Stephen Nayfach

11.8k citations
33 papers · 5.7k · 8 hit papers · h-index 25

Impact in

  • Ecology top 0.5%
    • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Papers in

    • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 16
    • Gut microbiota and health 15
    • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 3
    • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 12
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 7

Stephen Nayfach

33 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Stephen Nayfach's Hit Papers

Design of highly functional genome editors by modelling CRISPR–Cas sequences 2025 · 36 citations
360+2+4Years since publication2505007501000

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Stephen Nayfach
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  • Ecology 2.7k
  • Endocrinology 305
  • Molecular Biology 3.3k
  • Microbiology 251
  • Infectious Diseases 687
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All Works

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CheckV assesses the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes
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20201000
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A unified catalog of 204,938 reference genomes from the human gut microbiome
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2020792
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New insights from uncultivated genomes of the global human gut microbiome
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2019463
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Identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad
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2023389
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Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the human gut microbiome
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2021340
6 2016308
7 2015244
8 2016237
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IMG/VR v4: an expanded database of uncultivated virus genomes within a framework of extensive functional, taxonomic, and ecological metadata
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2022234
10 2020227
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iPHoP: An integrated machine learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria
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2023217
12 2016191
13 2017171
14 2019168
15 2019120
16 201975
17 201956
18 202049
19 202145
20 201542

About Stephen Nayfach

Stephen Nayfach is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, Food Science and Infectious Diseases, having authored 33 papers that have together received 5.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers), Gut microbiota and health (15 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (12 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (7 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (7 papers), Probiotics and Fermented Foods (5 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (3 papers) and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (2.7k citations), Endocrinology (305 citations), Molecular Biology (3.3k citations), Microbiology (251 citations) and Infectious Diseases (687 citations). Stephen Nayfach has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Katherine S. Pollard, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Simon Roux, Frederik Schulz, Antônio Pedro Camargo, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Zhou Jason Shi, R. Seshadri, Philip Hugenholtz and Michael A. Fischbach. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Microbiome, Nature Microbiology, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

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