Professor in Microbiology and Genetics Institute, Bioinformatics Department at University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Research interest(s):
Sequence alignment
Phylogeny
Algorithmic sequence analysis
Metagenomics
Motif discovery
Recent Papers:
Hosseini, M., Pratas, D., Morgenstern, B., Pinho, A. J. “Smash++: an alignment-free and memory-efficient tool to find genomic rearrangements“. GigaScience. 9 (5): giaa048. (2020).
Dencker, T., Leimeister, C. A., Gerth, M., Bleidorn, C., Snir, S., Morgenstern, B. “‘Multi-SpaM’: a maximum-likelihood approach to phylogeny reconstruction using multiple spaced-word matches and quartet trees“. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 2 (1): lqz013. (2020).
Röhling, S., Linne, A., Schellhorn, J., Hosseini, M., Dencker, T., Morgenstern, B. “The number of k-mer matches between two DNA sequences as a function of k and applications to estimate phylogenetic distances“. PLOS ONE. 15 (2): e0228070. (2020).
Morgenstern, B. “Fake Scientists on Editorial Boards Can Significantly Enhance the Visibility of Junk Journals“. Gaming the Metrics. (2020).
Dencker, T., Birth, N., Morgenstern, B. “Insertions and deletions as a phylogenetic signal in an alignment-free context“. Alignment-free Phylogeny Reconstruction Based On Quartet Trees. 41 (2020).
Morgenstern, Blanke, M. “Phylogenetic placement of short reads without sequence alignment“. bioRxiv. (2020).
Röhling, S., Morgenstern, B. “The number of spaced-word matches between two DNA sequences as a function of the underlying pattern weight“. bioRxiv. 527515 (2019).
Morgenstern, B. “Sequence Comparison without Alignment: The SpaM approaches“.bioRxiv. (2019).
Chakraborty, A., Morgenstern, B., Bandyopadhyay, S. “S-conLSH: Alignment-free gapped mapping of noisy long reads“. bioRxiv. 801118. (2019).
Leimeister, C. A., Dencker, T., Morgenstern, B. “Accurate multiple alignment of distantly related genome sequences using filtered spaced word matches as anchor points“. Bioinformatics. 35 (2): 211-218 (2019).
Leimeister, C. A., Sohrabi-Jahromi, S., Morgenstern, B. “Fast and accurate phylogeny reconstruction using filtered spaced-word matches“. Bioinformatics. 33 (7): 971–979 (2017).
Morgenstern, B., Schöbel, S., Leimeister, C. A. “Phylogeny reconstruction based on the length distribution of k-mismatch common substrings“. Algorithms for Molecular Biology. 12 (1): 27 (2017).