Iain MacCallum

8.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
7 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Iain MacCallum is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Iain MacCallum has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Molecular Biology, 3 papers in Ecology and 2 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Iain MacCallum's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (3 papers). Iain MacCallum is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (3 papers). Iain MacCallum collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and Qatar. Iain MacCallum's co-authors include Chad Nusbaum, David B. Jaffe, Eric S. Lander, Ilya Shlyakhter, Terrance Shea, Louise Williams, Ted Sharpe, Dariusz Przybylski, Sante Gnerre and Jonathan A. Butler and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Genetics and Genome Research.

In The Last Decade

Iain MacCallum

7 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

High-quality draft assemblies of mammalian genomes from massively parallel sequence data

2010 1.0k citations Sante Gnerre, Iain MacCallum et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
ALLPATHS: De novo assembly of whole-genome shotgun microreads

2008 547 citations Jonathan A. Butler, Iain MacCallum et al. Genome Research profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Comprehensive variation discovery in single human genomes 2014 ·Nature Genetics ·Neil Weisenfeld, Shuangye Yin, Ted Sharpe, Bayo Lau, (unknown), Laurie Holmes, (unknown), Diana Tabbaa, Louise Williams, Carsten Russ, Chad Nusbaum, Eric S. Lander, Iain MacCallum, David B. Jaffe	129
2	Paired-end sequencing of Fosmid libraries by Illumina 2012 ·Genome Research ·Louise Williams, Diana Tabbaa, Na Li, Aaron M. Berlin, Terrance Shea, Iain MacCallum, Michael S. Lawrence, Yotam Drier, Gad Getz, Sarah Young, David B. Jaffe, Chad Nusbaum, Andreas Gnirke	40
3	Finished bacterial genomes from shotgun sequence data 2012 ·Genome Research ·Filipe J. Ribeiro, Dariusz Przybylski, Shuangye Yin, Ted Sharpe, Sante Gnerre, Amr Abouelleil, Aaron M. Berlin, Anna Montmayeur, Terrance Shea, Bruce J. Walker, Sarah Young, Carsten Russ, Chad Nusbaum, Iain MacCallum, David B. Jaffe	155
4	High-quality draft assemblies of mammalian genomes from massively parallel sequence data breakdown → 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sante Gnerre, Iain MacCallum, Dariusz Przybylski, Filipe J. Ribeiro, Joshua N. Burton, Bruce J. Walker, Ted Sharpe, (unknown), Terrance Shea, Sean M. Sykes, Aaron M. Berlin, Daniel Aird, Maura Costello, Riza M. Daza, Louise Williams, Robert Nicol, Andreas Gnirke, Chad Nusbaum, Eric S. Lander, David B. Jaffe	1037
5	ALLPATHS 2: small genomes assembled accurately and with high continuity from short paired reads 2009 ·Genome biology ·Iain MacCallum, Dariusz Przybylski, Sante Gnerre, Joshua N. Burton, Ilya Shlyakhter, Andreas Gnirke, Joel A. Malek, Kevin McKernan, Swati Ranade, Terrance Shea, Louise Williams, Sarah Young, Chad Nusbaum, David B. Jaffe	114
6	ALLPATHS: De novo assembly of whole-genome shotgun microreads breakdown → 2008 ·Genome Research ·Jonathan A. Butler, Iain MacCallum, Michael Kleber, Ilya Shlyakhter, Matthew K. Belmonte, Eric S. Lander, Chad Nusbaum, David B. Jaffe	547
7	The measurement and modelling of light scattering by phytoplankton cells at narrow forward angles 2004 ·Journal of Optics A Pure and Applied Optics ·Iain MacCallum, Alex Cunningham, David McKee	7

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