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Rob Knight is a computational microbiologist and professor at the University of California, San Diego. His research involves the development of laboratory and computational techniques to characterize the microbiomes of humans, animals, and the environment.

Most cited

1,629 papers in total

2010 · Nature Methods

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

36,415 citationsRead

2019 · Nature Biotechnology

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

25,307 citationsRead

2011 · Bioinformatics

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

15,776 citationsRead

2012 · Nature

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

12,270 citationsRead

2010 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

10,268 citationsRead

2013 · Nature Biotechnology

Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

9,541 citationsRead