Guillaume Marçais

14.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
27 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Guillaume Marçais is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Guillaume Marçais has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Guillaume Marçais's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Guillaume Marçais is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (10 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Guillaume Marçais collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Costa Rica. Guillaume Marçais's co-authors include Carl Kingsford, Aleksey V. Zimin, Steven L. Salzberg, James A. Yorke, Arthur L. Delcher, Daniela Puiu, Michael Roberts, Adam M. Phillippy, Michael C. Schatz and Sergey Koren and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE and Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Guillaume Marçais

26 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

A fast, lock-free approach for efficient parallel counting of occurrences of k -mers

2011 2.8k citations Guillaume Marçais, Carl Kingsford Bioinformatics profile →
MUMmer4: A fast and versatile genome alignment system

2018 1.3k citations Guillaume Marçais, Arthur L. Delcher et al. PLoS Computational Biology profile →
The MaSuRCA genome assembler

2013 909 citations Aleksey V. Zimin, Guillaume Marçais et al. Bioinformatics profile →
A whole-genome assembly of the domestic cow, Bos taurus

2009 888 citations Aleksey V. Zimin, Arthur L. Delcher et al. profile →
GAGE: A critical evaluation of genome assemblies and assembly algorithms

2011 471 citations Steven L. Salzberg, Adam M. Phillippy et al. Genome Research profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guillaume Marçais United States	17	4.5k	2.6k	2.0k	1.1k	535	27	7.3k
Aleksey V. Zimin United States	30	3.9k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	859 0.8×	420 0.8×	62	8.1k
Brian P. Walenz United States	21	5.8k 1.3×	3.2k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.4×	509 1.0×	30	8.9k
Jason Miller United States	19	5.5k 1.2×	2.7k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	394 0.7×	56	9.0k
Scott Schwartz United States	25	5.0k 1.1×	2.2k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	443 0.8×	36	8.4k
Christophe Dessimoz Switzerland	40	5.0k 1.1×	1.5k 0.6×	1.8k 0.9×	923 0.9×	538 1.0×	96	7.6k
Daniel R. Zerbino United Kingdom	19	6.5k 1.4×	2.7k 1.0×	1.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.8×	694 1.3×	29	10.2k
James Bonfield United Kingdom	17	4.8k 1.1×	2.0k 0.8×	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	774 1.4×	19	9.2k
Gary Benson United States	25	5.4k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	889 0.8×	724 1.4×	57	8.5k
Mark Yandell United States	44	6.2k 1.4×	2.8k 1.1×	2.6k 1.3×	812 0.8×	782 1.5×	114	9.8k
Thomas Abeel United States	27	4.9k 1.1×	2.1k 0.8×	967 0.5×	1.4k 1.4×	449 0.8×	78	8.3k

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Kingsford, Carl & Guillaume Marçais. (2025). A synthesis for uniformly 3-edge-connected graphs. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 368. 18–29.

Marçais, Guillaume, et al.. (2024). k -nonical space: sketching with reverse complements. Bioinformatics. 40(11). 1 indexed citations

Marçais, Guillaume, Dan DeBlasio, & Carl Kingsford. (2024). Sketching Methods with Small Window Guarantee Using Minimum Decycling Sets. Journal of Computational Biology. 31(7). 597–615. 2 indexed citations

Marçais, Guillaume, et al.. (2023). Density and Conservation Optimization of the Generalized Masked-Minimizer Sketching Scheme. Journal of Computational Biology. 31(1). 2–20. 3 indexed citations

Zheng, Hongyu, Guillaume Marçais, & Carl Kingsford. (2023). Creating and Using Minimizer Sketches in Computational Genomics. Journal of Computational Biology. 30(12). 1251–1276. 8 indexed citations

Zheng, Hongyu, Carl Kingsford, & Guillaume Marçais. (2021). Sequence-specific minimizers via polar sets. Bioinformatics. 37(Supplement_1). i187–i195. 17 indexed citations

Zheng, Hongyu, Carl Kingsford, & Guillaume Marçais. (2020). Improved design and analysis of practical minimizers. Bioinformatics. 36(Supplement_1). i119–i127. 30 indexed citations

Zheng, Hongyu, Carl Kingsford, & Guillaume Marçais. (2020). Lower Density Selection Schemes via Small Universal Hitting Sets with Short Remaining Path Length. Journal of Computational Biology. 28(4). 395–409. 8 indexed citations

Marçais, Guillaume, Dan DeBlasio, Prashant Pandey, & Carl Kingsford. (2019). Locality-sensitive hashing for the edit distance. Bioinformatics. 35(14). i127–i135. 39 indexed citations

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Marçais, Guillaume, Brad Solomon, Rob Patro, & Carl Kingsford. (2019). Sketching and Sublinear Data Structures in Genomics. 2(1). 93–118. 24 indexed citations

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Marçais, Guillaume, Dan DeBlasio, & Carl Kingsford. (2018). Asymptotically optimal minimizers schemes. Bioinformatics. 34(13). i13–i22. 33 indexed citations

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Marçais, Guillaume, et al.. (2018). MUMmer4: A fast and versatile genome alignment system. PLoS Computational Biology. 14(1). e1005944–e1005944. 1331 indexed citations breakdown →

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Marçais, Guillaume, et al.. (2017). Improving the performance of minimizers and winnowing schemes. Bioinformatics. 33(14). i110–i117. 43 indexed citations

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Orenstein, Yaron, David Pellow, Guillaume Marçais, Ron Shamir, & Carl Kingsford. (2017). Designing small universal k-mer hitting sets for improved analysis of high-throughput sequencing. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(10). e1005777–e1005777. 29 indexed citations

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Zimin, Aleksey V., Daniela Puiu, Ming‐Cheng Luo, et al.. (2017). Hybrid assembly of the large and highly repetitive genome of Aegilops tauschii , a progenitor of bread wheat, with the MaSuRCA mega-reads algorithm. Genome Research. 27(5). 787–792. 274 indexed citations

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Zimin, Aleksey V., Adam Cornish, Robert Gibbs, et al.. (2014). A new rhesus macaque assembly and annotation for next-generation sequencing analyses. Biology Direct. 9(1). 20–20. 126 indexed citations

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Salzberg, Steven L., Adam M. Phillippy, Aleksey V. Zimin, et al.. (2012). GAGE: A critical evaluation of genome assemblies and assembly algorithms (Genome Research (2012) 22 (557-567)). Genome Research. 22(6). 3 indexed citations

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Zimin, Aleksey V., David R. Kelley, Michael Roberts, et al.. (2012). Mis-Assembled “Segmental Duplications” in Two Versions of the Bos taurus Genome. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e42680–e42680. 20 indexed citations

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Marçais, Guillaume & Carl Kingsford. (2011). A fast, lock-free approach for efficient parallel counting of occurrences of k -mers. Bioinformatics. 27(6). 764–770. 2756 indexed citations breakdown →

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Salzberg, Steven L., Adam M. Phillippy, Aleksey V. Zimin, et al.. (2011). GAGE: A critical evaluation of genome assemblies and assembly algorithms. Genome Research. 22(3). 557–567. 471 indexed citations breakdown →

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