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2024

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D-Index
84
Citations
25297
World Ranking
1364
National Ranking
105

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Thomas Dandekar is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research spans primarily the domains of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Within these fields, Dandekar has contributed extensively to subfields including Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases, Plant Science, Immunology, and Genetics.

Dandekar's recent scientific output highlights several publications across prominent journals. Notable papers include:

  • Platelet glycoprotein VI promotes metastasis through interaction with cancer cell-derived Galectin-3, 2020, Blood
  • Integrative functional genomics decodes herpes simplex virus 1, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Rapid proliferation due to better metabolic adaptation results in full virulence of a filament-deficient Candida albicans strain, 2021, Nature Communications
  • An optimized genetically encoded dual reporter for simultaneous ratio imaging of Ca2+ and H+ reveals new insights into ion signaling in plants, 2021, New Phytologist
  • ACKR3 regulates platelet activation and ischemia-reperfusion tissue injury, 2022, Nature Communications

Their work covers a variety of research topics, focusing on:

  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Platelet Disorders and Treatments
  • Antiplatelet Therapy and Cardiovascular Diseases
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

Dandekar often collaborates with other researchers, with frequent co-authors including Meik Kunz, Elena Bencúrová, Özge Osmanoğlu, Chunguang Liang, and Mugdha Srivastava.

The majority of their publications appear in several key venues, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

In addition to journal articles, Thomas Dandekar has authored a book published by Springer Nature titled Bioinformatik am Beispiel des SARS-CoV2 Virus und der Covid19 Pandemie in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Conservation of gene order: a fingerprint of proteins that physically interact

    Thomas Dandekar;Berend Snel;Martijn Huynen;Peer Bork

  • A general definition of metabolic pathways useful for systematic organization and analysis of complex metabolic networks.

    Stefan Schuster;David A. Fell;Thomas Dandekar;Thomas Dandekar

  • Detection of elementary flux modes in biochemical networks: a promising tool for pathway analysis and metabolic engineering

    Stefan Schuster;Thomas Dandekar;Thomas Dandekar;David A. Fell

  • Identifying functional modules in protein–protein interaction networks

    Marcus T. Dittrich;Gunnar W. Klau;Andreas Rosenwald;Thomas Dandekar

  • 5.8S-28S rRNA interaction and HMM-based ITS2 annotation

    Alexander Keller;Tina Schleicher;Jörg Schultz;Tobias Müller

  • Predicting function: from genes to genomes and back.

    Peer Bork;Thomas Dandekar;Yolande Diaz-Lazcoz;Frank Eisenhaber

  • Carbon metabolism of intracellular bacterial pathogens and possible links to virulence.

    Wolfgang Eisenreich;Thomas Dandekar;Jürgen Heesemann;Werner Goebel;Werner Goebel

  • 4SALE--a tool for synchronous RNA sequence and secondary structure alignment and editing.

    Philipp N Seibel;Tobias Müller;Thomas Dandekar;Jörg Schultz

  • Identification of a novel iron-responsive element in murine and human erythroid delta-aminolevulinic acid synthase mRNA.

    T Dandekar;R Stripecke;N K Gray;B Goossen

  • Long noncoding RNA Chast promotes cardiac remodeling.

    Janika Viereck;Regalla Kumarswamy;Ariana Foinquinos;Ke Xiao

  • Pathway alignment: application to the comparative analysis of glycolytic enzymes.

    Thomas Dandekar;Thomas Dandekar;Stefan Schuster;Berend Snel;Berend Snel;Martijn Huynen;Martijn Huynen;Martijn Huynen

  • Metabolic Interdependence of Obligate Intracellular Bacteria and Their Insect Hosts

    Evelyn Zientz;Thomas Dandekar;Roy Gross

  • Synchronous visual analysis and editing of RNA sequence and secondary structure alignments using 4SALE

    Philipp N Seibel;Tobias Müller;Thomas Dandekar;Matthias Wolf

  • Single-cell genomics reveals the lifestyle of Poribacteria, a candidate phylum symbiotically associated with marine sponges

    Alexander Siegl;Janine Kamke;Thomas Hochmuth;Jörn Piel

  • The linear chromosome of the plant-pathogenic mycoplasma 'Candidatus Phytoplasma mali'

    Michael Kube;Bernd Schneider;Heiner Kuhl;Thomas Dandekar

  • Re-annotating the Mycoplasma pneumoniae genome sequence: adding value, function and reading frames

    Thomas Dandekar;Martijn Huynen;Jörg Thomas Regula;Barbara Ueberle

  • BioNet: an R-Package for the functional analysis of biological networks

    Daniela Beisser;Gunnar W. Klau;Thomas Dandekar;Tobias Müller

  • Processing of the precursors to small nucleolar RNAs and rRNAs requires common components.

    Elisabeth Petfalski;Thomas Dandekar;Yves Henry;David Tollervey

  • Exploring the pathway structure of metabolism: decomposition into subnetworks and application to Mycoplasma pneumoniae

    Stefan Schuster;Thomas Pfeiffer;Ferdinand Moldenhauer;Ina Koch

  • Fecal SCFAs and SCFA-producing bacteria in gut microbiome of human NAFLD as a putative link to systemic T-cell activation and advanced disease

    Monika Rau;Ateequr Rehman;Marcus Dittrich;Albert K Groen

Frequent Co-Authors

Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Stefan Schuster
Stefan Schuster Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Jörg Schultz
Jörg Schultz University of Würzburg
Martijn A. Huynen
Martijn A. Huynen Radboud University Medical Center
Martina Schnölzer
Martina Schnölzer German Cancer Research Center
Roy Gross
Roy Gross University of Würzburg
Thomas Thum
Thomas Thum Hannover Medical School
Berend Snel
Berend Snel Utrecht University
Jörg Bernhardt
Jörg Bernhardt University of Greifswald
Patrick Argos
Patrick Argos Purdue University West Lafayette

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