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100
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56982
World Ranking
742
National Ranking
370

Overview

Adam Godzik is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 64 publications, and Medicine, with 56 publications. Within these broader domains, the main subfields of their study include Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Immunology, Epidemiology, and Materials Chemistry.

The topics covered in their work focus heavily on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, alongside enzyme structure and function, protein structure and dynamics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, and immune cell function and interaction.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Adam Godzik include:

  • Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in South Africa, 2021, Nature
  • Emergence and rapid spread of a new severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineage with multiple spike mutations in South Africa, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Crystal structure of Nsp15 endoribonuclease NendoU from SARS-CoV -2, 2020, Protein Science
  • FATCAT 2.0: towards a better understanding of the structural diversity of proteins, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Defining the risk of SARS-CoV-2 variants on immune protection, 2022, Nature

Their frequent co-authors include Lukasz Jaroszewski (33 collaborations), Xinru Qiu (20), Arghavan Alisoltani (19), Mayya Sedova (17), and Mallika Iyer (11).

Adam Godzik's work is commonly published in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Protein Science, Nature, Microbiome, and Viruses. The highest number of their publications appear in bioRxiv, with 17 contributions, followed by Protein Science with 3 publications and Nature with 2.

Best Publications

  • Cd-hit: a fast program for clustering and comparing large sets of protein or nucleotide sequences

    Weizhong Li;Adam Godzik

  • Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations.

    Matthew H Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases in the Human Genome

    Andres Alonso;Joanna Sasin;Nunzio Bottini;Ilan Friedberg

  • Analysis of the mouse transcriptome based on functional annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs

    Y. Okazaki;M. Furuno;T. Kasukawa;J. Adachi

  • Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in South Africa.

    Houriiyah Tegally;Eduan Wilkinson;Marta Giovanetti;Marta Giovanetti;Arash Iranzadeh

  • S-Nitrosylation of Drp1 Mediates β-Amyloid-Related Mitochondrial Fission and Neuronal Injury

    Dong-Hyung Cho;Tomohiro Nakamura;Jianguo Fang;Piotr Cieplak

  • The NLR gene family: a standard nomenclature

    Jenny P.Y. Ting;Ruth C. Lovering;Emad S. Alnemri;John Bertin

  • Clustering of highly homologous sequences to reduce the size of large protein databases

    Weizhong Li;Lukasz Jaroszewski;Adam Godzik

  • Emergence and rapid spread of a new severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineage with multiple spike mutations in South Africa

    Houriiyah Tegally;Eduan Wilkinson;Marta Giovanetti;Marta Giovanetti;Arash Iranzadeh

  • The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition: expanding the universe of protein families.

    Shibu Yooseph;Granger Sutton;Douglas B. Rusch;Aaron L Halpern

  • A Primer on Metagenomics

    John C. Wooley;Adam Godzik;Adam Godzik;Iddo Friedberg

  • Flexible structure alignment by chaining aligned fragment pairs allowing twists

    Yuzhen Ye;Adam Godzik

  • Comparison of sequence profiles. Strategies for structural predictions using sequence information.

    Leszek Rychlewski;Lukasz Jaroszewski;Weizhong Li;Adam Godzik

  • Shotgun metaproteomics of the human distal gut microbiota.

    Nathan C Verberkmoes;Alison L Russell;Manesh Shah;Adam Godzik

  • The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology

    Linda Z. Holland;Ricard Albalat;Kaoru Azumi;Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez

  • Erratum: Comprehensive Characterization of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations (ARTICLE (2018) 173(2) (371–385), (S009286741830237X), (10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.060))

    Matthew H. Bailey;Collin Tokheim;Eduard Porta-Pardo;Sohini Sengupta

  • FFAS03 : a server for profile-profile sequence alignments

    Lukasz Jaroszewski;Leszek Rychlewski;Zhanwen Li;Weizhong Li

  • Mitochondrial fission in apoptosis, neurodegeneration and aging

    Ella Bossy-Wetzel;Mark J Barsoum;Adam Godzik;Robert Schwarzenbacher

  • Tolerating some redundancy significantly speeds up clustering of large protein databases.

    Weizhong Li;Lukasz Jaroszewski;Adam Godzik

  • Structural genomics of the Thermotoga maritima proteome implemented in a high-throughput structure determination pipeline

    Scott A. Lesley;Peter Kuhn;Adam Godzik;Ashley M. Deacon

Frequent Co-Authors

Lukasz Jaroszewski
Lukasz Jaroszewski Discovery Institute
Scott A. Lesley
Scott A. Lesley Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation
Ian A. Wilson
Ian A. Wilson Scripps Research Institute
Sanjay Krishna
Sanjay Krishna The Ohio State University
Keith O. Hodgson
Keith O. Hodgson Stanford University
Gye Won Han
Gye Won Han University of Southern California
Raymond C. Stevens
Raymond C. Stevens University of Southern California
Peter Kuhn
Peter Kuhn University of Southern California
John C. Reed
John C. Reed Johnson & Johnson (United States)
Leszek Rychlewski
Leszek Rychlewski BioInfoBank Institute

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