John A Lees

John A Lees

Imperial College London

H-index: 34

Europe-United Kingdom

About John A Lees

John A Lees, With an exceptional h-index of 34 and a recent h-index of 34 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Imperial College London, specializes in the field of Bioinformatics, Pathogen Genomics, Genome Informatics, Streptococcus pneumoniae, GPU.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

CELEBRIMBOR: Pangenomes from metagenomes

Seamless, rapid and accurate analyses of outbreak genomic data using Split K-mer Analysis (SKA)

AllTheBacteria-all bacterial genomes assembled, available and searchable

Graph-based Nanopore Adaptive Sampling with GNASTy enables sensitive pneumococcal serotyping in complex samples

Optimising machine learning prediction of minimum inhibitory concentrations in Klebsiella pneumoniae

Inter-species gene flow drives ongoing evolution of Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis

Quantifying the common genetic variability of bacterial traits

Impact of vaccinations, boosters and lockdowns on COVID-19 waves in French Polynesia

John A Lees Information

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Citations(all)

5648

Citations(since 2020)

5459

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1590

hIndex(all)

34

hIndex(since 2020)

34

i10Index(all)

45

i10Index(since 2020)

45

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John A Lees Skills & Research Interests

Bioinformatics

Pathogen Genomics

Genome Informatics

Streptococcus pneumoniae

GPU

Top articles of John A Lees

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

CELEBRIMBOR: Pangenomes from metagenomes

bioRxiv

Joel Hellewell

Samuel T Horsfield

Johanna von Wachsmann

Tatiana Gurbich

Robert D Finn

...

2024

Seamless, rapid and accurate analyses of outbreak genomic data using Split K-mer Analysis (SKA)

bioRxiv

Romain Derelle

Johanna von Wachsmann

Tommi Maeklin

Joel Hellewell

Timothy Russell

...

2024

AllTheBacteria-all bacterial genomes assembled, available and searchable

bioRxiv

Martin Hunt

Leandro Lima

Wei Shen

John Lees

Zamin Iqbal

2024

Graph-based Nanopore Adaptive Sampling with GNASTy enables sensitive pneumococcal serotyping in complex samples

bioRxiv

Samuel T Horsfield

Basil Fok

Yuhan Fu

Paul Turner

John A Lees

...

2024

Optimising machine learning prediction of minimum inhibitory concentrations in Klebsiella pneumoniae

Microbial Genomics

Gherard Batisti Biffignandi

Leonid Chindelevitch

Marta Corbella

Edward J Feil

Davide Sassera

...

2024/3/26

Inter-species gene flow drives ongoing evolution of Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis

Nature Communications

Ouli Xie

Jacqueline M Morris

Andrew J Hayes

Rebecca J Towers

Magnus G Jespersen

...

2024/3/13

Quantifying the common genetic variability of bacterial traits

arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.11378

T Tien Mai

Gerry Tonkin-Hill

John A Lees

Jukka Corander

2023/2/22

Impact of vaccinations, boosters and lockdowns on COVID-19 waves in French Polynesia

Nature Communications

Lloyd AC Chapman

Maite Aubry

Noemie Maset

Timothy W Russell

Edward S Knock

...

2023/11/13

Novel Multilocus Sequence Typing and Global Sequence Clustering Schemes for Characterizing the Population Diversity of Streptococcus mitis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Akuzike Kalizang’oma

Brenda Kwambana-Adams

Jia Mun Chan

Aishwarya Viswanath

Andrea Gori

...

2023/1/26

fastlin: an ultra-fast program for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lineage typing

Bioinformatics

Romain Derelle

John Lees

Jody Phelan

Ajit Lalvani

Nimalan Arinaminpathy

...

2023/11/1

BlpC-mediated selfish program leads to rapid loss of Streptococcus pneumoniae clonal diversity during infection

Cell Host and Microbe

Surya D Aggarwal

John A Lees

Nathan T Jacobs

Gavyn Chern Wei Bee

Annie R Abruzzo

...

2023/1/11

Accurate and fast graph-based pangenome annotation and clustering with ggCaller

Genome Research

Samuel T Horsfield

Gerry Tonkin-Hill

Nicholas J Croucher

John A Lees

2023/9/1

PAN-GWES: Pangenome-spanning epistasis and co-selection analysis via de Bruijn graphs

bioRxiv

Juri Kuronen

Samuel Horsfield

Anna K Pontinen

Sergio Arredondo-Alonso

Harry Thorpe

...

2023

Genealogical inference and more flexible sequence clustering using iterative-PopPUNK

Genome Research

Bin Zhao

John A Lees

Hongjin Wu

Chao Yang

Daniel Falush

2023/6/1

Inferring the heritability of bacterial traits in the era of machine learning

T Tien Mai

John A Lees

Rebecca A Gladstone

Jukka Corander

2023/1/1

Dissemination of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in Ireland from 2012 to 2017: a retrospective genomic surveillance study

Microbial Genomics

Nazreen F Hadjirin

Andries J van Tonder

Beth Blane

John A Lees

Narender Kumar

...

2023/3/14

Putting everything in its place: using the INSDC compliant Pathogen Data Object Model to better structure genomic data submitted for public health applications

Microbial Genomics

Ruth E Timme

Ilene Karsch-Mizrachi

Zahra Waheed

Masanori Arita

Duncan MacCannell

...

2023/12/12

Mandrake: visualizing microbial population structure by embedding millions of genomes into a low-dimensional representation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

John A Lees

Gerry Tonkin-Hill

Zhirong Yang

Jukka Corander

2022/10/10

Pneumococcal genetic variability in age-dependent bacterial carriage

Elife

Philip HC Kremer

Bart Ferwerda

Hester J Bootsma

Nienke Y Rots

Alienke J Wijmenga-Monsuur

...

2022/7/26

Effect of childhood vaccination and antibiotic use on pneumococcal populations and genome-wide associations with disease among children in Nepal: an observational study

The Lancet Microbe

Rama Kandasamy

Stephanie Lo

Meeru Gurung

Michael J Carter

Rebecca Gladstone

...

2022/7/1

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