William R. Taylor

17.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
154 papers, 14.0k citations indexed

About

William R. Taylor is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, William R. Taylor has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 14.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Molecular Biology, 58 papers in Materials Chemistry and 17 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in William R. Taylor's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (83 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (58 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (42 papers). William R. Taylor is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (83 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (58 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (42 papers). William R. Taylor collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Tanzania and United States. William R. Taylor's co-authors include Janet M. Thornton, David T. Jones, Jonathan B. Rothbard, Laurence H. Pearl, Christine Orengo, Michael J.E. Sternberg, Inge Jonassen, Tomas P. Flores, Fred E. Cohen and Ingvar Eidhammer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New England Journal of Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William R. Taylor

154 papers receiving 13.5k 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.

The rapid generation of mutation data matrices from protein sequences

1992 5.7k citations William R. Taylor et al. profile →
A Model Recognition Approach to the Prediction of All-Helical Membrane Protein Structure and Topology

1994 655 citations William R. Taylor et al. profile →
A sequence pattern common to T cell epitopes.

1988 529 citations William R. Taylor et al. profile →
The classification of amino acid conservation

1986 433 citations William R. Taylor profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William R. Taylor United Kingdom	45	9.7k	2.2k	1.8k	1.6k	1.1k	154	14.0k
Marc A. Martı́-Renom Spain	45	11.5k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	897 0.8×	123	15.4k
Kevin Karplus United States	36	12.5k 1.3×	1.7k 0.8×	2.3k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	83	18.8k
Rolf Boelens Netherlands	64	13.2k 1.4×	2.6k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	2.3k 1.5×	735 0.7×	318	17.1k
Nicolas Guex Switzerland	33	9.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	76	14.6k
John‐Marc Chandonia United States	18	9.2k 0.9×	1.2k 0.5×	2.0k 1.1×	1.6k 1.1×	789 0.7×	41	12.0k
D.A. Keedy United States	27	11.3k 1.2×	3.2k 1.4×	844 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.0×	46	16.0k
Gert Vriend Netherlands	63	15.3k 1.6×	3.7k 1.7×	1.1k 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	192	21.0k
Gavin E. Crooks United States	31	8.6k 0.9×	978 0.4×	2.0k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	745 0.7×	54	15.4k
Steven E. Brenner United States	49	19.2k 2.0×	3.4k 1.5×	2.6k 1.4×	2.7k 1.7×	1.3k 1.1×	141	23.7k
Lawrence A. Kelley United Kingdom	22	10.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	2.6k 1.5×	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	40	15.3k

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Taylor, William R.. (2020). Exploring Protein Fold Space. Biomolecules. 10(2). 193–193. 5 indexed citations

Hargreaves, Adam D, Long Zhou, Ferdinand Marlétaz, et al.. (2017). Genome sequence of a diabetes-prone rodent reveals a mutation hotspot around the ParaHox gene cluster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(29). 7677–7682. 24 indexed citations

Taylor, William R., Jonathan P. Stoye, & Ian A. Taylor. (2017). A comparative analysis of the foamy and ortho virus capsid structures reveals an ancient domain duplication. BMC Structural Biology. 17(1). 3–3. 11 indexed citations

Ball, Neil J., Giuseppe Nicastro, Moumita Dutta, et al.. (2016). Structure of a Spumaretrovirus Gag Central Domain Reveals an Ancient Retroviral Capsid. PLoS Pathogens. 12(11). e1005981–e1005981. 16 indexed citations

Taylor, William R., et al.. (2016). Molecular Models for the Core Components of the Flagellar Type-III Secretion Complex. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0164047–e0164047. 7 indexed citations

Mortuza, Gulnahar B., David C. Goldstone, L.F. Haire, et al.. (2008). Structure of the Capsid Amino-Terminal Domain from the Betaretrovirus, Jaagsiekte Sheep Retrovirus. Journal of Molecular Biology. 386(4). 1179–1192. 19 indexed citations

Taylor, William R.. (2005). Modelling molecular stability in the RNA world. Computational Biology and Chemistry. 29(4). 259–272. 8 indexed citations

Lin, Kuang, Jens Kleinjung, William R. Taylor, & Jaap Heringa. (2003). Testing homology with Contact Accepted mutatiOn (CAO): a contact-based Markov model of protein evolution. Computational Biology and Chemistry. 27(2). 93–102. 13 indexed citations

Elsawa, Sherine F., et al.. (2003). Reduced CTL Response and Increased Viral Burden in Substance P Receptor-Deficient Mice Infected with Murine γ-Herpesvirus 68. The Journal of Immunology. 170(5). 2605–2612. 23 indexed citations

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Johannissen, Linus O. & William R. Taylor. (2003). Protein fold comparison by the alignment of topological strings. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 16(12). 949–955. 15 indexed citations

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Petersen, Kjell & William R. Taylor. (2003). Modelling Zinc-binding Proteins with GADGET: Genetic Algorithm and Distance Geometry for Exploring Topology. Journal of Molecular Biology. 325(5). 1039–1059. 10 indexed citations

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Taylor, William R.. (2003). Protein Structure Comparison Using SAP. Humana Press eBooks. 143. 19–32. 20 indexed citations

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Lin, Kuang, Alex C.W. May, & William R. Taylor. (2002). Threading Using Neural nEtwork (TUNE): the measure ofprotein sequence—structure compatibility. Bioinformatics. 18(10). 1350–1357. 15 indexed citations

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Conklin, Darrell, Inge Jonassen, Rein Aasland, & William R. Taylor. (2002). Association of nucleotide patterns with gene function classes: application to human 3′ untranslated sequences. Bioinformatics. 18(1). 182–189. 27 indexed citations

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Jonassen, Inge, Ingvar Eidhammer, Darrell Conklin, & William R. Taylor. (2000). Structure Motif Discovery and Mining the PDB.. 175–182. 6 indexed citations

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Jonassen, Inge, Ingvar Eidhammer, & William R. Taylor. (1999). Discovery of local packing motifs in protein structures. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 34(2). 206–219. 4 indexed citations

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Taylor, William R.. (1999). Protein structural domain identification. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 12(3). 203–216. 70 indexed citations

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Taylor, William R.. (1997). Multiple sequence threading: an analysis of alignment quality and stability 1 1Edited by B.Honig. Journal of Molecular Biology. 269(5). 902–943. 51 indexed citations

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Taylor, William R.. (1996). A non-local gap-penalty for profile alignment. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 58(1). 1–18. 4 indexed citations

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Taylor, William R. & Christine Orengo. (1989). A holistic approach to protein structure alignment. Protein Engineering Design and Selection. 2(7). 505–519. 57 indexed citations

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