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Richard Durbin

Researcher at University of Cambridge

Publications -  337
Citations -  247542

Richard Durbin is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome & Population. The author has an hindex of 125, co-authored 319 publications receiving 207192 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard Durbin include Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute & University of Manchester.

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Pfam 3.1: 1313 multiple alignments and profile HMMs match the majority of proteins

TL;DR: Pfam is a collection of multiple alignments and profile hidden Markov models of protein domain families that contains 1313 families and over 54% of proteins in SWISS-PROT-35 and SP-TrEMBL-5 match a Pfam family.
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Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

Arang Rhie, +121 more
- 23 May 2020 - 
TL;DR: The Vertebrate Genomes Project is embarked on, an effort to generate high-quality, complete reference genomes for all ~70,000 extant vertebrate species and help enable a new era of discovery across the life sciences.
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Assemblathon 1: A competitive assessment of de novo short read assembly methods

Dent Earl, +78 more
- 16 Sep 2011 - 
TL;DR: The Assemblathon 1 competition is described, which aimed to comprehensively assess the state of the art in de novo assembly methods when applied to current sequencing technologies, and it is established that it is possible to assemble the genome to a high level of coverage and accuracy.
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Revising the human mutation rate: implications for understanding human evolution

TL;DR: The implications of a lower-than-expected mutation rate in relation to the timescale of human evolution are discussed.