Table 4. Top five papers from the SIGS and PubMed Central sites based on total and daily downloads

SIGS site - total

Hallin, et al.

GeneWiz browser: An Interactive Tool for Visualizing Sequenced Chromosomes [14].

2,426

Sims et al.

Complete genome sequence of Kytococcus sedentarius type strain (541^T) [15].

1,667

Mavromatis et al.

The DOE-JGI Standard Operating Procedure for the Annotations of Microbial Genomes [16].

1,560

Snipen et al.

Standard operating procedure for computing pangenome trees [17].

1,550

Lapidus et al.

Complete genome sequence of Brachybacterium faecium type strain (Schefferle 6–10^T) [18].

1,533

SIGS site - daily

Bini et al.

Complete genome sequence of Desulfurispirillum indicum strain S5^T [19].

7.8

Nelson and Garrity

Genome sequences published outside of Standards in Genomic Sciences, December 2011 [11].

7.8

Copeland et al.

Complete genome sequence of the halophilic and highly halotolerant Chromohalobacter salexigens type strain (1H11^T) [20].

5.8

Schleheck et al.

Complete genome sequence of Parvibaculum lavamentivorans type strain (DS-1^T) [21].

4.1

Humann et al.

Complete genome of the onion pathogen Enterobacter cloacae EcWSU1 [22].

3.5

PMC site - total

Gilbert et al.

The Earth Microbiome Project: Meeting report of the “1st EMP meeting on sample selection and acquisition” at Argonne National Laboratory October 6th 2010 [23].

758

Gilbert et al.

Meeting Report: The Terabase Metagenomics Workshop and the Vision of an Earth Microbiome Project [24].

715

Tanenbaum et al.

The JCVI standard operating procedure for annotating prokaryotic metagenomic shotgun sequencing data [25].

494

Gilbert

Metagenomes and metatranscriptomes from the L4 long-term coastal monitoring station in the Western English Channel [26].

435

Snipen and Ussery

Standard operating procedure for computing pangenome trees. [17].

405

PMC site - daily

Lorenzi et al.

The Viral MetaGenome Annotation Pipeline (VMGAP):an automated tool for the functional annotation of viral Metagenomic shotgun sequencing data [27].

2.9

Gilbert et al.

The Earth Microbiome Project: Meeting report of the “1st EMP meeting on sample selection and acquisition” at Argonne National Laboratory October 6th 2010 [23].

2.4

Gilbert et al.

Meeting Report: The Terabase Metagenomics Workshop and the Vision of an Earth Microbiome Project [24].

2.3

Anderson et al.

Complete genome sequence of the hyperthermophilic chemolithoautotroph Pyrolobus fumarii type strain (1A^T) [28].

2.0

Castoe et al.

A proposal to sequence the genome of a garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) [13].

1.8