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Sean F. Brady

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
64
Citations
16422
World Ranking
9573
National Ranking
4226

Sean F. Brady publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sean F. Brady sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 133 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Sean F. Brady D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sean F. Brady sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Sean F. Brady is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their research spans fields predominantly within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. The scientist's work is especially concentrated in subfields such as Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Microbiology, Epidemiology, and Ecology.

Their research topics highlight areas including Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Biochemical and Structural Characterization, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research.

Frequent collaborators in their work include Yözen Hernández, Melinda A. Ternei, Zongqiang Wang, Bimal Koirala, and Adrián Morales-Amador.

Major publication venues for Sean F. Brady include Nature, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Nature Communications, and ACS Infectious Diseases.

Among recent published papers are:

  • A naturally inspired antibiotic to target multidrug-resistant pathogens, 2022, Nature
  • Bioinformatic prospecting and synthesis of a bifunctional lipopeptide antibiotic that evades resistance, 2022, Science
  • Synthetic-Bioinformatic Natural Product Antibiotics with Diverse Modes of Action, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Bacterial cGAS senses a viral RNA to initiate immunity, 2023, Nature
  • Refactoring biosynthetic gene clusters for heterologous production of microbial natural products, 2021, Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Best Publications

  • Molecular biological access to the chemistry of unknown soil microbes: a new frontier for natural products

    Jo Handelsman;Michelle R. Rondon;Sean F. Brady;Jon Clardy

  • Cloning the soil metagenome: a strategy for accessing the genetic and functional diversity of uncultured microorganisms.

    Michelle R. Rondon;Paul R. August;Alan D. Bettermann;Sean F. Brady

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Isolation of antibiotics turbomycin a and B from a metagenomic library of soil microbial DNA.

    Doreen E. Gillespie;Sean F. Brady;Alan D. Bettermann;Nicholas P. Cianciotto

  • Culture-independent discovery of the malacidins as calcium-dependent antibiotics with activity against multidrug-resistant Gram-positive pathogens.

    Bradley M. Hover;Seong Hwan Kim;Micah Katz;Zachary Charlop-Powers

  • Commensal bacteria make GPCR ligands that mimic human signalling molecules

    Louis J. Cohen;Louis J. Cohen;Daria Esterhazy;Seong-Hwan Kim;Christophe Lemetre

  • Construction of soil environmental DNA cosmid libraries and screening for clones that produce biologically active small molecules.

    Sean F Brady

  • The cytosporones, new octaketide antibiotics isolated from an endophytic fungus.

    Sean F. Brady;Melissa M. Wagenaar;Maya P. Singh;Jeff E. Janso

  • Expanding small-molecule functional metagenomics through parallel screening of broad-host-range cosmid environmental DNA libraries in diverse proteobacteria

    Jeffrey W. Craig;Fang-Yuan Chang;Jeffrey H. Kim;Steven C. Obiajulu

  • Discovery of MRSA active antibiotics using primary sequence from the human microbiome

    John Chu;Xavier Vila-Farres;Daigo Inoyama;Melinda Ternei

  • New Natural Product Families from an Environmental DNA (eDNA) Gene Cluster

    Sean F Brady;Carol J Chao;Jon Clardy

  • The Guanacastepenes: A Highly Diverse Family of Secondary Metabolites Produced by an Endophytic Fungus

    Sean F. Brady;Shana M. Bondi;Jon Clardy

  • Mining the Metabiome: Identifying Novel Natural Products from Microbial Communities

    Aleksandr Milshteyn;Jessica S. Schneider;Sean F. Brady;Sean F. Brady

  • Functional metagenomic discovery of bacterial effectors in the human microbiome and isolation of commendamide, a GPCR G2A/132 agonist.

    Louis J. Cohen;Hahk-Soo Kang;John Chu;Yun-Han Huang

  • Functional analysis of environmental DNA-derived type II polyketide synthases reveals structurally diverse secondary metabolites

    Zhiyang Feng;Dimitris Kallifidas;Sean F. Brady

  • Metagenomic approaches to natural products from free-living and symbiotic organisms.

    Sean F. Brady;Luke Simmons;Jeffrey H. Kim;Eric W. Schmidt

  • Recent application of metagenomic approaches toward the discovery of antimicrobials and other bioactive small molecules.

    Jacob J Banik;Sean F Brady

  • Cloning and characterization of new glycopeptide gene clusters found in an environmental DNA megalibrary

    Jacob J. Banik;Sean F. Brady

  • Global biogeographic sampling of bacterial secondary metabolism.

    Zachary Charlop-Powers;Jeremy G Owen;Boojala Vijay B Reddy;Melinda A Ternei

  • Malleilactone, a Polyketide Synthase-Derived Virulence Factor Encoded by the Cryptic Secondary Metabolome of Burkholderia pseudomallei Group Pathogens

    John B. Biggins;Melinda A. Ternei;Sean F. Brady

Frequent Co-Authors

David S. Perlin
David S. Perlin Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Steven Park
Steven Park Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jon Clardy
Jon Clardy Harvard University
Justin R. Cross
Justin R. Cross Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Fergal O'Gara
Fergal O'Gara University College Cork
Don A. Cowan
Don A. Cowan University of Pretoria
Angela Sessitsch
Angela Sessitsch Austrian Institute of Technology
Craig P. Hunter
Craig P. Hunter Harvard University
Marnix H. Medema
Marnix H. Medema Wageningen University & Research
Nikos C. Kyrpides
Nikos C. Kyrpides Joint Genome Institute

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