Sándor Vajda

23.3k citations

239 papers · 16.6k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 58

Impact in

Computational Theory and Mathematics top 0.05%
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Molecular Biology top 0.2%
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research

Papers in

Computational Theory and Mathematics 83
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods 75
Molecular Biology 173
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 111
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 21
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research 17
- Chemical Synthesis and Analysis 11
- Protein purification and stability 10

Co-authors: Dima Kozakov Dmitri Beglov Carlos J. Camacho Stephen R. Comeau David R. Hall Kathryn A. Porter David Gatchell Christine Yueh
Journals: Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics (28 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (11 papers)Biochemistry (9 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (9 papers)Protein Science (8 papers)
Partner nations: United States Hungary United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Sándor Vajda

235 papers receiving 16.3k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

Performance and Its Limits in Rigid Body Protein-Protein Docking 2020 · 446 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Structure
2017 Nature Protocols
2016 Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
2015 Nature Protocols
2013 Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
2006 Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
2004 Nucleic Acids Research
2003 Bioinformatics
2003 Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics

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#	Work
1	E-FTMap: A Protein Structure Based Pharmacophore Identification Server for Guiding Fragment Expansion Journal of Molecular Biology ·Jose M. Elorza, George Jones, Dima Kozakov, Dmitri Beglov, Diane Joseph‐McCarthy, Sándor Vajda	2025	0
2	MHC-Fine: Fine-tuned AlphaFold for precise MHC-peptide complex prediction Biophysical Journal ·弘安坂田, С. КАВИН, Gulfem Altunbay, Y. Zhu, Iñaki Cornejo Clerico, George Jones, Gyoung-Won Ryu, Carlos Simmerling, Julie C. Mitchell, Sándor Vajda, Ken A. Dill, Dzmitry Padhorny, Dima Kozakov	2024	5
3	The ClusPro AbEMap web server for the prediction of antibody epitopes Nature Protocols ·Israel Desta, Sergei Kotelnikov, George Jones, Usman Ghani, Gastroenterology Unit, Yaroslav Kholodov, Daron M. Standley, Dmitri Beglov, Sándor Vajda, Dima Kozakov	2023	14
4	Preclinical testing of dabigatran in trypsin-dependent pancreatitis JCI Insight ·M. Reeves, xiaofeng wu, Phillip Burchfield, Balázs Csaba Németh, Sándor Vajda, Miklós Sahin‐Tóth	2022	14
5	Mapping the binding sites of challenging drug targets Current Opinion in Structural Biology ·Amanda Wakefield, Dima Kozakov, Sándor Vajda	2022	26
6	Discovery of Macrocyclic Inhibitors of Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease 1 Journal of Medicinal Chemistry ·Richard Trilles, Dmitri Beglov, Qiujia Chen, Hongzhen He, 京至湖東, April Reed, Spandan Chennamadhavuni, James S. Panek, Lauren E. Brown, Sándor Vajda, John A. Porco, Mark R. Kelley, Millie M. Georgiadis	2019	16
7	Exploring the structural origins of cryptic sites on proteins Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Dmitri Beglov, David Hall, Amanda Wakefield, Lingqi Luo, Karen N. Allen, Dima Kozakov, Adrian Whitty, Sándor Vajda	2018	93
8	Cryptic binding sites on proteins: definition, detection, and druggability Current Opinion in Chemical Biology ·Sándor Vajda, Dmitri Beglov, Amanda Wakefield, Megan Egbert, Adrian Whitty	2018	114
9	Protein–protein docking by fast generalized Fourier transforms on 5D rotational manifolds Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Dzmitry Padhorny, Andrey Kazennov, Brandon S. Zerbe, Kathryn A. Porter, Bing Xia, Scott E. Mottarella, Yaroslav Kholodov, David W. Ritchie, Sándor Vajda, Dima Kozakov	2016	44
10	Ligand deconstruction: Why some fragment binding positions are conserved and others are not Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Dima Kozakov, David R. Hall, Stefan Jehle, Lingqi Luo, Stefan O. Ochiana, Catarina Esgalhado, Michael P. Pollastri, Karen N. Allen, Adrian Whitty, Sándor Vajda	2015	56
11	Docking Server for the Identification of Heparin Binding Sites on Proteins Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling ·Scott E. Mottarella, Dmitri Beglov, Natalia Beglova, Matthew A. Nugent, Dima Kozakov, Sándor Vajda	2014	54
12	A new distributed algorithm for side-chain positioning in the process of protein docking PubMed ·Mohammad Naser‐Moghadasi, Dima Kozakov, Pirooz Vakili, Sándor Vajda, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis	2013	3
13	Convergence and combination of methods in protein–protein docking Current Opinion in Structural Biology ·Sándor Vajda, Dima Kozakov	2009	164
14	Novel Druggable Hot Spots in Avian Influenza Neuraminidase H5N1 Revealed by Computational Solvent Mapping of a Reduced and Representative Receptor Ensemble Chemical Biology & Drug Design ·Melissa Landon, Rommie E. Amaro, Riccardo Baron, 直樹谷岡, David Ozonoff, J. Andrew McCammon, Sándor Vajda	2008	90
15	Optimal Clustering for Detecting Near-Native Conformations in Protein Docking Biophysical Journal ·Dima Kozakov, Karl H. Clodfelter, Sándor Vajda, Carlos J. Camacho	2005	111
16	Anchor residues in protein–protein interactions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Min 김민Kim, Saboury Ndiaye, Sándor Vajda, Carlos J. Camacho	2004	262
17	Effect of Conformational Flexibility and Solvation on Receptor-Ligand Binding Free Energies Biochemistry ·Sándor Vajda, Zhiping Weng, Rakefet Rosenfeld, Charles DeLisi	1994	125
18	Differential Games. A Mathematical Theory with Applications to Warfare and Pursuit, Control and Optimization. By Rufus Isaacs. Pp. xxii, 384. 113s. 1965. (Wiley) The Mathematical Gazette ·Sándor Vajda	1967	7
19	Contributions to the Theory of Games. Volume III. Annals of Mathematics Studies Number 39. Edited by M. Dresher, A. W. Tucker and P. Wolfe. (Princeton University Press) The Mathematical Gazette ·Sándor Vajda	1959	14
20	Contributions to the Theory of Games. Volume II. Edited by H. W. Kuhn and A. W. Tucker. Pp. viii, 395. Annals of Mathematics Studies No. 28. 25s. 1953. (Princeton University Press: London, Geoffrey Cumberlege) The Mathematical Gazette ·Sándor Vajda	1954	2

About Sándor Vajda

Sándor Vajda is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Horticulture and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, having authored 239 papers that have together received 16.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (111 papers), Computational Drug Discovery Methods (75 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (66 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (21 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (17 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (11 papers) and Protein purification and stability (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computational Theory and Mathematics (3.5k citations), Molecular Biology (12.0k citations), Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (1.8k citations), Immunology (1.3k citations) and Materials Chemistry (2.8k citations). Sándor Vajda has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Hungary and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Dima Kozakov, Dmitri Beglov, Carlos J. Camacho, Stephen R. Comeau, David R. Hall, Kathryn A. Porter, David Gatchell, Christine Yueh, Ryan Brenke and Dzmitry Padhorny. Their work appears in journals such as Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biochemistry, Journal of Molecular Biology and Protein Science.

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