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Adam M. Phillippy is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant number of publications also in Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Phillippy's scientific work spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Genetics, Ecology, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research covers several key topics, such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Genomic Variations and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics, RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering.

Frequent publication venues for Phillippy include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Nature Biotechnology
  • Science
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

They have collaborated frequently with various scientists, including:

  • Sergey Koren
  • Arang Rhie
  • Evan E. Eichler
  • Erich D. Jarvis
  • Giulio Formenti

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Phillippy demonstrate a focus on genome assembly and genomic sequencing technologies. Notable work includes:

  • The complete sequence of a human genome, 2022, Science
  • Merqury: reference-free quality, completeness, and phasing assessment for genome assemblies, 2020, Genome Biology
  • De novo assembly of the cattle reference genome with single-molecule sequencing, 2020, GigaScience
  • HiCanu: accurate assembly of segmental duplications, satellites, and allelic variants from high-fidelity long reads, 2020, Genome Research
  • Telomere-to-telomere assembly of a complete human X chromosome, 2020, Nature

Best Publications

  • Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptive k-mer weighting and repeat separation.

    Sergey Koren;Brian P. Walenz;Konstantin Berlin;Jason R. Miller

  • Versatile and open software for comparing large genomes

    Stefan Kurtz;Adam Phillippy;Arthur L Delcher;Michael Smoot

  • High throughput ANI analysis of 90K prokaryotic genomes reveals clear species boundaries.

    Chirag Jain;Luis M. Rodriguez-R;Adam M. Phillippy;Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

  • Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

    Arang Rhie;Shane A. McCarthy;Shane A. McCarthy;Olivier Fedrigo;Joana Damas

  • Mash: fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using MinHash.

    Brian D. Ondov;Todd J. Treangen;Páll Melsted;Adam B. Mallonee

  • Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

    Andrew G. Clark;Michael B. Eisen;Michael B. Eisen;Douglas R. Smith;Casey M. Bergman

  • Nanopore sequencing and assembly of a human genome with ultra-long reads

    Miten Jain;Sergey Koren;Karen H Miga;Josh Quick

  • Interactive metagenomic visualization in a Web browser

    Brian D Ondov;Nicholas H Bergman;Adam M Phillippy

  • Accurate circular consensus long-read sequencing improves variant detection and assembly of a human genome.

    Aaron M. Wenger;Paul Peluso;William J. Rowell;Pi-Chuan Chang

  • Merqury: reference-free quality, completeness, and phasing assessment for genome assemblies

    Arang Rhie;Brian P. Walenz;Sergey Koren;Adam M. Phillippy

  • MUMmer4: A fast and versatile genome alignment system.

    Guillaume Marçais;Arthur L. Delcher;Adam M. Phillippy;Rachel Coston

  • The Harvest suite for rapid core-genome alignment and visualization of thousands of intraspecific microbial genomes.

    Todd J Treangen;Brian D Ondov;Sergey Koren;Adam M Phillippy

  • Fast algorithms for large-scale genome alignment and comparison.

    Arthur L. Delcher;Adam Phillippy;Jane Carlton;Steven L. Salzberg

  • Hybrid error correction and de novo assembly of single-molecule sequencing reads

    Sergey Koren;Michael C Schatz;Brian P Walenz;Jeffrey Martin

  • Assembling large genomes with single-molecule sequencing and locality-sensitive hashing

    Konstantin Berlin;Sergey Koren;Chen-Shan Chin;James P Drake

  • Evaluation of GRCh38 and de novo haploid genome assemblies demonstrates the enduring quality of the reference assembly

    Valerie A. Schneider;Tina Graves-Lindsay;Kerstin Howe;Nathan Bouk

  • GAGE: A critical evaluation of genome assemblies and assembly algorithms

    Steven L. Salzberg;Adam M. Phillippy;Aleksey Zimin;Daniela Puiu

  • Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

    Arang Rhie;Shane A. McCarthy;Olivier Fedrigo;Joana Damas

  • Merqury: reference-free quality and phasing assessment for genome assemblies

    Arang Rhie;Brian P. Walenz;Sergey Koren;Adam M. Phillippy

  • Fast algorithms for large-scale genome alignment and

    L. Delcher;Adam Phillippy;Jane Carlton;Steven L. Salzberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Sergey Koren
Sergey Koren National Institutes of Health
Michael C. Schatz
Michael C. Schatz Johns Hopkins University
Steven L. Salzberg
Steven L. Salzberg Johns Hopkins University
Erich D. Jarvis
Erich D. Jarvis Rockefeller University
Derek M. Bickhart
Derek M. Bickhart Agricultural Research Service
Brian P. Walenz
Brian P. Walenz National Institutes of Health
Timothy P. L. Smith
Timothy P. L. Smith Agricultural Research Service
Evan E. Eichler
Evan E. Eichler University of Washington
Arthur L. Delcher
Arthur L. Delcher University of Maryland, College Park
Kerstin Howe
Kerstin Howe European Bioinformatics Institute

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