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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
115
Citations
60664
World Ranking
614
National Ranking
18

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Siewert J. Marrink is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily addresses molecular biology, with significant work also covering biomedical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, materials chemistry, and cell biology.

The scientist's research themes are closely associated with lipid membrane structure and behavior, protein structure and dynamics, and nanopore and nanochannel transport studies. Additional areas of focus include spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, enzyme structure and function, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, and glycosylation and glycoproteins research.

Among the recent scholarly papers authored or co-authored by Siewert J. Marrink are:

  • Martini 3: a general purpose force field for coarse-grained molecular dynamics, 2021, Nature Methods
  • Protein-ligand binding with the coarse-grained Martini model, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Two decades of Martini: Better beads, broader scope, 2022, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational Molecular Science
  • Membrane thickness, lipid phase and sterol type are determining factors in the permeability of membranes to small solutes, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Martini 3 Coarse-Grained Force Field: Small Molecules, 2021, Advanced Theory and Simulations

Marrink has frequently collaborated with a number of co-authors. The most prolific among these are Paulo C. T. Souza with 52 joint publications, Fabian Grünewald with 26, Sebastian Thallmair with 22, Riccardo Alessandri with 20, and Tsjerk A. Wassenaar with 18.

The scientist regularly publishes in specific venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 25 publications, the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation with 17, Nature Communications and Biophysical Journal both with 12 publications, followed by Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 8 publications.

Best Publications

  • The MARTINI force field : Coarse grained model for biomolecular simulations

    Siewert J. Marrink;H. Jelger Risselada;Serge Yefimov;D. Peter Tieleman

  • The MARTINI Coarse-Grained Force Field: Extension to Proteins

    Luca Monticelli;Senthil K. Kandasamy;Xavier Periole;Ronald G. Larson

  • Coarse grained model for semiquantitative lipid simulations

    Siewert Marrink;de Alex Vries;AE Mark

  • Improved Parameters for the Martini Coarse-Grained Protein Force Field

    Djurre H. de Jong;Gurpreet Singh;W. F. Drew Bennett;Clement Arnarez

  • Martini 3 : A general purpose force field for coarse-grained molecular dynamics

    Paulo C. T. Souza;Paulo C. T. Souza;Riccardo Alessandri;Jonathan Barnoud;Jonathan Barnoud;Sebastian Thallmair;Sebastian Thallmair

  • Perspective on the Martini model.

    Siewert J. Marrink;D. Peter Tieleman

  • Computational Lipidomics with insane: A Versatile Tool for Generating Custom Membranes for Molecular Simulations

    Tsjerk A. Wassenaar;Tsjerk A. Wassenaar;Helgi I. Ingólfsson;Rainer A. Böckmann;D. Peter Tieleman

  • A COMPUTER PERSPECTIVE OF MEMBRANES : MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDIES OF LIPID BILAYER SYSTEMS

    D.P Tieleman;Siewert Marrink;H.J.C. Berendsen

  • Simulation of Water Transport through a Lipid Membrane

    Siewert-Jan Marrink;Herman J. C. Berendsen

  • Polarizable Water Model for the Coarse-Grained MARTINI Force Field

    Semen O. Yesylevskyy;Lars V. Schäfer;Durba Sengupta;Siewert J. Marrink

  • Lipid organization of the plasma membrane.

    Helgi I Ingólfsson;Manuel N Melo;Floris J van Eerden;Clément Arnarez

  • Combining an Elastic Network With a Coarse-Grained Molecular Force Field: Structure, Dynamics, and Intermolecular Recognition

    Xavier Periole;Marco Cavalli;Siewert-Jan Marrink;Marco A. Ceruso

  • Going Backward : A Flexible Geometric Approach to Reverse Transformation from Coarse Grained to Atomistic Models

    Tsjerk A. Wassenaar;Kristyna Pluhackova;Rainer A. Böckmann;Siewert J. Marrink

  • Computational Modeling of Realistic Cell Membranes

    Siewert J. Marrink;Valentina Corradi;Paulo C.T. Souza;Helgi I. Ingólfsson

  • Toroidal pores formed by antimicrobial peptides show significant disorder.

    Durba Sengupta;Hari Leontiadou;Alan E. Mark;Siewert-Jan Marrink

  • The molecular face of lipid rafts in model membranes.

    H. Jelger Risselada;Siewert J. Marrink

  • The power of coarse graining in biomolecular simulations

    Helgi I. Ingólfsson;Cesar A. Lopez;Jaakko J. Uusitalo;Djurre H. de Jong

  • Antimicrobial Peptides in Action

    Hari Leontiadou;and Alan E. Mark;Siewert J. Marrink

  • Permeation Process of Small Molecules across Lipid Membranes Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

    Siewert J. Marrink;Herman J.C. Berendsen

  • Simulation of pore formation in lipid bilayers by mechanical stress and electric fields

    DP Tieleman;H Leontiadou;AE Mark;Siewert Marrink

  • Lipid Organization of the Plasma Membrane

    Helgi I. Ingolfsson;Peter Tieleman;Siewert Marrink

  • The MARTINI force field

    S.J. Marrink;M. Fuhrmans;H.J. Risselada;X. Periole

Frequent Co-Authors

D. Peter Tieleman
D. Peter Tieleman University of Calgary
Alan E. Mark
Alan E. Mark University of Queensland
Bert Poolman
Bert Poolman University of Groningen
Mark A. Knackstedt
Mark A. Knackstedt Australian National University
Herman J. C. Berendsen
Herman J. C. Berendsen University of Groningen
Dick B. Janssen
Dick B. Janssen University of Groningen
Remco W. A. Havenith
Remco W. A. Havenith University of Groningen
Thomas P. Sakmar
Thomas P. Sakmar Rockefeller University
Marcus Müller
Marcus Müller University of Göttingen

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