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2024

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Molecular Biology

D-Index
106
Citations
73025
World Ranking
423
National Ranking
29

Cyrus Chothia publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cyrus Chothia sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 172 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Cyrus Chothia D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cyrus Chothia sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 106 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

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)
  • 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

  • Canonical structures for the hypervariable regions of immunoglobulins

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

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

    C. Chothia;A.M. Lesk

  • The atomic structure of protein-protein recognition sites.

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

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

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

  • Conformations of immunoglobulin hypervariable regions.

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

  • The nature of the accessible and buried surfaces in proteins

    Cyrus Chothia

  • Structural patterns in globular proteins

    Michael Levitt;Cyrus Chothia

  • 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

  • Principles of protein–protein recognition

    Cyrus Chothia;Joël Janin

  • ONE THOUSAND FAMILIES FOR THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGIST

    Cyrus Chothia

  • Hydrophobic bonding and accessible surface area in proteins.

    Cyrus Chothia

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

    Joyce Baldwin;Cyrus Chothia

  • Structural invariants in protein folding.

    Cyrus Chothia;Cyrus Chothia

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

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

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

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

  • The structure of protein-protein recognition sites.

    J Janin;C Chothia

  • Interior and surface of monomeric proteins.

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

  • STANDARD CONFORMATIONS FOR THE CANONICAL STRUCTURES OF IMMUNOGLOBULINS

    Bissan Al-Lazikani;Arthur M Lesk;Cyrus Chothia

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

    Arthur M. Lesk;Cyrus Chothia

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur M. Lesk
Arthur M. Lesk Pennsylvania State University
Sarah A. Teichmann
Sarah A. Teichmann University of Cambridge
Julian Gough
Julian Gough University of Bristol
Tim Hubbard
Tim Hubbard King's College London
Steven E. Brenner
Steven E. Brenner University of California, Berkeley
Joël Janin
Joël Janin University of Paris-Saclay
Mark Gerstein
Mark Gerstein Yale University
Michael Levitt
Michael Levitt Stanford University
Alex Bateman
Alex Bateman European Bioinformatics Institute
Anna Tramontano
Anna Tramontano Sapienza University of Rome

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