Peter R. Wills

3.5k total citations
101 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Peter R. Wills is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter R. Wills has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 17 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Peter R. Wills's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (24 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (23 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (19 papers). Peter R. Wills is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (24 papers), Origins and Evolution of Life (23 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (19 papers). Peter R. Wills collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Australia and United States. Peter R. Wills's co-authors include Donald J. Winzor, Charles W. Carter, Robert Geddes, L.W. Nichol, Yannis Georgalis, D. Carleton Gajdusek, Clarence J. Gibbs, Larisa Červen̆áková, W. Richard McCombie and Dmitry Goldgaber and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Peter R. Wills

97 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers

Peter R. Wills
Christopher A. Waudby United Kingdom
Jan Stöhr United States
Steven S. Plotkin Canada
Darwin O. V. Alonso United States
A.E. Blaurock United States
Ian S. Millett United States
Sheh‐Yi Sheu Taiwan
Liliana Malinovska Germany
Jens Danielsson Sweden
Shilpa Sambashivan United States
Christopher A. Waudby United Kingdom
Peter R. Wills
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter R. Wills

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter R. Wills. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter R. Wills 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 Peter R. Wills. Peter R. Wills is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kuhlman, Brian, et al.. (2025). Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase urzymes optimized by deep learning behave as a quasispecies. Structural Dynamics. 12(2). 24701–24701. 1 indexed citations
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Douglas, Jordan, Haissi Cui, John J. Perona, et al.. (2024). AARS Online: A collaborative database on the structure, function, and evolution of the aminoacyl‐ tRNA synthetases. IUBMB Life. 76(12). 1091–1105. 7 indexed citations
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Winzor, Donald J. & Peter R. Wills. (2019). Quantitative interpretation of isopiestic measurements on aqueous solutions: Urea revisited. Biophysical Chemistry. 251. 106175–106175. 3 indexed citations
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Carter, Charles W. & Peter R. Wills. (2019). Experimental solutions to problems defining the origin of codon-directed protein synthesis. Biosystems. 183. 103979–103979. 18 indexed citations
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Wills, Peter R.. (2018). Interactions between the prion protein and nucleic acids. Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports. 15. 68–68. 1 indexed citations
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Wills, Peter R.. (2016). A Hilly path through the thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of protein solutions. Biophysical Reviews. 8(4). 291–298. 4 indexed citations
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Wills, Peter R., Kay Nieselt, & John S. McCaskill. (2015). Emergence of Coding and its Specificity as a Physico-Informatic Problem. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 45(1-2). 249–255. 16 indexed citations
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Wills, Peter R., David J. Scott, & Donald J. Winzor. (2015). The osmotic second virial coefficient for protein self-interaction: Use and misuse to describe thermodynamic nonideality. Analytical Biochemistry. 490. 55–65. 21 indexed citations
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Wills, Peter R.. (2014). Spontaneous Mutual Ordering of Nucleic Acids and Proteins. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 44(4). 293–298. 8 indexed citations
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McCaskill, John S., G. von Kiedrowski, Jae‐Bom Ohm, et al.. (2012). Microscale Chemically Reactive Electronic Agents. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 3 indexed citations
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Wills, Peter R.. (2011). Life Requires Genetic Representation and vice versa – Consequences for ALife. ResearchSpace (University of Auckland). 866–873. 1 indexed citations
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Wills, Peter R. & Donald J. Winzor. (2011). Allowance for thermodynamic nonideality in the characterization of protein interactions by spectral techniques. Biophysical Chemistry. 158(1). 21–25. 6 indexed citations
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Scott, David J., Peter R. Wills, & Donald J. Winzor. (2010). Allowance for the effect of protein charge in the characterization of nonideal solute self-association by sedimentation equilibrium. Biophysical Chemistry. 149(3). 83–91. 8 indexed citations
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Stadler, Bärbel M. R., Peter F. Stadler, & Peter R. Wills. (2008). \tEvolution in Systems of Ligation-Based Replicators. 1 indexed citations
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Winzor, Donald J., David J. Scott, & Peter R. Wills. (2007). A simpler analysis for the measurement of second virial coefficients by self-interaction chromatography. Analytical Biochemistry. 371(1). 21–25. 13 indexed citations
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Winzor, Donald J., Marcin Deszczynski, Stephen E. Harding, & Peter R. Wills. (2007). Nonequivalence of second virial coefficients from sedimentation equilibrium and static light scattering studies of protein solutions. Biophysical Chemistry. 128(1). 46–55. 53 indexed citations
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Wills, Peter R. & Donald J. Winzor. (2005). van der Waals phase transition in protein solutions. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 61(6). 832–836. 5 indexed citations
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Wills, Peter R., Damien Hall, & Donald J. Winzor. (2000). Interpretation of thermodynamic non-ideality in sedimentation equilibrium experiments on proteins. Biophysical Chemistry. 84(3). 217–225. 31 indexed citations
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Wills, Peter R.. (1989). Induced frameshifting mechanism of replication for an information-carrying scrapie prion. Microbial Pathogenesis. 6(4). 235–249. 17 indexed citations

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