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57
Citations
9987
World Ranking
14001
National Ranking
294

Overview

Juan Fernández-Recio is affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant emphasis on Molecular Biology and related subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Infectious Diseases, Computational Theory and Mathematics, and Genetics.

The main topics covered in Fernández-Recio's work include:

  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Estrogen and related hormone effects
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Fernández-Recio has contributed to several research publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Prediction of protein assemblies, the next frontier: The CASP14-CAPRI experiment, 2021, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
  • Impact of AlphaFold on structure prediction of protein complexes: The CASP15-CAPRI experiment, 2023, Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
  • pyDockDNA: A new web server for energy-based protein-DNA docking and scoring, 2022, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • Docking approaches for modeling multi-molecular assemblies, 2020, Current Opinion in Structural Biology
  • Architecture of the ESCPE-1 membrane coat, 2023, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

The scientist's work is frequently published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • Methods in molecular biology
  • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences

Frequent collaborators in their publications include Luis Angel Rodríguez-Lumbreras, Alba Jiménez-Panizo, Andrea Alegre-Martí, Eva Estébanez-Perpiñá, and Mireia Rosell.

Best Publications

  • Updates to the Integrated Protein-Protein Interaction Benchmarks: Docking Benchmark Version 5 and Affinity Benchmark Version 2.

    Thom Vreven;Iain H. Moal;Anna Vangone;Brian G. Pierce

  • pyDock: Electrostatics and desolvation for effective scoring of rigid‐body protein–protein docking

    Tammy Man-Kuang Cheng;Tom L. Blundell;Juan Fernandez-Recio

  • Identification of protein-protein interaction sites from docking energy landscapes.

    Juan Fernández-Recio;Maxim Totrov;Ruben Abagyan

  • SKEMPI: a Structural Kinetic and Energetic database of Mutant Protein Interactions and its use in empirical models

    Iain H. Moal;Juan Fernández-Recio

  • SwarmDock: a server for flexible protein-protein docking

    Mieczyslaw Torchala;Iain H. Moal;Raphael A. G. Chaleil;Juan Fernandez-Recio

  • pyDockWEB: A web server for rigid-body protein-protein docking using electrostatics and desolvation scoring

    Brian Jiménez-García;Carles Pons;Juan Fernández-Recio

  • ICM-DISCO docking by global energy optimization with fully flexible side-chains.

    Juan Fernández-Recio;Maxim Totrov;Ruben Abagyan

  • SKEMPI 2.0: an updated benchmark of changes in protein-protein binding energy, kinetics and thermodynamics upon mutation.

    Justina Jankauskaite;Brian Jiménez-García;Justas Dapkunas;Juan Fernández-Recio;Juan Fernández-Recio

  • The crystal structure of fibroblast growth factor (FGF) 19 reveals novel features of the FGF family and offers a structural basis for its unusual receptor affinity.

    Nicholas J. Harmer;Luca Pellegrini;Dima Chirgadze;Juan Fernandez-Recio

  • Soft protein-protein docking in internal coordinates.

    Juan Fernández-Recio;Maxim Totrov;Ruben Abagyan

  • Optimal docking area: a new method for predicting protein-protein interaction sites.

    Juan Fernandez-Recio;Max Totrov;Constantin Skorodumov;Ruben Abagyan

  • Polygalacturonase inhibiting proteins: players in plant innate immunity?

    Luca Federici;Adele Di Matteo;Juan Fernandez-Recio;Demetrius Tsernoglou

  • Assembly and Channel Opening in a Bacterial Drug Efflux Machine

    Vassiliy N. Bavro;Zbigniew Pietras;Nicholas Furnham;Laura Pérez-Cano

  • FRODOCK: a new approach for fast rotational protein-protein docking.

    José Ignacio Garzón;José Ramón López-Blanco;Carles Pons;Julio A. Kovacs

  • Prediction of homoprotein and heteroprotein complexes by protein docking and template-based modeling: A CASP-CAPRI experiment.

    Marc F. Lensink;Sameer Velankar;Andriy Kryshtafovych;Shen You Huang

  • Community-wide assessment of protein-interface modeling suggests improvements to design methodology

    Sarel J. Fleishman;Sarel J. Fleishman;Timothy A. Whitehead;Eva Maria Strauch;Jacob E. Corn;Jacob E. Corn

  • Identification of hot-spot residues in protein-protein interactions by computational docking.

    Solène Grosdidier;Juan Fernández-Recio

  • The Crystal Structure of the Outer Membrane Protein VceC from the Bacterial Pathogen Vibrio cholerae at 1.8 Å Resolution

    L. Federici;D.J. Du;F. Walas;H. Matsumura

  • The Tryptophan/Histidine interaction in α-helices

    Juan Fernández-Recio;Ana Vázquez;Concepción Civera;Paz Sevilla

  • The structure of human 4F2hc ectodomain provides a model for homodimerization and electrostatic interaction with plasma membrane

    Joana Fort;Laura R. de la Ballina;Hans E. Burghardt;Carles Ferrer-Costa

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Bates
Paul A. Bates The Francis Crick Institute
Zhiping Weng
Zhiping Weng University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Thom Vreven
Thom Vreven Visterra (United States)
Ruben Abagyan
Ruben Abagyan University of California, San Diego
Brian G. Pierce
Brian G. Pierce University of Maryland, College Park
Shoshana J. Wodak
Shoshana J. Wodak Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ben F. Luisi
Ben F. Luisi University of Cambridge
Tom L. Blundell
Tom L. Blundell University of Cambridge
Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin
Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin Utrecht University
Jeffrey J. Gray
Jeffrey J. Gray Johns Hopkins University

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