2026 Michael J. Waring: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	65	1662	129	241	16997

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Molecular Biology

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Overview

Michael J. Waring was affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research focused extensively on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, alongside significant contributions in chemistry.

Their scholarly output spanned key subfields such as molecular biology, organic chemistry, materials chemistry, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and computational theory and mathematics. These areas reflect a broad engagement with both experimental and theoretical aspects of the life sciences and chemistry.

The primary topics in Michael J. Waring's research included chemical synthesis and analysis, click chemistry and applications, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies research, computational drug discovery methods, protein degradation and inhibitors, and crystallization and solubility studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work were:

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
The Cambridge Structural Database
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Chemical Science

The scientist collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including Mathew P. Martin, M.E.M. Noble, Harriet A. Stanway-Gordon, Lan Z. Wang, and Jessica S. Graham.

Significant recent publications included:

Crystallographic and electrophilic fragment screening of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, 2020, Nature Communications
Crystallographic and electrophilic fragment screening of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Alkynyl Benzoxazines and Dihydroquinazolines as Cysteine Targeting Covalent Warheads and Their Application in Identification of Selective Irreversible Kinase Inhibitors, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
Highly efficient on-DNA amide couplings promoted by micelle forming surfactants for the synthesis of DNA encoded libraries, 2021, Chemical Science
The Maturation of DNA Encoded Libraries: Opportunities for New Users, 2020, Future Medicinal Chemistry

Best Publications

Complex formation between ethidium bromide and nucleic acids.

M.J. Waring

2215
Citations
Variation of the supercoils in closed circular DNA by binding of antibiotics and drugs: evidence for molecular models involving intercalation.

Michael Waring

1069
Citations
DNA modification and cancer.

M J Waring

979
Citations
DNA sequence- and structure-selective alkylation of guanine N2 in the DNA minor groove by ecteinascidin 743, a potent antitumor compound from the Caribbean tunicate Ecteinascidia turbinata.

Yves Pommier;Glenda Kohlhagen;Christian Bailly;Michael Waring

436
Citations
Molecular Aspects of Anticancer Drug-DNA Interactions

Stephen Neidle;Michael J. Waring

436
Citations
Nucleotide Sequence Repetition: A Rapidly Reassociating Fraction of Mouse DNA

Michael Waring;Roy J. Britten

376
Citations
Supercoiling of polyoma virus DNA measured by its interaction with ethidium bromide

L.V. Crawford;M.J. Waring

375
Citations
Echinomycin: a bifunctional intercalating antibiotic.

M. J. Waring;L. P. G. Wakelin

370
Citations
Drugs which affect the Structure and Function of DNA

Waring Mj

314
Citations
Assignment of DNA binding sites for 4′,6-diamidine-2-phenylindole and bisbenzimide (Hoechst 33258). A comparative footprinting study

Jose Portugal;Michael J. Waring

301
Citations
DNA structural variations produced by actinomycin and distamycin as revealed by DNAase I footprinting

Keith R. Fox;Michael J. Waring

297
Citations
Preferential binding of daunomycin to 5'ATCG and 5'ATGC sequences revealed by footprinting titration experiments.

Jonathan B. Chaires;Julio E. Herrera;Michael J. Waring

277
Citations
Site and sequence specificity of the daunomycin-DNA interaction.

Jonathan B. Chaires;Keith R. Fox;Julio E. Herrera;Mark Britt

253
Citations
Sequence-specific binding of echinomycin to DNA: evidence for conformational changes affecting flanking sequences

C.M.Loretta Low;Horace R. Drew;Michael J. Waring

202
Citations
The binding of echinomycin to deoxyribonucleic acid

S P Wakelin;M J Waring

200
Citations
Structural requirements for the binding of ethidium to nucleic acids.

M.J. Waring

192
Citations
Synthesis of a Functionalized Salen−Copper Complex and Its Interaction with DNA

Sylvain Routier;Jean-Luc Bernier;Michael J. Waring;Pierre Colson

171
Citations
A non-intercalating proflavine derivative.

Werner Müller;Donald M. Crothers;Michael J. Waring

158
Citations
Comparison of binding sites in DNA for berenil, netropsin and distamycin. A footprinting study.

José Portugal;Michael J. Waring

149
Citations
2,3-Bifunctionalized Quinoxalines: Synthesis, DNA Interactions and Evaluation of Anticancer, Anti-tuberculosis and Antifungal Activity

Michael J. Waring;Taibi Ben-Hadda;Ann T. Kotchevar;Abdelkrim Ramdani

148
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith R. Fox University of Southampton

Christian Bailly Université Catholique de Louvain

Jonathan B. Chaires University of Louisville

Claude Hélène Grenoble Alpes University

Andrew Travers MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

Christophe Marchand National Institutes of Health

Stephen Neidle University College London

Maria Tomasz City University of New York

William A. Denny University of Auckland

George M. Sheldrick University of Göttingen

External Links

Personal website of Michael J. Waring

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