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Ben Langmead | Researchclopedia

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Ben Langmead

Johns Hopkins University ORCID

220

Works

129,436

Citations

43

h-index

84

i10-index

Research Topics

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Algorithms and Data Compression Gene expression and cancer classification

Affiliations

Kennedy Krieger Institute2021–2024

Johns Hopkins University2009–2026

Discovery Institute2018–2025

Johns Hopkins Medicine2011–2025

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory2025–2025

Top Works

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

Ben Langmead,Steven L. Salzberg

201259,785 citations

RNA modifications and cancer

RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms

HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

Daehwan Kim,Ben Langmead,et al.

201525,486 citations

Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

Ben Langmead,Cole Trapnell,et al.

200922,776 citations

Improved metagenomic analysis with Kraken 2

Derrick E. Wood,Jennifer Lu,et al.

20196,739 citations

Tackling the widespread and critical impact of batch effects in high-throughput data

Jeffrey T. Leek,Robert B. Scharpf,et al.

20102,220 citations

Aligning Short Sequencing Reads with Bowtie

20101,339 citations

Increased methylation variation in epigenetic domains across cancer types

Kasper D. Hansen,Winston Timp,et al.

20111,088 citations

Scaling read aligners to hundreds of threads on general-purpose processors

Ben Langmead,Christopher Wilks,et al.

2018957 citations

Ballgown bridges the gap between transcriptome assembly and expression analysis

Alyssa C. Frazee,Geo Pertea,et al.

2015905 citations