Zamin Iqbal

34.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Zamin Iqbal is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Zamin Iqbal has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Epidemiology and 19 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Zamin Iqbal's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (26 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (16 papers) and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (14 papers). Zamin Iqbal is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (26 papers), Mycobacterium research and diagnosis (16 papers) and Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (14 papers). Zamin Iqbal collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Zamin Iqbal's co-authors include Gil McVean, Isaac Turner, Hang Phan, Andrew O.M. Wilkie, Andy Rimmer, Mario Cáccamo, Gerton Lunter, Stephen R.F. Twigg, Iain Mathieson and A Sarah Walker and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Zamin Iqbal

58 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Integrating mapping-, assembly- and haplotype-based approaches for calling variants in clinical sequencing applications

2014 606 citations Zamin Iqbal, Andrew O.M. Wilkie et al. profile →
The global distribution and spread of the mobilized colistin resistance gene mcr-1

2018 476 citations Phelim Bradley, Zamin Iqbal et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zamin Iqbal United Kingdom	28	1.9k	805	695	674	635	61	3.6k
Tim Carver United Kingdom	12	2.3k 1.2×	771 1.0×	333 0.5×	509 0.8×	464 0.7×	24	5.1k
Lars Barquist Germany	32	2.7k 1.4×	1.0k 1.3×	360 0.5×	631 0.9×	408 0.6×	85	4.3k
Swaine L. Chen Singapore	28	2.1k 1.1×	664 0.8×	450 0.6×	316 0.5×	868 1.4×	86	3.8k
Peadar Ó Gaora Ireland	34	1.3k 0.7×	976 1.2×	218 0.3×	926 1.4×	697 1.1×	68	4.0k
Antonello Covacci Italy	46	2.2k 1.2×	852 1.1×	200 0.3×	849 1.3×	1.3k 2.0×	66	10.4k
Alexander J. Westermann Germany	24	1.9k 1.0×	501 0.6×	134 0.2×	345 0.5×	389 0.6×	55	3.2k
Yong Liang China	21	1.6k 0.8×	413 0.5×	227 0.3×	291 0.4×	202 0.3×	48	3.1k
Rakesh Bhatnagar India	35	2.5k 1.3×	968 1.2×	118 0.2×	741 1.1×	475 0.7×	217	4.4k
Paul F. Harrison Australia	24	1.2k 0.6×	381 0.5×	835 1.2×	782 1.2×	332 0.5×	46	2.5k
Jonathan Livny United States	37	4.6k 2.4×	1.3k 1.6×	311 0.4×	1.2k 1.8×	745 1.2×	65	6.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zamin Iqbal

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Grundmann, Hajo, et al.. (2025). Tracking clonal and plasmid transmission in colistin- and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. mSystems. 10(2). e0112824–e0112824. 2 indexed citations

Břinda, Karel, Leandro Lima, Natalia Quinones‐Olvera, et al.. (2025). Efficient and robust search of microbial genomes via phylogenetic compression. Nature Methods. 22(4). 692–697. 4 indexed citations

Cazares, Adrián, Daniel Cazares, Leandro Lima, et al.. (2025). Pre- and postantibiotic epoch: The historical spread of antimicrobial resistance. Science. 390(6777). eadr1522–eadr1522. 1 indexed citations

Lima, Leandro, et al.. (2024). Applying rearrangement distances to enable plasmid epidemiology with pling. Microbial Genomics. 10(10). 14 indexed citations

Letcher, Brice, et al.. (2024). Role for gene conversion in the evolution of cell-surface antigens of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. PLoS Biology. 22(3). e3002507–e3002507. 1 indexed citations

Hall, Michael B., Leandro Lima, Lachlan Coin, & Zamin Iqbal. (2023). Drug resistance prediction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis with reference graphs. Microbial Genomics. 9(8). 4 indexed citations

Hunt, Martin, Jeremy Swann, Bede Constantinides, Philip W. Fowler, & Zamin Iqbal. (2022). ReadItAndKeep: rapid decontamination of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing reads. Bioinformatics. 38(12). 3291–3293. 4 indexed citations

Hall, Michael B., Marie Sylvianne Rabodoarivelo, Anastasia Koch, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of Nanopore sequencing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing and outbreak investigation: a genomic analysis. The Lancet Microbe. 4(2). e84–e92. 47 indexed citations

Blackwell, Grace A., Martin Hunt, Leandro Lima, et al.. (2022). Exploring bacterial diversity via a curated and searchable snapshot of archived DNA. Access Microbiology. 4(5). 1 indexed citations

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Blackwell, Grace A., Martin Hunt, Kerri M. Malone, et al.. (2021). Exploring bacterial diversity via a curated and searchable snapshot of archived DNA sequences. PLoS Biology. 19(11). e3001421–e3001421. 57 indexed citations

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Marchet, Camille, Zamin Iqbal, Daniel Gautheret, Mikaël Salson, & Rayan Chikhi. (2020). REINDEER: efficient indexing of k -mer presence and abundance in sequencing datasets. Bioinformatics. 36(Supplement_1). i177–i185. 24 indexed citations

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Lipworth, Samuel, Rana Jajou, Albert J. de Neeling, et al.. (2019). SNP-IT Tool for Identifying Subspecies and Associated Lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex. Emerging infectious diseases. 25(3). 482–488. 45 indexed citations

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Bradley, Phelim, Henk C. den Bakker, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Gil McVean, & Zamin Iqbal. (2019). Ultrafast search of all deposited bacterial and viral genomic data. Nature Biotechnology. 37(2). 152–159. 77 indexed citations

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Brockhurst, Michael A., Freya Harrison, Ellie Harrison, et al.. (2019). Assessing evolutionary risks of resistance for new antimicrobial therapies. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(4). 515–517. 41 indexed citations

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Turner, Isaac, Kiran Garimella, Zamin Iqbal, & Gil McVean. (2018). Integrating long-range connectivity information into de Bruijn graphs. Bioinformatics. 34(15). 2556–2565. 43 indexed citations

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Votintseva, Antonina A., Phelim Bradley, Louise Pankhurst, et al.. (2017). Same-Day Diagnostic and Surveillance Data for Tuberculosis via Whole-Genome Sequencing of Direct Respiratory Samples. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 55(5). 1285–1298. 231 indexed citations

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Iqbal, Zamin, et al.. (2016). A natural encoding of genetic variation in a Burrows-Wheeler Transform to enable mapping and genome inference. Lecture notes in computer science. 1 indexed citations

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O’Brien, John, Zamin Iqbal, Jason Wendler, & Lucas Amenga–Etego. (2016). Inferring Strain Mixture within Clinical Plasmodium falciparum Isolates from Genomic Sequence Data. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(6). e1004824–e1004824. 22 indexed citations

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Giannoulatou, Eleni, Gil McVean, Indira B. Taylor, et al.. (2013). Contributions of intrinsic mutation rate and selfish selection to levels of de novo HRAS mutations in the paternal germline. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(50). 20152–20157. 58 indexed citations

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Salter, Patrick S., Zamin Iqbal, & Martin J. Booth. (2013). Analysis of the Three-Dimensional Focal Positioning Capability of Adaptive Optic Elements. International Journal of Optomechatronics. 7(1). 1–14. 20 indexed citations

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