Eugene W. Myers

160.7k total citations · 8 hit papers
126 papers, 88.6k citations indexed

About

Eugene W. Myers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Biophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Eugene W. Myers has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 88.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 28 papers in Biophysics. Recurrent topics in Eugene W. Myers's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (42 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (27 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (26 papers). Eugene W. Myers is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (42 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (27 papers) and Cell Image Analysis Techniques (26 papers). Eugene W. Myers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Eugene W. Myers's co-authors include Webb Miller, Stephen F. Altschul, Warren Gish, David J. Lipman, Webb Miller, R. C. Edgar, Fuhui Long, Anthony A. Hyman, Löıc A. Royer and Martin Weigert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Eugene W. Myers

121 papers receiving 86.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Basic local alignment search tool

1990 75.8k citations Eugene W. Myers et al. profile →
A Liquid-to-Solid Phase Transition of the ALS Protein FUS Accelerated by Disease Mutation

2015 2.1k citations Martin Weigert, Eugene W. Myers et al. Cell profile →
Optimal alignments in linear space

1988 1.0k citations Eugene W. Myers et al. profile →
Recent Segmental Duplications in the Human Genome

2002 958 citations Eugene W. Myers et al. profile →
AnO(ND) difference algorithm and its variations

1986 557 citations Eugene W. Myers profile →
Population Genomics: Whole-Genome Analysis of Polymorphism and Divergence in Drosophila simulans

2007 514 citations David J Begun, Alisha K. Holloway et al. PLoS Biology profile →
V3D enables real-time 3D visualization and quantitative analysis of large-scale biological image data sets

2010 507 citations Eugene W. Myers et al. profile →
The axolotl genome and the evolution of key tissue formation regulators

2018 346 citations Martin Pippel, Sylke Winkler et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eugene W. Myers United States	49	50.9k	19.4k	14.0k	11.8k	5.6k	126	88.6k
Warren Gish United States	17	46.9k 0.9×	18.4k 0.9×	13.8k 1.0×	10.5k 0.9×	5.0k 0.9×	20	80.8k
Webb Miller United States	10	43.9k 0.9×	17.6k 0.9×	13.5k 1.0×	9.9k 0.8×	4.8k 0.9×	10	76.7k
David J. Lipman United States	50	66.4k 1.3×	22.8k 1.2×	18.0k 1.3×	15.0k 1.3×	6.5k 1.2×	80	112.8k
Naruya Saitou Japan	45	30.6k 0.6×	14.6k 0.8×	12.8k 0.9×	10.8k 0.9×	4.1k 0.7×	199	58.9k
R. C. Edgar United States	32	41.7k 0.8×	21.7k 1.1×	25.3k 1.8×	8.4k 0.7×	5.5k 1.0×	50	89.7k
Toby J. Gibson Germany	69	65.8k 1.3×	24.7k 1.3×	16.2k 1.2×	16.2k 1.4×	8.7k 1.5×	148	116.5k
Sean R. Eddy United States	80	54.3k 1.1×	18.3k 0.9×	13.1k 0.9×	9.1k 0.8×	2.8k 0.5×	127	75.9k
Minoru Kanehisa Japan	75	76.3k 1.5×	14.1k 0.7×	11.1k 0.8×	10.1k 0.9×	3.7k 0.7×	266	114.1k
Prescott L. Deininger United States	67	62.5k 1.2×	22.6k 1.2×	8.7k 0.6×	20.0k 1.7×	6.1k 1.1×	197	98.6k
Rodrigo López United Kingdom	32	32.5k 0.6×	13.2k 0.7×	7.9k 0.6×	7.3k 0.6×	3.6k 0.6×	68	57.4k

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Suzuki, Yoshihiko, et al.. (2025). A Haplotype-resolved Chromosome-scale Genome Assembly and Annotation for the Leafcutter Ant, Acromyrmex octospinosus. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(3).

Formenti, Giulio, Bonhwang Koo, Jennifer Balacco, et al.. (2025). Evaluation of sequencing reads at scale using rdeval. Bioinformatics. 41(9).

Brown, Tom, et al.. (2024). A chromosome-level, haplotype-resolved genome assembly and annotation for the Eurasian minnow (Leuciscidae: Phoxinus phoxinus ) provide evidence of haplotype diversity. GigaScience. 14. 2 indexed citations

Puechmaille, Sébastien J., Sarahjane Power, Martin Pippel, et al.. (2023). Comparative Genome Microsynteny Illuminates the Fast Evolution of Nuclear Mitochondrial Segments (NUMTs) in Mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(1). 11 indexed citations

Shatilovich, Anastasia, Martin Pippel, Alexei V. Tchesunov, et al.. (2023). A novel nematode species from the Siberian permafrost shares adaptive mechanisms for cryptobiotic survival with C. elegans dauer larva. PLoS Genetics. 19(7). e1010798–e1010798. 17 indexed citations

Pippel, Martin, et al.. (2022). DENTIST—using long reads for closing assembly gaps at high accuracy. GigaScience. 11. 13 indexed citations

Doronina, Liliya, Graham M. Hughes, Diana D. Moreno-Santillán, et al.. (2022). Contradictory Phylogenetic Signals in the Laurasiatheria Anomaly Zone. Genes. 13(5). 766–766. 8 indexed citations

Wang, Yuhan, Mark Eddison, Greg Fleishman, et al.. (2021). EASI-FISH for thick tissue defines lateral hypothalamus spatio-molecular organization. Cell. 184(26). 6361–6377.e24. 91 indexed citations

Moreno-Santillán, Diana D., Tanya M. Lama, Huabin Zhao, et al.. (2021). Large‐scale genome sampling reveals unique immunity and metabolic adaptations in bats. Molecular Ecology. 30(23). 6449–6467. 55 indexed citations

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Kautt, Andreas F., Claudius F. Kratochwil, Alexander Nater, et al.. (2020). Contrasting signatures of genomic divergence during sympatric speciation. Nature. 588(7836). 106–111. 118 indexed citations

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Teeling, Emma C., Sonja C. Vernes, Liliana M. Dávalos, et al.. (2017). Bat Biology, Genomes, and the Bat1K Project: To Generate Chromosome-Level Genomes for All Living Bat Species. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. 6(1). 23–46. 140 indexed citations

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Dye, Natalie A., Marko Popović, Stephanie Spannl, et al.. (2017). Cell dynamics underlying oriented growth of the Drosophila wing imaginal disc. Development. 144(23). 4406–4421. 54 indexed citations

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Amat, Fernando, William C. Lemon, Daniel P. Mossing, et al.. (2014). Fast, accurate reconstruction of cell lineages from large-scale fluorescence microscopy data. Nature Methods. 11(9). 951–958. 196 indexed citations

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Preibisch, Stephan, Fernando Amat, Evangelia Stamataki, et al.. (2013). Efficient bayesian multi-view deconvolution. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Clack, Nathan, Daniel H. O’Connor, Daniel Huber, et al.. (2012). Automated Tracking of Whiskers in Videos of Head Fixed Rodents. PLoS Computational Biology. 8(7). e1002591–e1002591. 104 indexed citations

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Mwangi, Michael, Shang Wei Wu, Yanjiao Zhou, et al.. (2007). Tracking the in vivo evolution of multidrug resistance in Staphylococcus aureus by whole-genome sequencing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(22). 9451–9456. 426 indexed citations

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Begun, David J, Alisha K. Holloway, Kristian Stevens, et al.. (2007). Population Genomics: Whole-Genome Analysis of Polymorphism and Divergence in Drosophila simulans. PLoS Biology. 5(11). e310–e310. 514 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jain, Mayank & Eugene W. Myers. (1997). Algorithms for Computing and Integrating Physical Maps Using Unique Probes. Journal of Computational Biology. 4(4). 449–466. 6 indexed citations

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Myers, Eugene W., et al.. (1982). D-CRACKING: PAVEMENT DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION VARIABLES. Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board. 2 indexed citations

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Myers, Eugene W. & Leon J. Osterweil. (1981). BIGMAC II: A FORTRAN language augmentation tool. International Conference on Software Engineering. 410–421. 2 indexed citations

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