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70
Citations
24791
World Ranking
6875
National Ranking
60

Overview

Nir Ben-Tal is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has contributed extensively to the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology. Their research covers a range of topics within these areas, including protein structure and dynamics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, enzyme structure and function, machine learning in bioinformatics, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and drug transport and resistance mechanisms.

Ben-Tal has published numerous papers in prominent scientific journals. Some of their recent works include:

  • "Using evolutionary data to make sense of macromolecules with a "face-lifted" ConSurf", 2023, Protein Science
  • "PredictProtein - Predicting Protein Structure and Function for 29 Years", 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Potential Antigenic Cross-reactivity Between Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Dengue Viruses", 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "On the emergence of P-Loop NTPase and Rossmann enzymes from a Beta-Alpha-Beta ancestral fragment", 2020, eLife
  • "Validity of machine learning in biology and medicine increased through collaborations across fields of expertise", 2020, Nature Machine Intelligence

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Ben-Tal include:

  • Rachel Kolodny
  • Gal Masrati
  • Amit Kessel
  • Oded Lewinson
  • Türkan Haliloǧlu

Ben-Tal's research has been featured extensively in several scientific venues, with multiple publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Protein Science
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry

Themes within their work span experimental and computational studies centered on protein science and molecular function, reflecting a cross-disciplinary approach that integrates machine learning applications with biological research. Their publication record reveals an ongoing contribution to the understanding of macromolecular structures, biological synthesis processes, and evolutionary biology.

Best Publications

  • ConSurf 2016: an improved methodology to estimate and visualize evolutionary conservation in macromolecules.

    Haim Ashkenazy;Shiran Abadi;Eric Martz;Ofer Chay

  • ConSurf 2010: calculating evolutionary conservation in sequence and structure of proteins and nucleic acids

    Haim Ashkenazy;Elana Erez;Eric Martz;Tal Pupko

  • ConSurf 2005: the projection of evolutionary conservation scores of residues on protein structures

    Meytal Landau;Itay Mayrose;Yossi Rosenberg;Fabian Glaser

  • ConSurf: identification of functional regions in proteins by surface-mapping of phylogenetic information

    Fabian Glaser;Tal Pupko;Inbal Paz;Rachel E. Bell

  • PredictProtein—an open resource for online prediction of protein structural and functional features

    Guy Yachdav;Edda Kloppmann;Laszlo Kajan;Maximilian Hecht

  • Rate4Site: an algorithmic tool for the identification of functional regions in proteins by surface mapping of evolutionary determinants within their homologues

    Tal Pupko;Rachel E. Bell;Itay Mayrose;Fabian Glaser

  • ConSurf: Using Evolutionary Data to Raise Testable Hypotheses about Protein Function

    Gershon Celniker;Guy Nimrod;Haim Ashkenazy;Fabian Glaser

  • ConSurf: an algorithmic tool for the identification of functional regions in proteins by surface mapping of phylogenetic information.

    Aharon Armon;Dan Graur;Nir Ben-Tal

  • ConSeq: the identification of functionally and structurally important residues in protein sequences

    Carine Berezin;Fabian Glaser;Josef Rosenberg;Inbal Paz

  • Comparison of Site-Specific Rate-Inference Methods for Protein Sequences: Empirical Bayesian Methods Are Superior

    Itay Mayrose;Dan Graur;Nir Ben-Tal;Tal Pupko

  • Residue frequencies and pairing preferences at protein–protein interfaces

    Fabian Glaser;David M. Steinberg;Ilya A. Vakser;Nir Ben-Tal

  • Mutations in the gene encoding pejvakin, a newly identified protein of the afferent auditory pathway, cause DFNB59 auditory neuropathy

    Sedigheh Delmaghani;Francisco J del Castillo;Vincent Michel;Michel Leibovici

  • Binding of small basic peptides to membranes containing acidic lipids: theoretical models and experimental results

    N. Ben-Tal;B. Honig;R.M. Peitzsch;G. Denisov

  • A putative molecular-activation switch in the transmembrane domain of erbB2.

    Sarel J. Fleishman;Joseph Schlessinger;Nir Ben-Tal

  • Comment on "Network motifs: simple building blocks of complex networks" and "Superfamilies of evolved and designed networks".

    Yael Artzy-Randrup;Sarel J. Fleishman;Nir Ben-Tal;Lewi Stone

  • The ConSurf-DB: pre-calculated evolutionary conservation profiles of protein structures

    Ofir Goldenberg;Elana Erez;Guy Nimrod;Nir Ben-Tal

  • Electrostatic interaction of myristoylated proteins with membranes: simple physics, complicated biology

    Diana Murray;Nir Ben-Tal;Barry Honig;Stuart McLaughlin

  • Free-energy determinants of alpha-helix insertion into lipid bilayers

    N Ben-Tal;A Ben-Shaul;A Nicholls;B H Honig

  • Electrostatics and the membrane association of Src: theory and experiment

    Diana Murray;Luz Hermida-Matsumoto;Carolyn A. Buser;James Tsang

  • Electrostatic properties of membranes containing acidic lipids and adsorbed basic peptides: theory and experiment.

    Diana Murray;Anna Arbuzova;Gyöngyi Hangyás-Mihályné;Alok Gambhir

Frequent Co-Authors

Tal Pupko
Tal Pupko Tel Aviv University
Barry Honig
Barry Honig Columbia University
Etana Padan
Etana Padan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rajini Rao
Rajini Rao Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Dan S. Tawfik
Dan S. Tawfik Weizmann Institute of Science
Dan Halperin
Dan Halperin Tel Aviv University
Burkhard Rost
Burkhard Rost Technical University of Munich
Chris Sander
Chris Sander Harvard University
Piero Fariselli
Piero Fariselli University of Turin
Karen B. Avraham
Karen B. Avraham Tel Aviv University

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