Ben Murrell

18.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
85 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Ben Murrell is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Murrell has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Infectious Diseases, 34 papers in Molecular Biology and 25 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Ben Murrell's work include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (26 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (25 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers). Ben Murrell is often cited by papers focused on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research (26 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (25 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers). Ben Murrell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and South Africa. Ben Murrell's co-authors include Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Konrad Scheffler, Darren P. Martin, Brejnev Muhire, Michael Golden, Joel O. Wertheim, Thomas Weighill, Daniel J. Sheward, Davey M. Smith and Steven Weaver and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ben Murrell

81 papers receiving 9.0k 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.

RDP4: Detection and analysis of recombination patterns in virus genomes

2015 2.5k citations Darren P. Martin, Ben Murrell et al. Virus Evolution profile →
Detecting Individual Sites Subject to Episodic Diversifying Selection

2012 1.2k citations Ben Murrell, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond et al. profile →
FUBAR: A Fast, Unconstrained Bayesian AppRoximation for Inferring Selection

2013 932 citations Ben Murrell, Daniel J. Sheward et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
Less Is More: An Adaptive Branch-Site Random Effects Model for Efficient Detection of Episodic Diversifying Selection

2015 486 citations Ben Murrell, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
RELAX: Detecting Relaxed Selection in a Phylogenetic Framework

2014 467 citations Ben Murrell, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
Gene-Wide Identification of Episodic Selection

2015 383 citations Ben Murrell, Kemal Eren et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
HyPhy 2.5—A Customizable Platform for Evolutionary Hypothesis Testing Using Phylogenies

2019 367 citations Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Ben Murrell et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
RDP5: a computer program for analyzing recombination in, and removing signals of recombination from, nucleotide sequence datasets

2020 338 citations Darren P. Martin, Venkatesh Kumar et al. Virus Evolution profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Murrell

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Detection of PCR chimeras in adaptive immune receptor repertoire sequences 2025 ·Bioinformatics ·(unknown), (unknown), Martin Corcoran, Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam, Ben Murrell	0
2	Optimized SMRT-UMI protocol produces highly accurate sequence datasets from diverse populations—Application to HIV-1 quasispecies 2024 ·Virus Evolution ·(unknown), Wenjie Deng, Alec Pankow, (unknown), Lennie Chen, Hong Zhao, Carolyn Williamson, Morgane Rolland, Ben Murrell, James I. Mullins	2
3	Multi-compartmental diversification of neutralizing antibody lineages dissected in SARS-CoV-2 spike-immunized macaques 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Hrishikesh Das, (unknown), (unknown), Chang-Il Kim, (unknown), Xaquín Castro Dopico, (unknown), Sungyong Kim, (unknown), Mónika Ádori, (unknown), (unknown), Leo Hanke, Gerald M. McInerney, Daniel J. Sheward, Martin Corcoran, B.M. Hallberg, Ben Murrell, Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam	3
4	SARS-CoV-2 spike HexaPro formulated in aluminium hydroxide and administered in an accelerated vaccination schedule partially protects Syrian Hamsters against viral challenge despite low neutralizing antibody responses 2023 ·Frontiers in Immunology ·Dennis Christensen, Charlotta Polacek, Daniel J. Sheward, Leo Hanke, Gerald M. McInerney, Ben Murrell, (unknown), Henrik Elvang Jensen, (unknown), Gregers Jungersen, (unknown), (unknown), Carlota Fernandez-Antunez, Santseharay Ramírez, Jens Bukh, Gabriel Kristian Pedersen	5
5	SARS-CoV-2 evolution in the Omicron era 2023 ·Nature Microbiology ·Cornelius Roemer, Daniel J. Sheward, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kenta Sato, Áine O’Toole, Andrew Rambaut, Oliver G. Pybus, Christopher Ruis, Ben Murrell, Thomas P. Peacock	54
6	Phenotypic characterization of single CD4+ T cells harboring genetically intact and inducible HIV genomes 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Caroline Dufour, Corentin Richard, Marion Pardons, Marta Massanella, (unknown), Ben Murrell, Bertrand Routy, Réjean Thomas, Jean‐Pierre Routy, Rémi Fromentin, Nicolas Chomont	23
7	Vaccination of SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals expands a broad range of clonally diverse affinity-matured B cell lineages 2023 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Mrunal Sakharkar, Ruth I. Connor, Haley L. Dugan, Daniel J. Sheward, C. Garrett Rappazzo, (unknown), Mattias N.E. Forsell, Peter F. Wright, Martin Corcoran, Ben Murrell, Laura M. Walker, Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam	5
8	A Multiparametric and High-Throughput Platform for Host–Virus Binding Screens 2023 ·Nano Letters ·Jan Schlegel, (unknown), (unknown), Leo Hanke, (unknown), Hjalmar Brismar, Ben Murrell, Gerald M. McInerney, Óscar Fernández-Capetillo, Erdinç Sezgin	1
9	Recombinant multimeric dog allergen prevents airway hyperresponsiveness in a model of asthma marked by vigorous T _H 2 and T _H 17 cell responses 2022 ·Allergy ·Julian M. Stark, (unknown), Christopher A. Tibbitt, (unknown), Junjie Ma, (unknown), Josefine Dunst, Taras Kreslavsky, Ben Murrell, Mikael Adner, Hans Grönlund, Guro Gafvelin, Jonathan M. Coquet	6
10	Conserved recombination patterns across coronavirus subgenera 2022 ·Virus Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Spyros Lytras, Oscar A. MacLean, David L. Robertson, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, (unknown), Venkatesh Kumar, Michael J. Stanhope, Gordon W. Harkins, Ben Murrell, Darren P. Martin	22
11	Probabilistic classification of anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 antibody responses improves seroprevalence estimates 2022 ·Clinical & Translational Immunology ·Xaquín Castro Dopico, Sandra Muschiol, Nastasiya F. Grinberg, Soo Aleman, Daniel J. Sheward, Leo Hanke, (unknown), (unknown), Mattias N.E. Forsell, Jonathan M. Coquet, Gerald M. McInerney, Joakim Dillner, Gordana Bogdanović, Ben Murrell, Jan Albert, Chris Wallace, Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam	3
12	A bispecific monomeric nanobody induces spike trimer dimers and neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 in vivo 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Leo Hanke, Hrishikesh Das, Daniel J. Sheward, Laura Perez Vidakovics, Egon Urgard, Ainhoa Moliner Morro, Chang-Il Kim, (unknown), Alec Pankow, Natalie Smith, (unknown), Óscar Fernández-Capetillo, Erdinç Sezgin, Gabriel Kristian Pedersen, Jonathan M. Coquet, B.M. Hallberg, Ben Murrell, Gerald M. McInerney	55
13	SARS-CoV-2 protein subunit vaccination of mice and rhesus macaques elicits potent and durable neutralizing antibody responses 2021 ·Cell Reports Medicine ·(unknown), Daniel J. Sheward, Leo Hanke, Junjie Ma, (unknown), Laura Perez Vidakovics, Chang-Il Kim, Mónika Ádori, Klara Lenart, Karin Loré, Xaquín Castro Dopico, Jonathan M. Coquet, Gerald M. McInerney, Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam, Ben Murrell	27
14	Beta RBD boost broadens antibody-mediated protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants in animal models 2021 ·Cell Reports Medicine ·Daniel J. Sheward, (unknown), Egon Urgard, Chang-Il Kim, Leo Hanke, Laura Perez Vidakovics, Alec Pankow, Natalie Smith, Xaquín Castro Dopico, Gerald M. McInerney, Jonathan M. Coquet, Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam, Ben Murrell	14
15	Picomolar SARS-CoV-2 Neutralization Using Multi-Arm PEG Nanobody Constructs 2020 ·Biomolecules ·Ainhoa Moliner Morro, Daniel J. Sheward, (unknown), Laura Perez Vidakovics, Ben Murrell, Gerald M. McInerney, Leo Hanke	35
16	An alpaca nanobody neutralizes SARS-CoV-2 by blocking receptor interaction 2020 ·Nature Communications ·Leo Hanke, Laura Perez Vidakovics, Daniel J. Sheward, Hrishikesh Das, Tim Schulte, Ainhoa Moliner Morro, Martin Corcoran, Adnane Achour, Gunilla B. Karlsson Hedestam, B.M. Hallberg, Ben Murrell, Gerald M. McInerney	229
17	Long-read amplicon denoising 2019 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Venkatesh Kumar, Thomas Vollbrecht, (unknown), Sanjay Mohan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kemal Eren, Michael Golden, Michelli F. Oliveira, Ben Murrell	20
18	Evolutionary Analyses of Base-Pairing Interactions in DNA and RNA Secondary Structures 2019 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Michael Golden, Ben Murrell, Darren P. Martin, Oliver G. Pybus, Jotun Hein	6
19	RIFRAF: a frame-resolving consensus algorithm 2018 ·Bioinformatics ·Kemal Eren, Ben Murrell	3
20	Glycoengineering HIV-1 Env creates ‘supercharged’ and ‘hybrid’ glycans to increase neutralizing antibody potency, breadth and saturation 2018 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Ema T. Crooks, Samantha L. Grimley, Michelle D. Cully, Keiko Osawa, Gillian Dekkers, Kevin O. Saunders, Sebastian Rämisch, Sergey Menis, William R. Schief, Nicole A. Doria‐Rose, Barton F. Haynes, Ben Murrell, Evan M. Cale, Amarendra Pegu, John R. Mascola, Gestur Vidarsson, James Μ. Binley	19

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