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2024
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158
Citations
384242
World Ranking
102
National Ranking
16

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Richard Durbin is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Ecology, and Insect Science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Forensic and Genetic Research
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Richard Durbin include:

  • The complete sequence of a human genome, 2022, Science
  • Identifying and removing haplotypic duplication in primary genome assemblies, 2020, Bioinformatics
  • YaHS: yet another Hi-C scaffolding tool, 2022, Bioinformatics
  • MitoHiFi: a python pipeline for mitochondrial genome assembly from PacBio high fidelity reads, 2023, BMC Bioinformatics
  • Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes, 2020, Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Richard Durbin include:

  • Shane McCarthy (47 collaborations)
  • Kerstin Howe (26 collaborations)
  • Jonathan Wood (25 collaborations)
  • James Torrance (21 collaborations)
  • Mark Blaxter (18 collaborations)

The scientist has published extensively in several prominent venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 44 publications
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) - 10 publications
  • Wellcome Open Research - 9 publications
  • Nature - 7 publications
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - 5 publications

Richard Durbin is recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom since 2004 and also holds the status of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded in 2019.

Best Publications

  • The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

    Heng Li;Bob Handsaker;Alec Wysoker;Tim Fennell

  • Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

    Heng Li;Richard Durbin

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • A global reference for human genetic variation.

    Adam Auton;Gonçalo R. Abecasis;David M. Altshuler;Richard M. Durbin

  • The variant call format and VCFtools

    Petr Danecek;Adam Auton;Goncalo Abecasis;Cornelis A. Albers

  • An integrated map of genetic variation from 1,092 human genomes

    Goncalo R Abecasis;Adam Auton;Lisa D Brooks

  • Table S2: Trans-factors and trinucleotide repeat instability Trans-factor

    Arturo López Castel;John D Cleary;Christopher E Pearson

  • Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids

    Richard Durbin;Sean Eddy;Anders Stærmose Krogh;Graeme Mitchison

  • A Map of Human Genome Variation From Population-Scale Sequencing

    Gonçalo R Abecasis;David Altshuler;David Altshuler;Adam Auton

  • Accurate whole human genome sequencing using reversible terminator chemistry

    David R. Bentley;Shankar Balasubramanian;Harold P. Swerdlow;Harold P. Swerdlow;Geoffrey P. Smith

  • Systematic functional analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans genome using RNAi

    Ravi S. Kamath;Andrew G. Fraser;Andrew G. Fraser;Yan Dong;Gino Poulin

  • Mapping short DNA sequencing reads and calling variants using mapping quality scores

    Heng Li;Jue Ruan;Richard Durbin

  • A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation

    Shane McCarthy;Sayantan Das;Warren Kretzschmar;Olivier Delaneau

  • Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

    Arang Rhie;Shane A. McCarthy;Shane A. McCarthy;Olivier Fedrigo;Joana Damas

  • Pfam: clans, web tools and services

    Robert D. Finn;Jaina Mistry;Benjamin Schuster-Böckler;Sam Griffiths-Jones

  • GeneWise and Genomewise

    Ewan Birney;Michele Clamp;Richard Durbin

  • Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

    Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Michael L. Metzker;Donna M. Muzny

  • Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences

    Heng Li;Richard Durbin

  • The Ensembl genome database project

    T. Hubbard;D. Barker;E. Birney;G. Cameron

  • Identifying and removing haplotypic duplication in primary genome assemblies.

    Dengfeng Guan;Dengfeng Guan;Shane A McCarthy;Jonathan Wood;Kerstin Howe

Frequent Co-Authors

Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Tim D. Spector
Tim D. Spector King's College London
Nicole Soranzo
Nicole Soranzo Wellcome Sanger Institute
Chris Tyler-Smith
Chris Tyler-Smith Wellcome Sanger Institute
Heng Li
Heng Li Harvard University
Kerstin Howe
Kerstin Howe European Bioinformatics Institute
Leopold Parts
Leopold Parts Wellcome Sanger Institute
Klaudia Walter
Klaudia Walter Wellcome Sanger Institute
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis University of Geneva

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