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, Vijay Kumar, Jean‐Marc Bornert, Pierre Chambon, Bengt Persson, Philip Lijnzaad and Andrée Krust 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

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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 Patrick Argos et al. 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 Frank Eisenhaber, 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 Marc Delarue, Olivier Poch 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 →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Reliability of atomic displacement parameters in protein crystal structures 1999 ·Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·(unknown), Patrick Argos	28
2	The future of protein secondary structure prediction accuracy 1997 ·PubMed ·Dmitrij Frishman, Patrick Argos	16
3	Protein thermal stability: hydrogen bonds or internal packing? 1997 ·PubMed ·Gerhard Vogt, Patrick Argos	208
4	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 1996 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Thomas Dandekar, Patrick Argos	58
5	Hydrophobic regions on protein surfaces: definition based on hydration shell structure and a quick method for their computation 1996 ·Protein Engineering Design and Selection ·Frank Eisenhaber, Patrick Argos	48
6	Detection of internal cavities in globular proteins 1995 ·Protein Engineering Design and Selection ·Simon J. Hubbard, Patrick Argos	31
7	A simple and fast approach to prediction of protein secondary structure from multiply aligned sequences with accuracy above 70% 1995 ·Protein Science ·Perdeep K. Mehta, Jaap Heringa, Patrick Argos	63
8	TMAP: a new email and WWW service for membrane-protein structural predictions 1995 ·Trends in Biochemical Sciences ·(unknown), Patrick Argos, Bengt Persson	46
9	Folding the Main Chain of Small Proteins with the Genetic Algorithm 1994 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Thomas Dandekar, Patrick Argos	96
10	Cavities and packing at protein interfaces 1994 ·Protein Science ·Simon J. Hubbard, Patrick Argos	127
11	Prediction of Transmembrane Segments in Proteins Utilising Multiple Sequence Alignments 1994 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Bengt Persson, Patrick Argos	398
12	The protein folding problem: Finding a few minimums in a near infinite space 1994 ·Computers & Chemistry ·Patrick Argos, Ruben Abagyan	3
13	SRS—an indexing and retrieval tool for flat file data libraries 1993 ·Computer applications in the biosciences ·Thure Etzold, Patrick Argos	190
14	Quantification of secondary structure prediction improvement using multiple alignments 1993 ·Protein Engineering Design and Selection ·Jonathan M. Levin, Stefano Pascarella, Patrick Argos, Jean Garnier	71
15	Overseer: a nucleotide sequence searching tool 1992 ·Computer applications in the biosciences ·Peter R. Sibbald, (unknown), Patrick Argos	4
16	Analysis of insertions/deletions in protein structures 1992 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Stefano Pascarella, Patrick Argos	195
17	OBSTRUCT: a program to obtain largest cliques from a protein sequence set according to structural resolution and sequence similarity 1992 ·Computer applications in the biosciences ·Jaap Heringa, (unknown), Desmond G. Higgins, Patrick Argos	38
18	Evolution of protein cores 1990 ·Journal of Molecular Biology ·Domenico Bordo, Patrick Argos	45
19	An attempt to unify the structure of polymerases breakdown → 1990 ·Protein Engineering Design and Selection ·Marc Delarue, Olivier Poch, Noël Tordo, Dino Moras, Patrick Argos	553
20	[10] Prediction of protein structure 1986 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Patrick Argos, (unknown)	59

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