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Professor Sandor Vajda

Overview

Professor Sandor Vajda is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry at Boston University. He is also the director of the Biomolecular Engineering Research Center (also known as the Structural Bioinformatics Lab) at BU. His lab combines mathematical and computational tools to explore molecular interactions, with a focus on protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions.

Education

Vajda received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering in Moscow, Russia, and an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Chemistry, both in Budapest, Hungary.

Career

Vajda has held research positions at the University of Warwick, England, and Princeton University. He was also on the faculty of the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY. He is currently the CSO of drug discovery software development startup, Acpharis Inc.

Research Focus

Vajda's research focuses on molecular recognition using computational bioengineering approaches. By studying protein-protein interactions and protein-ligand interactions, his lab develops computational software for protein engineering and drug design.

Notable Contributions

Publications

Vajda has numerous publications in the field of computational biology, protein interactions, and drug design. Some notable publications include:

Google Scholar Profile

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Sandor Vajda Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University https://www.bu.edu/eng/profile/sandor-vajda-ph-d/ The ClusPro web server for protein–protein docking D Kozakov, DR Hall, B Xia, KA Porter, D Padhorny, C Yueh, D Beglov, … Nature protocols 12 (2), 255-278, 2017 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:B9zx5l6rxUEC Cited by: 2493

ClusPro: an automated docking and discrimination method for the prediction of protein complexes SR Comeau, DW Gatchell, S Vajda, CJ Camacho Bioinformatics 20 (1), 45-50, 2004 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC Cited by: 1071

PIPER: an FFT‐based protein docking program with pairwise potentials D Kozakov, R Brenke, SR Comeau, S Vajda Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 65 (2), 392-406, 2006 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC Cited by: 1014

ClusPro: a fully automated algorithm for protein–protein docking SR Comeau, DW Gatchell, S Vajda, CJ Camacho Nucleic acids research 32 (suppl2), W96-W99, 2004 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=_gYtig8AAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC Cited by: 978

CAPRI: a critical assessment of predicted interactions J Janin, K Henrick, J Moult, LT Eyck, MJE Sternberg, S Vajda, I Vakser, … Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 52 (1), 2-9, 2003 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C Cited by: 787

How good is automated protein docking? D Kozakov, D Beglov, T Bohnuud, SE Mottarella, B Xia, DR Hall, S Vajda Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 81 (12), 2159-2166, 2013 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:XoXfffV-tXoC Cited by: 768

The FTMap family of web servers for determining and characterizing ligand-binding hot spots of proteins D Kozakov, LE Grove, DR Hall, T Bohnuud, SE Mottarella, L Luo, B Xia, … Nature protocols 10 (5), 733-755, 2015 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:LhH-TYMQEocC Cited by: 585

Fragment-based identification of druggable ‘hot spots’ of proteins using Fourier domain correlation techniques R Brenke, D Kozakov, GY Chuang, D Beglov, D Hall, MR Landon, … Bioinformatics 25 (5), 621-627, 2009 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:LkGwnXOMwfcC Cited by: 513

Principal component analysis of kinetic models S Vajda, P Valko, T Turanyi International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 17 (1), 55-81, 1985 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:LPZeul_q3PIC Cited by: 510

New additions to the C lus P ro server motivated by CAPRI S Vajda, C Yueh, D Beglov, T Bohnuud, SE Mottarella, B Xia, DR Hall, … Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 85 (3), 435-444, 2017 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:JNgBMBbBnUoC Cited by: 490

Anchor residues in protein–protein interactions D Rajamani, S Thiel, S Vajda, CJ Camacho Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (31), 11287-11292, 2004 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C Cited by: 439

Performance and its limits in rigid body protein-protein docking IT Desta, KA Porter, B Xia, D Kozakov, S Vajda Structure 28 (9), 1071-1081. e3, 2020 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:kuAnG0LXj_AC Cited by: 435

How proteins bind macrocycles EA Villar, D Beglov, S Chennamadhavuni, JA Porco Jr, D Kozakov, … Nature chemical biology 10 (9), 723-731, 2014 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:_5tno0g5mFcC Cited by: 405

Similarity transformation approach to structural identifiability of nonlinear compartmental models S Vajda, KR Godfrey, H Rabitz Math. Biosci 93 (2), 217-248, 1989 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:olpn-zPbct0C Cited by: 315

Achieving reliability and high accuracy in automated protein docking: ClusPro, PIPER, SDU, and stability analysis in CAPRI rounds 13–19 D Kozakov, DR Hall, D Beglov, R Brenke, SR Comeau, Y Shen, K Li, … Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 78 (15), 3124-3130, 2010 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:MXK_kJrjxJIC Cited by: 294

Structural conservation of druggable hot spots in protein–protein interfaces D Kozakov, DR Hall, GY Chuang, R Cencic, R Brenke, LE Grove, … Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (33), 13528-13533, 2011 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:mB3voiENLucC Cited by: 275

Convergence and combination of methods in protein–protein docking S Vajda, D Kozakov Current opinion in structural biology 19 (2), 164-170, 2009 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:ufrVoPGSRksC Cited by: 268

FTSite: high accuracy detection of ligand binding sites on unbound protein structures CH Ngan, DR Hall, B Zerbe, LE Grove, D Kozakov, S Vajda Bioinformatics 28 (2), 286-287, 2012 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:SeFeTyx0c_EC Cited by: 259

Accelerating and focusing protein–protein docking correlations using multi-dimensional rotational FFT generating functions DW Ritchie, D Kozakov, S Vajda Bioinformatics 24 (17), 1865-1873, 2008 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:hqOjcs7Dif8C Cited by: 256

Free energy landscapes of encounter complexes in protein-protein association CJ Camacho, Z Weng, S Vajda, C DeLisi Biophysical journal 76 (3), 1166-1178, 1999 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC Cited by: 250

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Sandor Vajda Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University https://www.bu.edu/eng/profile/sandor-vajda-ph-d/ The ClusPro web server for protein–protein docking D Kozakov, DR Hall, B Xia, KA Porter, D Padhorny, C Yueh, D Beglov, … Nature protocols 12 (2), 255-278, 2017 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:B9zx5l6rxUEC Cited by: 2493

ClusPro: an automated docking and discrimination method for the prediction of protein complexes SR Comeau, DW Gatchell, S Vajda, CJ Camacho Bioinformatics 20 (1), 45-50, 2004 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC Cited by: 1071

PIPER: an FFT‐based protein docking program with pairwise potentials D Kozakov, R Brenke, SR Comeau, S Vajda Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 65 (2), 392-406, 2006 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC Cited by: 1014

ClusPro: a fully automated algorithm for protein–protein docking SR Comeau, DW Gatchell, S Vajda, CJ Camacho Nucleic acids research 32 (suppl2), W96-W99, 2004 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=_gYtig8AAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC Cited by: 978

CAPRI: a critical assessment of predicted interactions J Janin, K Henrick, J Moult, LT Eyck, MJE Sternberg, S Vajda, I Vakser, … Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 52 (1), 2-9, 2003 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C Cited by: 787

How good is automated protein docking? D Kozakov, D Beglov, T Bohnuud, SE Mottarella, B Xia, DR Hall, S Vajda Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 81 (12), 2159-2166, 2013 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:XoXfffV-tXoC Cited by: 768

The FTMap family of web servers for determining and characterizing ligand-binding hot spots of proteins D Kozakov, LE Grove, DR Hall, T Bohnuud, SE Mottarella, L Luo, B Xia, … Nature protocols 10 (5), 733-755, 2015 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:LhH-TYMQEocC Cited by: 585

Fragment-based identification of druggable ‘hot spots’ of proteins using Fourier domain correlation techniques R Brenke, D Kozakov, GY Chuang, D Beglov, D Hall, MR Landon, … Bioinformatics 25 (5), 621-627, 2009 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:LkGwnXOMwfcC Cited by: 513

Principal component analysis of kinetic models S Vajda, P Valko, T Turanyi International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 17 (1), 55-81, 1985 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:LPZeul_q3PIC Cited by: 510

New additions to the C lus P ro server motivated by CAPRI S Vajda, C Yueh, D Beglov, T Bohnuud, SE Mottarella, B Xia, DR Hall, … Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 85 (3), 435-444, 2017 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:JNgBMBbBnUoC Cited by: 490

Anchor residues in protein–protein interactions D Rajamani, S Thiel, S Vajda, CJ Camacho Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (31), 11287-11292, 2004 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C Cited by: 439

Performance and its limits in rigid body protein-protein docking IT Desta, KA Porter, B Xia, D Kozakov, S Vajda Structure 28 (9), 1071-1081. e3, 2020 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:kuAnG0LXj_AC Cited by: 435

How proteins bind macrocycles EA Villar, D Beglov, S Chennamadhavuni, JA Porco Jr, D Kozakov, … Nature chemical biology 10 (9), 723-731, 2014 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:_5tno0g5mFcC Cited by: 405

Similarity transformation approach to structural identifiability of nonlinear compartmental models S Vajda, KR Godfrey, H Rabitz Math. Biosci 93 (2), 217-248, 1989 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:olpn-zPbct0C Cited by: 315

Achieving reliability and high accuracy in automated protein docking: ClusPro, PIPER, SDU, and stability analysis in CAPRI rounds 13–19 D Kozakov, DR Hall, D Beglov, R Brenke, SR Comeau, Y Shen, K Li, … Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 78 (15), 3124-3130, 2010 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:MXK_kJrjxJIC Cited by: 294

Structural conservation of druggable hot spots in protein–protein interfaces D Kozakov, DR Hall, GY Chuang, R Cencic, R Brenke, LE Grove, … Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (33), 13528-13533, 2011 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:mB3voiENLucC Cited by: 275

Convergence and combination of methods in protein–protein docking S Vajda, D Kozakov Current opinion in structural biology 19 (2), 164-170, 2009 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:ufrVoPGSRksC Cited by: 268

FTSite: high accuracy detection of ligand binding sites on unbound protein structures CH Ngan, DR Hall, B Zerbe, LE Grove, D Kozakov, S Vajda Bioinformatics 28 (2), 286-287, 2012 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:SeFeTyx0c_EC Cited by: 259

Accelerating and focusing protein–protein docking correlations using multi-dimensional rotational FFT generating functions DW Ritchie, D Kozakov, S Vajda Bioinformatics 24 (17), 1865-1873, 2008 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:hqOjcs7Dif8C Cited by: 256

Free energy landscapes of encounter complexes in protein-protein association CJ Camacho, Z Weng, S Vajda, C DeLisi Biophysical journal 76 (3), 1166-1178, 1999 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC Cited by: 250

Co-authors

Dima Kozakov googlescholarauthor_id:Q09kankAAAAJ

David R. Hall googlescholarauthorid:Ev9GCEAAAAJ

Adrian Whitty googlescholarauthor_id:huztIfMAAAAJ

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Chi Ho Ngan googlescholarauthor_id:NwfavskAAAAJ

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Zhiping Weng googlescholarauthor_id:-o3I0zUAAAAJ

Yang Shen googlescholarauthor_id:0M0vGccAAAAJ

Karl H. Clodfelter googlescholarauthor_id:SzrKnfUAAAAJ

Michael Silberstein googlescholarauthor_id:Yg6y06EAAAAJ

Ora Schueler-Furman googlescholarauthor_id:lLCkUlsAAAAJ

Karen N. Allen googlescholarauthor_id:hYg242wAAAAJ

Tamas Turanyi googlescholarauthor_id:805B8AsAAAAJ

David Ritchie googlescholarauthor_id:fUBkvj4AAAAJ

Kim Henrick googlescholarauthor_id:RPMBVlsAAAAJ

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Sandor Vajda Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University https://www.bu.edu/eng/profile/sandor-vajda-ph-d/ The ClusPro web server for protein–protein docking D Kozakov, DR Hall, B Xia, KA Porter, D Padhorny, C Yueh, D Beglov, … Nature protocols 12 (2), 255-278, 2017 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:B9zx5l6rxUEC Cited by: 2493

ClusPro: an automated docking and discrimination method for the prediction of protein complexes SR Comeau, DW Gatchell, S Vajda, CJ Camacho Bioinformatics 20 (1), 45-50, 2004 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC Cited by: 1071

PIPER: an FFT‐based protein docking program with pairwise potentials D Kozakov, R Brenke, SR Comeau, S Vajda Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 65 (2), 392-406, 2006 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC Cited by: 1014

ClusPro: a fully automated algorithm for protein–protein docking SR Comeau, DW Gatchell, S Vajda, CJ Camacho Nucleic acids research 32 (suppl2), W96-W99, 2004 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=_gYtig8AAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC Cited by: 978

CAPRI: a critical assessment of predicted interactions J Janin, K Henrick, J Moult, LT Eyck, MJE Sternberg, S Vajda, I Vakser, … Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 52 (1), 2-9, 2003 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C Cited by: 787

How good is automated protein docking? D Kozakov, D Beglov, T Bohnuud, SE Mottarella, B Xia, DR Hall, S Vajda Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 81 (12), 2159-2166, 2013 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:XoXfffV-tXoC Cited by: 768

The FTMap family of web servers for determining and characterizing ligand-binding hot spots of proteins D Kozakov, LE Grove, DR Hall, T Bohnuud, SE Mottarella, L Luo, B Xia, … Nature protocols 10 (5), 733-755, 2015 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:LhH-TYMQEocC Cited by: 585

Fragment-based identification of druggable ‘hot spots’ of proteins using Fourier domain correlation techniques R Brenke, D Kozakov, GY Chuang, D Beglov, D Hall, MR Landon, … Bioinformatics 25 (5), 621-627, 2009 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:LkGwnXOMwfcC Cited by: 513

Principal component analysis of kinetic models S Vajda, P Valko, T Turanyi International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 17 (1), 55-81, 1985 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:LPZeul_q3PIC Cited by: 510

New additions to the C lus P ro server motivated by CAPRI S Vajda, C Yueh, D Beglov, T Bohnuud, SE Mottarella, B Xia, DR Hall, … Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 85 (3), 435-444, 2017 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:JNgBMBbBnUoC Cited by: 490

Anchor residues in protein–protein interactions D Rajamani, S Thiel, S Vajda, CJ Camacho Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (31), 11287-11292, 2004 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C Cited by: 439

Performance and its limits in rigid body protein-protein docking IT Desta, KA Porter, B Xia, D Kozakov, S Vajda Structure 28 (9), 1071-1081. e3, 2020 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:kuAnG0LXj_AC Cited by: 435

How proteins bind macrocycles EA Villar, D Beglov, S Chennamadhavuni, JA Porco Jr, D Kozakov, … Nature chemical biology 10 (9), 723-731, 2014 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:_5tno0g5mFcC Cited by: 405

Similarity transformation approach to structural identifiability of nonlinear compartmental models S Vajda, KR Godfrey, H Rabitz Math. Biosci 93 (2), 217-248, 1989 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:olpn-zPbct0C Cited by: 315

Achieving reliability and high accuracy in automated protein docking: ClusPro, PIPER, SDU, and stability analysis in CAPRI rounds 13–19 D Kozakov, DR Hall, D Beglov, R Brenke, SR Comeau, Y Shen, K Li, … Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 78 (15), 3124-3130, 2010 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:MXK_kJrjxJIC Cited by: 294

Structural conservation of druggable hot spots in protein–protein interfaces D Kozakov, DR Hall, GY Chuang, R Cencic, R Brenke, LE Grove, … Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (33), 13528-13533, 2011 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:mB3voiENLucC Cited by: 275

Convergence and combination of methods in protein–protein docking S Vajda, D Kozakov Current opinion in structural biology 19 (2), 164-170, 2009 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:ufrVoPGSRksC Cited by: 268

FTSite: high accuracy detection of ligand binding sites on unbound protein structures CH Ngan, DR Hall, B Zerbe, LE Grove, D Kozakov, S Vajda Bioinformatics 28 (2), 286-287, 2012 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:SeFeTyx0c_EC Cited by: 259

Accelerating and focusing protein–protein docking correlations using multi-dimensional rotational FFT generating functions DW Ritchie, D Kozakov, S Vajda Bioinformatics 24 (17), 1865-1873, 2008 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:hqOjcs7Dif8C Cited by: 256

Free energy landscapes of encounter complexes in protein-protein association CJ Camacho, Z Weng, S Vajda, C DeLisi Biophysical journal 76 (3), 1166-1178, 1999 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC Cited by: 250

Co-authors

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David R. Hall googlescholarauthorid davidr.hall.md:Ev9GCEAAAAJ

Adrian Whitty googlescholarauthorid adrianwhitty.md:huztIfMAAAAJ

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Pirooz Vakili googlescholarauthorid piroozvakili.md:xTLyEI4AAAAJ

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Chi Ho Ngan googlescholarauthorid chiho_ngan.md:NwfavskAAAAJ

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Yang Shen googlescholarauthorid yangshen.md:0M0vGccAAAAJ

Karl H. Clodfelter googlescholarauthorid karlh._clodfelter.md:SzrKnfUAAAAJ

Michael Silberstein googlescholarauthorid michaelsilberstein.md:Yg6y06EAAAAJ

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Karen N. Allen googlescholarauthorid karenn._allen.md:hYg242wAAAAJ

Tamas Turanyi googlescholarauthorid tamasturanyi.md:805B8AsAAAAJ

David Ritchie googlescholarauthorid davidritchie.md:fUBkvj4AAAAJ

Kim Henrick googlescholarauthorid kimhenrick.md:RPMBVlsAAAAJ

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Sandor Vajda

Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

https://www.bu.edu/eng/profile/sandor-vajda-ph-d/

The ClusPro web server for protein–protein docking D Kozakov, DR Hall, B Xia, KA Porter, D Padhorny, C Yueh, D Beglov, … Nature protocols 12 (2), 255-278, 2017 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:B9zx5l6rxUEC

ClusPro: an automated docking and discrimination method for the prediction of protein complexes SR Comeau, DW Gatchell, S Vajda, CJ Camacho Bioinformatics 20 (1), 45-50, 2004 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC

PIPER: an FFT‐based protein docking program with pairwise potentials D Kozakov, R Brenke, SR Comeau, S Vajda Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 65 (2), 392-406, 2006 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC

ClusPro: a fully automated algorithm for protein–protein docking SR Comeau, DW Gatchell, S Vajda, CJ Camacho Nucleic acids research 32 (suppl2), W96-W99, 2004 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=_gYtig8AAAAJ:9yKSN-GCB0IC

CAPRI: a critical assessment of predicted interactions J Janin, K Henrick, J Moult, LT Eyck, MJE Sternberg, S Vajda, I Vakser, … Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 52 (1), 2-9, 2003 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:u5HHmVD_uO8C

How good is automated protein docking? D Kozakov, D Beglov, T Bohnuud, SE Mottarella, B Xia, DR Hall, S Vajda Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 81 (12), 2159-2166, 2013 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:XoXfffV-tXoC

The FTMap family of web servers for determining and characterizing ligand-binding hot spots of proteins D Kozakov, LE Grove, DR Hall, T Bohnuud, SE Mottarella, L Luo, B Xia, … Nature protocols 10 (5), 733-755, 2015 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:LhH-TYMQEocC

Fragment-based identification of druggable ‘hot spots’ of proteins using Fourier domain correlation techniques R Brenke, D Kozakov, GY Chuang, D Beglov, D Hall, MR Landon, … Bioinformatics 25 (5), 621-627, 2009 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:LkGwnXOMwfcC

Principal component analysis of kinetic models S Vajda, P Valko, T Turanyi International Journal of Chemical Kinetics 17 (1), 55-81, 1985 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:LPZeul_q3PIC

New additions to the C lus P ro server motivated by CAPRI S Vajda, C Yueh, D Beglov, T Bohnuud, SE Mottarella, B Xia, DR Hall, … Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 85 (3), 435-444, 2017 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:JNgBMBbBnUoC

Anchor residues in protein–protein interactions D Rajamani, S Thiel, S Vajda, CJ Camacho Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (31), 11287-11292, 2004 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:d1gkVwhDpl0C

Performance and its limits in rigid body protein-protein docking IT Desta, KA Porter, B Xia, D Kozakov, S Vajda Structure 28 (9), 1071-1081. e3, 2020 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:kuAnG0LXj_AC

How proteins bind macrocycles EA Villar, D Beglov, S Chennamadhavuni, JA Porco Jr, D Kozakov, … Nature chemical biology 10 (9), 723-731, 2014 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:_5tno0g5mFcC

Similarity transformation approach to structural identifiability of nonlinear compartmental models S Vajda, KR Godfrey, H Rabitz Math. Biosci 93 (2), 217-248, 1989 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:olpn-zPbct0C

Achieving reliability and high accuracy in automated protein docking: ClusPro, PIPER, SDU, and stability analysis in CAPRI rounds 13–19 D Kozakov, DR Hall, D Beglov, R Brenke, SR Comeau, Y Shen, K Li, … Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 78 (15), 3124-3130, 2010 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:MXK_kJrjxJIC

Structural conservation of druggable hot spots in protein–protein interfaces D Kozakov, DR Hall, GY Chuang, R Cencic, R Brenke, LE Grove, … Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (33), 13528-13533, 2011 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:mB3voiENLucC

Convergence and combination of methods in protein–protein docking S Vajda, D Kozakov Current opinion in structural biology 19 (2), 164-170, 2009 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:ufrVoPGSRksC

FTSite: high accuracy detection of ligand binding sites on unbound protein structures CH Ngan, DR Hall, B Zerbe, LE Grove, D Kozakov, S Vajda Bioinformatics 28 (2), 286-287, 2012 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:SeFeTyx0c_EC

Accelerating and focusing protein–protein docking correlations using multi-dimensional rotational FFT generating functions DW Ritchie, D Kozakov, S Vajda Bioinformatics 24 (17), 1865-1873, 2008 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:hqOjcs7Dif8C

Free energy landscapes of encounter complexes in protein-protein association CJ Camacho, Z Weng, S Vajda, C DeLisi Biophysical journal 76 (3), 1166-1178, 1999 Link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?viewop=viewcitation&hl=en&user=gYtig8AAAAJ&citationforview=gYtig8AAAAJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC

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David R. Hall googlescholarauthorid davidr.hall.md:Ev9GCEAAAAJ

Adrian Whitty googlescholarauthorid adrianwhitty.md:huztIfMAAAAJ

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Karl H. Clodfelter googlescholarauthorid karlh._clodfelter.md:SzrKnfUAAAAJ

Michael Silberstein googlescholarauthorid michaelsilberstein.md:Yg6y06EAAAAJ

Ora Schueler-Furman googlescholarauthorid oraschueler-furman.md:lLCkUlsAAAAJ

Karen N. Allen googlescholarauthorid karenn._allen.md:hYg242wAAAAJ

Tamas Turanyi googlescholarauthorid tamasturanyi.md:805B8AsAAAAJ

David Ritchie googlescholarauthorid davidritchie.md:fUBkvj4AAAAJ

Kim Henrick googlescholarauthorid kimhenrick.md:RPMBVlsAAAAJ

Michael Pollastri googlescholarauthorid michaelpollastri.md:dNYPTBUAAAAJ

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