Barry Robson

11.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
135 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Barry Robson is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Statistics and Probability and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Barry Robson has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Molecular Biology, 25 papers in Statistics and Probability and 24 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Barry Robson's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (47 papers), Probability and Statistical Research (23 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (23 papers). Barry Robson is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (47 papers), Probability and Statistical Research (23 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (23 papers). Barry Robson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Cayman Islands. Barry Robson's co-authors include J. Garnier, David J. Osguthorpe, Jean-François Gibrat, Jean Garnier, Roger H. Pain, E. Suzuki, Jonathan M. Levin, Josselin Garnier, Valérie Biou and Bohdan Waszkowycz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Barry Robson

128 papers receiving 8.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Analysis of the accuracy and implications of simple methods for predicting the secondary structure of globular proteins

1978 4.0k citations Barry Robson et al. profile →
[32] GOR method for predicting protein secondary structure from amino acid sequence

1996 1.0k citations Jean Garnier, Jean-François Gibrat et al. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Barry Robson	6.8k	1.3k	868	578	570	135	9.1k
Michael G. Prisant	5.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	623 0.7×	397 0.7×	525 0.9×	25	7.6k
Min‐Yi Shen	7.6k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	941 1.1×	900 1.6×	595 1.0×	20	10.4k
Jens Erik Nielsen	6.9k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	814 0.9×	941 1.6×	541 0.9×	62	9.6k
Ben Webb	6.9k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	899 1.0×	719 1.2×	607 1.1×	13	9.5k
J. Michael Word	5.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.4×	475 0.5×	712 1.2×	380 0.7×	14	7.3k
Kim Henrick	7.4k 1.1×	2.7k 2.0×	1.2k 1.3×	571 1.0×	717 1.3×	69	10.6k
Liam J. McGuffin	7.1k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	765 0.9×	589 1.0×	666 1.2×	76	9.0k
Narayanan Eswar	8.4k 1.2×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	807 1.4×	618 1.1×	52	11.2k
M. S. Madhusudhan	6.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	838 1.0×	745 1.3×	547 1.0×	67	9.2k
Wim Vranken	6.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	636 0.7×	767 1.3×	533 0.9×	106	8.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Barry Robson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barry Robson

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Robson, Barry, et al.. (2024). Use of a theory of expected information for sparse data and adverse events in clinical trials and other biomedical studies. Information Sciences. 680. 121027–121027. 1 indexed citations

Robson, Barry. (2022). De novo protein folding on computers. Benefits and challenges. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 143. 105292–105292. 13 indexed citations

Robson, Barry. (2021). Testing machine learning techniques for general application by using protein secondary structure prediction. A brief survey with studies of pitfalls and benefits using a simple progressive learning approach. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 138. 104883–104883. 10 indexed citations

Robson, Barry, et al.. (2021). Mining real-world high dimensional structured data in medicine and its use in decision support. Some different perspectives on unknowns, interdependency, and distinguishability. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 141. 105118–105118. 7 indexed citations

Robson, Barry. (2020). COVID-19 Coronavirus spike protein analysis for synthetic vaccines, a peptidomimetic antagonist, and therapeutic drugs, and analysis of a proposed achilles’ heel conserved region to minimize probability of escape mutations and drug resistance. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 121. 103749–103749. 138 indexed citations

Robson, Barry. (2020). Bioinformatics studies on a function of the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein as the binding of host sialic acid glycans. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 122. 103849–103849. 50 indexed citations

Robson, Barry. (2019). Bidirectional General Graphs for inference. Principles and implications for medicine. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 108. 382–399. 13 indexed citations

Robson, Barry, et al.. (2019). Studies in the use of data mining, prediction algorithms, and a universal exchange and inference language in the analysis of socioeconomic health data. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 112. 103369–103369. 11 indexed citations

Robson, Barry, et al.. (2018). Studies in the extensively automatic construction of large odds-based inference networks from structured data. Examples from medical, bioinformatics, and health insurance claims data. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 95. 147–166. 17 indexed citations

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Robson, Barry, et al.. (2016). Data-mining to build a knowledge representation store for clinical decision support. Studies on curation and validation based on machine performance in multiple choice medical licensing examinations. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 73. 71–93. 26 indexed citations

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Robson, Barry, Thomas P. Caruso, & Ulysses J. Balis. (2014). Suggestions for a web based universal exchange and inference language for medicine. Continuity of patient care with PCAST disaggregation. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 56. 51–66. 20 indexed citations

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Robson, Barry. (2014). POPPER, a simple programming language for probabilistic semantic inference in medicine. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 56. 107–123. 16 indexed citations

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Robson, Barry. (2012). Towards Automated Reasoning for Drug Discovery and Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence. 1(1). 3–3. 14 indexed citations

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Mullins, Irene M., Mir S. Siadaty, Jason A. Lyman, et al.. (2005). Data mining and clinical data repositories: Insights from a 667,000 patient data set. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 36(12). 1351–1377. 124 indexed citations

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Garnier, Jean, Jean-François Gibrat, & Barry Robson. (1996). [32] GOR method for predicting protein secondary structure from amino acid sequence. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 266. 540–553. 1031 indexed citations breakdown →

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Westhead, David R., David E. Clark, David A. Frenkel, et al.. (1995). PRO_LIGAND: An approach to de novo molecular design. 3. A genetic algorithm for structure refinement. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 9(2). 139–148. 49 indexed citations

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Robson, Barry, et al.. (1992). Natural sequence code representations for compression and rapid searching of human-genome style databases. Computer applications in the biosciences. 8(3). 283–289. 2 indexed citations

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Biou, Valérie, Jean-François Gibrat, Jonathan M. Levin, Barry Robson, & Josselin Garnier. (1988). Secondary structure prediction: combination of three different methods. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 2(3). 185–191. 167 indexed citations

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Wynn, C H, et al.. (1986). Calculation of the conformation of glycosphingolipids 1. β-d-glucosyl-N-(2-d-hydroxyoctadecanoyl)-d-dihydrosphingosine (glucosyl-ceramide) and α-d-N-acetylneuraminyl-(2 → 3)-β-d-galactose. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 119(1). 81–87. 10 indexed citations

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Garnier, Jean, Papa Mouhamadou Gaye, Jean‐Claude Mercier, & Barry Robson. (1980). Structural properties of signal peptides and their membrane insertion. Biochimie. 62(4). 231–239. 38 indexed citations

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