Ben Langmead

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Ben Langmead is a CS Fundamentals YouTube channel with 18.9K subscribers. As of October 2026, it has published 130 videos with 1.7M total views (~399 per video), and a 3.76% engagement rate — top 21% of CS Fundamentals educators.

Ben Langmead is a Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University. His group develops widely used tools for bioinformatics and computational biology, including Bowtie, Bowtie 2, Kraken 2, recount3, and Index Zone. His work has been cited over 130,000 times. This channel hosts free educational content on algorithms and data structures for DNA sequencing analysis — string matching, indexing (suffix arrays, BWT/FM-index), genome assembly, and randomized algorithms such as MinHash. It cov

Channel Statistics

18.9K Subscribers

130 Videos

1.7M Total Views

399 Avg Views

14 Avg Likes

1 Avg Comments

3.76% Engagement Rate

bi-weekly Upload Frequency

Top 21% engagement among 565 channels in CS Fundamentals

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Content Style

7 Long-form

24m 25s Avg Duration

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Views Trajectory · last 35 days

1.7M → 1.7M total views

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Ben Langmead (@benlangmead) is a cs fundamentals YouTube channel with 18.9K subscribers. With 130 videos and 1.7M total views, the channel averages 399 views per video. Ben Langmead has an engagement rate of 3.76%, placing it in the top 21% of cs fundamentals educators on the platform. The channel uploads on a bi-weekly basis, making it a inactive creator in the developer education space.