Yukiko Tanaka

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Yukiko Tanaka is a structural biologist whose work at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center has significantly advanced high-throughput protein crystallography. Her most cited paper, "High-throughput crystallization-to-structure pipeline at RIKEN SPring-8 Center" (2008, 26 citations), details the development of an automated, end-to-end system that integrates crystallization, data collection, and structure determination. This pipeline streamlined the process of solving protein structures, enabling faster and more reliable results for the structural genomics community. Tanaka's contributions have been instrumental in making synchrotron-based structural biology more accessible and efficient, particularly for large-scale projects. Her work at SPring-8, one of the world's most powerful synchrotron facilities, underscores her role in bridging cutting-edge technology with biological discovery. By reducing bottlenecks in the structure determination workflow, Tanaka has helped accelerate research in drug design and molecular biology. Her achievements highlight the importance of method development in advancing structural biology, and her pipeline remains a model for similar facilities globally.