Giulio Formenti

16.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 446 citations indexed

About

Giulio Formenti is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Giulio Formenti has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 446 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Giulio Formenti's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers). Giulio Formenti is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (18 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (7 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers). Giulio Formenti collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Giulio Formenti's co-authors include Luca Gianfranceschi, Alice Maria Giani, Guido Roberto Gallo, Erich D. Jarvis, Arang Rhie, Adam M. Phillippy, Olivier Fédrigo, Kerstin Howe, Nadolina Brajuka and Jonathan Wood and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Giulio Formenti

21 papers receiving 439 citations

Hit Papers

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Pangenome graphs and their applications in biodiversity genomics

2025 18 citations Simona Secomandi, Guido Roberto Gallo et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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Joel Armstrong United States

Susan E. Lott United States

Jessica M. Storer United States

Calum J. Maclean United States

Caroline Belser France

Rubén Sánchez Spain

Aleksey Komissarov Russia

Brandon Rice United States

Thomas Swale Hong Kong

Weiwen Wang China

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giulio Formenti

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Giulio Formenti. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Giulio Formenti 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 Giulio Formenti. Giulio Formenti 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

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

Secomandi, Simona, Guido Roberto Gallo, Carlos Fernandes, et al.. (2025). Pangenome graphs and their applications in biodiversity genomics. Nature Genetics. 57(1). 13–26. 18 indexed citations breakdown →

Colantoni, Alessio, Franca Pelliccia, Andrea Guarracino, et al.. (2025). The reference genome of the human diploid cell line RPE-1. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7751–7751. 5 indexed citations

Velotta, Jonathan P., Elizabeth M. Glenn, Giulio Formenti, et al.. (2024). A Complete Assembly and Annotation of the American Shad Genome Yields Insights into the Origins of Diadromy. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(1). 1 indexed citations

Mirarab, Siavash, Iker Rivas-González, Shaohong Feng, et al.. (2024). A region of suppressed recombination misleads neoavian phylogenomics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(15). e2319506121–e2319506121. 16 indexed citations

Faria, Rui, Giulio Formenti, Ying Sims, et al.. (2024). Chromosome-scale Genome Assembly of the Rough Periwinkle Littorina saxatilis. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(4). 2 indexed citations

Vilaça, Sibelle Torres, Renato Oliveira, Farooq O. Al-Ajli, et al.. (2024). A reference genome for the Harpy Eagle reveals steady demographic decline and chromosomal rearrangements in the origin of Accipitriformes. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 19925–19925.

Śmietana, Przemysław, Jennifer Balacco, Linelle Abueg, et al.. (2023). Prioritizing Endangered Species in Genome Sequencing: Conservation Genomics in Action with the First Platinum-Standard Reference-Quality Genome of the Critically Endangered European Mink Mustela lutreola L., 1761. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(19). 14816–14816. 1 indexed citations

Benazzo, Andrea, Silvia Fuselli, Alessio Iannucci, et al.. (2023). A high-quality reference genome for the critically endangered Aeolian wall lizard, Podarcis raffonei. Journal of Heredity. 114(3). 279–285. 5 indexed citations

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Lee, Young Ho, Linelle Abueg, Jin‐Koo Kim, et al.. (2023). Chromosome-level genome assembly of chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) from the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Scientific Data. 10(1). 880–880.

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Formenti, Giulio, Alan Tracey, Linelle Abueg, et al.. (2023). A chromosome-level genome assembly for the Rock Ptarmigan ( Lagopus muta ). G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 13(7). 2 indexed citations

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Meyer, Britta, María Moirón, William Chow, et al.. (2023). Sex-specific changes in autosomal methylation rate in ageing common terns. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 5 indexed citations

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Formenti, Giulio, Linelle Abueg, Nadolina Brajuka, et al.. (2022). Gfastats: conversion, evaluation and manipulation of genome sequences using assembly graphs. Bioinformatics. 38(17). 4214–4216. 37 indexed citations

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Cartney, Ann M. Mc, Kishwar Shafin, Michael Alonge, et al.. (2022). Chasing perfection: validation and polishing strategies for telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies. Nature Methods. 19(6). 687–695. 54 indexed citations

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Formenti, Giulio, Arang Rhie, Brian P. Walenz, et al.. (2022). Merfin: improved variant filtering, assembly evaluation and polishing via k-mer validation. Nature Methods. 19(6). 696–704. 29 indexed citations

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Ko, Byung June, Chul Lee, Ju‐Wan Kim, et al.. (2022). Widespread false gene gains caused by duplication errors in genome assemblies. Genome biology. 23(1). 205–205. 22 indexed citations

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Carnevali, Ileana, Cristina Riva, Anna Maria Chiaravalli, et al.. (2019). Inherited cancer syndromes in 220 Italian ovarian cancer patients. Cancer Genetics. 237. 55–62. 7 indexed citations

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Saino, Nicola, Benedetta Albetti, Roberto Ambrosini, et al.. (2019). Inter-generational resemblance of methylation levels at circadian genes and associations with phenology in the barn swallow. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6505–6505. 8 indexed citations

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Giani, Alice Maria, Guido Roberto Gallo, Luca Gianfranceschi, & Giulio Formenti. (2019). Long walk to genomics: History and current approaches to genome sequencing and assembly. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 18. 9–19. 161 indexed citations

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Formenti, Giulio, Matteo Chiara, Lucy Poveda, et al.. (2018). SMRT long reads and Direct Label and Stain optical maps allow the generation of a high-quality genome assembly for the European barn swallow ( Hirundo rustica rustica ). GigaScience. 8(1). 27 indexed citations

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