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Frank Oliver Glöckner

Frank Oliver Glöckner

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
87
Citations
94155
World Ranking
2762
National Ranking
199

Overview

Frank Oliver Glöckner is affiliated with Jacobs University in Germany and works primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans multidisciplinary domains, including Molecular Biology, Ecology, and Information Systems.

The scientist's work covers a wide range of topics, notably:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Research Data Management Practices
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Frequent publication venues for Frank Oliver Glöckner include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • F1000Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Glöckner are:

  • "PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science," 2023, Scientific Data
  • "Towards a multisensor station for automated biodiversity monitoring," 2022, Basic and Applied Ecology
  • "Repositories for Taxonomic Data: Where We Are and What is Missing," 2020, Systematic Biology
  • "The ELIXIR Core Data Resources: fundamental infrastructure for the life sciences," 2020, Bioinformatics
  • "Analysis of bacterial communities in a municipal duck pond during a phytoplankton bloom and isolation of Anatilimnocola aggregata gen. nov., sp. nov., Lacipirellula limnantheis sp. nov. and Urbifossiella limnaea gen. nov., sp. nov. belonging to the phylum Planctomycetes," 2020, Environmental Microbiology

Collaborative efforts have frequently involved the following co-authors:

  • Ivaylo Kostadinov
  • Barbara Ebert
  • Michael Diepenbroek
  • Christian Quast
  • Janine Felden

Best Publications

  • The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

    Christian Quast;Elmar Pruesse;Pelin Yilmaz;Jan Gerken

  • Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studies

    Anna Klindworth;Elmar Pruesse;Timmy Schweer;Jörg Peplies

  • SILVA: a comprehensive online resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data compatible with ARB

    Elmar Pruesse;Christian Quast;Katrin Knittel;Bernhard M. Fuchs

  • The SILVA and "All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)" taxonomic frameworks.

    Pelin Yilmaz;Laura Wegener Parfrey;Pablo Yarza;Jan Gerken

  • The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications.

    Rolf Henrik Nilsson;Karl Henrik Larsson;Andy F.S. Taylor;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Johan Bengtsson-Palme

  • SINA: accurate high throughput multiple sequence alignment of ribosomal RNA genes

    Elmar Pruesse;Jörg Peplies;Frank Oliver Glöckner

  • JSpeciesWS: a web server for prokaryotic species circumscription based on pairwise genome comparison.

    Michael Richter;Ramon Rosselló-Móra;Frank Oliver Glöckner;Frank Oliver Glöckner;Jörg Peplies

  • Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences

    Pablo Yarza;Pelin Yilmaz;Elmar Pruesse;Frank Oliver Glöckner

  • 46. ARB: A Software Environment for Sequence Data

    Ralf Westram;Kai Bader;Elmar Prüsse;Yadhu Kumar

  • Substrate-Controlled Succession of Marine Bacterioplankton Populations Induced by a Phytoplankton Bloom

    Hanno Teeling;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Dörte Becher;Christine Klockow;Christine Klockow

  • The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification.

    Dawn Field;George Garrity;Tanya Gray;Norman Morrison

  • The All-Species Living Tree project: a 16S rRNA-based phylogenetic tree of all sequenced type strains

    Pablo Yarza;Michael Richter;Jörg Peplies;Jean Euzeby

  • Bacterioplankton compositions of lakes and oceans: a first comparison based on fluorescence in situ hybridization.

    Frank Oliver Glöckner;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Rudolf I. Amann

  • 25 years of serving the community with ribosomal RNA gene reference databases and tools.

    Frank Oliver Glöckner;Frank Oliver Glöckner;Pelin Yilmaz;Christian Quast;Jan Gerken

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications.

    Pelin Yilmaz;Pelin Yilmaz;Renzo Kottmann;Dawn Field;Rob Knight;Rob Knight

  • Culturability and In Situ Abundance of Pelagic Bacteria from the North Sea

    Heike Eilers;Jakob Pernthaler;Frank Oliver Glöckner;Rudolf Amann

  • Comparative 16S rRNA Analysis of Lake Bacterioplankton Reveals Globally Distributed Phylogenetic Clusters Including an Abundant Group of Actinobacteria

    Frank Oliver Glöckner;Evgeny Zaichikov;Natalia Belkova;Ludmilla Denissova

  • Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) with rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes

    Jakob Pernthaler;Frank-Oliver Glöckner;Wilhelm Schönhuber;Rudolf Amann

  • Complete genome sequence of the marine planctomycete Pirellula sp. strain 1.

    F. O. Glöckner;M. Kube;M. Bauer;H. Teeling

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Dawn Field
Dawn Field University of Oxford
Jack A. Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert University of California, San Diego
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute
Folker Meyer
Folker Meyer Argonne National Laboratory
Wolfgang Ludwig
Wolfgang Ludwig Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Guy Cochrane
Guy Cochrane European Bioinformatics Institute
George M. Garrity
George M. Garrity Michigan State University
Antje Wichels
Antje Wichels Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Bernhard M. Fuchs
Bernhard M. Fuchs Max Planck Society

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