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Torbjørn Rognes
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
715 Points

Contributions by role

Author 405
Preprint Author 140
Reviewer 70
Editor 100

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Bioinformatics
Environmental Sciences
Microbiology
Molecular Biology
Ecology
Computational Biology
Genomics
Computational Science

Torbjørn Rognes

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Torbjørn Rognes is the Head of the Biomedical Informatics Research Group at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, and a research scientist at the Department of Microbiology at Oslo University Hospital, Norway. He obtained a MSc in computer science in 1994, a PhD in bioinformatics in 2001 and a professorship in 2010. His main interest is in development of algorithms and tools for sequence analysis, and has recently worked mostly with metagenomics and metabarcoding. He is a co-author of the VSEARCH, Swarm and SWIPE tools.

Algorithms & Analysis of Algorithms Bioinformatics Computational Biology Computational Science Distributed & Parallel Computing

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Oslo

Work details

Professor

University of Oslo
June 2004
Department of Informatics

Research Scientist

Oslo University Hospital
January 2004
Department of Microbiology

Websites

  • Google Scholar
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  • PubMed Search
  • ORCID
  • figshare

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 3
  • Preprints 3
  • Edited 1
  • Reviewed 2
October 18, 2016
VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics
Torbjørn Rognes, Tomáš Flouri, Ben Nichols, Christopher Quince, Frédéric Mahé
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2584 PubMed 27781170
December 10, 2015
Swarm v2: highly-scalable and high-resolution amplicon clustering
Frédéric Mahé, Torbjørn Rognes, Christopher Quince, Colomban de Vargas, Micah Dunthorn
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1420 PubMed 26713226
September 25, 2014
Swarm: robust and fast clustering method for amplicon-based studies
Frédéric Mahé, Torbjørn Rognes, Christopher Quince, Colomban de Vargas, Micah Dunthorn
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.593 PubMed 25276506
September 1, 2016 - Version: 1
VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics
Torbjørn Rognes, Tomáš Flouri, Ben Nichols, Christopher Quince, Frédéric Mahé
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2409v1
July 10, 2015 - Version: 2
Swarm v2: highly-scalable and high-resolution amplicon clustering
Frédéric Mahé, Torbjørn Rognes, Christopher Quince, Colomban de Vargas, Micah Dunthorn
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1222v2
May 12, 2014 - Version: 1
Swarm: robust and fast clustering method for amplicon-based studies
Frédéric Mahé, Torbjørn Rognes, Christopher Quince, Colomban de Vargas, Micah Dunthorn
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.386v1

Academic Editor on

January 4, 2019
Identifying accurate metagenome and amplicon software via a meta-analysis of sequence to taxonomy benchmarking studies
Paul P. Gardner, Renee J. Watson, Xochitl C. Morgan, Jenny L. Draper, Robert D. Finn, Sergio E. Morales, Matthew B. Stott
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6160 PubMed 30631651

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August 30, 2016
A heritability-based comparison of methods used to cluster 16S rRNA gene sequences into operational taxonomic units
Matthew A. Jackson, Jordana T. Bell, Tim D. Spector, Claire J. Steves
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2341 PubMed 27635321
March 3, 2015
Arioc: high-throughput read alignment with GPU-accelerated exploration of the seed-and-extend search space
Richard Wilton, Tamas Budavari, Ben Langmead, Sarah J. Wheelan, Steven L. Salzberg, Alexander S. Szalay
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.808 PubMed 25780763