Chuck Merryman

7.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Chuck Merryman is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chuck Merryman has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in Chuck Merryman's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Chuck Merryman is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (11 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (7 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers). Chuck Merryman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and United Kingdom. Chuck Merryman's co-authors include Daniel G. Gibson, Hamilton O. Smith, Clyde A. Hutchison, J. Craig Venter, John I. Glass, Mikkel A. Algire, Vladimir N. Noskov, Gwynedd A. Benders, David W. Thomas and Jayshree Zaveri and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Chuck Merryman

18 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a M... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 250 500 750
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.

  1. Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium Genome
    2008 840 citations Daniel G. Gibson, Gwynedd A. Benders et al. Science profile →

Peers

Chuck Merryman
Gwynedd A. Benders United States
Mikkel A. Algire United States
Nina Alperovich United States
Jayshree Zaveri United States
Rut Carballido‐López France
María Lluch‐Senar Spain
Szabolcs Semsey Denmark
Norbert O. E. Vischer Netherlands
Holly Baden-Tillson United States
Carole Lartigue France
Gwynedd A. Benders United States
Chuck Merryman
Citations per year, relative to Chuck Merryman Chuck Merryman (= 1×) peers Gwynedd A. Benders

Countries citing papers authored by Chuck Merryman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chuck Merryman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chuck Merryman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chuck Merryman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chuck Merryman based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chuck Merryman. Chuck Merryman is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Breuer, Marian, Tyler M. Earnest, Chuck Merryman, et al.. (2019). Essential metabolism for a minimal cell. eLife. 8. 104 indexed citations
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Hutchison, Clyde A., Chuck Merryman, Lijie Sun, et al.. (2019). Polar Effects of Transposon Insertion into a Minimal Bacterial Genome. Journal of Bacteriology. 201(19). 31 indexed citations
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Glass, John I., Chuck Merryman, Kim S. Wise, Clyde A. Hutchison, & Hamilton O. Smith. (2017). Minimal Cells—Real and Imagined. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 9(12). a023861–a023861. 54 indexed citations
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Kannan, Krishna, Billyana Tsvetanova, Ray-Yuan Chuang, et al.. (2016). One step engineering of the small-subunit ribosomal RNA using CRISPR/Cas9. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 13 indexed citations
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Krishnakumar, R., Daniel H. Haft, Jayshree Zaveri, et al.. (2014). Simultaneous non-contiguous deletions using large synthetic DNA and site-specific recombinases. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(14). e111–e111. 19 indexed citations
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Krishnakumar, R., Laure Prat, Hans R. Aerni, et al.. (2013). Transfer RNA Misidentification Scrambles Sense Codon Recoding. ChemBioChem. 14(15). 1967–1972. 36 indexed citations
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Merryman, Chuck & Daniel G. Gibson. (2012). Methods and applications for assembling large DNA constructs. Metabolic Engineering. 14(3). 196–204. 41 indexed citations
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Algire, Mikkel A., Michael Montague, Sanjay Vashee, Carole Lartigue, & Chuck Merryman. (2012). A Type III restriction–modification system in Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri. Open Biology. 2(10). 120115–120115. 10 indexed citations
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Benders, Gwynedd A., Vladimir N. Noskov, Carole Lartigue, et al.. (2010). Cloning whole bacterial genomes in yeast. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(8). 2558–2569. 105 indexed citations
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Gibson, Daniel G., Hamilton O. Smith, Clyde A. Hutchison, J. Craig Venter, & Chuck Merryman. (2010). Chemical synthesis of the mouse mitochondrial genome. Nature Methods. 7(11). 901–903. 254 indexed citations
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Lartigue, Carole, Sanjay Vashee, Mikkel A. Algire, et al.. (2009). Creating Bacterial Strains from Genomes That Have Been Cloned and Engineered in Yeast. Science. 325(5948). 1693–1696. 208 indexed citations
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Algire, Mikkel A., Carole Lartigue, David W. Thomas, et al.. (2009). New Selectable Marker for Manipulating the Simple Genomes of Mycoplasma Species. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 53(10). 4429–4432. 20 indexed citations
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Gibson, Daniel G., Gwynedd A. Benders, Cynthia Andrews‐Pfannkoch, et al.. (2008). Complete Chemical Synthesis, Assembly, and Cloning of a Mycoplasma genitalium Genome. Science. 319(5867). 1215–1220. 840 indexed citations breakdown →
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Merryman, Chuck & Rachel Green. (2004). Transformation of Aminoacyl tRNAs for the In Vitro Selection of “Drug-like” Molecules. Chemistry & Biology. 11(4). 575–582. 75 indexed citations
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Merryman, Chuck, et al.. (2002). A Bifunctional tRNA for In Vitro Selection. Chemistry & Biology. 9(6). 741–746. 10 indexed citations
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Merryman, Chuck, Danesh Moazed, Gary Daubresse, & Harry F. Noller. (1999). Nucleotides in 23S rRNA protected by the association of 30S and 50S ribosomal subunits 1 1Edited by D. E. Draper. Journal of Molecular Biology. 285(1). 107–113. 96 indexed citations
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Merryman, Chuck, Danesh Moazed, John R. McWhirter, & Harry F. Noller. (1999). Nucleotides in 16S rRNA protected by the association of 30S and 50S ribosomal subunits 1 1Edited by D. E. Draper. Journal of Molecular Biology. 285(1). 97–105. 56 indexed citations
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Noller, Harry F., Rachel Green, Alexander Hüttenhofer, et al.. (1995). Structure and function of ribosomal RNA. Biochemistry and Cell Biology. 73(11-12). 997–1009. 47 indexed citations

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