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D-Index
60
Citations
17317
World Ranking
9557
National Ranking
2686

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For seminal contributions to understanding nucleic acid structure, properties, and interactions, for leadership in developing important computational methods used to analyze and rebuild nucleic acid structures, and for pioneering theoretical investigations of DNA structure and supercoiling
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1978 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1975 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Wilma K. Olson is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their body of research spans biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology, geology, ecology, genetics, and information systems and management.

The scientist's main topics of work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, genomics and chromatin dynamics, environmental monitoring and data management, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and protein structure and dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Biophysical Reviews
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Life
  • The Journal of Chemical Physics

Notable recent papers include:

  • Geometric variations in nucleosomal DNA dictate higher-order chromatin structure and enhancer-promoter communication, 2024, The Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Revisiting DNA Sequence-Dependent Deformability in High-Resolution Structures: Effects of Flanking Base Pairs on Dinucleotide Morphology and Global Chain Configuration, 2022, Life
  • Editors' roundup: October 2022, 2022, Biophysical Reviews
  • Surprising Twists in Nucleosomal DNA with Implication for Higher-order Folding, 2021, Journal of Molecular Biology
  • Biophysical Reviews' "Meet the Editors Series"-a profile of Wilma K. Olson, 2020, Biophysical Reviews

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with this scientist include Robert T. Young, Stefjord Todolli, Damien Hall, Luke Czapla, and Nicolas Claude.

The scientist has been recognized with several fellowships, including:

  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2018, for contributions to understanding nucleic acid structure, properties, and interactions as well as leadership in computational methods and investigations of DNA structure and supercoiling
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1995
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1978
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1975

Best Publications

  • 3DNA: a software package for the analysis, rebuilding and visualization of three‐dimensional nucleic acid structures

    Xiang Jun Lu;Wilma K. Olson

  • DNA sequence-dependent deformability deduced from protein–DNA crystal complexes

    Wilma K. Olson;Andrey A. Gorin;Xiang-Jun Lu;Lynette M. Hock

  • The nucleic acid database. A comprehensive relational database of three-dimensional structures of nucleic acids

    H.M. Berman;W.K. Olson;D.L. Beveridge;J. Westbrook

  • 3DNA: a versatile, integrated software system for the analysis, rebuilding and visualization of three-dimensional nucleic-acid structures.

    Xiang-Jun Lu;Xiang-Jun Lu;Wilma K Olson

  • A standard reference frame for the description of nucleic acid base-pair geometry

    Wilma K Olson;Manju Bansal;Stephen K Burley;Richard E Dickerson

  • B-DNA Twisting Correlates with Base-pair Morphology

    A A Gorin;V B Zhurkin;V B Zhurkin;W K Olson

  • A-form conformational motifs in ligand-bound DNA structures.

    Xiang Jun Lu;Zippora Shakked;Wilma K. Olson

  • Web 3DNA—a web server for the analysis, reconstruction, and visualization of three-dimensional nucleic-acid structures

    Guohui Zheng;Xiang-Jun Lu;Wilma K. Olson

  • Web 3DNA 2.0 for the analysis, visualization, and modeling of 3D nucleic acid structures.

    Shuxiang Li;Wilma K Olson;Xiang-Jun Lu

  • Quasi-harmonic method for studying very low frequency modes in proteins

    R. M. Levy;A. R. Srinivasan;W. K. Olson;J. A. McCammon

  • DSSR: an integrated software tool for dissecting the spatial structure of RNA

    Xiang-Jun Lu;Harmen J. Bussemaker;Wilma K. Olson

  • Geometric Parameters in Nucleic Acids: Sugar and Phosphate Constituents

    Anke Gelbin;Bohdan Schneider;Lester Clowney;Shu Hsin Hsieh

  • A Novel ‘Roll-and-Slide’ Mechanism of DNA Folding in Chromatin. Implications for Nucleosome Positioning

    Michael Y. Tolstorukov;Andrew V. Colasanti;David M. McCandlish;Wilma K. Olson

  • Geometric parameters in nucleic acids: Nitrogenous bases

    Lester Clowney;Shri C. Jain;A. R. Srinivasan;John Westbrook

  • How flexible is the furanose ring? 1. A comparison of experimental and theoretical studies

    Wilma K. Olson;Joel L. Sussman

  • How flexible is the furanose ring? 2. An updated potential energy estimate

    Wilma K. Olson

  • Modeling DNA deformations.

    Wilma K Olson;Victor B Zhurkin

  • DNA stretching and compression: large-scale simulations of double helical structures

    Konstantin M. Kosikov;Andrey A. Gorin;Victor B. Zhurkin;Wilma K. Olson

  • Influence of fluctuations on DNA curvature. A comparison of flexible and static wedge models of intrinsically bent DNA.

    Wilma K. Olson;Nancy L. Marky;Robert L. Jernigan;Victor B. Zhurkin

  • Simulating DNA at low resolution

    Wilma K Olson

  • The influence of salt on the structure and energetics of supercoiled DNA.

    T. Schlick;Bin Li;W. K. Olson

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor B. Zhurkin
Victor B. Zhurkin National Institutes of Health
Gerald S. Manning
Gerald S. Manning Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kenneth J. Breslauer
Kenneth J. Breslauer Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Helen M. Berman
Helen M. Berman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Tamar Schlick
Tamar Schlick New York University
Daniel S. Pilch
Daniel S. Pilch Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Vsevolod Katritch
Vsevolod Katritch University of Southern California
John D. Westbrook
John D. Westbrook Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dorothy A. Erie
Dorothy A. Erie University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bernard D. Coleman
Bernard D. Coleman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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