Gregory S. Couch

63.3k citations

11 papers · 44.5k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 8

Impact in

Structural Biology top 0.05%
Molecular Biology top 0.05%
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- RNA modifications and cancer
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Papers in

Structural Biology 1
Information Systems and Management 4
- Scientific Computing and Data Management 4

Co-authors: Thomas E. Ferrin Eric F. Pettersen Conrad C. Huang Elaine C. Meng Thomas D. Goddard John H. Morris Tristan I. Croll Robert Langridge
Journals: Protein Science (2 papers)Journal of Computational Chemistry (1 paper)Nucleic Acids Research (1 paper)BMC Bioinformatics (1 paper)UC Berkeley (1 paper)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Portugal

In The Last Decade

Gregory S. Couch

9 papers receiving 44.2k citations

Hit Papers

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UCSF ChimeraX: Structure visualization for researchers, educators, and developers 2020 · 5.3k citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2020 Protein Science
2017 Protein Science
2006 BMC Bioinformatics
2004 Journal of Computational Chemistry

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Erik Lindahl Sweden

Garib N. Murshudov United Kingdom

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11 of 11 papers shown

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1	UCSF ChimeraX: Structure visualization for researchers, educators, and developers Protein Science ·Eric F. Pettersen, Thomas D. Goddard, Conrad C. Huang, Elaine C. Meng, Gregory S. Couch, Tristan I. Croll, John H. Morris, Thomas E. Ferrin Hit paper breakdown →	2020	5287
2	UCSF ChimeraX: Meeting modern challenges in visualization and analysis Protein Science ·Thomas D. Goddard, Conrad C. Huang, Elaine C. Meng, Eric F. Pettersen, Gregory S. Couch, John H. Morris, Thomas E. Ferrin Hit paper breakdown →	2017	3207
3	Tools for integrated sequence-structure analysis with UCSF Chimera BMC Bioinformatics ·Elaine C. Meng, Eric F. Pettersen, Gregory S. Couch, Conrad C. Huang, Thomas E. Ferrin Hit paper breakdown →	2006	531
4	Nucleic acid visualization with UCSF Chimera Nucleic Acids Research ·Gregory S. Couch	2006	68
5	UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis Journal of Computational Chemistry ·Eric F. Pettersen, Thomas D. Goddard, Conrad C. Huang, Gregory S. Couch, Kan Guo, Elaine C. Meng, Thomas E. Ferrin Hit paper breakdown →	2004	35338
6	Wrappy — a Python Wrapper Generator for C++ Classes Gregory S. Couch, Conrad C. Huang, Thomas E. Ferrin	1999	2
7	Annotating PDB files with scene information Journal of Molecular Graphics ·Gregory S. Couch, Eric F. Pettersen, Conrad C. Huang, Thomas E. Ferrin	1995	8
8	Berkeley UNIGRAFIX 3.1 - Data Structure and Language UC Berkeley ·Gregory S. Couch	1994	0
9	An affordable approach to interactive desktop molecular modeling Journal of Molecular Graphics ·Thomas E. Ferrin, Gregory S. Couch, C.C. Huang, Eric F. Pettersen, Robert Langridge	1991	15
10	A real-time malleable molecular surface Journal of Molecular Graphics ·Teri E. Klein, Conrad C. Huang, Eric F. Pettersen, Gregory S. Couch, Thomas E. Ferrin, Robert Langridge	1990	15
11	The UCSF computer graphics laboratory: tenth anniversary progress report Journal of Molecular Graphics ·Robert Langridge, Thomas E. Ferrin, C.C. Huang, V. E. E. Gwarazimba, Robert F. Wulf, Nagarajan Pattabiraman, Paul A. Bash, Gregory S. Couch, Teri E. Klein, Belay Sitotaw Goshu, William Farnsworth	1986	1

About Gregory S. Couch

Gregory S. Couch is a scholar working on Structural Biology, Information Systems and Management, Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Biophysics and Geochemistry and Petrology, having authored 11 papers that have together received 44.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (4 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (4 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (2 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (2 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (2 papers), Cell Image Analysis Techniques (2 papers) and Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Structural Biology (1.4k citations), Molecular Biology (28.6k citations), Infectious Diseases (4.0k citations), Cell Biology (3.3k citations) and Virology (924 citations). Gregory S. Couch has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Portugal. Frequent co-authors include Thomas E. Ferrin, Eric F. Pettersen, Conrad C. Huang, Elaine C. Meng, Thomas D. Goddard, John H. Morris, Tristan I. Croll, Robert Langridge, Teri E. Klein and C.C. Huang. Their work appears in journals such as Protein Science, Journal of Computational Chemistry, Nucleic Acids Research, BMC Bioinformatics and UC Berkeley.

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