| A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity LR Thompson, JG Sanders, D McDonald, A Amir, J Ladau, KJ Locey, ... Nature 551 (7681), 457, 2017 | 444 | 2017 |
| Meta‐analyses of human gut microbes associated with obesity and IBD WA Walters, Z Xu, R Knight FEBS letters 588 (22), 4223-4233, 2014 | 406 | 2014 |
| Advancing Our Understanding of the Human Microbiome Using QIIME. JA Navas-Molina, JM Peralta-Sanchezl, A Gonzalezl, PJ McMurdieI, ... Methods in Enzymology, 371, 2013 | 339 | 2013 |
| Normalization and microbial differential abundance strategies depend upon data characteristics S Weiss, ZZ Xu, S Peddada, A Amir, K Bittinger, A Gonzalez, C Lozupone, ... Microbiome 5 (1), 27, 2017 | 335* | 2017 |
| Microbiome-wide association studies link dynamic microbial consortia to disease JA Gilbert, RA Quinn, J Debelius, ZZ Xu, J Morton, N Garg, JK Jansson, ... Nature 535 (7610), 94-103, 2016 | 291 | 2016 |
| Correlation detection strategies in microbial data sets vary widely in sensitivity and precision S Weiss, W Van Treuren, C Lozupone, K Faust, J Friedman, Y Deng, ... The ISME journal 10 (7), 1669, 2016 | 211 | 2016 |
| Subsistence strategies in traditional societies distinguish gut microbiomes AJ Obregon-Tito, RY Tito, J Metcalf, K Sankaranarayanan, JC Clemente, ... Nature communications 6, 6505, 2015 | 207 | 2015 |
| Dietary effects on human gut microbiome diversity Z Xu, R Knight British Journal of Nutrition 113 (S1), S1-S5, 2015 | 204 | 2015 |
| Microbial community assembly and metabolic function during mammalian corpse decomposition JL Metcalf, ZZ Xu, S Weiss, S Lax, W Van Treuren, ER Hyde, SJ Song, ... Science 351 (6269), 158-162, 2016 | 184 | 2016 |
| QIIME 2: Reproducible, interactive, scalable, and extensible microbiome data science E Bolyen, JR Rideout, MR Dillon, NA Bokulich, C Abnet, GA Al-Ghalith, ... PeerJ Preprints, 2018 | 181 | 2018 |
| Best practices for analysing microbiomes R Knight, A Vrbanac, BC Taylor, A Aksenov, C Callewaert, J Debelius, ... Nature Reviews Microbiology 16 (7), 410-422, 2018 | 170 | 2018 |
| Deblur rapidly resolves single-nucleotide community sequence patterns A Amir, D McDonald, JA Navas-Molina, E Kopylova, JT Morton, ZZ Xu, ... MSystems 2 (2), e00191-16, 2017 | 164 | 2017 |
| Preservation methods differ in fecal microbiome stability, affecting suitability for field studies SJ Song, A Amir, JL Metcalf, KR Amato, ZZ Xu, G Humphrey, R Knight MSystems 1 (3), e00021-16, 2016 | 115* | 2016 |
| Prediction of early childhood caries via spatial-temporal variations of oral microbiota F Teng, F Yang, S Huang, C Bo, ZZ Xu, A Amir, R Knight, J Ling, J Xu Cell host & microbe 18 (3), 296-306, 2015 | 88 | 2015 |
| Deep sequencing-based identification of small non-coding RNAs in Streptomyces coelicolor MP Vockenhuber, CM Sharma, MG Statt, D Schmidt, Z Xu, S Dietrich, ... RNA biology 8 (3), 468-477, 2011 | 84 | 2011 |
| American gut: an open platform for citizen science microbiome research D McDonald, E Hyde, JW Debelius, JT Morton, A Gonzalez, G Ackermann, ... mSystems 3 (3), e00031-18, 2018 | 78 | 2018 |
| Open-source sequence clustering methods improve the state of the art E Kopylova, JA Navas-Molina, C Mercier, ZZ Xu, F Mahé, Y He, HW Zhou, ... MSystems 1 (1), e00003-15, 2016 | 70 | 2016 |
| Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2 E Bolyen, JR Rideout, MR Dillon, NA Bokulich, CC Abnet, GA Al-Ghalith, ... Nature biotechnology 37 (8), 852-857, 2019 | 67 | 2019 |
| Effects of library size variance, sparsity, and compositionality on the analysis of microbiome data SJ Weiss, Z Xu, A Amir, S Peddada, K Bittinger, A Gonzalez, C Lozupone, ... PeerJ PrePrints, 2015 | 61 | 2015 |
| Which is more important for classifying microbial communities: who’s there or what they can do? Z Xu, D Malmer, MGI Langille, SF Way, R Knight The ISME journal 8 (12), 2357, 2014 | 57 | 2014 |
Rob KnightDirector, Center for Microbiome Innovation; Professor, Pediatrics, Bioengineering and CSE, UCSDVerified email at ucsd.edu
