Everything about ASN.1

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ASN.1A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: 2026 AHA/ACC/ADA/ASN Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic SyndromeInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: ASN.1 CompleteThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: β1-6 Branching of Asn-Linked Oligosaccharides Is Directly Associated with MetastasisCited 805 times
5. Go sideways: X.690A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Comparison of data-serialization formatsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• β1-6 Branching of Asn-Linked Oligosaccharides Is Directly Associated with Metastasis

  James W. Dennis, Suzanne Laferté, Carol Waghorne · 1987 · Science · 805 citations

• A Unifying Approach for GFR Estimation: Recommendations of the NKF-ASN Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Disease

  Cynthia Delgado, Mukta Baweja, Deidra C. Crews · 2022 · American Journal of Kidney Diseases · 711 citations

• Sequence differences between glycosylated and non-glycosylated Asn-X-Thr/Ser acceptor sites: implications for protein engineering

  Ylva Gavel, Gunnar von Heijne · 1990 · "Protein Engineering, Design and Selection" · 627 citations

• The short amino acid sequence Pro-His-Ser-Arg-Asn in human fibronectin enhances cell-adhesive function.

  S. Aota, M. Nomizu, K.M. Yamada · 1994 · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 561 citations

• The immobilized leukoagglutinin from the seeds of Maackia amurensis binds with high affinity to complex-type Asn-linked oligosaccharides containing terminal sialic acid-linked alpha-2,3 to penultimate galactose residues.

  W C Wang, R D Cummings · 1988 · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 379 citations

• A Unifying Approach for GFR Estimation: Recommendations of the NKF-ASN Task Force on Reassessing the Inclusion of Race in Diagnosing Kidney Disease

  Cynthia Delgado, Mukta Baweja, Deidra C. Crews · 2021 · Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · 332 citations

• The Carbohydrate at FcγRIIIa Asn-162

  Claudia Ferrara, Fiona Stuart, Peter Sondermann · 2006 · Journal of Biological Chemistry · 326 citations

• Measurement of Slow (μs−ms) Time Scale Dynamics in Protein Side Chains by 15 N Relaxation Dispersion NMR Spectroscopy: Application to Asn and Gln Residues in a Cavity Mutant of T4 Lysozyme

  Frans A. A. Mulder, Nikolai R. Skrynnikov, Bin Hon · 2001 · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 298 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• 2026 AHA/ACC/ADA/ASN Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome

  Chiadi E. Ndumele, Fatima Rodriguez, Dave L. Dixon · 2026 · JACC · 109 citations

• 2026 AHA/ACC/ADA/ASN Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

  Chiadi E. Ndumele, Fatima Rodriguez, Dave L. Dixon · 2026 · Circulation · 84 citations

• ASN-SMOTE: a synthetic minority oversampling method with adaptive qualified synthesizer selection

  Xinkai Yi, Yingying Xu, Qian Hu · 2022 · Complex & Intelligent Systems · 55 citations

• ASN Kidney Health Guidance on the Management of Obesity in Persons Living with Kidney Diseases

  T. Alp Ikizler, Holly J. Kramer, Srinivasan Beddhu · 2024 · Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · 40 citations

• ASN Kidney Health Guidance on Potassium and Phosphorus Food Additives

  Annabel Biruete, Cheryl Anderson, Amélie Bernier-Jean · 2025 · Journal of the American Society of Nephrology · 30 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• ASN.1 CompleteJohn Larmouth · 1999

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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