Phani Ghanakota

755 total citations
12 papers, 445 citations indexed

About

Phani Ghanakota is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Phani Ghanakota has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 445 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 4 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Phani Ghanakota's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (7 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (6 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (3 papers). Phani Ghanakota is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (7 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (6 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (3 papers). Phani Ghanakota collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Belgium. Phani Ghanakota's co-authors include Heather A. Carlson, Robert Abel, Sarah E. Graham, Katrina W. Lexa, Peter M.U. Ung, Sayan Mondal, Richard A. Friesner, Matthew J. Grisewood, Edward B. Miller and Dan Sindhikara and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.

In The Last Decade

Phani Ghanakota

12 papers receiving 438 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Phani Ghanakota United States 9 338 227 87 59 38 12 445
Bernhard Baum Germany 7 298 0.9× 195 0.9× 86 1.0× 73 1.2× 17 0.4× 9 419
Wei-Ven Tee Singapore 15 533 1.6× 211 0.9× 55 0.6× 49 0.8× 60 1.6× 21 616
T.J. Rettenmaier United States 9 444 1.3× 132 0.6× 97 1.1× 51 0.9× 32 0.8× 9 528
Yuran Qiu China 9 418 1.2× 148 0.7× 47 0.5× 44 0.7× 35 0.9× 14 505
Jacquelyn Klug‐McLeod United States 8 219 0.6× 190 0.8× 102 1.2× 60 1.0× 12 0.3× 11 397
Alessandro Padova Italy 13 335 1.0× 179 0.8× 62 0.7× 161 2.7× 27 0.7× 22 529
Nickolay A. Khazanov United States 6 318 0.9× 273 1.2× 78 0.9× 39 0.7× 28 0.7× 16 458
Daniel D. Robinson United Kingdom 8 234 0.7× 248 1.1× 63 0.7× 112 1.9× 20 0.5× 14 418
Michael Smolinski United States 10 318 0.9× 156 0.7× 59 0.7× 91 1.5× 18 0.5× 18 504
Alberto Cuzzolin Italy 13 366 1.1× 198 0.9× 42 0.5× 58 1.0× 23 0.6× 20 461

Countries citing papers authored by Phani Ghanakota

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Fields of papers citing papers by Phani Ghanakota

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Phani Ghanakota

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

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Paull, Evan, Phani Ghanakota, Jackson Chief Elk, et al.. (2025). Predicting Resistance to Small Molecule Kinase Inhibitors. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 65(5). 2543–2557. 1 indexed citations
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Makley, Leah N., Phani Ghanakota, Jennifer N. Rauch, et al.. (2021). Chemical validation of a druggable site on Hsp27/HSPB1 using in silico solvent mapping and biophysical methods. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 34. 115990–115990. 3 indexed citations
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Miller, Edward B., Robert B. Murphy, Dan Sindhikara, et al.. (2021). Reliable and Accurate Solution to the Induced Fit Docking Problem for Protein–Ligand Binding. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 17(4). 2630–2639. 104 indexed citations
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Ghanakota, Phani, Pieter H. Bos, Kyle D. Konze, et al.. (2020). Combining Cloud-Based Free-Energy Calculations, Synthetically Aware Enumerations, and Goal-Directed Generative Machine Learning for Rapid Large-Scale Chemical Exploration and Optimization. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 60(9). 4311–4325. 34 indexed citations
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Wang, Shenqiu, Sayan Mondal, Chunying Zhao, et al.. (2019). Noncovalent inhibitors reveal BTK gatekeeper and auto-inhibitory residues that control its transforming activity. JCI Insight. 4(12). 24 indexed citations
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Ghanakota, Phani, et al.. (2019). Free Energies and Entropies of Binding Sites Identified by MixMD Cosolvent Simulations. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 59(5). 2035–2045. 21 indexed citations
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Ghanakota, Phani, Herman van Vlijmen, Woody Sherman, & Thijs Beuming. (2018). Large-Scale Validation of Mixed-Solvent Simulations to Assess Hotspots at Protein–Protein Interaction Interfaces. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 58(4). 784–793. 29 indexed citations
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Ghanakota, Phani & Heather A. Carlson. (2017). Comparing pharmacophore models derived from crystallography and NMR ensembles. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 31(11). 979–993. 2 indexed citations
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Ghanakota, Phani & Heather A. Carlson. (2016). Driving Structure-Based Drug Discovery through Cosolvent Molecular Dynamics. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 59(23). 10383–10399. 85 indexed citations
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Ghanakota, Phani & Heather A. Carlson. (2016). Moving Beyond Active-Site Detection: MixMD Applied to Allosteric Systems. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 120(33). 8685–8695. 79 indexed citations
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Ung, Peter M.U., Phani Ghanakota, Sarah E. Graham, Katrina W. Lexa, & Heather A. Carlson. (2015). Identifying binding hot spots on protein surfaces by mixed‐solvent molecular dynamics: HIV‐1 protease as a test case. Biopolymers. 105(1). 21–34. 44 indexed citations
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Xu, Hao, Jaimeen D. Majmudar, Dahvid Davda, et al.. (2015). Substrate-Competitive Activity-Based Profiling of Ester Prodrug Activating Enzymes. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 12(9). 3399–3407. 19 indexed citations

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