Konrad Scheffler

10.3k total citations · 6 hit papers
41 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Konrad Scheffler is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Virology. According to data from OpenAlex, Konrad Scheffler has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Genetics and 15 papers in Virology. Recurrent topics in Konrad Scheffler's work include HIV Research and Treatment (15 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers). Konrad Scheffler is often cited by papers focused on HIV Research and Treatment (15 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers). Konrad Scheffler collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and United Kingdom. Konrad Scheffler's co-authors include Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Ben Murrell, Joel O. Wertheim, Thomas Weighill, Davey M. Smith, S. Moola, Daniel J. Sheward, Martin D. Smith, Steven Weaver and Cathal Seoighe and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Konrad Scheffler

40 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Detecting Individual Sites Subject to Episodic Diversifying Selection

2012 1.2k citations Ben Murrell, Joel O. Wertheim et al. profile →
FUBAR: A Fast, Unconstrained Bayesian AppRoximation for Inferring Selection

2013 932 citations Ben Murrell, Thomas Weighill et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
Strelka2: fast and accurate calling of germline and somatic variants

2018 682 citations Sangtae Kim, Konrad Scheffler et al. Nature Methods profile →
Less Is More: An Adaptive Branch-Site Random Effects Model for Efficient Detection of Episodic Diversifying Selection

2015 486 citations Davey M. Smith, Joel O. Wertheim et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
RELAX: Detecting Relaxed Selection in a Phylogenetic Framework

2014 467 citations Joel O. Wertheim, Ben Murrell et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
Gene-Wide Identification of Episodic Selection

2015 383 citations Ben Murrell, Steven Weaver et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Konrad Scheffler South Africa	26	2.3k	1.5k	1.2k	814	775	41	5.8k
Allen G. Rodrigo New Zealand	37	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.5×	1.1k 1.4×	688 0.9×	123	6.8k
Teruo Yasunaga Japan	31	2.3k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	633 0.5×	465 0.6×	629 0.8×	93	5.1k
Art F. Y. Poon Canada	32	1.4k 0.6×	953 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	475 0.6×	114	4.5k
Aris Katzourakis United Kingdom	34	1.5k 0.7×	743 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	902 1.1×	1.6k 2.1×	83	4.4k
Joel O. Wertheim United States	36	1.6k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	2.7k 2.4×	1.6k 2.0×	560 0.7×	105	6.2k
Olivier Poch France	50	7.6k 3.4×	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	1.0k 1.3×	174	10.7k
Ben Murrell United States	32	2.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	2.9k 2.5×	1.3k 1.6×	2.3k 3.0×	85	9.1k
Kim Wong United States	27	2.7k 1.2×	913 0.6×	661 0.6×	389 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	46	4.8k
Trevor Bedford United States	38	2.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	3.6k 3.1×	2.3k 2.8×	537 0.7×	96	7.6k
Niall J. Lennon United States	30	4.4k 2.0×	656 0.4×	925 0.8×	440 0.5×	991 1.3×	66	8.3k

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Pekar, Jonathan E., Michael Worobey, Niema Moshiri, Konrad Scheffler, & Joel O. Wertheim. (2021). Timing the SARS-CoV-2 index case in Hubei province. Science. 372(6540). 412–417. 105 indexed citations

Kim, Sangtae, Konrad Scheffler, Aaron L. Halpern, et al.. (2018). Strelka2: fast and accurate calling of germline and somatic variants. Nature Methods. 15(8). 591–594. 682 indexed citations breakdown →

Wertheim, Joel O., Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Lisa A. Forgione, et al.. (2017). Social and Genetic Networks of HIV-1 Transmission in New York City. PLoS Pathogens. 13(1). e1006000–e1006000. 141 indexed citations

Yek, Christina, Sara Gianella, Montserrat Plana, et al.. (2016). Standard vaccines increase HIV-1 transcription during antiretroviral therapy. AIDS. 30(15). 2289–2298. 25 indexed citations

Murrell, Ben, Steven Weaver, Martin D. Smith, et al.. (2015). Gene-Wide Identification of Episodic Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(5). 1365–1371. 383 indexed citations breakdown →

Oliveira, Michelli F., Sara Gianella, Scott Letendre, et al.. (2015). Comparative Analysis of Cell-Associated HIV DNA Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Peripheral Blood by Droplet Digital PCR. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0139510–e0139510. 26 indexed citations

Smith, Davey M., Joel O. Wertheim, Steven Weaver, et al.. (2015). Less Is More: An Adaptive Branch-Site Random Effects Model for Efficient Detection of Episodic Diversifying Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(5). 1342–1353. 486 indexed citations breakdown →

Scheffler, Konrad, Ben Murrell, & Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond. (2014). On the Validity of Evolutionary Models with Site-Specific Parameters. PLoS ONE. 9(4). e94534–e94534. 10 indexed citations

Wertheim, Joel O., Ben Murrell, Martin D. Smith, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, & Konrad Scheffler. (2014). RELAX: Detecting Relaxed Selection in a Phylogenetic Framework. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 32(3). 820–832. 467 indexed citations breakdown →

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Scheffler, Konrad, Steven Weaver, Ben Murrell, et al.. (2014). IDEPI: Rapid Prediction of HIV-1 Antibody Epitopes and Other Phenotypic Features from Sequence Data Using a Flexible Machine Learning Platform. PLoS Computational Biology. 10(9). e1003842–e1003842. 37 indexed citations

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Murrell, Ben, et al.. (2011). Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Learning Alignment-Specific Models of Protein Evolution. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e28898–e28898. 9 indexed citations

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Lacerda, Miguel, Konrad Scheffler, & Cathal Seoighe. (2010). Epitope Discovery with Phylogenetic Hidden Markov Models. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(5). 1212–1220. 7 indexed citations

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Delport, Wayne, Konrad Scheffler, Mike B. Gravenor, Spencer V. Muse, & Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond. (2010). Benchmarking Multi-Rate Codon Models. PLoS ONE. 5(7). e11587–e11587. 10 indexed citations

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Ngandu, Nobubelo, Cathal Seoighe, & Konrad Scheffler. (2009). Evidence of HIV-1 adaptation to host HLA alleles following chimp-to-human transmission. Virology Journal. 6(1). 164–164. 6 indexed citations

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Pond, Sergei L. Kosakovsky, Konrad Scheffler, Mike B. Gravenor, Art F. Y. Poon, & Simon D. W. Frost. (2009). Evolutionary Fingerprinting of Genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(3). 520–536. 55 indexed citations

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Delport, Wayne, Konrad Scheffler, & Cathal Seoighe. (2008). Models of coding sequence evolution. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 10(1). 97–109. 58 indexed citations

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Delport, Wayne, Konrad Scheffler, & Cathal Seoighe. (2008). Frequent Toggling between Alternative Amino Acids Is Driven by Selection in HIV-1. PLoS Pathogens. 4(12). e1000242–e1000242. 39 indexed citations

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Nembaware, Victoria, et al.. (2008). Genome-wide survey of allele-specific splicing in humans. BMC Genomics. 9(1). 265–265. 36 indexed citations

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Scheffler, Konrad, Darren P. Martin, & Cathal Seoighe. (2006). Robust inference of positive selection from recombining coding sequences. Bioinformatics. 22(20). 2493–2499. 164 indexed citations

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Scheffler, Konrad & Cathal Seoighe. (2005). A Bayesian Model Comparison Approach to Inferring Positive Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(12). 2531–2540. 20 indexed citations

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