gobics.de [Burkhard Morgenstern]

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Our new software tools for alignment-free sequence comparison and seed optimization:
Prot-SpaM, Multi-SpaM, spaced words, kmacs and rasbhari.

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Visit our journal: Algorithms for Molecular Biology

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Publications (for citations etc., see ResearcherID, Research Gate or Google Scholar)

• Selected recent papers:
  
  
  • C.-A. Leimeister, J. Schellhorn, S. Schöbel, M. Gerth, C. Bleidorn, B. Morgenstern (2018)
    Prot-SpaM: Fast alignment-free phylogeny reconstruction based on whole-proteome sequences
    bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/306142
  • T. Dencker, C.-A. Leimeister, M. Gerth, C. Bleidorn, S. Snir, B. Morgenstern (2018)
    Multi-SpaM: a Maximum-Likelihood approach to Phylogeny reconstruction based on Multiple Spaced-Word Matches
    arXiv:1803.09222 [q-bio.PE]
  • B. Morgenstern (2018)
    Fake scientists on editorial boards can significantly enhance the visibility of junk journals
    Book chapter, to appear.
    See also the slides from my talk at Gaming Metrics: Innovation & Surveillance in Academic Misconduct, UC Davis.
    
  • B. Morgenstern, S. Schöbel, C.-A. Leimeister (2017)
    Phylogeny reconstruction based on the length distribution of k-mismatch common substrings
    Algorithms for Molecular Biology 12, 27
  • C.-A. Leimeister, T. Dencker, B. Morgenstern (2017)
    Anchor points for genome alignment based on Filtered Spaced Word Matches
    arXiv:1703.08792 [q-bio.GN]
  • C.-A. Leimeister, S. Sohrabi-Jahromi, B. Morgenstern (2017)
    Fast and Accurate Phylogeny Reconstruction using Filtered Spaced-Word Matches
    Bioinformatics 33, 971-979
  • L. Hahn, C.-A. Leimeister, R. Ounit, S. Lonardi, B. Morgenstern (2016)
    rasbhari: optimizing spaced seeds for database searching, read mapping and alignment-free sequence comparison
    PLOS Computational Biology 12, e1005107
    
  • B. Morgenstern, B. Zhu, S. Horwege, C.-A Leimeister (2015)
    Estimating evolutionary distances between genomic sequences from spaced-word matches
    Algorithms for Molecular Biology 10, 5
  • C.-A. Leimeister, B. Morgenstern (2014)
    kmacs: the k-Mismatch Average Common Substring Approach to alignment-free sequence comparison
    Bioinformatics 30, 2000-2008
  • C.-A. Leimeister, M. Boden, S. Horwege, S. Lindner, B. Morgenstern (2014)
    Fast alignment-free sequence comparison using spaced-word frequencies
    Bioinformatics 30, 1991-1999
  • L. Al Ait, Z. Yamak, B. Morgenstern (2013)
    DIALIGN at GOBICS - multiple sequence alignment using various sources of external information
    Nuc. Acids Research 41, W3-W7
• B.M. Full publication list
• Department publication list

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Short CV

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