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Daniel J. Rigden 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 Daniel J. Rigden sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 280 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daniel J. Rigden 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 Daniel J. Rigden sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 72 D-Index — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Daniel J. Rigden is affiliated with the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. Their research focus lies primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 193 publications in this broad field.

The main subfields of study in which Rigden contributes include Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Cancer Research, Ecology, and Genetics. Their work extensively covers topics such as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, enzyme structure and function, protein structure and dynamics, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, genomics and phylogenetic studies, as well as bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Daniel J. Rigden's most frequent co-authors consist of Adam J. Simpkin, Ronan M. Keegan, Shahram Mesdaghi, Jia Meng, and Filomeno Sánchez Rodríguez. Collaboration with these researchers has been substantial, with co-authorship counts ranging from 17 to 36 papers per colleague.

The venues where Rigden frequently publishes include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nucleic Acids Research, Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics, and Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances.

Among Rigden's recent publications are:

  • The CCP4 suite: integrative software for macromolecular crystallography, 2023, Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology
  • High-accuracy protein structure prediction in CASP14, 2021, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
  • m6A-Atlas: a comprehensive knowledgebase for unraveling the N6-methyladenosine (m6A) epitranscriptome, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Assessment of three-dimensional RNA structure prediction in CASP15, 2023, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
  • Attention-based multi-label neural networks for integrated prediction and interpretation of twelve widely occurring RNA modifications, 2021, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Mammalian Atg18 (WIPI2) localizes to omegasome-anchored phagophores and positively regulates LC3 lipidation

    Hannah E.J. Polson;Jane de Lartigue;Daniel J. Rigden;Marco Reedijk

  • Plant alpha-amylase inhibitors and their interaction with insect alpha-amylases.

    Octávio L. Franco;Daniel J. Rigden;Francislete R. Melo;Maria F. Grossi-de-Sá

  • The industrial melanism mutation in British peppered moths is a transposable element

    Arjen E. van’t Hof;Pascal Campagne;Daniel J. Rigden;Carl J. Yung

  • Deubiquitylases From Genes to Organism

    Michael J. Clague;Igor Barsukov;Judy M. Coulson;Han Liu

  • Genome of Acanthamoeba castellanii highlights extensive lateral gene transfer and early evolution of tyrosine kinase signaling

    Michael John Clarke;Amanda J Lohan;Bernard Liu;Ilias Lagkouvardos

  • Family-wide characterization of the DENN domain Rab GDP-GTP exchange factors

    Shin-ichiro Yoshimura;Andreas Gerondopoulos;Andrea Linford;Daniel J. Rigden

  • Genomic determinants of sporulation in Bacilli and Clostridia: Towards the minimal set of sporulation-specific genes

    Michael Y. Galperin;Sergei L. Mekhedov;Pere Puigbo;Sergey Smirnov

  • High-accuracy protein structure prediction in CASP14.

    Joana Pereira;Adam J Simpkin;Marcus D Hartmann;Daniel J Rigden

  • Activity of wheat α‐amylase inhibitors towards bruchid α‐amylases and structural explanation of observed specificities

    Octávio L. Franco;Daniel J. Rigden;Francislete R. Melo;Carlos Bloch

  • Plant-like traits associated with metabolism of Trypanosoma parasites.

    Véronique Hannaert;Emma Saavedra;Francis Duffieux;Jean-Pierre Szikora

  • m6A-Atlas: a comprehensive knowledgebase for unraveling the N6-methyladenosine (m6A) epitranscriptome.

    Yujiao Tang;Yujiao Tang;Kunqi Chen;Kunqi Chen;Bowen Song;Bowen Song;Jiongming Ma

  • The histidine phosphatase superfamily: structure and function.

    Daniel J. Rigden

  • Autophagy in protists

    Michael Duszenko;Michael L Ginger;Ana Brennand;Melisa Gualdrón-López

  • WHISTLE: a high-accuracy map of the human N6-methyladenosine (m6A) epitranscriptome predicted using a machine learning approach.

    Kunqi Chen;Kunqi Chen;Zhen Wei;Zhen Wei;Qing Zhang;Xiangyu Wu;Xiangyu Wu

  • Amidase domains from bacterial and phage autolysins define a family of γ-d,l-glutamate-specific amidohydrolases

    Daniel J. Rigden;Mark J. Jedrzejas;Michael Y. Galperin

  • The 2014 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue and an updated NAR online Molecular Biology Database Collection

    Xosé M. Fernández-Suárez;Daniel J. Rigden;Michael Y. Galperin

  • Weeds, Worms, and More. Papain's Long-Lost Cousin, Phytochelatin Synthase

    Philip A. Rea;Olena K. Vatamaniuk;Daniel J. Rigden

  • The DxDxDG Motif for Calcium Binding: Multiple Structural Contexts and Implications for Evolution

    Daniel J. Rigden;Michael Y. Galperin

  • L-ascorbic acid-6-hexadecanoate, a potent hyaluronidase inhibitor: X-ray structure and molecular modeling of enzyme-inhibitor complexes

    Alexander Botzki;Daniel J. Rigden;Stephan Braun;Masatoshi Nukui

  • Autophagy in parasitic protists: unique features and drug targets.

    Ana Brennand;Melisa Gualdrón-López;Isabelle Coppens;Daniel J. Rigden

Frequent Co-Authors

Octavio L. Franco
Octavio L. Franco Universidade Católica de Brasília
Paul A. M. Michels
Paul A. M. Michels University of Edinburgh
Michael Y. Galperin
Michael Y. Galperin National Institutes of Health
Martin J. Donnelly
Martin J. Donnelly Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Michael J. Clague
Michael J. Clague University of Liverpool
Maria Fatima Grossi-de-Sa
Maria Fatima Grossi-de-Sa Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Simon E. V. Phillips
Simon E. V. Phillips University of Oxford
Sylvie Urbé
Sylvie Urbé University of Liverpool
Fred R. Opperdoes
Fred R. Opperdoes Université Catholique de Louvain
João Pedro de Magalhães
João Pedro de Magalhães University of Liverpool

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