Darren P. Martin

University of Cape Town — South Africa

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant Virus Research Studies(240), Plant and Fungal Interactions Research(94), Animal Virus Infections Studies(59), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions(48), SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research(45)

Publications389 total

Genetic Evidence Indicates the Evolutionary Importance of the SARS-CoV-2 ORF9b protein
2026Open Access
Identification and genomic characterisation of BA.3.2: a highly divergent BA.3-related SARS-CoV-2 lineage from southern Africa
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Author response: Viral genome sequence datasets display pervasive evidence of strand-specific substitution biases that are best described using non-reversible nucleotide substitution models
2025Open Access
Author response: Viral genome sequence datasets display pervasive evidence of strand-specific substitution biases that are best described using non-reversible nucleotide substitution models
2025Open Access
Viral genome sequence datasets display pervasive evidence of strand-specific substitution biases that are best described using non-reversible nucleotide substitution models
2025Open Access
Viral genome sequence datasets display pervasive evidence of strand-specific substitution biases that are best described using non-reversible nucleotide substitution models
eLife·2025Open Access
Viral genome sequence datasets display pervasive evidence of strand-specific substitution biases that are best described using non-reversible nucleotide substitution models
2025Open Access
Summary of taxonomy changes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses from the Plant Viruses Subcommittee, 2025
Journal of General Virology·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
Conserved recombination patterns across hepatitis B genotypes: a retrospective study
Virology Journal·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
MDInteractions: A Python package for the distance-based analysis of intra- and inter-protein interactions
2025Open Access
scoup: Simulate Codon Sequences with Darwinian Selection Incorporated as an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process
2025Open Access
difFUBAR: Scalable Bayesian comparison of adaptive evolution
2025Open Access
Conserved recombination patterns across hepatitis B genotypes: a retrospective study
2025Open Access
Cervicovaginal inflammation and HIV target cell activation in adolescent girls and young women with <i>Chlamydia trachomatis</i> infections
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
High Prevalence and Genotypic Diversity of Persistent <i>Chlamydia trachomatis</i> Infections Among South African Adolescent Girls and Young Women: A Tale of Two Cities
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Emergence of the BA.2.87.1 lineage of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa, a highly diverged BA.2-related lineage
Virus Evolution·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Recombination Analysis of Geminiviruses Using Recombination Detection Program (RDP)
Methods in molecular biology·2025· 3 cited
Sequence Demarcation Tool (SDT), a Free User-Friendly Computer Program Using Pairwise Genetic Identity Calculations to Classify Nucleotide or Amino Acid Sequences
Methods in molecular biology·2025· 9 cited
An Oxford Nanopore Technology-Based Hepatitis B Virus Sequencing Protocol Suitable For Genomic Surveillance Within Clinical Diagnostic Settings
Preprints.org·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
An Oxford Nanopore Technology-Based Hepatitis B Virus Sequencing Protocol Suitable For Genomic Surveillance Within Clinical Diagnostic Settings
Preprints.org·2024Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Arvind Varsani(20), Carolyn Williamson(13), Houriiyah Tegally(11), Arshad Ismail(9), Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond(9), Richard Lessells(9), Koleka Mlisana(9), Eduan Wilkinson(9), Jinal N. Bhiman(9), Anne von Gottberg(9), Túlio de Oliveira(9), F. Murilo Zerbini(9), Jennifer Giandhari(8), Marta Giovanetti(8), Arash Iranzadeh(8), Steven Weaver(8), Dominique Goedhals(8), Philippe Roumagnac(8), Daniel G. Amoako(7), Cathrine Scheepers(7)