Nir Ben‐Tal

22.4k citations

188 papers · 16.5k · 7 hit papers · h-index 59

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.2%
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Cell Biology top 0.5%

Papers in

Molecular Biology 143
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 64
- Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior 36
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 30
- Machine Learning in Bioinformatics 17
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 15
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 20
- Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies 17

Co-authors: Tal Pupko (13 shared papers)Eric Martz (6 shared papers)Haim Ashkenazy (11 shared papers)Itay Mayrose (6 shared papers)Fabian Glaser (10 shared papers)Barry Honig (12 shared papers)Amit Kessel (28 shared papers)Shiran Abadi (1 shared paper)
Journals: Biophysical Journal (24 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (11 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (10 papers)Bioinformatics (10 papers)Structure (10 papers)
Partner nations: Israel United States Türkiye

In The Last Decade

Nir Ben‐Tal

185 papers receiving 16.2k citations

Nir Ben‐Tal's Hit Papers

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Using evolutionary data to make sense of macromolecules with a “face‐lifted” ConSurf 2023 · 213 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Protein Science
2016 Nucleic Acids Research
2014 Nucleic Acids Research
2010 Nucleic Acids Research
2005 Nucleic Acids Research
2002 Bioinformatics
2002 Bioinformatics

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1	ConSurf 2016: an improved methodology to estimate and visualize evolutionary conservation in macromolecules Nucleic Acids Research ·Haim Ashkenazy, Shiran Abadi, Eric Martz, Ofer Chay, Itay Mayrose, Tal Pupko, Nir Ben‐Tal Hit paper breakdown →	2016	2268
2	ConSurf 2010: calculating evolutionary conservation in sequence and structure of proteins and nucleic acids Nucleic Acids Research ·Haim Ashkenazy, Elona Erez, Eric Martz, Tal Pupko, Nir Ben‐Tal Hit paper breakdown →	2010	1527
3	ConSurf 2005: the projection of evolutionary conservation scores of residues on protein structures Nucleic Acids Research ·Meytal Landau, Itay Mayrose, Y. Rosenberg, Fabian Glaser, Eric Martz, Tal Pupko, Nir Ben‐Tal Hit paper breakdown →	2005	1166
4	ConSurf: Identification of Functional Regions in Proteinsby Surface-Mapping of Phylogenetic Information Bioinformatics ·Fabian Glaser, Tal Pupko, Inbal Paz, Rachel E Bell, Dalit Bechor-Shental, Eric Martz, Nir Ben‐Tal Hit paper breakdown →	2002	1027
5	Rate4Site: an algorithmic tool for the identification of functional regions in proteins by surface mapping of evolutionary determinants within their homologues Bioinformatics ·Tal Pupko, Rachel E. Bell, Itay Mayrose, Fabian Glaser, Nir Ben‐Tal Hit paper breakdown →	2002	510
6	PredictProtein—an open resource for online prediction of protein structural and functional features Nucleic Acids Research ·Guy Yachdav, Edda Kloppmann, László Kaján, Maximilian Hecht, Tatyana Goldberg, Tobias Hamp, Peter Hönigschmid, Andrea Schafferhans, Manfred Roos, Michael Bernhofer, Lothar Richter, Haim Ashkenazy, Marco Punta, Avner Schlessinger, Yana Bromberg, Reinhard Schneider, Gerrit Vriend, Chris Sander, Nir Ben‐Tal, Burkhard Rost Hit paper breakdown →	2014	475
7	ConSurf: Using Evolutionary Data to Raise Testable Hypotheses about Protein Function Israel Journal of Chemistry ·Gershon Celniker, Guy Nimrod, Haim Ashkenazy, Fabian Glaser, Eric Martz, Itay Mayrose, Tal Pupko, Nir Ben‐Tal	2013	426
8	ConSurf: an algorithmic tool for the identification of functional regions in proteins by surface mapping of phylogenetic information Journal of Molecular Biology ·(unknown), Dan Graur, Nir Ben‐Tal	2001	417
9	ConSeq: the identification of functionally and structurally important residues in protein sequences Bioinformatics ·Carine Berezin, Fabian Glaser, Josef Rosenberg, Inbal Paz, Tal Pupko, Piero Fariselli, Rita Casadio, Nir Ben‐Tal	2004	416
10	Residue frequencies and pairing preferences at protein-protein interfaces Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Fabian Glaser, David M. Steinberg, Ilya A. Vakser, Nir Ben‐Tal	2001	323
11	Mutations in the gene encoding pejvakin, a newly identified protein of the afferent auditory pathway, cause DFNB59 auditory neuropathy Nature Genetics ·Sedigheh Delmaghani, Francisco Castillo, Vincent Michel, Michel Leibovici, Asadollah Aghaie, Uri Ron, Lut Van Laer, Nir Ben‐Tal, Guy Van Camp, Dominique Weil, Francina Langa, Mark Lathrop, (unknown), Christine Petit	2006	259
12	Binding of small basic peptides to membranes containing acidic lipids: theoretical models and experimental results Biophysical Journal ·Nir Ben‐Tal, Barry Honig, Robert M. Peitzsch, G. Denisov, Stuart McLaughlin	1996	257
13	A putative molecular-activation switch in the transmembrane domain of erbB2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sarel J. Fleishman, Joseph Schlessinger, Nir Ben‐Tal	2002	225
14	Using evolutionary data to make sense of macromolecules with a “face‐lifted” ConSurf Protein Science ·Barak Yariv, Elon Yariv, Amit Kessel, Gal Masrati, Adi Ben Chorin, Eric Martz, Itay Mayrose, Tal Pupko, Nir Ben‐Tal Hit paper breakdown →	2023	213
15	Free-energy determinants of alpha-helix insertion into lipid bilayers Biophysical Journal ·Nir Ben‐Tal, Avinoam Ben‐Shaul, Anthony Nicholls, Barry Honig	1996	201
16	The ConSurf-DB: pre-calculated evolutionary conservation profiles of protein structures Nucleic Acids Research ·Ofir Goldenberg, Elana Erez, Guy Nimrod, Nir Ben‐Tal	2008	188
17	Electrostatic interaction of myristoylated proteins with membranes: simple physics, complicated biology Structure ·Diana Murray, Nir Ben‐Tal, Barry Honig, Stuart McLaughlin	1997	186
18	Electrostatic Properties of Membranes Containing Acidic Lipids and Adsorbed Basic Peptides: Theory and Experiment Biophysical Journal ·Diana Murray, Anna Arbuzova, Gyöngyi Hangyás-Mihályné, Alok Gambhir, Nir Ben‐Tal, Barry Honig, Stuart McLaughlin	1999	166
19	Electrostatics and the Membrane Association of Src: Theory and Experiment Biochemistry ·Diana Murray, Luz Hermida-Matsumoto, Carolyn A. Buser, James C. Tsang, Catherine T. Sigal, Nir Ben‐Tal, Barry Honig, Marilyn D. Resh, Stuart McLaughlin	1998	147
20	ConSurf‐DB: An accessible repository for the evolutionary conservation patterns of the majority of PDB proteins Protein Science ·Adi Ben Chorin, Gal Masrati, Amit Kessel, Aya Narunsky, Josef Sprinzak, Shlomtzion Lahav, Haim Ashkenazy, Nir Ben‐Tal	2019	147

About Nir Ben‐Tal

Nir Ben‐Tal is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, Oncology and Genetics, having authored 188 papers that have together received 16.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (64 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (36 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (30 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (18 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (17 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (17 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (11.7k citations), Cell Biology (1.3k citations), Microbiology (446 citations), Sensory Systems (318 citations) and Genetics (1.8k citations). Nir Ben‐Tal has collaborated with scholars based in Israel, United States and Türkiye. Frequent co-authors include Tal Pupko, Eric Martz, Haim Ashkenazy, Itay Mayrose, Fabian Glaser, Barry Honig, Amit Kessel, Shiran Abadi, Elona Erez and Sarel J. Fleishman. Their work appears in journals such as Biophysical Journal, Journal of Molecular Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Bioinformatics and Structure.

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