Steven Weaver

11.5k citations

33 papers · 2.9k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 20

Co-authors: Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond Joel O. Wertheim Stephen D. Shank Ben Murrell Stephanie J. Spielman Spencer V. Muse Davey M. Smith Konrad Scheffler
Topics: Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers)HIV Research and Treatment (6 papers)Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (6 papers)
Cited by: Virology Infectious Diseases Genetics
Journals: Cell Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nucleic Acids Research
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom South Africa

In The Last Decade

Steven Weaver

32 papers receiving 2.9k citations

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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.

Datamonkey 2.0: A Modern Web Application for Characterizing Selective and Other Evolutionary Processes

2017 619 citations Steven Weaver, Stephen D. Shank et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution 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 →
Gene-Wide Identification of Episodic Selection

2015 383 citations Ben Murrell, Steven Weaver et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
HyPhy 2.5—A Customizable Platform for Evolutionary Hypothesis Testing Using Phylogenies

2019 367 citations Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Art F. Y. Poon et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Weaver

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Steven Weaver. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Steven Weaver based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Steven Weaver. Steven Weaver is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	AUTO-TUNE: selecting the distance threshold for inferring HIV transmission clusters 2024 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Steven Weaver,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Santiago Ávila‐Ríos,Andrew Brown,Joel O. Wertheim,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond	1
2	TopHap: rapid inference of key phylogenetic structures from common haplotypes in large genome collections with limited diversity 2022 ·Bioinformatics ·(unknown),Sayaka Miura,Maxwell Sanderford,(unknown),Qiqing Tao,Steven Weaver,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond,Sudhir Kumar	4
3	Predicting the mutational drivers of future SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern 2022 ·Science Translational Medicine ·M. Cyrus Maher,István Bartha,Steven Weaver,Julia di Iulio,Elena Ferri,Leah Soriaga,Florian A. Lempp,Brian Hie,Bryan D. Bryson,Bonnie Berger,David L. Robertson,Gyorgy Snell,Davide Corti,Herbert W. Virgin,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond,Amalio Telenti	99
4	An Evolutionary Portrait of the Progenitor SARS-CoV-2 and Its Dominant Offshoots in COVID-19 Pandemic 2021 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Sudhir Kumar,Qiqing Tao,Steven Weaver,Maxwell Sanderford,(unknown),Sudip Sharma,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond,Sayaka Miura	41
5	Natural selection in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in bats created a generalist virus and highly capable human pathogen 2021 ·PLoS Biology ·Oscar A. MacLean,Spyros Lytras,Steven Weaver,Joshua B. Singer,Maciej F. Boni,Philippe Lemey,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond,David L. Robertson	121
6	Extra base hits: Widespread empirical support for instantaneous multiple-nucleotide changes 2021 ·PLoS ONE ·Alexander G. Lucaci,Sadie R Wisotsky,Stephen D. Shank,Steven Weaver,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond	11
7	Contrast-FEL—A Test for Differences in Selective Pressures at Individual Sites among Clades and Sets of Branches 2020 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond,Sadie R Wisotsky,Ananías A. Escalante,Brittany Rife Magalis,Steven Weaver	35
8	No more business as usual: Agile and effective responses to emerging pathogen threats require open data and open analytics 2020 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Dannon Baker,Marius van den Beek,Daniel Blankenberg,Dave Bouvier,John Chilton,Nate Coraor,Frederik Coppens,Ignacio Eguinoa,Simon Gladman,Björn Grüning,(unknown),Delphine Larivière,Andrew Lonie,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond,Wolfgang Maier,Anton Nekrutenko,James Taylor,Steven Weaver	17
9	Evolution of Viral Genomes: Interplay Between Selection, Recombination, and Other Forces 2019 ·Methods in molecular biology ·Stephanie J. Spielman,Steven Weaver,Stephen D. Shank,Brittany Rife Magalis,Michael Li,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond	46
10	HyPhy 2.5—A Customizable Platform for Evolutionary Hypothesis Testing Using Phylogeniesbreakdown → 2019 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond,Art F. Y. Poon,Ryan Velazquez,Steven Weaver,(unknown),Ben Murrell,Stephen D. Shank,Brittany Rife Magalis,Dave Bouvier,Anton Nekrutenko,Sadie R Wisotsky,Stephanie J. Spielman,Simon D. W. Frost,Spencer V. Muse	367
11	phylotree.js - a JavaScript library for application development and interactive data visualization in phylogenetics 2018 ·BMC Bioinformatics ·Stephen D. Shank,Steven Weaver,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond	37
12	Full-Length Envelope Analyzer (FLEA): A tool for longitudinal analysis of viral amplicons 2018 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Kemal Eren,Steven Weaver,(unknown),(unknown),Melissa Smith,Venkatesh Kumar,Sanjay Mohan,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond,Ben Murrell	2
13	Rapid Sequencing of CompleteenvGenes from Primary HIV-1 Samples 2016 ·Virus Evolution ·Melissa Smith,Ben Murrell,Kemal Eren,Caroline Ignacio,Elise Landais,Steven Weaver,Pham Phung,(unknown),(unknown),Gemma Caballero,(unknown),Yan Guo,Douglas D. Richman,Pascal Poignard,Ellen E. Paxinos,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond,Davey M. Smith	17
14	Gene-Wide Identification of Episodic Selectionbreakdown → 2015 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Ben Murrell,Steven Weaver,Martin D. Smith,Joel O. Wertheim,Sasha Murrell,Anthony Aylward,Kemal Eren,(unknown),Darren P. Martin,Davey M. Smith,Konrad Scheffler,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond	383
15	Less Is More: An Adaptive Branch-Site Random Effects Model for Efficient Detection of Episodic Diversifying Selectionbreakdown → 2015 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Davey M. Smith,Joel O. Wertheim,Steven Weaver,Ben Murrell,Konrad Scheffler,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond	486
16	IDEPI: Rapid Prediction of HIV-1 Antibody Epitopes and Other Phenotypic Features from Sequence Data Using a Flexible Machine Learning Platform 2014 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·(unknown),Konrad Scheffler,Steven Weaver,Ben Murrell,Douglas D. Richman,Dennis R. Burton,Pascal Poignard,Davey M. Smith,Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond	37
17	Isolation and characterization of a cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase-encoding cDNA from mouse liver 1991 ·Gene ·Pornpimol Rongnoparut,Steven Weaver	39
18	A naturally occurring deletion in the mouse Hbbs beta-globin gene cluster. 1986 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown),Steven Weaver	7
19	Evolution of the mouse beta-globin genes: a recent gene conversion in the Hbbs haplotype. 1985 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·(unknown),(unknown),Steven Weaver	27
20	The mouse globin pseudogene beta h3 is descended from a premammalian delta-globin gene. 1984 ·Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Clyde A. Hutchison,Stephen C. Hardies,Richard W. Padgett,Steven Weaver,Marshall H. Edgell	21

About Steven Weaver

Steven Weaver is a scholar working on Virology, Genetics and Molecular Biology, having authored 33 papers that have together received 2.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), HIV Research and Treatment (6 papers) and Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Virology (248 citations), Infectious Diseases (757 citations) and Genetics (686 citations). Steven Weaver has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Africa. Frequent co-authors include Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Joel O. Wertheim, Stephen D. Shank, Ben Murrell, Stephanie J. Spielman, Spencer V. Muse, Davey M. Smith, Konrad Scheffler, Michael Li and Andrew Brown. Their work appears in journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

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