Benjamin J. Callahan
North Carolina State University
Affiliation North Carolina State University Top Publications DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data (2016) – 38,291 citations Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 (2019) – 25,307 citations Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics data (2018) – 3,720 citations Exact sequence variants should ... <a title="Benjamin J. Callahan" class="read-more" href="https://journalsworld.com/researchers/benjamin-j-callahan/" aria-label="Read more about Benjamin J. Callahan">Read more</a>
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Affiliation
North Carolina State University
Top Publications
- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data (2016) - 38,291 citations
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 (2019) - 25,307 citations
- Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics data (2018) - 3,720 citations
- Exact sequence variants should replace operational taxonomic units in marker-gene data analysis (2017) - 3,575 citations
- Temporal and spatial variation of the human microbiota during pregnancy (2015) - 1,225 citations
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- Full name
- Benjamin J. Callahan
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-8752-117X
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5027561072
Research interests
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Gut microbiota and health, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Reproductive tract infections research
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- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data ↗2016 · Nature Methods38,291OpenAlex citations
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 ↗2019 · Nature Biotechnology25,307OpenAlex citations
- 3,720OpenAlex citations
- 3,575OpenAlex citations
- Temporal and spatial variation of the human microbiota during pregnancy ↗2015 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1,225OpenAlex citations
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- DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data ↗2016 · Nature Methods
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 ↗2019 · Nature Biotechnology
- Temporal and spatial variation of the human microbiota during pregnancy ↗2015 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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