Michael C. Schatz

63.0k citations

151 papers · 16.5k indexed · 13 hit papers · h-index 55

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.2%
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Genetics top 0.2%
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Genomics and Rare Diseases

Papers in

Molecular Biology 112
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 77
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 17
- Gene expression and cancer classification 11
Genetics 37
- Genomics and Rare Diseases 15
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities 11

Co-authors: Fritz J. Sedlazeck Steven L. Salzberg Maria Nattestad Han Fang Kamil S. Jaroň T. Rhyker Ranallo-Benavidez Arthur L. Delcher James Gurtowski
Journals: Genome biology (15 papers)Genome Research (13 papers)Bioinformatics (10 papers)Nature Methods (7 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Mexico

In The Last Decade

Michael C. Schatz

147 papers receiving 16.1k citations

Hit Papers

13 papers align trajectories log scale

Automated assembly scaffolding using RagTag elevates a new tomato system for high-throughput genome editing 2022 · 397 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Genome biology
2022 Science
2020 Nature Communications
2019 Genome biology
2018 Nature Methods
2017 Bioinformatics
2016 Nature Methods
2015 PLoS Biology
2013 Genome biology
2012 Nature Biotechnology
2011 Genome Research
2009 Genome biology
2009 Bioinformatics

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1	Engineering compact Physalis peruviana (goldenberry) to promote its potential as a global crop Plants People Planet ·Monique Macias, B. P. Fitzgerald, Gina M. Robitaille, Srividya Ramakrishnan, Kerry Swartwood, Myrsini Dimitriadou, Michael C. Schatz, Joyce Van Eck, Zachary B. Lippman	2025	0
2	Integration of transcriptomics and long-read genomics prioritizes structural variants in rare disease Genome Research ·Tanner Jensen, Bohan Ni, Chloe M. Reuter, John E. Gorzynski, Sarah Fazal, Devon Bonner, Lauren B Auriemma, Pagé C. Goddard, Archana N. Raja, Euan A. Ashley, Jonathan A. Bernstein, Stephan Züchner, (unknown), Michael D. Greicius, Stephen B. Montgomery, Michael C. Schatz, Matthew T. Wheeler, Alexis Battle	2025	2
3	Characterization of large-scale genomic differences in the first complete human genome Genome biology ·Xiangyu Yang, 谢成根, Yawen Zou, Shilong Zhang, Abdelaziz Saoudi, Nasrin Ahmed Tahrim, Mitchell R. Vollger, Nae-Chyun Chen, Dylan J. Taylor, William T. Harvey, Glennis A. Logsdon, Dan Meng, Mark Garrett, Rajiv C. McCoy, Michael C. Schatz, Weidong Li, Evan E. Eichler, Qing Lü, Yafei Mao	2023	10
4	Complete Sequence of a 641-kb Insertion of Mitochondrial DNA in the Arabidopsis thaliana Nuclear Genome Genome Biology and Evolution ·Peter D. Fields, Alexandre Baujard, Matthew Naish, Michael C. Schatz, Ian R. Henderson, Daniel B. Sloan	2022	28
5	High resolution copy number inference in cancer using short-molecule nanopore sequencing Nucleic Acids Research ·Timour Baslan, Sam Kovaka, Fritz J. Sedlazeck, Yanming Zhang, Robert Wappel, Sha Tian, Scott W. Lowe, Sara Goodwin, Michael C. Schatz	2021	13
6	Local adaptation and archaic introgression shape global diversity at human structural variant loci eLife ·Stephanie M. Yan, Rachel M. Sherman, Dylan J. Taylor, xiaoyang lin, Vincent Correia, Michael C. Schatz, Rajiv C. McCoy	2021	29
7	A plasmid locus associated with Klebsiella clinical infections encodes a microbiome-dependent gut fitness factor PLoS Pathogens ·Jay Vornhagen, Christine M. Bassis, Srividya Ramakrishnan, Guspri Devi Artanti, 穣原田, Yehudit Bergman, William N. Lisberg, Yunfan Fan, Caitlyn L. Holmes, Winston Timp, Michael C. Schatz, Vincent B. Young, Patricia J. Simner, Michael A. Bachman	2021	27
8	An anchored chromosome‐scale genome assembly of spinach improves annotation and reveals extensive gene rearrangements in euasterids The Plant Genome ·Amanda M. Hulse‐Kemp, Hamed Bostan, Shiyu Chen, Hamid Ashrafi, Kevin Stoffel, Walter Sanseverino, Linzhou Li, Shifeng Cheng, Michael C. Schatz, Tyler H. Garvin, Lindsey J. du Toit, Elizabeth Tseng, Shuo-feng Wang, Massimo Iorizzo, Allen Van Deynze	2021	19
9	Sapling: accelerating suffix array queries with learned data models Bioinformatics ·Melanie Kirsche, Kyung-Min Dong, Michael C. Schatz	2020	7
10	Vargas: heuristic-free alignment for assessing linear and graph read aligners Bioinformatics ·Charlotte A. Darby, Tim Devling, Michael C. Schatz, Ben Langmead	2020	15
11	Clonal Hematopoiesis Before, During, and After Human Spaceflight Cell Reports ·Nuria Mencia-Trinchant, Matthew MacKay, Christopher R. Chin, Ebrahim Afshinnekoo, Jonathan Foox, Cem Meydan, Daniel Butler, Christopher Mozsary, Nicholas A. Vernice, Charlotte A. Darby, Michael C. Schatz, Susan M. Bailey, Ari Melnick, Mónica L. Guzmán, Kelly L. Bolton, Lior Z. Braunstein, Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman, Ross L. Levine, Duane C. Hassane, Christopher E. Mason	2020	36
12	16GT: a fast and sensitive variant caller using a 16-genotype probabilistic model GigaScience ·Ruibang Luo, Michael C. Schatz, Steven L. Salzberg	2017	9
13	GenomeScope: fast reference-free genome profiling from short reads Bioinformatics ·方小莉, Fritz J. Sedlazeck, Maria Nattestad, Charles J. Underwood, Han Fang, James Gurtowski, Michael C. Schatz Hit paper breakdown →	2017	1125
14	Assemblytics: a web analytics tool for the detection of variants from an assembly Bioinformatics ·Maria Nattestad, Michael C. Schatz	2016	185
15	SplitMEM: a graphical algorithm for pan-genome analysis with suffix skips Bioinformatics ·Shoshana Marcus, Hayan Lee, Michael C. Schatz	2014	72
16	Whole genome de novo assemblies of three divergent strains of rice, Oryza sativa, document novel gene space of aus and indica Genome biology ·Michael C. Schatz, Lyza Maron, Joshua C. Stein, Alejandro Wences, James Gurtowski, Eric Biggers, Hayan Lee, Melissa Kramer, Eric Antoniou, Elena Ghiban, Mark H. Wright, Jer-Ming Chia, Doreen Ware, Susan R. McCouch, W. Richard McCombie	2014	188
17	Aluminum tolerance in maize is associated with higher MATE1 gene copy number Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Lyza Maron, C. T. Guimarães, Matias Kirst, Patrice S. Albert, James A. Birchler, Peter J. Bradbury, Edward S. Buckler, Alison Coluccio, Tatiana V. Danilova, David Kudrna, J. V. de Magalhães, Miguel A. Piñeros, Michael C. Schatz, Rod A. Wing, Leon V. Kochian	2013	222
18	Current challenges in de novo plant genome sequencing and assembly Genome Biology ·Michael C. Schatz, Jan Witkowski, W. Richard McCombie	2012	61
19	Current challenges in de novo plant genome sequencing and assembly Genome Biology ·Michael C. Schatz, Jan Witkowski, W. Richard McCombie	2012	122
20	High performance computing for dna sequence alignment and assembly IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics ·Steven L. Salzberg, Michael C. Schatz	2010	2

About Michael C. Schatz

Michael C. Schatz is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Molecular Medicine and Cancer Research, having authored 151 papers that have together received 16.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (77 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (29 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (17 papers), Genomics and Rare Diseases (15 papers), Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics (12 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (11 papers), Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities (11 papers) and Gene expression and cancer classification (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (10.3k citations), Genetics (4.2k citations), Plant Science (5.2k citations), Horticulture (87 citations) and Cancer Research (1.4k citations). Michael C. Schatz has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Mexico. Frequent co-authors include Fritz J. Sedlazeck, Steven L. Salzberg, Maria Nattestad, Han Fang, Kamil S. Jaroň, T. Rhyker Ranallo-Benavidez, Arthur L. Delcher, James Gurtowski, W. Richard McCombie and Adam M. Phillippy. Their work appears in journals such as Genome biology, Genome Research, Bioinformatics, Nature Methods and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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