Stefan Bienert

20.4k citations

12 papers · 14.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 9

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.5%
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
Biotechnology top 0.2%
- Enzyme Production and Characterization

Papers in

Molecular Biology 11
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 9
- Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction 6
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks 4
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 3
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research 1
- RNA modifications and cancer 1
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry 1
Materials Chemistry 3
- Enzyme Structure and Function 3

Co-authors: Torsten Schwede Gabriel Studer Andrew Waterhouse Lorenza Bordoli Martino Bertoni Gerardo Tauriello Tjaart de Beer Rosalba Lepore
Journals: Nucleic Acids Research (4 papers)Bioinformatics (2 papers)Nature Methods (1 paper)PLoS Computational Biology (1 paper)Journal of Molecular Biology (1 paper)
Partner nations: Switzerland Germany United States

In The Last Decade

Stefan Bienert

11 papers receiving 13.9k citations

Hit Papers

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ProMod3—A versatile homology modelling toolbox 2021 · 186 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.

2021 PLoS Computational Biology
2018 Nucleic Acids Research
2016 Nucleic Acids Research
2014 Nucleic Acids Research

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All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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1	A fully automated benchmarking suite to compare macromolecular complexes Nature Methods ·Inka I. Weber, Xavier Robin, Stefan Bienert, HanPing Zhang, 浦下周一, Vazquez-Tato, Chandan Singh, Claudia Peris-Fonte	2025	0
2	ModelArchive: A Deposition Database for Computational Macromolecular Structural Models Journal of Molecular Biology ·Gerardo Tauriello, Andrew Waterhouse, Juergen Haas, А.А. Шахназаров, Stefan Bienert, 劉耀淋, Torsten Schwede	2025	10
3	AlphaPulldown2—a general pipeline for high-throughput structural modeling Bioinformatics ·Dmitry Molodenskiy, Valentin Maurer, Carlos Alberto Amura, Grzegorz Chojnowski, Stefan Bienert, Gerardo Tauriello, Cheng-Wei Hu, Torsten Schwede, Jan Kosiński	2025	1
4	The structure assessment web server: for proteins, complexes and more Nucleic Acids Research ·Andrew Waterhouse, Gabriel Studer, Xavier Robin, Stefan Bienert, Gerardo Tauriello, Torsten Schwede	2024	42
5	ProMod3—A versatile homology modelling toolbox PLoS Computational Biology ·Gabriel Studer, Gerardo Tauriello, Stefan Bienert, Marco Biasini, Niklaus Johner, Torsten Schwede Hit paper breakdown →	2021	186
6	Modeling of Protein Tertiary and Quaternary Structures Based on Evolutionary Information Methods in molecular biology ·Gabriel Studer, Gerardo Tauriello, Stefan Bienert, Andrew Waterhouse, Martino Bertoni, Lorenza Bordoli, Torsten Schwede, Rosalba Lepore	2018	13
7	SWISS-MODEL: homology modelling of protein structures and complexes Nucleic Acids Research ·Andrew Waterhouse, Martino Bertoni, Stefan Bienert, Gabriel Studer, Gerardo Tauriello, Rafal Gumienny, Florian Heer, Tjaart de Beer, Christine Rempfer, Lorenza Bordoli, Rosalba Lepore, Torsten Schwede Hit paper breakdown →	2018	8674
8	The SWISS-MODEL Repository—new features and functionality Nucleic Acids Research ·Stefan Bienert, Andrew Waterhouse, Tjaart de Beer, Gerardo Tauriello, Gabriel Studer, Lorenza Bordoli, Torsten Schwede Hit paper breakdown →	2016	1189
9	SWISS-MODEL: modelling protein tertiary and quaternary structure using evolutionary information Nucleic Acids Research ·Marco Biasini, Stefan Bienert, Andrew Waterhouse, Konstantin Arnold, Gabriel Studer, Tobias Schmidt, Florian Kiefer, Tiziano Gallo Cassarino, Martino Bertoni, Lorenza Bordoli, Torsten Schwede Hit paper breakdown →	2014	3800
10	OpenStructure: an integrated software framework for computational structural biology Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·M. Biasini, Tobias Schmidt, Stefan Bienert, Valerio Mariani, Gabriel Studer, Juergen Haas, Niklaus Johner, Andreas D. Schenk, Ansgar Philippsen, Torsten Schwede	2013	109
11	Fast alignment and comparison of RNA structures Bioinformatics ·聖子馬渡, Stefan Bienert, Andrew E. Torda	2013	2
12	Dynamics in Sequence Space for RNA Secondary Structure Design Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation ·H Ebeltoft, Stefan Bienert, Andrew E. Torda	2012	25

About Stefan Bienert

Stefan Bienert is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Pharmacology and Ecology, having authored 12 papers that have together received 14.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (9 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (6 papers), Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks (4 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (3 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (3 papers), Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (1 paper), RNA modifications and cancer (1 paper) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (8.7k citations), Biotechnology (931 citations), Infectious Diseases (1.4k citations), Molecular Medicine (304 citations) and Microbiology (346 citations). Stefan Bienert has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Frequent co-authors include Torsten Schwede, Gabriel Studer, Andrew Waterhouse, Lorenza Bordoli, Martino Bertoni, Gerardo Tauriello, Tjaart de Beer, Rosalba Lepore, Rafal Gumienny and Christine Rempfer. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics, Nature Methods, PLoS Computational Biology and Journal of Molecular Biology.

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