2026 Sameer Velankar: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	57	2123	1909	168	151	162	27195

Overview

Sameer Velankar is affiliated with the European Bioinformatics Institute in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology as a subfield.

Their work spans several key topics including:

Protein Structure and Dynamics
Enzyme Structure and Function
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Computational Drug Discovery Methods

Some of the frequent co-authors in their collaborative research include:

Mihály Váradi
Sreenath Nair
S.K. Burley
Stephen Anyango
Genji Kurisu

They publish regularly in a range of scientific journals, with significant contributions to:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nucleic Acids Research
Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics
Journal of Molecular Biology
Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology

Recent papers authored or co-authored include:

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome, 2021, Nature
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database in 2024: providing structure coverage for over 214 million protein sequences, 2023, Nucleic Acids Research
Mol* Viewer: modern web app for 3D visualization and analysis of large biomolecular structures, 2021, Nucleic Acids Research
The CCP4 suite: integrative software for macromolecular crystallography, 2023, Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology

In addition to articles, Sameer Velankar has contributed to book publications, including works published by Frontiers Media such as the proceedings for the 11th international meeting on visualizing biological data (VIZBI 2021) released in 2022.

Best Publications

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models.

Mihaly Varadi;Stephen Anyango;Mandar Deshpande;Sreenath Nair

7802
Citations
Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome

Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool;Jonas Adler;Zachary Wu;Tim Green

2993
Citations
Protein Data Bank (PDB): The Single Global Macromolecular Structure Archive.

Stephen K. Burley;Stephen K. Burley;Helen M. Berman;Gerard J. Kleywegt;John L. Markley

1151
Citations
Crystal structures of complexes of PcrA DNA helicase with a DNA substrate indicate an inchworm mechanism.

Sameer S Velankar;Panos Soultanas;Mark S Dillingham;Hosahalli S Subramanya

920
Citations
SIFTS: Structure Integration with Function, Taxonomy and Sequences resource

Sameer Velankar;Jose M. Dana;Julius O. B. Jacobsen;Glen van Ginkel

394
Citations
PSICQUIC and PSISCORE: accessing and scoring molecular interactions

Bruno Aranda;Hagen Blankenburg;Samuel Kerrien;Fiona S L Brinkman

328
Citations
PDBe: Protein Data Bank in Europe

S. Velankar;C. Best;B. Beuth;C. H. Boutselakis

323
Citations
EMDataBank.org: unified data resource for CryoEM

Catherine L. Lawson;Matthew L. Baker;Christoph Best;Chunxiao Bi

295
Citations
Validation of Structures in the Protein Data Bank

Swanand Gore;Eduardo Sanz García;Pieter M.S. Hendrickx;Aleksandras Gutmanas

264
Citations
Modeling protein-protein and protein-peptide complexes: CAPRI 6th edition.

Marc F. Lensink;Sameer Velankar;Shoshana J. Wodak

227
Citations
SIFTS: updated Structure Integration with Function, Taxonomy and Sequences resource allows 40-fold increase in coverage of structure-based annotations for proteins.

Jose M. Dana;Aleksandras Gutmanas;Nidhi Tyagi;Guoying Qi

221
Citations
Outcome of the First wwPDB Hybrid/Integrative Methods Task Force Workshop

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

199
Citations
Remediation of the protein data bank archive

Kim Henrick;Zukang Feng;Wolfgang Bluhm;Dimitris Dimitropoulos

171
Citations
Prediction of homoprotein and heteroprotein complexes by protein docking and template-based modeling: A CASP-CAPRI experiment.

Marc F. Lensink;Sameer Velankar;Andriy Kryshtafovych;Shen You Huang

168
Citations
The chemical component dictionary: complete descriptions of constituent molecules in experimentally determined 3D macromolecules in the Protein Data Bank

John D. Westbrook;Chenghua Shao;Zukang Feng;Marina Zhuravleva

160
Citations
PDBe: improved accessibility of macromolecular structure data from PDB and EMDB

Sameer Velankar;Glen van Ginkel;Younes Alhroub;Gary M. Battle

142
Citations
Modeling protein‐protein, protein‐peptide, and protein‐oligosaccharide complexes: CAPRI 7th edition

Marc F. Lensink;Nurul Nadzirin;Sameer Velankar;Shoshana J. Wodak

141
Citations
DNA binding mediates conformational changes and metal ion coordination in the active site of PcrA helicase

Panos Soultanas;Mark S Dillingham;Sameer S Velankar;Dale B Wigley

139
Citations
Implementing an X-ray validation pipeline for the Protein Data Bank.

Swanand Gore;Sameer Velankar;Gerard J. Kleywegt

126
Citations
The complex portal - an encyclopaedia of macromolecular complexes

Birgit H.M. Meldal;Oscar Forner-Martinez;Maria C. Costanzo;Jose Dana

121
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen K. Burley Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Gerard J. Kleywegt European Bioinformatics Institute

John L. Markley University of Wisconsin–Madison

Jaroslav Koča Central European Institute of Technology

John D. Westbrook Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Haruki Nakamura Osaka University

Helen M. Berman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Shoshana J. Wodak Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Christine A. Orengo University College London

Janet M. Thornton European Bioinformatics Institute

External Links

Personal website of Sameer Velankar

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