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Michael Nilges 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 Michael Nilges sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 275 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Nilges 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 Michael Nilges sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael Nilges is affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, authoring 61 publications in these areas.

Their subfield expertise includes:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Genetics
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Ecology

Michael Nilges' main research topics focus on:

  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Bioinformatics
  • Nature

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael Nilges are:

  • Bat coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2 and infectious for human cells, 2022, Nature
  • The iPPI-DB initiative: a community-centered database of protein-protein interaction modulators, 2020, Bioinformatics
  • ARIAweb: a server for automated NMR structure calculation, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • Bayesian inference of chromatin structure ensembles from population-averaged contact data, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Structural determination of Streptococcus pyogenes M1 protein interactions with human immunoglobulin G using integrative structural biology, 2021, PLoS Computational Biology

The list of frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael Nilges includes:

  • Yasaman Karami
  • Benjamin Bardiaux
  • Nadia Izadi-Pruneyre
  • Olivier Spérandio
  • Alexandra Moine-Franel

Best Publications

  • MODBASE, a database of annotated comparative protein structure models, and associated resources

    Ursula Pieper;Narayanan Eswar;Ben M. Webb;David Eramian;David Eramian

  • Automated NOESY interpretation with ambiguous distance restraints: the refined NMR solution structure of the pleckstrin homology domain from beta-spectrin.

    Michael Nilges;Maria J Macias;Séan I O’Donoghue;Hartmut Oschkinat

  • ARIA: automated NOE assignment and NMR structure calculation.

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  • Architecture of the RNA polymerase II–TFIIF complex revealed by cross-linking and mass spectrometry

    Zhuo Angel Chen;Anass Jawhari;Lutz Fischer;Claudia Buchen

  • Structure of the binding site for inositol phosphates in a PH domain.

    M Hyvonen;M.J Macias;M Nilges;H Oschkinat

  • Three−dimensional structure and stability of the KH domain: molecular insights into the fragile X syndrome

    Giovanna Musco;Gunter Stier;Catherine Joseph;Maria Antonietta Castiglione Morelli

  • Structure of the dsRNA binding domain of E. coli RNase III.

    Abelhakim Kharrat;M. J. Macias;T. J. Gibson;M. Nilges

  • INTERNAL REPEATS IN THE BRCA2 PROTEIN SEQUENCE

    Peer Bork;Peer Bork;Niklas Blomberg;Michael Nilges

  • Functional Analysis of Early Secreted Antigenic Target-6, the Dominant T-cell Antigen of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Reveals Key Residues Involved in Secretion, Complex Formation, Virulence, and Immunogenicity

    Priscille Brodin;Marien I. de Jonge;Laleh Majlessi;Claude Leclerc

  • The structure of a novel insecticidal neurotoxin, omega-atracotoxin-HV1, from the venom of an Australian funnel web spider.

    Jamie I. Fletcher;Ross Smith;Séan I. O'Donoghue;Michael Nilges

  • Computational challenges for macromolecular structure determination by X-ray crystallography and solution NMRspectroscopy

    Axel T. Brünger;Michael Nilges

  • Complementarity of structure ensembles in protein-protein binding.

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  • SNARE Protein Mimicry by an Intracellular Bacterium

    Cédric Delevoye;Michael Nilges;Pierre Dehoux;Fabienne Paumet

  • Posttranslational Modification of Pili upon Cell Contact Triggers N. meningitidis Dissemination

    Julia Chamot-Rooke;Julia Chamot-Rooke;Guillain Mikaty;Guillain Mikaty;Christian Malosse;Christian Malosse;Magali Soyer;Magali Soyer

  • Outcome of the First wwPDB Hybrid/Integrative Methods Task Force Workshop

    Andrej Sali;Helen M. Berman;Torsten Schwede;Jill Trewhella

  • Structural Biology by NMR: Structure, Dynamics, and Interactions

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  • Visualization of macromolecular structures

    Seán I O'Donoghue;David S Goodsell;Achilleas S Frangakis;Fabrice Jossinet

  • The three-dimensional structure of the HRDC domain and implications for the Werner and Bloom syndrome proteins.

    Z. Liu;Maria J. Macias;Matthew James Bottomley;Gunter Stier

  • Flexibility and Conformational Entropy in Protein-Protein Binding

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  • The CCPN project: an interim report on a data model for the NMR community.

    Rasmus Fogh;John Ionides;Eldon Ulrich;Wayne Boucher

Frequent Co-Authors

Angela M. Gronenborn
Angela M. Gronenborn University of Pittsburgh
Hartmut Oschkinat
Hartmut Oschkinat Freie Universität Berlin
Andrej Sali
Andrej Sali University of California, San Francisco
Wim F. Vranken
Wim F. Vranken Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Michael Sattler
Michael Sattler Technical University of Munich
G. Marius Clore
G. Marius Clore National Institutes of Health
Axel T. Brunger
Axel T. Brunger Stanford University
Matti Saraste
Matti Saraste European Bioinformatics Institute
Juri Rappsilber
Juri Rappsilber Technical University of Berlin
Edward H. Egelman
Edward H. Egelman University of Virginia

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