2026 Lenwood S. Heath: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	39	9674	9396	4095	3924	146	7395

Overview

Lenwood S. Heath is affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions in Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Ecology, and Genetics.

The scientist's work spans several main research topics:

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Some of the recent papers by Lenwood S. Heath include:

Next generation sequencing approaches to evaluate water and wastewater quality, 2021, Water Research
LINbase: a web server for genome-based identification of prokaryotes as members of crowdsourced taxa, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
Meta-analysis of the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex (RSSC) based on comparative evolutionary genomics and reverse ecology, 2022, Microbial Genomics
ARGminer: a web platform for the crowdsourcing-based curation of antibiotic resistance genes, 2020, Bioinformatics
Systematic auditing is essential to debiasing machine learning in biology, 2021, Communications Biology

Frequent co-authors of Heath's work include:

Arnold L. Rosenberg
Boris A. Vinatzer
Reza Mazloom
Amy Pruden
Parul Sharma

Common publication venues where Heath has contributed multiple papers are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PLoS ONE
Scientific Reports
Microbial Genomics
Frontiers in Microbiology

Heath has also contributed to academic book literature, with a publication titled Understanding Computation released in 2022 through Springer International Publishing.

Best Publications

H++: a server for estimating pKas and adding missing hydrogens to macromolecules

John C. Gordon;Jonathan B. Myers;Timothy Folta;Valia Shoja

1852
Citations
DeepARG: a deep learning approach for predicting antibiotic resistance genes from metagenomic data.

Gustavo Arango-Argoty;Emily Garner;Amy Pruden;Lenwood S. Heath

886
Citations
Users, user interfaces, and objects: Envision, a digital library

Edward A. Fox;Deborah Hix;Lucy T. Nowell;Dennis J. Brueni

253
Citations
Visualizing search results: some alternatives to query-document similarity

Lucy Terry Nowell;Deborah Hix;Lenwood S. Heath

234
Citations
Laying out graphs using queues

Lenwood S. Heath;Arnold L. Rosenberg

213
Citations
Photosynthetic Acclimation Is Reflected in Specific Patterns of Gene Expression in Drought-Stressed Loblolly Pine

Jonathan I. Watkinson;Allan A. Sioson;Cecilia Vasquez-Robinet;Maulik Shukla

196
Citations
The PMU Placement Problem

Dennis J. Brueni;Lenwood S. Heath

187
Citations
Comparing queues and stacks as mechanisms for laying out graphs

Lenwood S. Heath;Frank Thomson Leighton;Arnold L. Rosenberg

167
Citations
Practical minimal perfect hash functions for large databases

Edward A. Fox;Lenwood S. Heath;Qi Fan Chen;Amjad M. Daoud

165
Citations
MetaCompare: a computational pipeline for prioritizing environmental resistome risk

Min Oh;Amy Pruden;Chaoqi Chen;Lenwood S Heath

163
Citations
Stack and Queue Layouts of Directed Acyclic Graphs: Part I

Lenwood S. Heath;Sriram V. Pemmaraju;Ann N. Trenk

157
Citations
DeNovo: virus-host sequence-based protein-protein interaction prediction.

Fatma-Elzahraa Eid;Mahmoud ElHefnawi;Lenwood S. Heath

109
Citations
NanoARG: a web service for detecting and contextualizing antimicrobial resistance genes from nanopore-derived metagenomes

Gustavo Arango-Argoty;Dongjuan Dai;Amy Pruden;Peter J. Vikesland

108
Citations
Order-preserving minimal perfect hash functions and information retrieval

Edward A. Fox;Qi Fan Chen;Amjad M. Daoud;Lenwood S. Heath

106
Citations
Next generation sequencing approaches to evaluate water and wastewater quality.

Emily Garner;Benjamin C. Davis;Erin Milligan;Matthew Forrest Blair

106
Citations
Envision: a user-centered database of computer science literature

Lenwood S. Heath;Deborah Hix;Lucy T. Nowell;William C. Wake

105
Citations
Graph Separators, with Applications

Arnold Rosenberg;Lenwood S. Heath

92
Citations
Stack and Queue Layouts of Directed Acyclic Graphs: Part II

Unknown

88
Citations
Embedding Planar Graphs In Seven Pages

L. Heath

84
Citations
Metabolic and Transcriptional Reprogramming in Developing Soybean (Glycine max) Embryos

Eva Collakova;Delasa Aghamirzaie;Yihui Fang;Curtis Klumas

83
Citations
Stack and Queue Layouts of Posets

Lenwood S. Heath;Sriram V. Pemmaraju

80
Citations
The pagenumber of k -trees is O( k )

Joseph L. Ganley;Lenwood S. Heath

78
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Naren Ramakrishnan Virginia Tech

Amy Pruden Virginia Tech

Edward A. Fox Virginia Tech

Arnold L. Rosenberg University of Massachusetts Amherst

Hans J. Bohnert University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

João C. Setubal Universidade de São Paulo

Layne T. Watson Virginia Tech

Ronald R. Sederoff North Carolina State University

Kasper Lage Harvard University

Sorin Istrail Brown University

External Links

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