
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Morgenstern
Universität Göttingen
Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik
Abteilung für Bioinformatik
Goldschmidtstr. 1, Raum 2.167
37077 Göttingen
Germany
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Visit our journal: Algorithms for Molecular Biology
Recent Publications (for publication metrics and related nonsense, see Google Scholar, publons, Research Gate)
- M. Blanke, B. Morgenstern (2020)
Phylogenetic placement of short reads without sequence alignment
bioRxiv doi:10.1101/2020.10.19.344986
- M. Hosseini, D. Pratas, B Morgenstern, A.J. Pinho (2020)
Smash++: an alignment-free and memory-efficient tool to find genomic rearrangements
GigaScience 9, giaa048 - M. Leonard, A. Kühn, R. Harting, I. Maurus, A. Nagel, J. Starke,
H. Kusch, O. Valerius, K. Feussner, I. Feussner, A. Kaever, M. Landesfeind,
B. Morgenstern, D. Becher, M. Hecker, S. Braus-Stromeyer, J. Kronstad,
G. Braus (2020)
Verticillium longisporum elicits media-dependent secretome responses with capacity to distinguish between plant-related environments
Frontiers in Microbiology 11, 1876 - S. Röhling, A. Linne, J. Schellhorn, M. Hosseini,
T. Dencker, B. Morgenstern (2020)
The number of k-mer matches between two DNA sequences as a function of k and applications to estimate phylogenetic distances
PLOS ONE 15, e0228070 - B. Morgenstern (2020)
Sequence Comparison without Alignment: The SpaM approaches
In: K. Katoh (ed.) Multiple Sequence Alignment, pp. 121-134
Book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Springer. Preprint available - T. Dencker, C.-A. Leimeister, M. Gerth, C. Bleidorn, S. Snir, B. Morgenstern (2020)
Multi-SpaM: a Maximum-Likelihood approach to Phylogeny reconstruction using Multiple Spaced-word Matches
and Quartet Trees
NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics 2, lqz013 - B. Morgenstern (2020)
Fake scientists on editorial boards can significantly enhance the visibility of junk journals.
In: Mario Biagioli and Alexandra Lippman (Eds.)
Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research, MIT Press, pp. 201-211.
Book freely available as PDF, follow link "Open Access" in the middle of this page. Slides of my talk available here - A. Chakraborty, B. Morgenstern, S. Bandyopadhyay (2019)
S-conLSH: Alignment-free gapped mapping of noisy long reads
bioRxiv, doi:10.1101/801118v3
- A.K. Lau, S. Dörrer, C.-A. Leimeister, C. Bleidorn,
B. Morgenstern (2019)
Read-SpaM: assembly-free and alignment-free comparison of bacterial genomes with low sequencing coverage
BMC Bioinformatics 20, 638 (Proceedings RECOMB-CG 2019) - B. Morgenstern (2019)
Der Metrik-Wahn
Laborjournal 7-8, 22-25 -
A. Zielezinski, H.Z. Girgis, G. Bernard, C.-A. Leimeister, K. Tang,
T. Dencker, A.K. Lau, S. Röhling, J. Choi, M.S. Waterman, M. Comin,
S.-H. Kim, S. Vinga, J.S. Almeida, C.X. Chan, B. James, F. Sun,
B. Morgenstern, W.M. Karlowski (2019)
Benchmarking of alignment-free sequence comparison methods
Genome Biology 20, 144
- C.-A. Leimeister, T. Dencker, B. Morgenstern (2019)
Accurate multiple alignment of distantly related genome sequences using Filtered Spaced Word Matches as anchor points
Bioinformatics 35, 211-218 -
C.-A. Leimeister, J. Schellhorn, S. Dörrer, M. Gerth, C. Bleidorn,
B. Morgenstern (2019)
Prot-SpaM: Fast alignment-free phylogeny reconstruction based on whole-proteome sequences
GigaScience 8, giy148.
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Last modified: October 2020