Sarah L. Westcott

Molecular Biology · 2009–2016

A researcher in the Science corpus: 5 papers; trusts 31 researchers and is trusted by 28 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Molecular Biology — 76 citations into it; #1,227 of 17,773 by trust here, #736 by citations
• Ecology — 70 citations into it; #592 of 10,717 by trust here, #151 by citations

Whom Sarah L. Westcott trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Patrick D. Schloss
2. Robert C. Edgar
3. Qiong Wang
4. Susan M. Huse
5. Weizhong Li
6. Todd Z. DeSantis
7. James J Kozich
8. George M. Garrity
9. Philip Hugenholtz
10. Catherine A. Lozupone

Who trusts Sarah L. Westcott overall

1. Robert C. Edgar
2. Patrick D. Schloss
3. Hayssam Soueidan
4. Erik S. Wright
5. Paul J. McMurdie
6. Dirk Gevers
7. Nielson T. Baxter
8. James J Kozich
9. Max Sommerfeld
10. A. Oliver

Papers from Sarah L. Westcott's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers Sarah L. Westcott trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere” (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America)
2. ARB: a software environment for sequence data. (Nucleic Acids Research)
3. SILVA: a comprehensive online resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data compatible with ARB (Nucleic Acids Research)
4. Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates. (Environmental Microbiology)
5. Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data (Nature Methods)
6. Greengenes, a Chimera-Checked 16S rRNA Gene Database and Workbench Compatible with ARB (Applied and Environmental Microbiology)
7. The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis
8. UniFrac: a New Phylogenetic Method for Comparing Microbial Communities (Applied and Environmental Microbiology)
9. At Least 1 in 20 16S rRNA Sequence Records Currently Held in Public Repositories Is Estimated To Contain Substantial Anomalies (Applied and Environmental Microbiology)
10. NAST: a multiple sequence alignment server for comparative analysis of 16S rRNA genes (Nucleic Acids Res.)

Their papers

• Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities (2009) — 19,675 citations
• Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform (2013) — 6,325 citations
• Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies (2011) — 2,075 citations
• Assessing and Improving Methods Used in Operational Taxonomic Unit-Based Approaches for 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis (2011) — 684 citations
• OptiClust: Improved method for assigning amplicon-based sequence data to operational taxonomic units (2016) — 371 citations