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Germany
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
67
Citations
162655
World Ranking
2123
National Ranking
87

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Eugene W. Myers is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Germany. Their main field of study is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 94 publications. Within this field, the primary subfields they work in include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Plant Science, and Immunology.

The scientist's research centers broadly on topics such as Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, and Genetic Diversity and Population Structure. Additional areas of focus include Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Aquaculture Disease Management and Microbiota, as well as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Recent significant papers authored or co-authored by Eugene W. Myers include:

  • The complete sequence of a human genome, 2022, Science
  • MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads, 2023, BMC Bioinformatics
  • Six reference-quality genomes reveal evolution of bat adaptations, 2020, Nature
  • The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio High Fidelity reads, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors working alongside Eugene W. Myers include Martin Pippel, Sylke Winkler, Giulio Formenti, Erich D. Jarvis, and Michael Hiller. The distribution of collaborations reflects a broad network within the molecular biology and genetics research community.

Publication venues where this scientist's work regularly appears include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and DNA Research. The scientist has contributed notably to each of these outlets with multiple publications.

In addition to research papers, Eugene W. Myers has published book content, including a contribution to "Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences," published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Basic Local Alignment Search Tool

    Stephen F. Altschul;Warren Gish;Webb C. Miller;Eugene W. Myers

  • Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors

    Marcel Margulies;Michael Egholm;William E Altman;Said Attiya

  • The genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster

    M. D. Adams;S. E. Celniker;R. A. Holt;C. A. Evans

  • Basic local alignment search tool. Journal of Molecular Biology

    SF Altschul;W Gish;W Miller;EW Myers

  • Optimal alignments in linear space.

    Eugene W. Myers;Webb Miller

  • A Whole-Genome Assembly of Drosophila

    Eugene W. Myers;Granger G. Sutton;Art L. Delcher;Ian M. Dew

  • An O ( ND ) difference algorithm and its variations

    Eugene W. Myers

  • Content-aware image restoration: pushing the limits of fluorescence microscopy.

    Martin Weigert;Uwe Schmidt;Tobias Boothe;Andreas Müller

  • V3D enables real-time 3D visualization and quantitative analysis of large-scale biological image data sets

    Hanchuan Peng;Zongcai Ruan;Fuhui Long;Julie H Simpson

  • PILER: identification and classification of genomic repeats

    Robert C. Edgar;Eugene W. Myers

  • The fragment assembly string graph

    Eugene W. Myers

  • Human whole-genome shotgun sequencing.

    James L. Weber;Eugene W. Myers

  • Finishing a whole-genome shotgun: Release 3 of the Drosophila melanogaster euchromatic genome sequence

    Susan E Celniker;David A Wheeler;Brent Kronmiller;Joseph W Carlson

  • Combinatorial algorithms for DNA sequence assembly

    John D. Kececioglu;Eugene W. Myers

  • Toward Simplifying and Accurately Formulating Fragment Assembly

    Eugene W. Myers

  • Fast, accurate reconstruction of cell lineages from large-scale fluorescence microscopy data

    Fernando Amat;William Lemon;Daniel P Mossing;Katie McDole

  • Heterochromatic sequences in a Drosophila whole-genome shotgun assembly

    Roger A Hoskins;Christopher D Smith;Joseph W Carlson;A Bernardo Carvalho

  • A File Comparison Program

    Webb Miller;Eugene W. Myers

  • Adaptive light-sheet microscopy for long-term, high-resolution imaging in living organisms

    Loïc A Royer;William C Lemon;Raghav K Chhetri;Yinan Wan

  • Efficient Bayesian-based multiview deconvolution

    Stephan Preibisch;Fernando Amat;Evangelia Stamataki;Mihail Sarov

  • Whole-genome shotgun assembly and comparison of human genome assemblies

    Sorin Istrail;Granger G. Sutton;Liliana Florea;Aaron L. Halpern

  • ClearVolume: open-source live 3D visualization for light-sheet microscopy

    Loic A Royer;Martin Weigert;Ulrik Günther;Ulrik Günther;Nicola Maghelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Hanchuan Peng
Hanchuan Peng Southeast University
Martin Weigert
Martin Weigert University of Chicago
Granger G. Sutton
Granger G. Sutton J. Craig Venter Institute
Knut Reinert
Knut Reinert Freie Universität Berlin
J. Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter J. Craig Venter Institute
Erich D. Jarvis
Erich D. Jarvis Rockefeller University
Arthur L. Delcher
Arthur L. Delcher University of Maryland, College Park
Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda Allen Institute
Daniel H. Huson
Daniel H. Huson University of Tübingen
Webb Miller
Webb Miller Pennsylvania State University

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