Trent E. Balius

3.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
24 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Trent E. Balius is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Trent E. Balius has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 7 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Trent E. Balius's work include Computational Drug Discovery Methods (14 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (13 papers) and Click Chemistry and Applications (5 papers). Trent E. Balius is often cited by papers focused on Computational Drug Discovery Methods (14 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (13 papers) and Click Chemistry and Applications (5 papers). Trent E. Balius collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Finland. Trent E. Balius's co-authors include Robert C. Rizzo, Sudipto Mukherjee, Brian K. Shoichet, John J. Irwin, Scott R. Brozell, David A. Case, Jiankun Lyu, William J. Allen, P. Therese Lang and Irwin D. Kuntz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Trent E. Balius

23 papers receiving 2.5k citations

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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.

Ultra-large library docking for discovering new chemotypes

2019 619 citations Jiankun Lyu, Sheng Wang et al. Nature profile →
DOCK 6: Impact of new features and current docking performance

2015 563 citations William J. Allen, Trent E. Balius et al. Journal of Computational Chemistry profile →
A practical guide to large-scale docking

2021 310 citations Brian J. Bender, Stefan Gahbauer et al. Nature Protocols profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Trent E. Balius United States	19	1.8k	1.2k	393	389	284	24	2.5k
Peichen Pan China	28	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	360 0.9×	337 0.9×	214 0.8×	88	3.1k
Erin S. D. Bolstad United States	11	1.3k 0.7×	942 0.8×	303 0.8×	329 0.8×	309 1.1×	15	2.3k
Peter Schmidtke Spain	18	2.3k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	398 1.0×	282 0.7×	355 1.3×	26	3.2k
Melissa F. Adasme Germany	11	1.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	272 0.7×	600 1.5×	369 1.3×	12	3.6k
Oliver Korb United Kingdom	17	1.4k 0.8×	922 0.7×	285 0.7×	461 1.2×	235 0.8×	34	2.1k
Ian D. Wall United Kingdom	14	1.4k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	280 0.7×	330 0.8×	188 0.7×	26	1.9k
Xiaoqin Zou United States	30	3.1k 1.8×	1.8k 1.4×	545 1.4×	428 1.1×	219 0.8×	87	4.1k
Zoe Cournia Greece	28	2.1k 1.2×	968 0.8×	510 1.3×	460 1.2×	147 0.5×	65	3.2k
Esther Kellenberger France	24	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	238 0.6×	261 0.7×	332 1.2×	65	2.6k
Jin Huang China	34	2.5k 1.4×	1.2k 1.0×	365 0.9×	637 1.6×	328 1.2×	164	4.4k

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Tan, Yu-Hong, Mayukh Chakrabarti, Reed M. Stein, et al.. (2025). Development of Receptor Desolvation Scoring and Covalent Sampling in DOCK 6: Methods Evaluated on a RAS Test Set. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 65(2). 722–748.

Finci, Lorenzo I., Mayukh Chakrabarti, Gülçin Gülten, et al.. (2024). Structural dynamics of RAF1-HSP90-CDC37 and HSP90 complexes reveal asymmetric client interactions and key structural elements. Communications Biology. 7(1). 260–260. 8 indexed citations

Chakrabarti, Mayukh, et al.. (2024). Considerations Around Structure-Based Drug Discovery for KRAS Using DOCK. Methods in molecular biology. 2797. 67–90. 1 indexed citations

Balius, Trent E., Yu-Hong Tan, & Mayukh Chakrabarti. (2023). DOCK 6: Incorporating hierarchical traversal through precomputed ligand conformations to enable large‐scale docking. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 45(1). 47–63. 6 indexed citations

Kamenik, Anna S., Isha Singh, Parnian Lak, et al.. (2021). Energy penalties enhance flexible receptor docking in a model cavity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(36). 23 indexed citations

Bender, Brian J., Stefan Gahbauer, Andreas Luttens, et al.. (2021). A practical guide to large-scale docking. Nature Protocols. 16(10). 4799–4832. 310 indexed citations breakdown →

Van, Que N., et al.. (2021). RAS Nanoclusters: Dynamic Signaling Platforms Amenable to Therapeutic Intervention. Biomolecules. 11(3). 377–377. 19 indexed citations

Stein, Reed M., Yang Ying, Trent E. Balius, et al.. (2021). Property-Unmatched Decoys in Docking Benchmarks. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 61(2). 699–714. 68 indexed citations

Wan, Xiaobo, Tangpo Yang, Adolfo Cuesta, et al.. (2020). Discovery of Lysine-Targeted eIF4E Inhibitors through Covalent Docking. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(11). 4960–4964. 67 indexed citations

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Lyu, Jiankun, Sheng Wang, Trent E. Balius, et al.. (2019). Ultra-large library docking for discovering new chemotypes. Nature. 566(7743). 224–229. 619 indexed citations breakdown →

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Allen, William J., Brian Fochtman, Trent E. Balius, & Robert C. Rizzo. (2017). Customizable de novo design strategies for DOCK: Application to HIVgp41 and other therapeutic targets. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 38(30). 2641–2663. 25 indexed citations

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Balius, Trent E., Marcus Fischer, Reed M. Stein, et al.. (2017). Testing inhomogeneous solvation theory in structure-based ligand discovery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(33). E6839–E6846. 64 indexed citations

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Berger, William T., Natasha M. Nesbitt, Kunal Kumar, et al.. (2015). Computer-aided identification, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel inhibitors for botulinum neurotoxin serotype A. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 23(17). 5489–5495. 12 indexed citations

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Balius, Trent E., William J. Allen, Sudipto Mukherjee, & Robert C. Rizzo. (2013). Grid‐based molecular footprint comparison method for docking and de novo design: Application to HIVgp41. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 34(14). 1226–1240. 25 indexed citations

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Berger, William T., Martin Kaczocha, Jing Sun, et al.. (2012). Targeting Fatty Acid Binding Protein (FABP) Anandamide Transporters – A Novel Strategy for Development of Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Nociceptive Drugs. PLoS ONE. 7(12). e50968–e50968. 129 indexed citations

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Brozell, Scott R., Sudipto Mukherjee, Trent E. Balius, et al.. (2012). Evaluation of DOCK 6 as a pose generation and database enrichment tool. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 26(6). 749–773. 130 indexed citations

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Balius, Trent E., Sudipto Mukherjee, & Robert C. Rizzo. (2011). Implementation and evaluation of a docking‐rescoring method using molecular footprint comparisons. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 32(10). 2273–2289. 54 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Sudipto, Trent E. Balius, & Robert C. Rizzo. (2010). Docking Validation Resources: Protein Family and Ligand Flexibility Experiments. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 50(11). 1986–2000. 176 indexed citations

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Owonikoko, Taofeek K., Suresh S. Ramalingam, Beatriz Kanterewicz, et al.. (2009). Vorinostat increases carboplatin and paclitaxel activity in non‐small cell lung cancer cells. International Journal of Cancer. 126(3). 743–755. 77 indexed citations

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Balius, Trent E. & Robert C. Rizzo. (2009). Quantitative Prediction of Fold Resistance for Inhibitors of EGFR. Biochemistry. 48(35). 8435–8448. 61 indexed citations

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