Patrick J. Biggs

12.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
162 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Patrick J. Biggs is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick J. Biggs has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Molecular Biology, 44 papers in Food Science and 35 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Patrick J. Biggs's work include Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (39 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (33 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (21 papers). Patrick J. Biggs is often cited by papers focused on Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology (39 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (33 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (21 papers). Patrick J. Biggs collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States. Patrick J. Biggs's co-authors include Murray P. Cox, Daniel A. Peterson, Allan Bradley, Tony Cox, Nigel French, Jessica Severin, Manousos Koutsourakis, A. Francis Stewart, William C. Skarnes and Pieter J. de Jong and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Genetics and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Patrick J. Biggs

154 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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 conditional knockout resource for the genome-wide study of mouse gene function

2011 1.2k citations Patrick J. Biggs et al. profile →
SolexaQA: At-a-glance quality assessment of Illumina second-generation sequencing data

2010 1.1k citations Murray P. Cox, Patrick J. Biggs et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Patrick J. Biggs	2.6k	967	566	564	490	162	5.0k
Philip Ewels	3.3k 1.2×	860 0.9×	704 1.2×	855 1.5×	258 0.5×	20	5.9k
Max Käller	2.6k 1.0×	746 0.8×	679 1.2×	693 1.2×	196 0.4×	31	5.0k
Jian Ye	3.3k 1.3×	826 0.9×	807 1.4×	1.0k 1.8×	282 0.6×	37	6.6k
Georgia Giannoukos	3.8k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	1.3k 2.3×	708 1.3×	479 1.0×	28	6.2k
Måns Magnusson	2.4k 0.9×	713 0.7×	640 1.1×	636 1.1×	179 0.4×	7	4.7k
Konstantin Okonechnikov	2.1k 0.8×	823 0.9×	641 1.1×	829 1.5×	171 0.3×	30	4.2k
Thomas Nordahl Petersen	3.0k 1.1×	490 0.5×	733 1.3×	1.1k 1.9×	329 0.7×	34	5.3k
Dave Bouvier	2.7k 1.0×	555 0.6×	624 1.1×	658 1.2×	167 0.3×	9	4.5k
Samuel Chaffron	4.1k 1.6×	575 0.6×	1.1k 1.9×	1.0k 1.8×	890 1.8×	40	6.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick J. Biggs

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Cookson, Adrian L., Patrick J. Biggs, Lynn Rogers, et al.. (2026). Escherichia Species Diversity Across Pristine and Impacted Catchments: Evidence for Avian Sources of Escherichia marmotae in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 18(1). e70278–e70278.

Bromhead, Collette, David Welch, Ernest Williams, et al.. (2025). Temporal reconstruction of a Salmonella Enteritidis ST11 outbreak in New Zealand. Microbial Genomics. 11(10).

Biggs, Patrick J., et al.. (2025). Metabarcoding captures genetic diversity and links cases in outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis in New Zealand. Journal of Infection. 90(2). 106427–106427.

Palevich, Nikola, Dragana Gagić, Patrick J. Biggs, et al.. (2024). Transcriptomic and proteomic changes associated with cobalamin-dependent propionate production by the rumen bacterium Xylanibacter ruminicola. mSystems. 9(11). e0086424–e0086424. 2 indexed citations

Smith, Helen, Patrick J. Biggs, Nigel French, Adam N. H. Smith, & Jonathan C. Marshall. (2024). Lost in the Forest: Encoding categorical variables and the absent levels problem. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. 38(4). 1889–1908. 3 indexed citations

Biggs, Patrick J., Marie Moinet, Lynn Rogers, et al.. (2024). Draft genome sequences of Escherichia spp. isolates from New Zealand environmental sources. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(3). e0100723–e0100723. 1 indexed citations

Biggs, Patrick J., Sara A. Burgess, Anne C. Midwinter, et al.. (2024). Assessing antimicrobial resistance in pasture-based dairy farms: a 15-month surveillance study in New Zealand. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 90(11). e0139024–e0139024. 1 indexed citations

Palevich, Nikola, Samantha Joan Noel, Dragana Gagić, et al.. (2023). Aristaeella hokkaidonensis gen. nov. sp. nov. and Aristaeella lactis sp. nov., two rumen bacterial species of a novel proposed family, Aristaeellaceae fam. nov.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 73(5). 5 indexed citations

Yang, Zuyu, Andrea Guarracino, Patrick J. Biggs, et al.. (2023). Pangenome graphs in infectious disease: a comprehensive genetic variation analysis of Neisseria meningitidis leveraging Oxford Nanopore long reads. Frontiers in Genetics. 14. 1225248–1225248. 13 indexed citations

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Dukkipati, V.S.R., P. R. Kenyon, H. T. Blair, et al.. (2022). RNAseq Analysis of Brown Adipose Tissue and Thyroid of Newborn Lambs Subjected to Short-Term Cold Exposure Reveals Signs of Early Whitening of Adipose Tissue. Metabolites. 12(10). 996–996. 3 indexed citations

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Dukkipati, V.S.R., Patrick J. Biggs, P. R. Kenyon, et al.. (2022). Mass Spectrometry-Based Lipidomics of Brown Adipose Tissue and Plasma of New-Born Lambs Subjected to Short-Term Cold Exposure. Animals. 12(20). 2762–2762. 2 indexed citations

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Biggs, Patrick J., et al.. (2021). An insight into tropical milk microbiome: Bacterial community composition of cattle milk produced in Sri Lanka. International Dairy Journal. 126. 105266–105266. 4 indexed citations

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Gal, Arnon, Patrick C. Barko, Patrick J. Biggs, et al.. (2021). One dog’s waste is another dog’s wealth: A pilot study of fecal microbiota transplantation in dogs with acute hemorrhagic diarrhea syndrome. PLoS ONE. 16(4). e0250344–e0250344. 29 indexed citations

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Hayman, David T. S., et al.. (2020). Microbial diversity in water and animal faeces: a metagenomic analysis to assess public health risk. New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 48(3-4). 188–201. 6 indexed citations

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Shepherd, Lara D., et al.. (2019). Phylogeography of the endemic New Zealand tree Entelea arborescens (whau; Malvaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany. 57(3). 154–168. 2 indexed citations

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Burgess, Sara A., et al.. (2018). Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Dairy Farm Environments: A New Zealand Perspective. Foodborne Pathogens and Disease. 16(1). 5–22. 27 indexed citations

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Cornelius, Angela J., William G. Miller, Albert J. Lastovica, et al.. (2017). Complete Genome Sequence of Campylobacter concisus ATCC 33237 ^T and Draft Genome Sequences for an Additional Eight Well-Characterized C. concisus Strains. Genome Announcements. 5(29). 9 indexed citations

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Vaughan, Timothy G., et al.. (2016). Inferring Ancestral Recombination Graphs from Bacterial Genomic Data. Genetics. 205(2). 857–870. 30 indexed citations

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Prangle, Dennis, Paul Fearnhead, Murray P. Cox, Patrick J. Biggs, & Nigel French. (2013). Semi-automatic selection of summary statistics for ABC model choice. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology. 13(1). 67–82. 37 indexed citations

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McComish, Bennet J., Simon F. K. Hills, Patrick J. Biggs, & David Penny. (2010). Index-Free De Novo Assembly and Deconvolution of Mixed Mitochondrial Genomes. Genome Biology and Evolution. 2(0). 410–424. 23 indexed citations

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