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Ross Overbeek publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ross Overbeek sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 140 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Ross Overbeek D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ross Overbeek sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ross Overbeek is affiliated with Argonne National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong focus on genomics and phylogenetic studies.

The scientist's recent publications cover a variety of topics related to microbial genomics and bioinformatics resources. Notable papers include:

  • Supervised extraction of near-complete genomes from metagenomic samples: A new service in PATRIC (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Comparative Genomic Analysis of Bacterial Data in BV-BRC: An Example Exploring Antimicrobial Resistance (2024, Methods in molecular biology)
  • BV-BRC: a unified bacterial and viral bioinformatics resource with expanded functionality and AI integration (2025, Nucleic Acids Research)

Their research contributions are frequently published in journals such as PLoS ONE, Methods in molecular biology, and Nucleic Acids Research.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several researchers, including Bruce Parrello, Gordon D. Pusch, Alice R. Wattam, Nicole Bowers, and Clark Cucinell.

Research topics central to Ross Overbeek's work include:

  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

Their main fields of study encompass:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Subfields of study that feature in their work include Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Ecology, and Genetics.

Best Publications

  • The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology

    Ramy K. Aziz;Ramy K. Aziz;Daniela Bartels;Aaron A. Best;Matthew DeJongh

  • The SEED and the Rapid Annotation of microbial genomes using Subsystems Technology (RAST)

    Ross A. Overbeek;Robert Olson;Gordon D. Pusch;Gary J. Olsen

  • RASTtk: A modular and extensible implementation of the RAST algorithm for building custom annotation pipelines and annotating batches of genomes

    Thomas Brettin;Thomas Brettin;James J. Davis;James J. Davis;Terry Disz;Robert A. Edwards;Robert A. Edwards

  • The Subsystems Approach to Genome Annotation and its Use in the Project to Annotate 1000 Genomes

    Ross Overbeek;Tadhg P. Begley;Ralph M. Butler;Jomuna Choudhuri

  • THE RDP (RIBOSOMAL DATABASE PROJECT)

    Bonnie L. Maidak;Gary J. Olsen;Niels Larsen;Ross A. Overbeek

  • The complete genome sequence of the hyperthermophilic, sulphate-reducing archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus

    Hans-Peter Klenk;Rebecca A. Clayton;Jean-Francois Tomb;Owen White

  • Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera

    George M. Weinstock;Gene E. Robinson;Richard A. Gibbs;Kim C. Worley

  • Improvements to PATRIC, the all-bacterial Bioinformatics Database and Analysis Resource Center

    Alice R. Wattam;James J. Davis;James J. Davis;Rida Assaf;Sébastien Boisvert

  • The use of gene clusters to infer functional coupling

    Ross Overbeek;Michael Fonstein;Mark D’Souza;Gordon D. Pusch

  • The Ribosomal Database project

    Niels Larsen;Gary J. Olsen;Bonnie L. Maidak;Michael J. McCaughey

  • The complete genome of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus

    Gerard Deckert;Patrick V. Warren;Terry Gaasterland;William G. Young

  • PATRIC, the bacterial bioinformatics database and analysis resource

    Alice R. Wattam;David Abraham;Oral Dalay;Terry Disz

  • fastDNAml: a tool for construction of phylogenetic trees of DNA sequences using maximum likelihood

    Gary J. Olsen;Hideo Matsuda;Ray Hagstrom;Ross A. Overbeek

  • A new version of the RDP (Ribosomal Database Project)

    Bonnie L. Maidak;James R. Cole;Charles T. Parker;George M. Garrity

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

    Natalia Ivanova;Alexei Sorokin;Iain Anderson;Nathalie Galleron

  • Experimental Determination and System Level Analysis of Essential Genes in Escherichia coli MG1655

    S. Y. Gerdes;M. D. Scholle;J. W. Campbell;G. Balázsi

  • The PATRIC Bioinformatics Resource Center: expanding data and analysis capabilities.

    James J. Davis;James J. Davis;Alice R. Wattam;Alice R. Wattam;Ramy K. Aziz;Thomas S. Brettin;Thomas S. Brettin

  • The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP)

    Bonnie L. Maidak;Gary J. Olsen;Niels Larsen;Ross A. Overbeek

  • The genome sequence of the facultative intracellular pathogen Brucella melitensis

    Vito G. Delvecchio;Vinayak Kapatral;Rajendra J. Redkar;Guy Patra

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

    Alexander Bolotin;Benoît Quinquis;Pierre Renault;Alexei Sorokin

Frequent Co-Authors

Rick Stevens
Rick Stevens Argonne National Laboratory
Gary J. Olsen
Gary J. Olsen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ewing Lusk
Ewing Lusk Argonne National Laboratory
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute
Andrei L. Osterman
Andrei L. Osterman Discovery Institute
Carl R. Woese
Carl R. Woese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas Brettin
Thomas Brettin Argonne National Laboratory
Ramy K. Aziz
Ramy K. Aziz Cairo University
Dmitry A. Rodionov
Dmitry A. Rodionov Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Niels Bent Larsen
Niels Bent Larsen Technical University of Denmark

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