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Germany
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
65
Citations
103591
World Ranking
2376
National Ranking
100

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Alexandros Stamatakis is affiliated with the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies in Germany. Their research primarily falls within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Paleontology, Ecology, and Ecological Modeling as subfields.

Their work encompasses a range of topics including:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forensic and Genetic Research
  • Gene expression and cancer classification

Alexandros Stamatakis has contributed to multiple publication venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bioinformatics
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Bioinformatics Advances

Some recent publications featuring Alexandros Stamatakis or closely connected research include:

  • "Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science," 2020, Genome biology
  • "Genesis and Gappa: processing, analyzing and visualizing phylogenetic (placement) data," 2020, Bioinformatics
  • "Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes," 2024, Nature
  • "Phylogenetic Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Data Is Difficult," 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "GeneRax: A Tool for Species-Tree-Aware Maximum Likelihood-Based Gene Family Tree Inference under Gene Duplication, Transfer, and Loss," 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexandros Stamatakis include:

  • Alexey M. Kozlov
  • Benoît Morel
  • Ben Bettisworth
  • Julia Haag
  • Dimitri Höhler

Best Publications

  • RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies.

    Alexandros Stamatakis

  • RAxML-VI-HPC: maximum likelihood-based phylogenetic analyses with thousands of taxa and mixed models

    Alexandros Stamatakis

  • A Rapid Bootstrap Algorithm for the RAxML Web Servers

    Alexandros Stamatakis;Paul Hoover;Jacques Rougemont

  • ARB: a software environment for sequence data

    Wolfgang Ludwig;Oliver Strunk;Ralf Westram;Lothar Richter

  • PEAR: a fast and accurate Illumina Paired-End reAd mergeR

    Jiajie Zhang;Kassian Kobert;Tomasÿ Flouri;Alexandros Stamatakis

  • RAxML-NG: a fast, scalable and user-friendly tool for maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference.

    Alexey M Kozlov;Diego Darriba;Tomáš Flouri;Benoit Morel

  • A general species delimitation method with applications to phylogenetic placements

    Jiajie Zhang;Paschalia Kapli;Pavlos Pavlidis;Alexandros Stamatakis

  • Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

    Bernhard Misof;Shanlin Liu;Karen Meusemann;Ralph S. Peters

  • ModelTest-NG: a new and scalable tool for the selection of DNA and protein evolutionary models

    Diego Darriba;David Posada;Alexey M Kozlov;Alexandros Stamatakis;Alexandros Stamatakis

  • RAxML-III: a fast program for maximum likelihood-based inference of large phylogenetic trees

    A. Stamatakis;T. Ludwig;H. Meier

  • Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science

    David Lähnemann;David Lähnemann;Johannes Köster;Johannes Köster;Ewa Szczurek;Davis J. McCarthy;Davis J. McCarthy

  • How many bootstrap replicates are necessary

    Nicholas D Pattengale;Masoud Alipour;Olaf R P Bininda-Emonds;Bernard M E Moret

  • Multi-rate Poisson tree processes for single-locus species delimitation under maximum likelihood and Markov chain Monte Carlo

    Paschalia Kapli;Sarah Lutteropp;Sarah Lutteropp;Jiajie Zhang;Kassian Kobert

  • Selecting optimal partitioning schemes for phylogenomic datasets

    Robert Lanfear;Robert Lanfear;Brett Calcott;David Kainer;Christoph Mayer

  • EPA-ng: Massively Parallel Evolutionary Placement of Genetic Sequences.

    Pierre Barbera;Alexey M Kozlov;Lucas Czech;Benoit Morel

  • Metagenomic species profiling using universal phylogenetic marker genes

    Shinichi Sunagawa;Daniel R Mende;Georg Zeller;Fernando Izquierdo-Carrasco

  • Performance, accuracy, and Web server for evolutionary placement of short sequence reads under maximum likelihood.

    Simon A. Berger;Denis Krompass;Alexandros Stamatakis

  • The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Plant Biology.

    Stephen A Goff;Matthew Vaughn;Sheldon McKay;Eric Lyons

  • SweeD: Likelihood-Based Detection of Selective Sweeps in Thousands of Genomes

    Pavlos Pavlidis;Daniel Živković;Alexandros Stamatakis;Nikolaos Alachiotis

  • ExaBayes: Massively Parallel Bayesian Tree Inference for the Whole-Genome Era

    Andre J. Aberer;Kassian Kobert;Alexandros Stamatakis

Frequent Co-Authors

Arndt von Haeseler
Arndt von Haeseler University of Vienna
Antonis Rokas
Antonis Rokas Vanderbilt University
John C. Marioni
John C. Marioni European Bioinformatics Institute
Tandy Warnow
Tandy Warnow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Frank Oliver Glöckner Jacobs University
Torsten Wappler
Torsten Wappler Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Markus Göker
Markus Göker Leibniz Association
Oliver Stegle
Oliver Stegle German Cancer Research Center
Yong Zhang
Yong Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
huanming yang
huanming yang Beijing Genomics Institute

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