Ben Langmead
Scholar

Ben Langmead

Google Scholar ID: 2JMaTKsAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Sequence AlignmentComputational GenomicsComputer Science
Homepage↗Google Scholar↗
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
78,587
 
H-index
37
 
i10-index
62
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
61
list available
Contact
GitHubOpen ↗
Publications
3 items
Optimal-Time Move Structure Balancing and LCP Array Computation from the RLBWT
2026
Cited
0
Bounding the Average Move Structure Query for Faster and Smaller RLBWT Permutations
2026
Cited
0
Prefix-free parsing for merging big BWTs
2025
Cited
0
Resume
Academic Achievements
  • Created widely used bioinformatics tools: Bowtie, Bowtie 2, Kraken 2, Dashing, Dashing 2, r-index, MONI, MOVI, SPUMONI, Vargas, Lighter, Samovar, Arioc, HISAT
  • Developed scalable data processing tools: recount3, Snaptron, Megadepth, ASCOT, Intropolis, Monorail, Rail-RNA, Rail-dbGaP, Myrna, Crossbow, Boiler
  • Built tools for interpretability and bias reduction: Qtip, FORGe, Reference Flow, LevioSAM
  • Published extensively (full list available via Google Scholar)
  • Authored review articles on read alignment and cloud computing in genomics
Co-authors
7 total
Jeff Leek
Jeff Leek
Chief Data Officer, VP, and J Orin Edson Foundation Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Rafael A Irizarry
Rafael A Irizarry
Professor, Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber and Harvard
Daehwan Kim
Daehwan Kim
Omphalos Lifesciences Inc
Travis Gagie
Travis Gagie
Associate Professor at Dalhousie University
Michael C. Schatz
Michael C. Schatz
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Hector Corrada Bravo
Hector Corrada Bravo
Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Maryland
Giovanni Manzini
Giovanni Manzini
University of Pisa