Rocco Moretti

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
48 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Rocco Moretti is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Information Systems and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rocco Moretti has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Information Systems and 8 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Rocco Moretti's work include Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (9 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (8 papers). Rocco Moretti is often cited by papers focused on Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (9 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (8 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (8 papers). Rocco Moretti collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Rocco Moretti's co-authors include David Baker, Nihan Çelebi‐Ölçüm, K. N. Houk, Gert Kiss, Lucas G. Nivón, Jon S. Thorson, Jens Meiler, Aseem Z. Ansari, Iain H. Moal and Noah D. Taylor and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Rocco Moretti

44 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Computational Enzyme Design

2013 401 citations Gert Kiss, Nihan Çelebi‐Ölçüm et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Engineering an allosteric transcription factor to respond to new ligands

2015 253 citations Noah D. Taylor, Alexander S. Garruss et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rocco Moretti United States	20	1.4k	237	190	133	124	48	1.7k
Asim K. Bera United States	21	1.3k 1.0×	244 1.0×	125 0.7×	109 0.8×	105 0.8×	66	1.8k
Boris Aguilar United States	14	1.3k 1.0×	284 1.2×	177 0.9×	291 2.2×	97 0.8×	34	1.9k
Rodrigo V. Honorato Brazil	18	1.0k 0.8×	151 0.6×	106 0.6×	196 1.5×	103 0.8×	36	1.6k
M. Marsh Switzerland	17	1.0k 0.7×	258 1.1×	345 1.8×	129 1.0×	86 0.7×	26	1.5k
Lada Biedermannová Czechia	13	1.2k 0.9×	298 1.3×	243 1.3×	221 1.7×	82 0.7×	24	1.8k
Jamie L. Betker United States	9	1.9k 1.4×	553 2.3×	263 1.4×	97 0.7×	99 0.8×	17	2.2k
Velin Z. Spassov Bulgaria	14	1.0k 0.7×	275 1.2×	117 0.6×	118 0.9×	95 0.8×	19	1.3k
Christopher R. Otey United States	12	1.5k 1.1×	241 1.0×	125 0.7×	112 0.8×	350 2.8×	15	1.9k
David Sehnal Czechia	14	1.2k 0.9×	278 1.2×	117 0.6×	166 1.2×	116 0.9×	37	1.7k
Jason W. Labonte United States	15	1.4k 1.1×	271 1.1×	128 0.7×	138 1.0×	198 1.6×	24	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rocco Moretti

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Tran, Minh H., et al.. (2025). RosettaHDX: Predicting antibody-antigen interaction from hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry data. Journal of Structural Biology. 217(1). 108166–108166. 2 indexed citations

Moretti, Rocco, et al.. (2025). Self-supervised machine learning methods for protein design improve sampling but not the identification of high-fitness variants. Science Advances. 11(7). eadr7338–eadr7338. 6 indexed citations

Moretti, Rocco, et al.. (2025). Ultra-large library screening with an evolutionary algorithm in Rosetta (REvoLd). Communications Chemistry. 8(1). 335–335.

Moretti, Rocco, et al.. (2025). Cache: Utilizing ultra-large library screening in Rosetta to identify novel binders of the WD-repeat domain of Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2. Journal of Cheminformatics. 17(1). 145–145.

Bloodworth, Nathaniel, Wei Chen, David M. Patrick, et al.. (2024). Posttranslationally modified self-peptides promote hypertension in mouse models. Journal of Clinical Investigation. 134(16).

Mulligan, Vikram Khipple, Jack B. Maguire, Sergey Lyskov, et al.. (2024). Combining machine learning with structure-based protein design to predict and engineer post-translational modifications of proteins. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(3). e1011939–e1011939. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Yu, et al.. (2023). Interpretable Chirality-Aware Graph Neural Network for Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship Modeling in Drug Discovery. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(12). 14356–14364. 16 indexed citations

Bloodworth, Nathaniel, Natália R. Barbaro, Rocco Moretti, David G. Harrison, & Jens Meiler. (2022). Rosetta FlexPepDock to predict peptide-MHC binding: An approach for non-canonical amino acids. PLoS ONE. 17(12). e0275759–e0275759. 10 indexed citations

Moretti, Rocco, et al.. (2022). Integrative model of the FSH receptor reveals the structural role of the flexible hinge region. Structure. 30(10). 1424–1431.e3. 1 indexed citations

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Piotrowski, Christine, Rocco Moretti, Christian Ihling, et al.. (2020). Delineating the Molecular Basis of the Calmodulin–bMunc13-2 Interaction by Cross-Linking/Mass Spectrometry—Evidence for a Novel CaM Binding Motif in bMunc13-2. Cells. 9(1). 136–136. 9 indexed citations

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Schaarschmidt, Jörg, Holger Jaeschke, Rocco Moretti, et al.. (2016). Rearrangement of the Extracellular Domain/Extracellular Loop 1 Interface Is Critical for Thyrotropin Receptor Activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(27). 14095–14108. 16 indexed citations

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Moretti, Rocco, et al.. (2016). Rosetta and the Design of Ligand Binding Sites. Methods in molecular biology. 1414. 47–62. 24 indexed citations

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Taylor, Noah D., Alexander S. Garruss, Rocco Moretti, et al.. (2015). Engineering an allosteric transcription factor to respond to new ligands. Nature Methods. 13(2). 177–183. 253 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kiss, Gert, Nihan Çelebi‐Ölçüm, Rocco Moretti, David Baker, & K. N. Houk. (2013). Computational Enzyme Design. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(22). 5700–5725. 401 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moretti, Rocco, Aram Chang, Pauline Peltier‐Pain, et al.. (2011). Expanding the Nucleotide and Sugar 1-Phosphate Promiscuity of Nucleotidyltransferase RmlA via Directed Evolution. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(15). 13235–13243. 38 indexed citations

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Moretti, Rocco & Jon S. Thorson. (2008). A comparison of sugar indicators enables a universal high-throughput sugar-1-phosphate nucleotidyltransferase assay. Analytical Biochemistry. 377(2). 251–258. 53 indexed citations

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Zhang, Changsheng, Rocco Moretti, Jiqing Jiang, & Jon S. Thorson. (2008). The in vitro Characterization of Polyene Glycosyltransferases AmphDI and NysDI. ChemBioChem. 9(15). 2506–2514. 26 indexed citations

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Moretti, Rocco & Aseem Z. Ansari. (2008). Expanding the specificity of DNA targeting by harnessing cooperative assembly. Biochimie. 90(7). 1015–1025. 24 indexed citations

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Ciancarini, Paolo, et al.. (2006). Towards a language for a satisfaction-based selection of Grid services. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna).

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Ciancarini, Paolo & Rocco Moretti. (2003). Towards a Framework for Web Sites Quality Evaluation.. Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 721–725. 2 indexed citations

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