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83
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2884
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Randy J. Read is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a range of topics primarily in biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, as well as materials science.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Materials Science

Their subfields of study further specify an emphasis on:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Materials Chemistry
  • Structural Biology
  • Spectroscopy
  • Genetics

The main topics addressed in Randy J. Read's work are:

  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications

Some of their recent published papers include:

  • Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a three-track neural network, 2021, Science
  • The CCP4 suite: integrative software for macromolecular crystallography, 2023, Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology
  • Improvement of cryo-EM maps by density modification, 2020, Nature Methods
  • AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination, 2023, Nature Methods
  • Improved AlphaFold modeling with implicit experimental information, 2022, Nature Methods

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Airlie J. McCoy
  • Thomas C. Terwilliger
  • Tristan I. Croll
  • Claudia Millán
  • Paul D. Adams

Randy J. Read often publishes in the following venues:

  • Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Methods
  • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
  • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances

In recognition of scholarly contributions, Randy J. Read was named a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Phenix - a comprehensive python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

    Paul D Adams;Paul D Adams;Pavel Afonine;Gábor Bunkóczi;Vincent B Chen

  • Phaser crystallographic software

    Airlie J. McCoy;Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve;Paul D. Adams;Martyn D. Winn

  • Crystallography & NMR System: A New Software Suite for Macromolecular Structure Determination

    A.T. Brünger;A.T. Brünger;P.D. Adams;G.M. Clore;W.L. DeLano

  • Overview of the CCP4 suite and current developments.

    Martyn D. Winn;Charles C. Ballard;Kevin D Cowtan;Eleanor J. Dodson

  • Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in Phenix

    D. Liebschner;P.V. Afonine;M.L. Baker;G. Bunkóczi

  • Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a three-track neural network

    Minkyung Baek;Frank DiMaio;Ivan Anishchenko;Justas Dauparas

  • PHENIX: building new software for automated crystallographic structure determination

    Paul D Adams;Ralf W Grosse-Kunstleve;Li Wei Hung;Thomas R Ioerger

  • Real-space refinement in PHENIX for cryo-EM and crystallography.

    Pavel V. Afonine;Pavel V. Afonine;Billy K. Poon;Randy J. Read;Oleg V. Sobolev

  • Likelihood-enhanced fast translation functions.

    Airlie J. McCoy;Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve;Laurent C. Storoni;Randy J. Read

  • Iterative model building, structure refinement and density modification with the PHENIX AutoBuild wizard

    Thomas C Terwilliger;Ralf W Grosse-Kunstleve;Pavel V Afonine;Nigel W Moriarty

  • Likelihood-enhanced fast rotation functions.

    Laurent C. Storoni;Airlie J. McCoy;Randy J. Read

  • Structure of a serpin–protease complex shows inhibition by deformation

    James A. Huntington;Randy J. Read;Robin W. Carrell

  • Shiga-like toxins are neutralized by tailored multivalent carbohydrate ligands

    Pavel I. Kitov;Joanna M. Sadowska;George Mulvey;Glen D. Armstrong

  • Pushing the boundaries of molecular replacement with maximum likelihood

    Randy J. Read

  • The Phenix software for automated determination of macromolecular structures.

    Paul D. Adams;Pavel V. Afonine;Gábor Bunkóczi;Vincent B. Chen

  • Decision-making in structure solution using Bayesian estimates of map quality: the PHENIX AutoSol wizard

    Thomas C Terwilliger;Paul D Adams;Randy J Read;Airlie J McCoy

  • The CCP4 suite: integrative software for macromolecular crystallography

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  • Automated Structure Solution with the PHENIX Suite

    Peter H. Zwart;Pavel V. Afonine;Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve;Li-Wei Hung

  • Structure of the Shiga-like Toxin I B-Pentamer Complexed with an Analogue of Its Receptor Gb3†,‡

    Hong Ling;Amechand Boodhoo;Bart Hazes;Maxwell D. Cummings

  • Cross-validated maximum likelihood enhances crystallographic simulated annealing refinement

    Paul D. Adams;Navraj S. Pannu;Randy J. Read;Axel T. Brünger

  • A New Generation of Crystallographic Validation Tools for the Protein Data Bank

    Randy J. Read;Paul D. Adams;W. Bryan Arendall;Axel T. Brunger

  • Accumulating evidence suggests that several AB-toxins subvert the endoplasmic reticulum-associated protein degradation pathway to enter target cells.

    Bart Hazes;Randy J. Read

  • Evolving Methods for Macromolecular Crystallography

    Randy J. Read;Joel L. Sussman

  • High-resolution structure prediction and the crystallographic phase problem

    Bin Qian;Srivatsan Raman;Rhiju Das;Philip Bradley

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul D. Adams
Paul D. Adams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Thomas C. Terwilliger
Thomas C. Terwilliger Los Alamos National Laboratory
Pavel V. Afonine
Pavel V. Afonine Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Robin W. Carrell
Robin W. Carrell University of Cambridge
Axel T. Brunger
Axel T. Brunger Stanford University
Jane S. Richardson
Jane S. Richardson Duke University
Michael N. G. James
Michael N. G. James University of Alberta
David C. Richardson
David C. Richardson Duke University
David Baker
David Baker University of Washington

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