Burkhard Morgenstern

Professor at Göttingen University

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).

 

 

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