Chris Sander

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Chris Sander is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Sander has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Materials Chemistry and 1 paper in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Chris Sander's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (12 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (11 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (5 papers). Chris Sander is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (12 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (11 papers) and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (5 papers). Chris Sander collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and France. Chris Sander's co-authors include Reinhard Schneider, Liisa Holm, Michael E. Scharf, Uwe Hobohm, Alfonso Valencia, Alfred Wittinghofer, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Burkhard Rost, Cornelius Frömmel and Anton J. Enright and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, Journal of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.

In The Last Decade

Chris Sander

15 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Database of homology‐derived protein structures and the structural meaning of sequence alignment

1991 1.3k citations Chris Sander, Reinhard Schneider Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics profile →
Selection of representative protein data sets

1992 686 citations Uwe Hobohm, Michael E. Scharf et al. Protein Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Sander Germany	15	3.4k	1.3k	353	238	217	15	3.8k
Ken Nishikawa Japan	35	4.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	460 1.3×	199 0.8×	276 1.3×	112	4.7k
L. Serrano Germany	12	2.6k 0.8×	726 0.6×	254 0.7×	163 0.7×	194 0.9×	18	3.2k
B. L. Sibanda United Kingdom	22	3.1k 0.9×	963 0.8×	215 0.6×	229 1.0×	195 0.9×	33	3.5k
Patrick Argos Germany	17	2.1k 0.6×	757 0.6×	466 1.3×	93 0.4×	152 0.7×	19	2.6k
E. Gail Hutchinson United Kingdom	21	3.9k 1.2×	1.2k 1.0×	266 0.8×	239 1.0×	247 1.1×	24	5.0k
Dmitrij Frishman Germany	11	2.5k 0.7×	764 0.6×	155 0.4×	202 0.8×	237 1.1×	17	2.9k
Amnon Horovitz Israel	36	4.2k 1.3×	2.0k 1.6×	379 1.1×	152 0.6×	460 2.1×	109	4.8k
Luís Serrano Spain	33	3.7k 1.1×	1.0k 0.8×	293 0.8×	99 0.4×	302 1.4×	66	4.3k
Kira M.S. Misura United States	16	3.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	851 2.4×	300 1.3×	290 1.3×	18	3.7k
Jonathan J. Ward United Kingdom	12	3.0k 0.9×	719 0.6×	528 1.5×	115 0.5×	225 1.0×	14	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Sander

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Sander

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Sander

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15 of 15 papers shown

Promponas, Vasilis J., Anton J. Enright, Sophia Tsoka, et al.. (2000). CAST: an iterative algorithm for the complexity analysis of sequence tracts. Bioinformatics. 16(10). 915–922. 141 indexed citations

Rost, Burkhard, Reinhard Schneider, & Chris Sander. (1997). Protein fold recognition by prediction-based threading. Journal of Molecular Biology. 270(3). 471–480. 219 indexed citations

Andrade‐Navarro, Miguel A., et al.. (1997). Characterization of new proteins found by analysis of short open reading frames from the full yeast genome. Yeast. 13(14). 1363–1374. 17 indexed citations

Holm, Liisa & Chris Sander. (1997). New structure — novel fold?. Structure. 5(2). 165–171. 53 indexed citations

Holm, Liisa & Chris Sander. (1996). [39] Alignment of three-dimensional protein structures: Network server for database searching. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 266. 653–662. 73 indexed citations

Rost, Burkhard & Chris Sander. (1995). Progress of 1D protein structure prediction at last. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 23(3). 295–300. 82 indexed citations

Holm, Liisa & Chris Sander. (1993). Structural alignment of globins, phycocyanins and colicin A. FEBS Letters. 315(3). 301–306. 72 indexed citations

Holm, Liisa & Chris Sander. (1992). Fast and simple monte carlo algorithm for side chain optimization in proteins: Application to model building by homology. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 14(2). 213–223. 110 indexed citations

Holm, Liisa & Chris Sander. (1992). Evaluation of protein models by atomic solvation preference. Journal of Molecular Biology. 225(1). 93–105. 156 indexed citations

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Hobohm, Uwe, et al.. (1992). Selection of representative protein data sets. Protein Science. 1(3). 409–417. 686 indexed citations breakdown →

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Holm, Liisa & Chris Sander. (1991). Database algorithm for generating protein backbone and side-chain co-ordinates from a Cα trace. Journal of Molecular Biology. 218(1). 183–194. 272 indexed citations

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Valencia, Alfonso, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Alfred Wittinghofer, & Chris Sander. (1991). The ras protein family: evolutionary tree and role of conserved amino acids. Biochemistry. 30(19). 4637–4648. 488 indexed citations

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Sander, Chris & Reinhard Schneider. (1991). Database of homology‐derived protein structures and the structural meaning of sequence alignment. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 9(1). 56–68. 1336 indexed citations breakdown →

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Frömmel, Cornelius & Chris Sander. (1989). Thermitase, a thermostable subtilisin: Comparison of predicted and experimental structures and the molecular cause of thermostability. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 5(1). 22–37. 46 indexed citations

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Godzik, Adam & Chris Sander. (1989). Conservation of residue interactions in a family of Ca-binding proteins. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 2(8). 589–596. 32 indexed citations

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