.7×	249	109.8k
Minoru Kanehisa Japan	75	76.3k 1.5×	14.1k 0.8×	10.1k 0.9×	12.2k 1.4×	11.1k 1.3×	266	114.1k
Gábor Marth United States	34	32.6k 0.7×	13.2k 0.7×	21.3k 1.9×	5.9k 0.7×	6.1k 0.7×	74	60.2k
Robert E. Handsaker United States	23	31.4k 0.6×	12.4k 0.7×	21.2k 1.9×	5.8k 0.7×	5.6k 0.7×	28	59.7k
Sean R. Eddy United States	80	54.3k 1.1×	18.3k 1.0×	9.1k 0.8×	4.2k 0.5×	13.1k 1.6×	127	75.9k
Michael W. Pfaffl Germany	47	30.7k 0.6×	9.5k 0.5×	6.7k 0.6×	6.1k 0.7×	4.3k 0.5×	247	62.0k
Gonçalo R. Abecasis United States	85	41.4k 0.8×	13.2k 0.7×	36.0k 3.2×	7.5k 0.9×	5.8k 0.7×	198	88.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Langmead

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Langmead. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Langmead based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ben Langmead. Ben Langmead is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hwang, Stephen, et al.. (2025). Mem-based pangenome indexing for k-mer queries. Algorithms for Molecular Biology. 20(1). 3–3. 1 indexed citations

Boucher, Christina, et al.. (2025). Robust 16S rRNA classification based on a compressed LCA index. Genome Research. 35(12). 2650–2660.

Baker, Daniel N. & Ben Langmead. (2023). Genomic sketching with multiplicities and locality-sensitive hashing using Dashing 2. Genome Research. 33(7). gr.277655.123–gr.277655.123. 11 indexed citations

Rossi, Massimiliano, et al.. (2023). Efficient taxa identification using a pangenome index. Genome Research. 33(7). 1069–1077. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Huan, Brian Caffo, Genevieve Stein-O’Brien, et al.. (2022). Two-stage linked component analysis for joint decomposition of multiple biologically related data sets. Biostatistics. 23(4). 1200–1217. 3 indexed citations

Dyjack, Nathan, Daniel N. Baker, Vladimir Braverman, Ben Langmead, & Stephanie C. Hicks. (2022). A scalable and unbiased discordance metric with H +. Biostatistics. 25(1). 188–202. 1 indexed citations

Rossi, Massimiliano, Marco Antônio Oliva, Paola Bonizzoni, et al.. (2022). Finding Maximal Exact Matches Using the r-Index. Journal of Computational Biology. 29(2). 188–194. 1 indexed citations

Rossi, Massimiliano, Marco Antônio Oliva, Ben Langmead, Travis Gagie, & Christina Boucher. (2022). MONI: A Pangenomic Index for Finding Maximal Exact Matches. Journal of Computational Biology. 29(2). 169–187. 27 indexed citations

Chen, Nae-Chyun, et al.. (2021). LevioSAM: fast lift-over of variant-aware reference alignments. Bioinformatics. 37(22). 4243–4245. 8 indexed citations

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Wilks, Christopher, et al.. (2021). Megadepth: efficient coverage quantification for BigWigs and BAMs. Bioinformatics. 37(18). 3014–3016. 14 indexed citations

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Darby, Charlotte A., et al.. (2020). Vargas: heuristic-free alignment for assessing linear and graph read aligners. Bioinformatics. 36(12). 3712–3718. 15 indexed citations

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Kuhnle, Alan, et al.. (2020). Matching Reads to Many Genomes with the r -Index. Journal of Computational Biology. 27(4). 514–518. 5 indexed citations

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Wulfridge, Phillip, Ben Langmead, Andrew P. Feinberg, & Kasper D. Hansen. (2019). Analyzing whole genome bisulfite sequencing data from highly divergent genotypes. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(19). e117–e117. 18 indexed citations

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Boucher, Christina, et al.. (2019). Prefix-free parsing for building big BWTs. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 33 indexed citations

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Langmead, Ben, et al.. (2018). Scaling read aligners to hundreds of threads on general-purpose processors. Bioinformatics. 35(3). 421–432. 492 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wilks, Christopher, et al.. (2017). Snaptron: querying splicing patterns across tens of thousands of RNA-seq samples. Bioinformatics. 34(1). 114–116. 24 indexed citations

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Nellore, Abhinav, Christopher Wilks, Kasper D. Hansen, Jeffrey T. Leek, & Ben Langmead. (2016). Rail-dbGaP: analyzing dbGaP-protected data in the cloud with Amazon Elastic MapReduce. Bioinformatics. 32(16). 2551–2553. 3 indexed citations

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Nellore, Abhinav, Leonardo Collado‐Torres, Andrew E. Jaffe, et al.. (2016). Rail-RNA: scalable analysis of RNA-seq splicing and coverage. Bioinformatics. 33(24). 4033–4040. 38 indexed citations

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Kim, Daehwan, Ben Langmead, & Steven L. Salzberg. (2015). HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements. Nature Methods. 12(4). 357–360. 15557 indexed citations breakdown →

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Song, Li, Liliana Florea, & Ben Langmead. (2014). Lighter: fast and memory-efficient sequencing error correction without counting. Genome biology. 15(11). 509–509. 157 indexed citations

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