James Bonfield

22.8k citations
19 papers · 9.2k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 17

Impact in

  • Genetics top 0.5%
    • Genetic diversity and population structure
    • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
    • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
    • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
    • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
    • RNA modifications and cancer
    • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Papers in

James Bonfield

19 papers receiving 9.1k citations

Hit Papers

HTSlib: C library for reading/writing high-throughput sequencing data 2021 · 220 citations
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Peers

James Bonfield
Comparison fields: 5 of 171
  • Genetics 2.3k
  • Molecular Biology 4.8k
  • Horticulture 62
  • Plant Science 2.0k
  • Endocrinology 235
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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
#Work
1 202216
2
HTSlib: C library for reading/writing high-throughput sequencing data
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2021220
3
Twelve years of SAMtools and BCFtools
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20216307
4 201818
5 2017103
6 201667
7 201432
8 2013137
9 2010147
10 200584
11 200550
12
The Staden Package, 1998
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2003957
13 200214
14 200223
15 200159
16 199854
17 199674
18
A new DNA sequence assembly program
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1995785
19 199526

About James Bonfield

James Bonfield is a scholar working on Information Systems and Management, Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Cancer Research, having authored 19 papers that have together received 9.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (8 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (4 papers), Gene expression and cancer classification (3 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (2 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers) and Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Genetics (2.3k citations), Molecular Biology (4.8k citations), Horticulture (62 citations), Plant Science (2.0k citations) and Endocrinology (235 citations). James Bonfield has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Rodger Staden, Andrew Whitwham, Robert M. Davies, Thomas Keane, Petr Danecek, Heng Li, John Marshall, Valeriu Ohan, Shane McCarthy and Martin Pollard. Their work appears in journals such as Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research, GigaScience, Nature Methods and Scientific Reports.

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