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38
Citations
29077
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7871
National Ranking
2150

Overview

Kevin Karplus is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily spans the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with focused work in subfields such as Molecular Biology and Genetics.

The scientist's academic output includes contributions to various main topics, notably:

  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Kevin Karplus has published recent research including the paper titled "Altering under-represented DNA sequences elevates bacterial transformation efficiency" in 2023, which appeared in the journal mBio. This publication has been cited five times.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kevin Karplus include:

  • Shuai Hu
  • Stefani Giacopazzi
  • Ryan Modlin
  • David L. Bernick
  • Karen M. Ottemann

Their works have been published in the venue mBio, representing a notable outlet for their scientific contributions.

In addition to journal publications, Kevin Karplus has a book publication titled Applied Analog Electronics, published by World Scientific in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

    Fabian Sievers;Andreas Wilm;David Dineen;Toby J Gibson

  • Improving physical realism, stereochemistry, and side-chain accuracy in homology modeling: Four approaches that performed well in CASP8.

    Elmar Krieger;Keehyoung Joo;Jinwoo Lee;Jooyoung Lee

  • Hidden Markov models for detecting remote protein homologies.

    Kevin Karplus;Christian Barrett;Richard Hughey

  • Sequence comparisons using multiple sequences detect three times as many remote homologues as pairwise methods.

    Jong Park;Kevin Karplus;Christian Barrett;Richard Hughey

  • Automated forward and reverse ratcheting of DNA in a nanopore at 5-A precision

    Gerald M Cherf;Kate R Lieberman;Hytham Rashid;Christopher E Lam

  • Digital Synthesis of Plucked-String and Drum Timbers

    Kevin Karplus;Alex Strong

  • DIRICHLET MIXTURES: A METHOD FOR IMPROVING DETECTION OF WEAK BUT SIGNIFICANT PROTEIN SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY

    Kimmen Sjolander;Kevin Karplus;Michael Brown;Richard Hughey

  • A flexible motif search technique based on generalized profiles

    Philipp Bucher;Kevin Karplus;Nicolas Moeri;Kay Hofmann

  • Classifying G-protein coupled receptors with support vector machines

    Rachel Karchin;Kevin Karplus;David Haussler

  • Combining local‐structure, fold‐recognition, and new fold methods for protein structure prediction

    Kevin Karplus;Rachel Karchin;Jenny Draper;Jonathan Casper

  • Hidden Markov models that use predicted local structure for fold recognition: alphabets of backbone geometry.

    Rachel Karchin;Melissa Cline;Yael Mandel-Gutfreund;Kevin Karplus

  • CAFASP‐1: Critical assessment of fully automated structure prediction methods

    Daniel Fischer;Christian Barret;Kevin Bryson;Arne Elofsson

  • Predicting protein structure using only sequence information

    Kevin Karplus;Christian Barrett;Melissa Cline;Mark Diekhans

  • SAM-T08, HMM-based protein structure prediction.

    Kevin Karplus

  • Xmap: A technology mapper for table-lookup field-programmable gate arrays

    Kevin Karplus

  • Contact prediction using mutual information and neural nets

    George Shackelford;Kevin Karplus

  • Scoring hidden Markov models

    Christian Barrett;Richard Hughey;Kevin Karplus

  • Predicting reliable regions in protein sequence alignments.

    Melissa S. Cline;Richard Hughey;Kevin Karplus

  • SAM-T04: what is new in protein-structure prediction for CASP6.

    Kevin Karplus;Sol Katzman;George Shackleford;Martina Koeva

  • Evaluation of protein multiple alignments by SAM-T99 using the BAliBASE multiple alignment test set.

    Kevin Karplus;Birong Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Karchin
Rachel Karchin Johns Hopkins University
David Haussler
David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz
Cyrus Chothia
Cyrus Chothia MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Mark Diekhans
Mark Diekhans University of California, Santa Cruz
Julian Gough
Julian Gough University of Bristol
Alexandru Nicolau
Alexandru Nicolau University of California, Irvine
Fitnat H. Yildiz
Fitnat H. Yildiz University of California, Santa Cruz
Kay Hofmann
Kay Hofmann University of Cologne
David T. Jones
David T. Jones University College London
Satoru Miyano
Satoru Miyano Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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