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Steven L. Salzberg

University of Baltimore · US
Area of research
Molecular Biology · Plant Science
Research interest
Research interests include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics.
h-index
161
citations
369,660
works
600
NIH funding
primary concept
Biology
email

Recent publications

Author Correction: Metagenome analysis using the Kraken software suite.
2026cited by 1position: contributordoi
Evidence of off-target probe binding affecting 10x Genomics Xenium gene panels compromise accuracy of spatial transcriptomic profiling
eLife 2026cited by 1position: contributordoi
Genome Report: A reference genome sequence for the exceptionally long-lived Great Basin bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Annotating genomes at increased scale and resolution.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Comparison of unbiased metagenomic next generation sequencing to targeted multiplex diagnostic assays for the detection of respiratory viruses.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Evidence of off-target probe binding affecting 10x Genomics Xenium gene panels compromise accuracy of spatial transcriptomic profiling.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Evidence of off-target probe binding affecting 10x Genomics Xenium gene panels compromise accuracy of spatial transcriptomic profiling
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Author Response: Evidence of off-target probe binding affecting 10x Genomics Xenium gene panels compromise accuracy of spatial transcriptomic profiling
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
A complete diploid human genome benchmark for personalized genomics
2025cited by 27position: contributordoi
Comprehensive analysis of microbial content in whole-genome sequencing samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas project.
2025cited by 24position: contributordoi
Combining DNA and protein alignments to improve genome annotation with LiftOn.
2025cited by 16position: contributordoi
PSAURON: a tool for assessing protein annotation across a broad range of species.
2025cited by 15position: contributordoi
Translon: a single term for translated regions
Nature Methods 2025cited by 14position: contributordoi
Translon: a single term for translated regions
Nature Methods 2025cited by 10position: middledoi
Efficient evidence-based genome annotation with EviAnn
2025cited by 8position: contributordoi
Challenges and Opportunities in Analyzing Cancer-Associated Microbiomes.
2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
OpenSpliceAI: An efficient, modular implementation of SpliceAI enabling easy retraining on non-human species
2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
Conservation assessment of human splice site annotation based on a 470-genome alignment.
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
OpenSpliceAI provides an efficient modular implementation of SpliceAI enabling easy retraining across nonhuman species.
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Evidence of off-target probe binding affecting 10x Genomics Xenium gene panels compromise accuracy of spatial transcriptomic profiling
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Evidence of off-target probe binding in the 10x Genomics Xenium v1 Human Breast Gene Expression Panel compromises accuracy of spatial transcriptomic profiling
2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Comprehensive Transcriptome Annotation of Thousands of HIV-1 Genomes
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Reply to Austin and Korem, "Compositional transformations can reasonably introduce phenotype-associated values into sparse features".
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
TD2: finding protein coding regions in transcripts
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Discovering Intron Gain Events in Humans Through Large-Scale Evolutionary Comparisons.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Phenotype to genotype: A new and rapid approach using whole-genome sequencing.
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Isoswitching drives the aging process in human brains
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
OpenSpliceAI provides an efficient modular implementation of SpliceAI enabling easy retraining across nonhuman species
eLife 2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Author response: Evidence of off-target probe binding in the 10x Genomics Xenium v1 Human Breast Gene Expression Panel compromises accuracy of spatial transcriptomic profiling
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
OpenSpliceAI: An efficient, modular implementation of SpliceAI enabling easy retraining on non-human species
2025cited by 0position: contributordoi

Grants

RESEARCH-PGR: Algorithms and Tools for Improving Genome Assemblies
NSF1744309$774,6752018–2022PIRePORTER
Bioinformatics Analysis of Regulatory Sites in Genomic DNA Sequences
NSF0234704$310,1912003–2006PIRePORTER
A high-speed network connection for genomics research
NSF0333537$164,7322003–2006PIRePORTER
2003 Computational Genomics Conference
NSF0314206$29,5002003–2005PIRePORTER
The Fifth Annual Computational Genomics Conference at TIGR, to be held at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, MD, November 29, 2001 through December 1, 2001
NSF0120900$24,8032001–2002PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Interpolated Markov Models for DNA Sequence Analysis
NSF9902923$330,0001999–2002PIRePORTER
Finding Genes in DNA using Machine Learning Algorithms
NSF9530462$214,4971996–2000PIRePORTER
CISE Research Instrumentation: Distributed Data Mining in Large Databases
NSF9421531$50,0001995–1997PIRePORTER
A Proposal to Study the Applicability of Astronomical Image Processing Methods to Low Contrast Digital Images
NSF9520463$49,9861995–1997PIRePORTER
Knowledge Discovery for Molecular Biology: Algorithms and Experiments
NSF9223591$197,6981993–1997PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 99 papers (2019–2026)Mihaela Pertea · Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research21 papers (2019–2026)Aleksey V. Zimin · Center for Speech Pathology and Neurorehabilitation16 papers (2019–2025)Aleksey V. Zimin · Johns Hopkins University15 papers (2013–2022)Daniela Puiu · Johns Hopkins University14 papers (2013–2023)Kuan-Hao Chao · Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica11 papers (2022–2025)Hyun Joo Ji · University of Baltimore11 papers (2024–2026)Ales Varabyou · University of Baltimore10 papers (2020–2025)Alan Mao · Johns Hopkins Medicine10 papers (2023–2025)Geo Pertea · McLean Hospital9 papers (2012–2020)Martin Steinegger · Seoul National University8 papers (2020–2026)Kristian Stevens · University of California, Davis7 papers (2014–2017)Marc Crepeau · University of California, Davis7 papers (2014–2017)James A. Yorke · University of Maryland, College Park7 papers (2013–2017)Charles H. Langley · Ecologie & Evolution7 papers (2014–2017)Florian P. Breitwieser · Johns Hopkins University7 papers (2016–2022)Jill Wegrzyn · University of California, Davis7 papers (2014–2020)Jennifer Lu · University of Baltimore7 papers (2020–2026)Jean Fan · Transgenomic (United States)7 papers (2025–2026)Winston Timp · Oxford Nanopore Technologies (United Kingdom)7 papers (2020–2026)