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Darren R. Flower

Darren R. Flower

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
69
Citations
24141
World Ranking
7265
National Ranking
556

Overview

Darren R. Flower is affiliated with Aston University in the United Kingdom and has contributed to multiple fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Computer Science, and Medicine. Their research spans several subfields such as Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Information Systems, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their main areas of study focus on Computational Drug Discovery Methods, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks, Biotechnology and Related Fields, Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research, Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, and Gene expression and cancer classification.

Recent publications include:

  • Towards Effective Consensus Scoring in Structure-Based Virtual Screening, 2022, Interdisciplinary Sciences Computational Life Sciences
  • Drug Discovery: Today and Tomorrow, 2020, Bioinformation
  • West Nile Virus Vaccine Design by T Cell Epitope Selection: In Silico Analysis of Conservation, Functional Cross-Reactivity with the Human Genome, and Population Coverage, 2020, Journal of Immunology Research
  • Extracting prime protein targets as possible drug candidates: machine learning evaluation, 2023, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
  • To Affinity and Beyond: A Personal Reflection on the Design and Discovery of Drugs, 2022, Molecules

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Amit K. Chattopadhyay
  • Subhagata Chattopadhyay
  • Pedro A. Reche
  • Do Nhat Phuong
  • Frances M. Waller

Publication venues where the scientist has appeared more than once or prominently include:

  • Interdisciplinary Sciences Computational Life Sciences
  • Journal of Immunology Research
  • Bioinformation
  • Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
  • Molecules

Best Publications

  • The lipocalin protein family: structure and function

    Darren R. Flower

  • VaxiJen: a server for prediction of protective antigens, tumour antigens and subunit vaccines

    Irini A Doytchinova;Darren R Flower

  • The lipocalin protein family: structural and sequence overview.

    Darren R. Flower;Anthony C.T. North;Clare E. Sansom

  • AllerTOP v.2—a server for in silico prediction of allergens

    Ivan Dimitrov;Ivan Bangov;Darren R. Flower;Irini Doytchinova

  • Bovine β-lactoglobulin at 1.8 Å resolution — still an enigmatic lipocalin

    Sharon Brownlow;João H. Morais Cabral;Ron Cooper;Darren R. Flower

  • PRINTS and its automatic supplement, prePRINTS

    Terri K. Attwood;Paul Bradley;Darren R. Flower;Anna Gaulton

  • ON THE PROPERTIES OF BIT STRING-BASED MEASURES OF CHEMICAL SIMILARITY

    Darren R. Flower

  • Pheromone binding to two rodent urinary proteins revealed by X-ray crystallography.

    Zsolt Böcskei;Colin R. Groom;Darren R. Flower;Darren R. Flower;Charles E. Wright

  • Structure and sequence relationships in the lipocalins and related proteins.

    Darren R. Flower;Anthony C.T. North;Teresa K. Attwood

  • Benchmarking B cell epitope prediction: underperformance of existing methods

    Martin J. Blythe;Darren R. Flower

  • AllerTOP - a server for in silico prediction of allergens

    Ivan Dimitrov;Darren R. Flower;Irini A. Doytchinova

  • Modelling G-protein-coupled receptors for drug design.

    Darren R Flower

  • Lipocalins: unity in diversity.

    Bo Åkerstrom;Darren R. Flower;Jean-Philippe Salier

  • PRINTS-S: the database formerly known as PRINTS

    Terri K. Attwood;Michael D. R. Croning;Darren R. Flower;A. P. Lewis

  • Determinants of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Escape from the Primary CD8+ Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Response

    Nicola A. Jones;Xiping Wei;Darren R. Flower;MaiLee Wong

  • MHCPred: a server for quantitative prediction of peptide–MHC binding

    Pingping Guan;Irini A. Doytchinova;Christianna Zygouri;Darren R. Flower

  • The lipocalin protein family: a role in cell regulation

    Darren R. Flower

  • In Silico Identification of Supertypes for Class II MHCs

    Irini A. Doytchinova;Darren R. Flower

  • Harnessing bioinformatics to discover new vaccines

    Matthew N. Davies;Darren R. Flower

  • AntiJen: a quantitative immunology database integrating functional, thermodynamic, kinetic, biophysical, and cellular data.

    Christopher P Toseland;Debra J Clayton;Helen McSparron;Shelley L Hemsley

Frequent Co-Authors

Teresa K. Attwood
Teresa K. Attwood University of Manchester
Persephone Borrow
Persephone Borrow University of Oxford
Jon Timmis
Jon Timmis University of Sunderland
Alex A. Freitas
Alex A. Freitas University of Kent
Jagadeesh Bayry
Jagadeesh Bayry Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
Peter V. Coveney
Peter V. Coveney University College London
Vladimir Brusic
Vladimir Brusic University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Peter C. L. Beverley
Peter C. L. Beverley Jenner Institute
Gajendra P. S. Raghava
Gajendra P. S. Raghava Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi
Srini V. Kaveri
Srini V. Kaveri Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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