Barry Polisky

7.1k citations

62 papers · 5.6k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 1%
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Genetics top 1%
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology

Papers in

Molecular Biology 55
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 21
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques 13
- DNA Repair Mechanisms 9
- Protist diversity and phylogeny 9
- RNA modifications and cancer 9
- RNA Interference and Gene Delivery 6
Genetics 20
- Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology 20

Co-authors: Robert Jenison Arthur Pardi Stanley C. Gill Larry Gold Olke C. Uhlenbeck Michael Yarus Tim Fitzwater Mark A. Muesing
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (9 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (5 papers)Cell (4 papers)Molecular and Cellular Biology (4 papers)Genetics (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Japan Italy

In The Last Decade

Barry Polisky

62 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Potent and persistent in vivo anti-HBV activity of chemically modified siRNAs 2005 · 908 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2005 Nature Biotechnology
1995 Annual Review of Biochemistry
1994 Science

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	The siRNA sequence and guide strand overhangs are determinants of in vivo duration of silencing Nucleic Acids Research ·Walter Strapps, Victoria Pickering, K.F. Hilgers, Julie Rice, H Kreisman, Barry Polisky, Alan B. Sachs, Steven R. Bartz	2010	46
2	Improved specificity of gene silencing by siRNAs containing unlocked nucleobase analogs Nucleic Acids Research ·Narendra K. Vaish, Feng Chen, Shaguna Seth, Kathy Fosnaugh, Yan Liu, Roger Adami, Tod Brown, Yan Chen, Pierrot Harvie, Rachel Johns, Alirio Sanabria Mejía, Brian Granger, Patrick Charmley, Michael E. Houston, Michael V. Templin, Barry Polisky	2010	83
3	Effect of chemically modified IL-13 short interfering RNA on development of airway hyperresponsiveness in mice Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology ·П.В. Цыганкова, Karl Kossen, Annette Balhorn, Toshiyuki Koya, Shawn Zinnen, Katsuyuki Takeda, Joseph J. Lucas, Barry Polisky, I M Richards, Erwin W. Gelfand	2008	20
4	Potent and persistent in vivo anti-HBV activity of chemically modified siRNAs Nature Biotechnology ·Dylan Morrissey, Jennifer A. Lockridge, Raquel Alcalde, Karin S. Blanchard, Kristi Jensen, 生子室崎, Guo-yun Shu, Gang Wang, Susan F. Radka, Vasant Jadhav, Narendra K. Vaish, Shawn Zinnen, Chandra Vargeese, Keith Bowman, Jerome F. Hamel, Lloyd B. Jeffs, Adam D. Judge, Ian MacLachlan, Barry Polisky Hit paper breakdown →	2005	908
5	High-Throughput Ribozyme-Based Assays for Detection of Viral Nucleic Acids Chemistry & Biology ·Karl Kossen, Narendra K. Vaish, Vasant Jadhav, G A Averina, Hong Wang, Robert Jenison, James A. McSwiggen, Barry Polisky, Scott D. Seiwert	2004	17
6	Zeptomole detection of a viral nucleic acid using a target-activated ribozyme RNA ·Narendra K. Vaish, Vasant Jadhav, Karl Kossen, G A Averina, Lori Andrews, James A. McSwiggen, Barry Polisky, Scott D. Seiwert	2003	23
7	Interference-based detection of nucleic acid targets on optically coated silicon Nature Biotechnology ·Robert Jenison, Shaoguang Yang, E Zawadski, Barry Polisky	2001	92
8	Use of a thin film biosensor for rapid visual detection of PCR products in a multiplex format Biosensors and Bioelectronics ·Robert Jenison, Marynette Rihanek, Barry Polisky	2001	20
9	[17] A SELEX primer Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Tim Fitzwater, Barry Polisky	1996	141
10	DIVERSITY OF OLIGONUCLEOTIDE FUNCTIONS Annual Review of Biochemistry ·Larry Gold, Barry Polisky, Olke C. Uhlenbeck, Michael Yarus Hit paper breakdown →	1995	679
11	Identification of DNA segments capable of rescuing a non-mendelian mutant in paramecium. Genetics ·Choung‐Soo Kim, John R. Preer, Barry Polisky	1994	28
12	High-Resolution Molecular Discrimination by RNA Science ·Robert Jenison, Stanley C. Gill, Arthur Pardi, Barry Polisky Hit paper breakdown →	1994	929
13	DNA sequence requirements for the regulation of immobilization antigen a expression in Paramecium tetraurelia Developmental Genetics ·Linda D. Martin, S. S. Pollack, John R. Preer, Barry Polisky	1994	14
14	Analysis of Establishment Phase Replication of the Plasmid ColE1 Journal of Molecular Biology ·浩平杉山, Barry Polisky	1993	13
15	Mutations affecting RNA-DNA hybrid formation of the Co1E1 replication primer RNA Journal of Molecular Biology ·Tim Fitzwater, Yun-Liang Yang, G. I. Mokhovikov, Barry Polisky	1992	5
16	Multilevel Regulation of Surface Antigen Gene Expression in Paramecium tetraurelia Molecular and Cellular Biology ·David Gilley, B. M. Rudman, John R. Preer, Barry Polisky	1990	6
17	Suppression of ColE1 RNA-RNA mismatch mutations in vivo by the ColE1 rop protein Plasmid ·Thomas P. Dooley, Barry Polisky	1987	14
18	Alternative conformations of the ColE1 replication primer modulate its interaction with RNA I Cell ·Matthew Chosa, Barry Polisky	1985	38
19	Structural analysis of RNA molecules involved in plasmld copy number control Nucleic Acids Research ·Joseph A. Tamm, Barry Polisky	1983	50
20	Control of ColE1 DNA replication: the rop gene product negatively affects transcription from the replication primer promoter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Gianni Cesareni, Mark A. Muesing, Barry Polisky	1982	168

About Barry Polisky

Barry Polisky is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics, Virology, Ecology and Biotechnology, having authored 62 papers that have together received 5.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (21 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (20 papers), Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques (13 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (9 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (9 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (9 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers) and RNA Interference and Gene Delivery (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (5.0k citations), Genetics (1.2k citations), Cancer Research (547 citations), Virology (126 citations) and Ecology (655 citations). Barry Polisky has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Robert Jenison, Arthur Pardi, Stanley C. Gill, Larry Gold, Olke C. Uhlenbeck, Michael Yarus, Tim Fitzwater, Mark A. Muesing, Chandra Vargeese and Keith Bowman. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Molecular Biology, Cell, Molecular and Cellular Biology and Genetics.

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