Willy Wriggers

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Willy Wriggers is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Structural Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Willy Wriggers has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Molecular Biology, 35 papers in Structural Biology and 28 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Willy Wriggers's work include Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (35 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (31 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (24 papers). Willy Wriggers is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications (35 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (31 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (24 papers). Willy Wriggers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Venezuela. Willy Wriggers's co-authors include Klaus Schulten, Pablo Chacón, J. Andrew McCammon, Ronald A. Milligan, Stefan Birmanns, Paul Maragakis, Michael P. Eastwood, Yibing Shan, Ron O. Dror and David E. Shaw and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Willy Wriggers

92 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

Atomic-Level Characterization of the Structural Dynamics ... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Atomic-Level Characterization of the Structural Dynamics of Proteins
    2010 1.4k citations David E. Shaw, Paul Maragakis et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Willy Wriggers United States 37 4.6k 1.8k 973 852 792 95 6.5k
Gunnar F. Schröder Germany 41 5.0k 1.1× 1.2k 0.7× 454 0.5× 483 0.6× 731 0.9× 87 7.4k
Peijun Zhang United States 50 3.8k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 930 1.0× 372 0.4× 472 0.6× 193 7.9k
Wim J. H. Hagen Germany 35 5.7k 1.2× 721 0.4× 1.5k 1.6× 494 0.6× 879 1.1× 57 8.5k
Florence Tama Japan 34 3.5k 0.8× 1.6k 0.9× 844 0.9× 701 0.8× 277 0.3× 92 4.8k
Henning Stahlberg Switzerland 56 7.5k 1.6× 963 0.5× 1.3k 1.4× 950 1.1× 920 1.2× 220 12.3k
Michael F. Schmid United States 40 3.3k 0.7× 760 0.4× 1.1k 1.2× 494 0.6× 410 0.5× 129 5.3k
Takanori Nakane Japan 32 6.1k 1.3× 1.0k 0.6× 1.1k 1.2× 222 0.3× 553 0.7× 57 8.7k
Steven J. Ludtke United States 59 9.7k 2.1× 2.0k 1.1× 2.9k 3.0× 682 0.8× 1.2k 1.6× 138 13.7k
Marin van Heel Germany 45 6.0k 1.3× 1.4k 0.8× 2.5k 2.5× 583 0.7× 750 0.9× 96 8.9k
Friedrich Förster Germany 57 6.9k 1.5× 1.1k 0.6× 2.4k 2.5× 801 0.9× 1.9k 2.3× 131 9.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Willy Wriggers

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Willy Wriggers

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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He, Jing, et al.. (2023). Appraisal of AlphaFold2-Predicted Models in Cryo-EM Map Interpretation. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 29(Supplement_1). 977–978. 1 indexed citations
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Wriggers, Willy, et al.. (2022). Refinement of AlphaFold2 models against experimental and hybrid cryo-EM density maps. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 5 indexed citations
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Sazzed, Salim, et al.. (2021). TomoSim: Simulation of Filamentous Cryo-Electron Tomograms. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). 2021. 2560–2565. 4 indexed citations
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Wriggers, Willy, et al.. (2020). Damped Dynamics as a Validation Platform for the Flexible Refinement of Atomic Models Against Cryo-EM Maps. Biophysical Journal. 118(3). 292a–292a. 1 indexed citations
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Kovacs, Julio, Vitold E. Galkin, & Willy Wriggers. (2018). Accurate flexible refinement of atomic models against medium-resolution cryo-EM maps using damped dynamics. BMC Structural Biology. 18(1). 12–12. 19 indexed citations
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Wriggers, Willy, Federica Castellani, Julio Kovacs, & P. Thomas Vernier. (2017). Computing Spatiotemporal Heat Maps of Lipid Electropore Formation: A Statistical Approach. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 4. 22–22. 2 indexed citations
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Álamo, Lorenzo, Dan Qi, Willy Wriggers, et al.. (2016). Conserved Intramolecular Interactions Maintain Myosin Interacting-Heads Motifs Explaining Tarantula Muscle Super-Relaxed State Structural Basis. Journal of Molecular Biology. 428(6). 1142–1164. 73 indexed citations
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He, Jing, et al.. (2015). Comparison of an atomic model and its cryo-EM image at the central axis of a helix. PubMed. 2015. 1253–1259. 1 indexed citations
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Wriggers, Willy, et al.. (2015). Multi-scale Visualization of Molecular Architecture Using Real-Time Ambient Occlusion in Sculptor. PLoS Computational Biology. 11(10). e1004516–e1004516. 9 indexed citations
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Starosolski, Zbigniew, et al.. (2012). Developing a denoising filter for electron microscopy and tomography data in the cloud. Biophysical Reviews. 4(3). 223–229. 9 indexed citations
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Rusu, Mirabela, et al.. (2012). Automated tracing of filaments in 3D electron tomography reconstructions using Sculptor and Situs. Journal of Structural Biology. 178(2). 121–128. 39 indexed citations
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Wriggers, Willy, Kate A. Stafford, Yibing Shan, et al.. (2009). Automated Event Detection and Activity Monitoring in Long Time-Scale Molecular Dynamics. Biophysical Journal. 96(3). 364a–365a. 5 indexed citations
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Arai, Ryoichi, Willy Wriggers, Yukihiro Nishikawa, Teruyuki Nagamune, & Tetsuro Fujisawa. (2004). Conformations of variably linked chimeric proteins evaluated by synchrotron X‐ray small‐angle scattering. Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics. 57(4). 829–838. 104 indexed citations
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Yao, Xiaoyi, Vinh T. Nguyen, Willy Wriggers, & Peter A. Rubenstein. (2002). Regulation of Yeast Actin Behavior by Interaction of Charged Residues across the Interdomain Cleft. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 277(25). 22875–22882. 18 indexed citations
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Kovacs, Julio & Willy Wriggers. (2002). Fast rotational matching. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 58(8). 1282–1286. 50 indexed citations
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Tama, Florence, Willy Wriggers, & Charles L. Brooks. (2002). Exploring Global Distortions of Biological Macromolecules and Assemblies from Low-resolution Structural Information and Elastic Network Theory. Journal of Molecular Biology. 321(2). 297–305. 165 indexed citations
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Wriggers, Willy & Stefan Birmanns. (2001). Using Situs for Flexible and Rigid-Body Fitting of Multiresolution Single-Molecule Data. Journal of Structural Biology. 133(2-3). 193–202. 193 indexed citations
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Xing, Jun, Willy Wriggers, Geraldine M. Jefferson, et al.. (2000). Kinesin Has Three Nucleotide-dependent Conformations. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(45). 35413–35423. 33 indexed citations
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Wriggers, Willy, et al.. (2000). Domain Motions of EF-G Bound to the 70S Ribosome: Insights from a Hand-Shaking between Multi-Resolution Structures. Biophysical Journal. 79(3). 1670–1678. 65 indexed citations
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Yao, Xiaoyi, et al.. (1999). His73, Often Methylated, Is an Important Structural Determinant for Actin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(52). 37443–37449. 39 indexed citations

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