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Sample of Publications

Weir, M., Eaton, M. and Rice, M. (2006). Challenging the spliceosome machine. Genome Biology 7:R3.

Lane, R. P., Smutzer, G. S., and Doty, R. L. The Sense of Smell. In: Encyclopedia of Molecular Cell Biology and Molecular Medicine (In press).

Young, J., Kambere, M.-J., Trask, B. J., and Lane, R. P. (2005) Divergent V1R repertoires in five species: amplification in rodents, decimation in primates, and a surprisingly small repertoire in dogs. Genome Res. 15: 231-240

Rice, M., Gladstone, W., Weir, M., (2004). Relational databases: A transparent framework for encouraging biology students to think informatically. Cell Biology Education 3: 241-252.

Weir, M. and Rice, M. (2004). Ordered partitioning reveals extended splice-site consensus information. Genome Res. 14: 67-78.

Lane, R. P., Cutforth T., Young J., Athanasiou M., Friedman C., Rowen L., Evans G., Axel R., Hood L., and Trask B. J (2001). Genomic analysis of orthologous mouse and human olfactory receptor loci. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 98, 7390-7395.

Lane, R. P., Cutforth T., Friedman C., Axel R., Trask B. J., and Hood L (2002). Genomic analysis of the murine chromosome-6 vomeronasal receptor gene cluster reveals common promoter motifs and a history of local duplication. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 99, 291-296

Lane, R. P., Roach J., Lee, I., Boysen C., Smit A., Trask B. J., and Hood L (2002). Genomic analysis of the olfactory receptor region of the mouse and human T-cell receptor alpha/delta loci. Genome Research 12, 81-87

Palys, T., F. M. Cohan, and L. K. Nakamura. 1997. Discovery and classification of ecological diversity in the bacterial world: the role of DNA sequence data. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 47:1145-1156.

C. Wade, K. Shea, R.V. Jensen and M. McAlear. 2001. EBP2 is a member of the yeast RRB regulon, a transcriptionaly co-regulated set of genes that are required for ribosome and rRNA biosynthesis. Mol. Cell. Bio. 21:8638-8650.
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Das, T.K., Purkayastha-Mukherjee, C., D'Angelo, J. and Weir, M. (2001).  A conserved F-box protein with unusual transcript localization. Development Genes and Evolution. In Press.

Liu Y, Beveridge DL. Exploratory studies of ab initio protein structure prediction: Multiple copy simulated annealing, AMBER energy functions, and a generalized born/solvent accessibility solvation model. Proteins. 2002 Jan 1;46(1):128-146.

Kombo DC, McConnell KJ, Young MA, Beveridge DL. Molecular dynamics simulation reveals sequence-intrinsic and protein-induced geometrical features of the OL1 DNA operator. Biopolymers. 2001 Oct 5;59(4):205-25.

Liu Y, Beveridge DL. A refined prediction method for gel retardation of DNA oligonucleotides from dinucleotide step parameters: reconciliation of DNA bending models with crystal structure data. J Biomol Struct Dyn. 2001 Feb;18(4):505-26.

Blakaj DM, McConnell KJ, Beveridge DL, Baranger AM. Molecular dynamics and thermodynamics of protein-RNA interactions: mutation of a conserved aromatic residue modifies stacking interactions and structural adaptation in the U1A-stem loop 2 RNA complex. J Am Chem Soc. 2001 Mar 21;123(11):2548-51.


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