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96
Citations
46988
World Ranking
854
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Russia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Russia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Russia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Russia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Russia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Russia Leader Award

Overview

Alla Lapidus is affiliated with St Petersburg University in the Russian Federation and has contributed to fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work often intersects with subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, Soil Science, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics, highlighting areas like Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Soil and Environmental Studies, RNA modifications and cancer, Metal Extraction and Bioleaching, as well as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

Among recent publications, Alla Lapidus has authored papers including:

  • Metagenomic Data Assembly - The Way of Decoding Unknown Microorganisms, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Using SPAdes De Novo Assembler, 2020, Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
  • <scp>Metaviral</scp> <scp>SPAdes</scp>: assembly of viruses from metagenomic data, 2020, Bioinformatics
  • Accurate isoform discovery with IsoQuant using long reads, 2023, Nature Biotechnology
  • Extending rnaSPAdes functionality for hybrid transcriptome assembly, 2020, BMC Bioinformatics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alla Lapidus include Evgeny Abakumov, Anton Korobeynikov, Mikhail Rayko, И. К. Кравченко, and Sergey V. Loiko.

The scientist's work is frequently published in venues such as Frontiers in Microbiology, BMC Bioinformatics, Microorganisms, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Agronomy.

Best Publications

  • The complete genome sequence of the Gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis

    F. Kunst;N. Ogasawara;I. Moszer;A. M. Albertini

  • Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

    Robert M. Bowers;Nikos C. Kyrpides;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Miranda Harmon-Smith

  • Using SPAdes De Novo Assembler

    Andrey Prjibelski;Dmitry Antipov;Dmitry Meleshko;Alla Lapidus

  • Assembling Single-Cell Genomes and Mini-Metagenomes From Chimeric MDA Products

    Sergey Nurk;Anton Bankevich;Dmitry Antipov;Alexey A. Gurevich

  • A phylogeny-driven genomic encyclopaedia of Bacteria and Archaea.

    Dongying Wu;Dongying Wu;Philip Hugenholtz;Konstantinos Mavromatis;Rüdiger Pukall

  • Genome sequence of Bacillus cereus and comparative analysis with Bacillus anthracis

    Natalia Ivanova;Alexei Sorokin;Iain Anderson;Nathalie Galleron

  • The genome sequence of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis reveals adaptations for milk utilization within the infant microbiome.

    D. A. Sela;J. Chapman;A. Adeuya;J. H. Kim

  • The genomic basis of trophic strategy in marine bacteria.

    Federico M. Lauro;Diane McDougald;Torsten Thomas;Timothy J. Williams

  • Assembling genomes and mini-metagenomes from highly chimeric reads

    Sergey Nurk;Anton Bankevich;Dmitry Antipov;Alexey Gurevich

  • The Wolbachia genome of Brugia malayi: Endosymbiont evolution within a human pathogenic nematode

    Jeremy Foster;Mehul Ganatra;Ibrahim Kamal;Jennifer Ware

  • Genome sequencing reveals complex secondary metabolome in the marine actinomycete Salinispora tropica

    Daniel W. Udwary;Lisa Zeigler;Ratnakar Asolkar;Vasanth Singan

  • The Plant Cell Wall–Decomposing Machinery Underlies the Functional Diversity of Forest Fungi

    Daniel C. Eastwood;Dimitrios Floudas;Manfred Binder;Andrzej Majcherczyk

  • Patterns and Implications of Gene Gain and Loss in the Evolution of Prochlorococcus

    Gregory C Kettler;Adam C Martiny;Katherine Huang;Jeremy Zucker

  • Environmental genomics reveals a single-species ecosystem deep within Earth.

    Dylan Chivian;Eoin L. Brodie;Eric J. Alm;David E. Culley

  • Complete sequence and comparative genome analysis of the dairy bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus

    Alexander Bolotin;Benoît Quinquis;Pierre Renault;Alexei Sorokin

  • Comparison of the complete genome sequences of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a and pv. tomato DC3000

    Helene Feil;William S. Feil;Patrick Chain;Frank Larimer

  • rnaSPAdes: a de novo transcriptome assembler and its application to RNA-Seq data.

    Elena Bushmanova;Dmitry Antipov;Alla Lapidus;Andrey D Prjibelski

  • A Bioinformatician's Guide to Metagenomics

    Victor Kunin;Alex Copeland;Alla Lapidus;Konstantinos Mavromatis

  • Living with Genome Instability: the Adaptation of Phytoplasmas to Diverse Environments of Their Insect and Plant Hosts

    Xiaodong Bai;Jianhua Zhang;Adam Ewing;Sally A. Miller

  • Complete genome sequence of the industrial bacterium Bacillus licheniformis and comparisons with closely related Bacillus species

    Michael W Rey;Preethi Ramaiya;Beth A Nelson;Shari D Brody-Karpin

Frequent Co-Authors

Miriam Land
Miriam Land Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Lynne Goodwin
Lynne Goodwin Los Alamos National Laboratory
Cliff Han
Cliff Han Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jonathan A. Eisen
Jonathan A. Eisen University of California, Davis
Loren Hauser
Loren Hauser Digital Infuzion (United States)
John C. Detter
John C. Detter Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute
Natalia Ivanova
Natalia Ivanova Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Philip Hugenholtz
Philip Hugenholtz University of Queensland
Hans-Peter Klenk
Hans-Peter Klenk Newcastle University

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