Pablo D. Dans

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Pablo D. Dans is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Pablo D. Dans has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Pablo D. Dans's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (25 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers). Pablo D. Dans is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (25 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers). Pablo D. Dans collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Uruguay and United States. Pablo D. Dans's co-authors include Modesto Orozco, Jürgen Walther, Iván Ivani, Carlos González, Federica Battistini, Sergio Pantano, Alberto Pérez, Matías Machado, Alexandra Balaceanu and Ignacio Faustino and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Pablo D. Dans

43 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Parmbsc1: a refined force field for DNA simulations 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Parmbsc1: a refined force field for DNA simulations
    2015 822 citations Iván Ivani, Pablo D. Dans et al. Nature Methods profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pablo D. Dans Spain 24 2.4k 347 286 242 190 46 2.8k
Sarah A. Harris United Kingdom 26 2.3k 1.0× 341 1.0× 336 1.2× 273 1.1× 296 1.6× 81 2.9k
Marie Zgarbová Czechia 24 3.3k 1.4× 475 1.4× 280 1.0× 138 0.6× 242 1.3× 37 3.5k
Joanna Trylska Poland 29 2.0k 0.9× 379 1.1× 406 1.4× 172 0.7× 224 1.2× 110 2.6k
Nilesh K. Banavali United States 23 2.3k 1.0× 184 0.5× 413 1.4× 209 0.9× 307 1.6× 53 2.9k
Grzegorz Piszczek United States 33 2.1k 0.9× 150 0.4× 509 1.8× 182 0.8× 127 0.7× 92 3.3k
Isaiah T. Arkin Israel 40 3.4k 1.4× 178 0.5× 355 1.2× 145 0.6× 726 3.8× 107 4.7k
Daniel S. Terry United States 27 2.2k 0.9× 127 0.4× 274 1.0× 222 0.9× 120 0.6× 41 3.1k
Xiang‐Jun Lu United States 27 5.0k 2.1× 720 2.1× 418 1.5× 242 1.0× 179 0.9× 68 5.5k
Emmanuel Margeat France 29 2.5k 1.0× 353 1.0× 282 1.0× 339 1.4× 237 1.2× 63 3.5k
Filip Lankaš Czechia 28 2.9k 1.2× 638 1.8× 163 0.6× 211 0.9× 265 1.4× 52 3.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Benedetto, J.M., et al.. (2025). Aptamers Meet Structural Bioinformatics, Computational Chemistry, and Artificial Intelligence. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science. 15(5).
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Dans, Pablo D., et al.. (2024). Ramachandran-like Conformational Space for DNA. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 64(21). 8339–8348.
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Darré, Leonardo, et al.. (2023). The pseudotorsional space of RNA. RNA. 29(12). 1896–1909. 3 indexed citations
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Melero, Roberto, Gabriela Sycz, Cristián Huck‐Iriart, et al.. (2023). A Fijivirus Major Viroplasm Protein Shows RNA-Stimulated ATPase Activity by Adopting Pentameric and Hexameric Assemblies of Dimers. mBio. 14(2). e0002323–e0002323.
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Dans, Pablo D., Miłosz Wieczór, Núria Villegas, et al.. (2022). Molecular basis or arginine and lysine DNA sequence-dependent thermo-stability modulation. Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona). 6 indexed citations
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Neguembor, Maria Victoria, Juan Pablo Arcon, Diana Buitrago, et al.. (2022). MiOS, an integrated imaging and computational strategy to model gene folding with nucleosome resolution. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 29(10). 1011–1023. 18 indexed citations
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Battistini, Federica, Pablo D. Dans, Montserrat Terrazas, et al.. (2021). The Impact of the HydroxyMethylCytosine epigenetic signature on DNA structure and function. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(11). e1009547–e1009547. 7 indexed citations
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Walther, Jürgen, et al.. (2020). A multi-modal coarse grained model of DNA flexibility mappable to the atomistic level. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(5). e29–e29. 29 indexed citations
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Dans, Pablo D., Alexandra Balaceanu, Marco Pasi, et al.. (2019). The static and dynamic structural heterogeneities of B-DNA: extending Calladine–Dickerson rules. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(21). 11090–11102. 38 indexed citations
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Darré, Leonardo, et al.. (2019). VeriNA3d: an R package for nucleic acids data mining. Bioinformatics. 35(24). 5334–5336. 4 indexed citations
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Balaceanu, Alexandra, Diana Buitrago, Jürgen Walther, Pablo D. Dans, & Modesto Orozco. (2019). Modulation of the helical properties of DNA: next-to-nearest neighbour effects and beyond. Nucleic Acids Research. 47(9). 4418–4430. 22 indexed citations
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Balaceanu, Alexandra, Alberto Pérez, Pablo D. Dans, & Modesto Orozco. (2018). Allosterism and signal transfer in DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 46(15). 7554–7565. 20 indexed citations
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Dans, Pablo D., et al.. (2018). Modeling, Simulations, and Bioinformatics at the Service of RNA Structure. Chem. 5(1). 51–73. 25 indexed citations
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Dans, Pablo D., Iván Ivani, Guillem Portella, Carlos González, & Modesto Orozco. (2017). How accurate are accurate force-fields for B-DNA?. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(7). gkw1355–gkw1355. 108 indexed citations
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Darré, Leonardo, Iván Ivani, Pablo D. Dans, et al.. (2016). Small Details Matter: The 2′-Hydroxyl as a Conformational Switch in RNA. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(50). 16355–16363. 22 indexed citations
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Dans, Pablo D., Iván Ivani, Tomáš Dršata, et al.. (2016). Long-timescale dynamics of the Drew–Dickerson dodecamer. Nucleic Acids Research. 44(9). 4052–4066. 82 indexed citations
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Saint-Léger, Adélaïde, Pablo D. Dans, Adrián Gabriel Torres, et al.. (2016). Saturation of recognition elements blocks evolution of new tRNA identities. Science Advances. 2(4). e1501860–e1501860. 36 indexed citations
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Balaceanu, Alexandra, Marco Pasi, Pablo D. Dans, et al.. (2016). The Role of Unconventional Hydrogen Bonds in Determining BII Propensities in B-DNA. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 8(1). 21–28. 20 indexed citations
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Ivani, Iván, Pablo D. Dans, Agnes Noy, et al.. (2015). Parmbsc1: a refined force field for DNA simulations. Nature Methods. 13(1). 55–58. 822 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dans, Pablo D., Ignacio Faustino, Federica Battistini, et al.. (2014). Unraveling the sequence-dependent polymorphic behavior of d(CpG) steps in B-DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 42(18). 11304–11320. 63 indexed citations

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