Sameer Velankar

27.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
69 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Sameer Velankar is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Sameer Velankar has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Molecular Biology, 41 papers in Materials Chemistry and 12 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Sameer Velankar's work include Enzyme Structure and Function (41 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (38 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers). Sameer Velankar is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Structure and Function (41 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (38 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (20 papers). Sameer Velankar collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Czechia. Sameer Velankar's co-authors include S.K. Burley, Gerard J. Kleywegt, Dale B. Wigley, Panos Soultanas, Mark S. Dillingham, John L. Markley, Hosahalli S. Subramanya, Haruki Nakamura, Helen M. Berman and Shoshana J. Wodak and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Sameer Velankar

64 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Protein Data Bank (PDB): The Single Global Macromolecular Structure Archive

2017 699 citations S.K. Burley, Helen M. Berman et al. Methods in molecular biology profile →
Crystal Structures of Complexes of PcrA DNA Helicase with a DNA Substrate Indicate an Inchworm Mechanism

1999 666 citations Sameer Velankar, Panos Soultanas et al. Cell profile →
Mol* Viewer: modern web app for 3D visualization and analysis of large biomolecular structures

2021 661 citations David Sehnal, Mandar Deshpande et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →
Clustering predicted structures at the scale of the known protein universe

2023 160 citations Inigo Barrio‐Hernandez, Jürgen Jänes et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sameer Velankar United Kingdom	27	3.6k	845	723	443	226	69	4.5k
Jaime Prilusky Israel	25	3.9k 1.1×	859 1.0×	438 0.6×	342 0.8×	237 1.0×	40	5.0k
Barry J. Grant United States	28	3.4k 1.0×	693 0.8×	572 0.8×	326 0.7×	134 0.6×	55	4.3k
María Martin United Kingdom	28	3.1k 0.9×	433 0.5×	842 1.2×	394 0.9×	227 1.0×	81	4.3k
Oxana V. Galzitskaya Russia	33	4.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	572 0.8×	288 0.7×	134 0.6×	204	5.3k
Christine Zardecki United States	18	3.2k 0.9×	778 0.9×	897 1.2×	219 0.5×	192 0.8×	45	4.5k
Anna R. Panchenko United States	43	4.6k 1.3×	805 1.0×	520 0.7×	558 1.3×	304 1.3×	115	5.3k
Hahnbeom Park United States	29	5.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.4×	654 0.9×	377 0.9×	227 1.0×	49	6.1k
Volkhard Helms Germany	41	4.2k 1.2×	658 0.8×	446 0.6×	416 0.9×	153 0.7×	219	5.8k
Robbie P. Joosten Netherlands	23	3.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	377 0.5×	274 0.6×	149 0.7×	50	4.1k
Orly Dym Israel	36	4.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	297 0.4×	372 0.8×	251 1.1×	76	5.4k

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Lensink, Marc F., et al.. (2025). Updates to the CASP Infrastructure in 2024. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 94(1). 15–24. 1 indexed citations

Choudhary, Preeti, Zukang Feng, John M. Berrisford, et al.. (2024). PDB NextGen Archive: centralizing access to integrated annotations and enriched structural information by the Worldwide Protein Data Bank. Database. 2024. 6 indexed citations

Xu, Wenqing, Sameer Velankar, Ardan Patwardhan, et al.. (2023). Announcing the launch of Protein Data Bank China as an Associate Member of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank Partnership. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 79(9). 792–795. 12 indexed citations

Barrio‐Hernandez, Inigo, Jürgen Jänes, Milot Mirdita, et al.. (2023). Clustering predicted structures at the scale of the known protein universe. Nature. 622(7983). 637–645. 160 indexed citations breakdown →

Bordin, Nicola, Ian Sillitoe, Clemens Rauer, et al.. (2023). AlphaFold2 reveals commonalities and novelties in protein structure space for 21 model organisms. Communications Biology. 6(1). 160–160. 44 indexed citations

Berrisford, John M., Romana Gáborová, Sreenath Nair, et al.. (2023). Annotating Macromolecular Complexes in the Protein Data Bank: Improving the FAIRness of Structure Data. Scientific Data. 10(1). 853–853. 1 indexed citations

Choudhary, Preeti, Stephen Anyango, John M. Berrisford, et al.. (2023). Unified access to up-to-date residue-level annotations from UniProtKB and other biological databases for PDB data. Scientific Data. 10(1). 204–204. 5 indexed citations

Sen, Neeladri, Ivan Anishchenko, Nicola Bordin, et al.. (2022). Characterizing and explaining the impact of disease-associated mutations in proteins without known structures or structural homologs. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 23(4). 17 indexed citations

Thakur, Matthew, Alex Bateman, Cath Brooksbank, et al.. (2022). EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in 2022. Nucleic Acids Research. 51(D1). D9–D17. 30 indexed citations

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Feng, Zukang, John Westbrook, Raul Sala, et al.. (2021). Enhanced validation of small-molecule ligands and carbohydrates in the Protein Data Bank. Structure. 29(4). 393–400.e1. 21 indexed citations

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Velankar, Sameer, S.K. Burley, Genji Kurisu, Jeffrey C. Hoch, & John L. Markley. (2021). The Protein Data Bank Archive. Methods in molecular biology. 2305. 3–21. 65 indexed citations

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Firth, R. E., Aravind Venkatesan, Abhik Mukhopadhyay, et al.. (2019). Automatic annotation of protein residues in published papers. Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology Communications. 75(11). 665–672. 1 indexed citations

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Rose, Alexander, David Sehnal, Spencer Bliven, S.K. Burley, & Sameer Velankar. (2018). Molql: Towards a Common General Purpose Molecular Query Language. Biophysical Journal. 114(3). 342a–342a. 2 indexed citations

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Berman, Helen M., S.K. Burley, Gerard J. Kleywegt, et al.. (2016). The archiving and dissemination of biological structure data. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 40. 17–22. 22 indexed citations

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Gutmanas, Aleksandras, Thomas J. Oldfield, Ardan Patwardhan, et al.. (2013). The role of structural bioinformatics resources in the era of integrative structural biology. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 69(5). 710–721. 10 indexed citations

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Velankar, Sameer, Jose M Dana, Julius O.B. Jacobsen, et al.. (2012). SIFTS: Structure Integration with Function, Taxonomy and Sequences resource. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(D1). D483–D489. 196 indexed citations

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Penkett, Christopher J., Glen van Ginkel, Sameer Velankar, et al.. (2010). Straightforward and complete deposition of NMR data to the PDBe. Journal of Biomolecular NMR. 48(2). 85–92. 5 indexed citations

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Pillai, S., Katariina Kallio, Martin Senger, et al.. (2005). SOAP-based services provided by the European Bioinformatics Institute. Nucleic Acids Research. 33(Web Server). W25–W28. 39 indexed citations

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Velankar, Sameer. (2004). E-MSD: an integrated data resource for bioinformatics. Nucleic Acids Research. 33(Database issue). D262–D265. 67 indexed citations

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Velankar, Sameer, Panos Soultanas, Mark S. Dillingham, Hosahalli S. Subramanya, & Dale B. Wigley. (1999). Crystal Structures of Complexes of PcrA DNA Helicase with a DNA Substrate Indicate an Inchworm Mechanism. Cell. 97(1). 75–84. 666 indexed citations breakdown →

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