Warren L. DeLano

36.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
17 papers, 33.1k citations indexed

About

Warren L. DeLano is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Warren L. DeLano has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 33.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and 4 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Warren L. DeLano's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (5 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (4 papers). Warren L. DeLano is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (5 papers), Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research (5 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (4 papers). Warren L. DeLano collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Warren L. DeLano's co-authors include Axel T. Brünger, Randy J. Read, G. Marius Clore, Michaël Nilges, John Kuszewski, Piet Gros, Ralf W. Grosse‐Kunstleve, Luke M. Rice, Gregory L. Warren and Thomas Simonson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Warren L. DeLano

17 papers receiving 32.8k 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.

The PyMOL Molecular Graphics System

2002 15.8k citations Warren L. DeLano Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →
Crystallography & NMR System: A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination

1998 14.9k citations Axel T. Brünger, Paul D. Adams et al. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography profile →
Unraveling hot spots in binding interfaces: progress and challenges

2002 613 citations Warren L. DeLano Current Opinion in Structural Biology profile →
Convergent Solutions to Binding at a Protein-Protein Interface

2000 580 citations Warren L. DeLano, Mark Ultsch et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Warren L. DeLano United States	15	24.4k	6.4k	3.7k	2.8k	2.7k	17	33.1k
T. Alwyn Jones Sweden	66	21.1k 0.9×	6.0k 0.9×	2.9k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	181	29.7k
Angela M. Gronenborn United States	109	30.7k 1.3×	9.1k 1.4×	2.9k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	2.7k 1.0×	550	40.6k
Martyn Winn United Kingdom	32	27.3k 1.1×	9.3k 1.4×	4.0k 1.1×	3.0k 1.1×	3.4k 1.2×	82	38.5k
Gary J. Kapral United States	11	25.5k 1.0×	6.3k 1.0×	4.1k 1.1×	3.0k 1.1×	2.7k 1.0×	12	35.1k
Tom L. Blundell United Kingdom	94	34.2k 1.4×	7.7k 1.2×	3.6k 1.0×	3.5k 1.2×	3.5k 1.3×	505	45.7k
Nigel W. Moriarty United States	35	26.8k 1.1×	7.8k 1.2×	4.4k 1.2×	3.1k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	77	37.9k
Li‐Wei Hung United States	30	21.2k 0.9×	5.5k 0.8×	3.6k 1.0×	2.5k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	68	29.4k
Jeffrey J. Headd United States	17	28.2k 1.2×	7.4k 1.1×	4.5k 1.2×	3.2k 1.2×	3.1k 1.1×	20	39.1k
Peter H. Zwart United States	31	20.6k 0.8×	6.0k 0.9×	3.4k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	60	28.6k
Vincent B. Chen United States	16	25.3k 1.0×	6.3k 1.0×	4.0k 1.1×	3.0k 1.1×	2.7k 1.0×	22	35.1k

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17 of 17 papers shown

Thanos, Christopher D., Warren L. DeLano, & James A. Wells. (2006). Hot-spot mimicry of a cytokine receptor by a small molecule. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(42). 15422–15427. 106 indexed citations

DeLano, Warren L.. (2005). The case for open-source software in drug discovery. Drug Discovery Today. 10(3). 213–217. 148 indexed citations

Maia, Filipe R. N. C., A. Szöke, Warren L. DeLano, & David van der Spoel. (2005). Interactive visualization of electron density slices. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 38(3). 563–565. 3 indexed citations

Arkin, Michelle R., Mike Randal, Warren L. DeLano, et al.. (2003). Binding of small molecules to an adaptive protein–protein interface. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(4). 1603–1608. 288 indexed citations

Allen, Darin A., Ingrid Choong, Bruce J. Fahr, et al.. (2003). Identification of potent and novel small-Molecule inhibitors of caspase-3. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 13(21). 3651–3655. 18 indexed citations

Erlanson, Daniel A., Joni W. Lam, Christian Wiesmann, et al.. (2003). In situ assembly of enzyme inhibitors using extended tethering. Nature Biotechnology. 21(3). 308–314. 155 indexed citations

Wells, James A., Michelle R. Arkin, Warren L. DeLano, et al.. (2003). Drug Discovery at Signaling Interfaces. PubMed. 19–27. 5 indexed citations

Braisted, Andrew C., Johan D. Oslob, Warren L. DeLano, et al.. (2003). Discovery of a Potent Small Molecule IL-2 Inhibitor through Fragment Assembly. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 125(13). 3714–3715. 202 indexed citations

DeLano, Warren L.. (2002). Unraveling hot spots in binding interfaces: progress and challenges. Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 12(1). 14–20. 613 indexed citations breakdown →

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Choong, Ingrid, Willard Lew, Dennis Lee, et al.. (2002). Identification of Potent and Selective Small-Molecule Inhibitors of Caspase-3 through the Use of Extended Tethering and Structure-Based Drug Design. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 45(23). 5005–5022. 83 indexed citations

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DeLano, Warren L.. (2002). The PyMOL Molecular Graphics System. De-Lano Scientific, San Carlos, CA, USA. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 28 indexed citations

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DeLano, Warren L.. (2002). The PyMOL Molecular Graphics System. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 15815 indexed citations breakdown →

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DeLano, Warren L., et al.. (2000). Convergent Solutions to Binding at a Protein-Protein Interface. Science. 287(5456). 1279–1283. 580 indexed citations breakdown →

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Anderson, Amy C., Robert H. O’Neil, Warren L. DeLano, & Robert M. Stroud. (1999). The Structural Mechanism for Half-the-Sites Reactivity in an Enzyme, Thymidylate Synthase, Involves a Relay of Changes between Subunits. Biochemistry. 38(42). 13829–13836. 61 indexed citations

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Brünger, Axel T., Paul D. Adams, G. Marius Clore, et al.. (1998). Crystallography & NMR System: A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 54(5). 905–921. 14950 indexed citations breakdown →

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DeLano, Warren L. & Axel T. Brünger. (1995). The direct rotation function: rotational Patterson correlation search applied to molecular replacement. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 51(5). 740–748. 35 indexed citations

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DeLano, Warren L. & Axel T. Brünger. (1994). Helix packing in proteins: Prediction and energetic analysis of dimeric, trimeric, and tetrameric GCN4 coiled coil structures. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 20(2). 105–123. 52 indexed citations

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