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7639
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3476

Overview

Simon D. W. Frost is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these areas, their work covers important subfields including Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Genetics.

The scientist's scholarly output is concentrated on key research topics such as HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions, Mosquito-borne Diseases and Control, HIV Research and Treatment, Viral Infections and Vectors, Viral Gastroenteritis Research and Epidemiology, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research.

Among recent publications, Simon D. W. Frost has contributed to the following papers:

  • "Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline," 2020, Genome Biology
  • "Assessment of a multiplex PCR and Nanopore-based method for dengue virus sequencing in Indonesia," 2020, Virology Journal
  • "Pneumococcal within-host diversity during colonization, transmission and treatment," 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • "Producing Polished Prokaryotic Pangenomes with the Panaroo Pipeline," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Bat pluripotent stem cells reveal unusual entanglement between host and viruses," 2023, Cell

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • Scientific Reports
  • Cell
  • PeerJ

Simon D. W. Frost collaborates consistently with several co-authors. Notable frequent collaborators include:

  • Jonathan L. Heeney
  • Ann M. Dennis
  • Victoria Mobley
  • George Carnell
  • Paul Tonks

Best Publications

  • HyPhy: hypothesis testing using phylogenies

    Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond;Simon D. W. Frost;Spencer V. Muse

  • Not So Different After All: A Comparison of Methods for Detecting Amino Acid Sites Under Selection

    Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond;Simon D. W. Frost

  • Datamonkey 2010

    Wayne Delport;Art F. Y. Poon;Simon D. W. Frost;Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

  • Datamonkey: rapid detection of selective pressure on individual sites of codon alignments

    Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond;Simon D. W. Frost

  • Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline

    Gerry Tonkin-Hill;Gerry Tonkin-Hill;Neil MacAlasdair;Neil MacAlasdair;Christopher Ruis;Christopher Ruis;Aaron Weimann

  • Automated Phylogenetic Detection of Recombination Using a Genetic Algorithm

    Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond;David Posada;Michael B. Gravenor;Christopher H. Woelk

  • GARD: a genetic algorithm for recombination detection

    Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond;David Posada;Michael B. Gravenor;Christopher H. Woelk

  • Modeling infectious disease dynamics in the complex landscape of global health.

    Hans Heesterbeek;Roy M. Anderson;Viggo Andreasen;Shweta Bansal

  • HyPhy 2.5-A Customizable Platform for Evolutionary Hypothesis Testing Using Phylogenies.

    Sergei L Kosakovsky Pond;Art F Y Poon;Ryan Velazquez;Steven Weaver

  • A Random Effects Branch-Site Model for Detecting Episodic Diversifying Selection

    Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond;Ben Murrell;Ben Murrell;Mathieu Fourment;Simon D.W. Frost

  • Neutralizing antibody responses drive the evolution of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope during recent HIV infection

    Simon D. W. Frost;Terri Wrin;Davey M. Smith;Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

  • Evaluation of respondent-driven sampling.

    Nicky McCreesh;Simon Frost;Janet Seeley;Janet Seeley;Joseph Katongole

  • Phylodynamics of Infectious Disease Epidemics

    Erik M. Volz;Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond;Melissa J. Ward;Andrew J. Leigh Brown

  • Adaptation to different human populations by HIV-1 revealed by codon-based analyses.

    Sergei L Kosakovsky Pond;Simon D. W Frost;Zehava Grossman;Michael B Gravenor

  • Persistence of Transmitted Drug Resistance among Subjects with Primary Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

    Susan J. Little;Simon D. W. Frost;Joseph K. Wong;Davey M. Smith

  • Evolution of Envelope Sequences of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 in Cellular Reservoirs in the Setting of Potent Antiviral Therapy

    Huldrych F. Günthard;Simon D. W. Frost;Andrew J. Leigh-Brown;Caroline C. Ignacio

  • A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Detecting Lineage-Specific Variation in Selection Pressure

    Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond;Simon D. W. Frost

  • Fast hierarchical Bayesian analysis of population structure.

    Gerry Tonkin-Hill;John A Lees;Stephen D Bentley;Simon D W Frost;Simon D W Frost

  • RhierBAPS: An R implementation of the population clustering algorithm hierBAPS

    Gerry Tonkin-Hill;John A Lees;Stephen D Bentley;Simon D W Frost;Simon D W Frost

  • An Evolutionary Model-Based Algorithm for Accurate Phylogenetic Breakpoint Mapping and Subtype Prediction in HIV-1

    Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond;David Posada;Eric Stawiski;Colombe Chappey

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas D. Richman
Douglas D. Richman University of California, San Diego
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond
Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond Temple University
Andrew J. Leigh Brown
Andrew J. Leigh Brown University of Edinburgh
Davey M. Smith
Davey M. Smith University of California, San Diego
Susan J. Little
Susan J. Little University of California, San Diego
Joseph K. Wong
Joseph K. Wong University of California, San Francisco
Javier Martinez-Picado
Javier Martinez-Picado University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia
Jukka Corander
Jukka Corander University of Oslo
Janet Seeley
Janet Seeley London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Christos J. Petropoulos
Christos J. Petropoulos LabCorp (United States)

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