Billy K. Poon

13.8k citations

31 papers · 3.7k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 16

Impact in

Structural Biology top 0.5%
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Molecular Biology top 2%
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Papers in

Structural Biology 7
- Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications 7
Materials Chemistry 25
- Enzyme Structure and Function 25

Co-authors: Paul D. Adams Pavel V. Afonine Thomas C. Terwilliger Oleg V. Sobolev Alexandre Urzhumtsev Randy J. Read Nigel W. Moriarty Dorothée Liebschner
Journals: Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology (9 papers)Nature Methods (2 papers)Journal of Structural Biology (2 papers)Protein Science (2 papers)Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom China

In The Last Decade

Billy K. Poon

30 papers receiving 3.7k citations

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AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination 2023 · 168 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature Methods
2018 Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology
2018 Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology
2017 Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology

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1	AQuaRef: machine learning accelerated quantum refinement of protein structures Nature Communications ·R.I. Zubatyuk, Małgorzata Biczysko, 廖楠, Nigel W. Moriarty, Etelson Augusto Rosa Hauck, Holger Kruse, Billy K. Poon, Paul D. Adams, Mark P. Waller, Adrián E. Roitberg, Olexandr Isayev, Pavel V. Afonine	2025	2
2	Likelihood-based interactive local docking into cryo-EM maps in ChimeraX Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·Randy J. Read, Eric F. Pettersen, Airlie J. McCoy, Tristan I. Croll, Thomas C. Terwilliger, Billy K. Poon, Elaine C. Meng, Dorothée Liebschner, Paul D. Adams	2024	3
3	Accelerating crystal structure determination with iterative AlphaFold prediction Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·Thomas C. Terwilliger, Pavel V. Afonine, Dorothée Liebschner, Tristan I. Croll, Airlie J. McCoy, Robert D. Oeffner, Christopher J. Williams, Billy K. Poon, Jane S. Richardson, Randy J. Read, Paul D. Adams	2023	34
4	Accelerating x‐ray tracing for exascale systems using Kokkos Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience ·Felix Wittwer, Nicholas K. Sauter, Derek Mendez, Billy K. Poon, Aaron S. Brewster, James M. Holton, Michael E. Wall, William E. Hart, Deborah Bard, Johannes Blaschke	2023	0
5	Improved joint X-ray and neutron refinement procedure in Phenix Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·Dorothée Liebschner, Pavel V. Afonine, Billy K. Poon, Nigel W. Moriarty, Paul D. Adams	2023	6
6	Interpreting macromolecular diffraction through simulation Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·I.D. Young, Derek Mendez, Billy K. Poon, Johannes Blaschke, Felix Wittwer, Michael E. Wall, Nicholas K. Sauter	2023	1
7	Alphafold changes everything (and nothing) Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances ·Thomas C. Terwilliger, Dorothée Liebschner, Tristan I. Croll, Christopher J. Williams, Airlie J. McCoy, Billy K. Poon, Pavel V. Afonine, Robert D. Oeffner, Christopher J. Schlicksup, Claudia Millán, Jane S. Richardson, Randy J. Read, Paul D. Adams	2023	1
8	AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination Nature Methods ·Thomas C. Terwilliger, Dorothée Liebschner, Tristan I. Croll, Christopher J. Williams, Airlie J. McCoy, Billy K. Poon, Pavel V. Afonine, Robert D. Oeffner, Jane S. Richardson, Randy J. Read, Paul D. Adams Hit paper breakdown →	2023	168
9	Improved AlphaFold modeling with implicit experimental information Nature Methods ·Thomas C. Terwilliger, Billy K. Poon, Pavel V. Afonine, Christopher J. Schlicksup, Tristan I. Croll, Claudia Millán, Jane S. Richardson, Randy J. Read, Paul D. Adams	2022	93
10	Integration of software tools for integrative modeling of biomolecular systems Journal of Structural Biology ·F. Pauss, Thomas-Otavio Peulen, Benjamin Webb, Billy K. Poon, James S. Fraser, Paul D. Adams, Andrej Săli	2022	12
11	CERES: a cryo-EM re-refinement system for continuous improvement of deposited models Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·Dorothée Liebschner, Pavel V. Afonine, Nigel W. Moriarty, Billy K. Poon, Vincent B. Chen, Paul D. Adams	2020	15
12	Cryo_fit: Democratization of flexible fitting for cryo-EM Journal of Structural Biology ·Doo Nam Kim, Nigel W. Moriarty, Serdal Kırmızıaltın, Pavel V. Afonine, Billy K. Poon, Oleg V. Sobolev, Paul D. Adams, Karissa Y. Sanbonmatsu	2019	27
13	New tools for the analysis and validation of cryo-EM maps and atomic models Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·Pavel V. Afonine, Bruno P. Klaholz, Nigel W. Moriarty, Billy K. Poon, Oleg V. Sobolev, Thomas C. Terwilliger, Paul D. Adams, Alexandre Urzhumtsev Hit paper breakdown →	2018	516
14	Real-space refinement in PHENIX for cryo-EM and crystallography Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·Pavel V. Afonine, Billy K. Poon, Randy J. Read, Oleg V. Sobolev, Thomas C. Terwilliger, Alexandre Urzhumtsev, Paul D. Adams Hit paper breakdown →	2018	2004
15	Polder maps: improving OMIT maps by excluding bulk solvent Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology ·Dorothée Liebschner, Pavel V. Afonine, Nigel W. Moriarty, Billy K. Poon, Oleg V. Sobolev, Thomas C. Terwilliger, Paul D. Adams Hit paper breakdown →	2017	495
16	Three-dimensional single-particle imaging using angular correlations from X-ray laser data Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography ·Haiguang Liu, Billy K. Poon, D. K. Saldin, John C. H. Spence, Peter H. Zwart	2013	30
17	Computation of fluctuation scattering profilesviathree-dimensional Zernike polynomials Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography ·Haiguang Liu, Billy K. Poon, A. J. E. M. Janssen, Peter H. Zwart	2012	10
18	Application of normal-mode refinement to X-ray crystal structures at the lower resolution limit Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·Fengyun Ni, Billy K. Poon, Qinghua Wang, Jianpeng Ma	2009	10
19	Normal-Mode Refinement of Anisotropic Thermal Parameters for Potassium Channel KcsA at 3.2 Å Crystallographic Resolution Structure ·Xiaorui Chen, Billy K. Poon, Athanasios Dousis, Qinghua Wang, Jianpeng Ma	2007	28
20	Normal mode refinement of anisotropic thermal parameters for a supramolecular complex at 3.42-Å crystallographic resolution Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Billy K. Poon, Xiaorui Chen, Mingyang Lu, Nand K. Vyas, Florante A. Quiocho, Qinghua Wang, Jianpeng Ma	2007	49

About Billy K. Poon

Billy K. Poon is a scholar working on Structural Biology, Materials Chemistry, Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Molecular Biology and Condensed Matter Physics, having authored 31 papers that have together received 3.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Enzyme Structure and Function (25 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (20 papers), Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (7 papers), Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques (3 papers), Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques (2 papers), Biochemical and Molecular Research (2 papers), Mass Spectrometry Techniques and Applications (2 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Structural Biology (369 citations), Molecular Biology (2.7k citations), Cell Biology (323 citations), Materials Chemistry (833 citations) and Virology (82 citations). Billy K. Poon has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Paul D. Adams, Pavel V. Afonine, Thomas C. Terwilliger, Oleg V. Sobolev, Alexandre Urzhumtsev, Randy J. Read, Nigel W. Moriarty, Dorothée Liebschner, Bruno P. Klaholz and Jianpeng Ma. Their work appears in journals such as Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, Nature Methods, Journal of Structural Biology, Protein Science and Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances.

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