Patrick Argos

26.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
191 papers, 21.6k citations indexed

About

Patrick Argos is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Argos has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 21.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Molecular Biology, 70 papers in Materials Chemistry and 24 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Patrick Argos's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (84 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (69 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (48 papers). Patrick Argos is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (84 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (69 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (48 papers). Patrick Argos collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Patrick Argos's co-authors include Dmitrij Frishman, Michael G. Rossmann, Jayasimha Rao, Frank Eisenhaber, Jean‐Marc Bornert, Pierre Chambon, Vijay Kumar, Bengt Persson, Philip Lijnzaad and Philippe Walter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Argos

190 papers receiving 20.7k citations

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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.

Knowledge‐based protein secondary structure assignment

1995 2.1k citations Dmitrij Frishman, Patrick Argos Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics profile →
Human oestrogen receptor cDNA: sequence, expression and homology to v-erb-A

1986 1.9k citations Patrick Argos et al. profile →
The double cubic lattice method: Efficient approaches to numerical integration of surface area and volume and to dot surface contouring of molecular assemblies

1995 833 citations Patrick Argos et al. profile →
Primary structural comparison of RNA-dependent polymerases from plant, animal and bacterial viruses

1984 712 citations Patrick Argos et al. profile →
The chicken oestrogen receptor sequence: homology with v-erbA and the human oestrogen and glucocorticoid receptors.

1986 610 citations Patrick Argos et al. profile →
An attempt to unify the structure of polymerases

1990 553 citations Patrick Argos et al. Protein Engineering Design and Selection profile →
A conformational preference parameter to predict helices in integral membrane proteins

1986 502 citations Patrick Argos et al. profile →
Thermal stability and protein structure

1979 455 citations Patrick Argos et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Patrick Argos	15.5k	4.1k	3.9k	1.8k	1.4k	191	21.6k
Malcolm W. MacArthur	18.7k 1.2×	5.7k 1.4×	2.4k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	20	25.5k
D. S. Moss	16.8k 1.1×	5.3k 1.3×	2.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	56	23.2k
E.J. Dodson	16.3k 1.0×	5.5k 1.3×	2.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	1.7k 1.2×	148	22.3k
T. Alwyn Jones	21.1k 1.4×	6.0k 1.4×	2.9k 0.7×	2.1k 1.1×	2.5k 1.8×	181	29.7k
S.K. Burley	23.1k 1.5×	3.9k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	333	33.0k
Jack Kyte	15.6k 1.0×	1.5k 0.4×	2.7k 0.7×	2.2k 1.2×	1.8k 1.3×	34	21.8k
Burkhard Rost	24.1k 1.5×	4.9k 1.2×	3.0k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	280	28.9k
Wim G. J. Hol	15.6k 1.0×	3.9k 0.9×	2.8k 0.7×	984 0.5×	1.6k 1.1×	316	23.2k
W.B. Arendall	16.3k 1.1×	4.4k 1.1×	2.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	16	22.6k
Stephen J. Benkovic	20.8k 1.3×	4.4k 1.1×	2.7k 0.7×	863 0.5×	1.8k 1.3×	457	28.6k

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Gracy, Jérôme & Patrick Argos. (1998). Automated protein sequence database classification. II. Delineation Of domain boundaries from sequence similarities.. Bioinformatics. 14(2). 174–187. 45 indexed citations

Vogt, Gerhard & Patrick Argos. (1997). Protein thermal stability: hydrogen bonds or internal packing?. PubMed. 2(4). S40–S46. 208 indexed citations

Frishman, Dmitrij & Patrick Argos. (1997). The future of protein secondary structure prediction accuracy. PubMed. 2(3). 159–162. 16 indexed citations

Carugo, Oliviero & Patrick Argos. (1997). Correlation between side chain mobility and conformation in protein structures. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 10(7). 777–787. 70 indexed citations

Persson, Bengt & Patrick Argos. (1997). Prediction of Membrane Protein Topology Utilizing Multiple Sequence Alignments. Journal of Protein Chemistry. 16(5). 453–457. 89 indexed citations

Dandekar, Thomas & Patrick Argos. (1996). Identifying the Tertiary Fold of Small Proteins with Different Topologies from Sequence and Secondary Structure using the Genetic Algorithm and Extended Criteria Specific for Strand Regions. Journal of Molecular Biology. 256(3). 645–660. 58 indexed citations

Pascarella, Stefano, et al.. (1996). A databank (3D_-ali) collecting related protein sepquences and structures. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 9(3). 249–251. 12 indexed citations

Dandekar, Thomas & Patrick Argos. (1996). Ab initio tertiary-fold prediction of helical and non-helical protein chains using a genetic algorithm. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules. 18(1-2). 1–4. 9 indexed citations

Mehta, Perdeep K., Jaap Heringa, & Patrick Argos. (1995). A simple and fast approach to prediction of protein secondary structure from multiply aligned sequences with accuracy above 70%. Protein Science. 4(12). 2517–2525. 63 indexed citations

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Hubbard, Simon J. & Patrick Argos. (1995). Detection of internal cavities in globular proteins. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 8(10). 1011–1015. 31 indexed citations

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Hubbard, Simon J. & Patrick Argos. (1995). Evidence on close packing and cavities in proteins. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 6(4). 375–381. 25 indexed citations

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Hubbard, Simon J. & Patrick Argos. (1994). Cavities and packing at protein interfaces. Protein Science. 3(12). 2194–2206. 127 indexed citations

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Abagyan, Ruben, Dmitrij Frishman, & Patrick Argos. (1994). Recognition of distantly related proteins through energy calculations. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 19(2). 132–140. 46 indexed citations

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Levin, Jonathan M., Stefano Pascarella, Patrick Argos, & Jean Garnier. (1993). Quantification of secondary structure prediction improvement using multiple alignments. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 6(8). 849–854. 71 indexed citations

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Pascarella, Stefano & Patrick Argos. (1992). Analysis of insertions/deletions in protein structures. Journal of Molecular Biology. 224(2). 461–471. 195 indexed citations

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Heringa, Jaap, et al.. (1992). OBSTRUCT: a program to obtain largest cliques from a protein sequence set according to structural resolution and sequence similarity. Computer applications in the biosciences. 8(6). 599–600. 38 indexed citations

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Bordo, Domenico & Patrick Argos. (1990). Evolution of protein cores. Journal of Molecular Biology. 211(4). 975–988. 45 indexed citations

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Gibson, Toby J. & Patrick Argos. (1990). Protruding domain of tomato bushy stunt virus coat protein is a hitherto unrecognized class of jellyroll conformation. Journal of Molecular Biology. 212(1). 7–9. 6 indexed citations

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Murray, J. A. H., Gianni Cesareni, & Patrick Argos. (1988). Unexpected divergence and molecular coevolution in yeast plasmids. Journal of Molecular Biology. 200(3). 601–607. 31 indexed citations

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Argos, Patrick, et al.. (1986). [10] Prediction of protein structure. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 130. 185–207. 59 indexed citations

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