2026 Cyrus Chothia: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	106	423	29	172	73025

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Molecular Biology

106

423

172

73025

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
2015 - Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Cyrus Chothia was a researcher affiliated with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the United Kingdom. Their scientific career focused primarily on molecular biology, contributing to the advancement of the field through research conducted within this prominent institution.

During their career, Cyrus Chothia received formal recognition for their contributions to computational biology and molecular biology. This included becoming a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2015.

Additionally, they were a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), reflecting an established involvement in the European molecular biology research community.

Their research contributions are reflected in various scientific publications, although specific paper titles and venues are not listed in the available data.

Best Publications

SCOP: a structural classification of proteins database for the investigation of sequences and structures.

Alexey G. Murzin;Steven E. Brenner;Tim Hubbard;Cyrus Chothia

8425
Citations
Canonical structures for the hypervariable regions of immunoglobulins

Cyrus Chothia;Arthur M. Lesk;Arthur M. Lesk;Arthur M. Lesk

3781
Citations
The relation between the divergence of sequence and structure in proteins.

C. Chothia;A.M. Lesk

3638
Citations
The atomic structure of protein-protein recognition sites.

Loredana Lo Conte;Cyrus Chothia;Joël Janin;Joël Janin

2502
Citations
Analysis of the mouse transcriptome based on functional annotation of 60,770 full-length cDNAs

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

2121
Citations
Conformations of immunoglobulin hypervariable regions.

Cyrus Chothia;Cyrus Chothia;Arthur M. Lesk;Anna Tramontano;Michael Levitt;Michael Levitt

1865
Citations
The nature of the accessible and buried surfaces in proteins

Cyrus Chothia

1706
Citations
Structural patterns in globular proteins

Michael Levitt;Cyrus Chothia

1639
Citations
Assignment of homology to genome sequences using a library of hidden Markov models that represent all proteins of known structure.

Julian Gough;Kevin Karplus;Richard Hughey;Cyrus Chothia

1457
Citations
Principles of protein–protein recognition

Cyrus Chothia;Joël Janin

1380
Citations
ONE THOUSAND FAMILIES FOR THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST

Cyrus Chothia

1353
Citations
Hydrophobic bonding and accessible surface area in proteins.

Cyrus Chothia

1243
Citations
Haemoglobin: The structural changes related to ligand binding and its allosteric mechanism

Joyce Baldwin;Cyrus Chothia

1235
Citations
Structural invariants in protein folding.

Cyrus Chothia;Cyrus Chothia

1234
Citations
SCOP Database in 2004: Refinements Integrate Structure and Sequence Family Data

Antonina Andreeva;Dave Howorth;Steven E. Brenner;Tim J. P. Hubbard

1209
Citations
Data growth and its impact on the SCOP database: new developments.

Antonina Andreeva;Dave Howorth;John-Marc Chandonia;Steven E. Brenner

1137
Citations
The structure of protein-protein recognition sites.

J Janin;C Chothia

1102
Citations
Interior and surface of monomeric proteins.

Susan Miller;Joël Janin;Arthur M. Lesk;Arthur M. Lesk;Arthur M. Lesk;Cyrus Chothia;Cyrus Chothia

1087
Citations
STANDARD CONFORMATIONS FOR THE CANONICAL STRUCTURES OF IMMUNOGLOBULINS

Bissan Al-Lazikani;Arthur M Lesk;Cyrus Chothia

1056
Citations
How different amino acid sequences determine similar protein structures: the structure and evolutionary dynamics of the globins.

Arthur M. Lesk;Cyrus Chothia

1022
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur M. Lesk Pennsylvania State University

Sarah A. Teichmann University of Cambridge

Julian Gough University of Bristol

Tim Hubbard King's College London

Steven E. Brenner University of California, Berkeley

Joël Janin University of Paris-Saclay

Mark Gerstein Yale University

Michael Levitt Stanford University

Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute

Anna Tramontano Sapienza University of Rome

External Links

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