Ben Langmead

@benlangmead Inactive

Ben Langmead is a Web Development YouTube channel with 18.8K subscribers. As of July 2026, it has published 130 videos with 1.6M total views (~310 per video), and a 4.19% engagement rate — top 27% of Web Development 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

18.8K Subscribers

130 Videos

1.6M Total Views

310 Avg Views

12 Avg Likes

1 Avg Comments

4.19% Engagement Rate

bi-weekly Upload Frequency

Top 27% engagement among 1083 channels in Web Development

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Content Style

7 Long-form

24m 25s Avg Duration

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Ben Langmead (@benlangmead) is a web development YouTube channel with 18.8K subscribers. With 130 videos and 1.6M total views, the channel averages 310 views per video. Ben Langmead has an engagement rate of 4.19%, placing it in the top 27% of web development educators on the platform. The channel uploads on a bi-weekly basis, making it a inactive creator in the developer education space.