François Major

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

François Major is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, François Major has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Materials Chemistry and 8 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in François Major's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (44 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (27 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (20 papers). François Major is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (44 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (27 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (20 papers). François Major collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. François Major's co-authors include Marc Parisien, Robert Cedergren, Daniel Gautheret, Pascal Chartrand, Sébastien Lemieux, Patrick Gendron, Vincent De Guire, Gerardo Ferbeyre, Emmanuelle Querido and Véronique Bourdeau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

François Major

68 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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The MC-Fold and MC-Sym pipeline infers RNA structure from sequence data

2008 629 citations Marc Parisien, François Major profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Long-term severe hypoxia adaptation induces non-canonical EMT and a novel Wilms Tumor 1 (WT1) isoform 2024 ·Cancer Gene Therapy ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), François Major, Étienne Gagnon	1
2	Automatic recognition of complementary strands: lessons regarding machine learning abilities in RNA folding 2023 ·Frontiers in Genetics ·(unknown), François Major	1
3	Sequence-sensitive elastic network captures dynamical features necessary for miR-125a maturation 2022 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Olivier Mailhot, Vincent Frappier, François Major, Rafaël Najmanovich	4
4	CAMAP: Artificial neural networks unveil the role of codon arrangement in modulating MHC-I peptides presentation 2021 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Tariq Daouda, Maude Dumont-Lagacé, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Mathieu Courcelles, Mohamed Benhammadi, Lea Harrington, Pierre Thibault, François Major, Yoshua Bengio, Étienne Gagnon, Sébastien Lemieux, Claude Perreault	1
5	Apoptotic endothelial cells release small extracellular vesicles loaded with immunostimulatory viral-like RNAs 2019 ·Scientific Reports ·Marie‐Pierre Hardy, Éric Audemard, Francis Migneault, (unknown), Sylvie Brochu, Patrick Gendron, Éric Boilard, François Major, Mélanie Dieudé, Marie‐Josée Hébert, Claude Perreault	57
6	RNA-MoIP: prediction of RNA secondary structure and local 3D motifs from sequence data 2017 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Jason Yao, Vladimir Reinharz, François Major, Jérôme Waldispühl	18
7	Structural dynamics control the MicroRNA maturation pathway 2016 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Paul Dallaire, Huiping Tan, Keith E. Szulwach, (unknown), Peng Jin, François Major	16
8	Structural messenger RNA contains cytokeratin polymerization and depolymerization signals 2011 ·Cell and Tissue Research ·Małgorzata Kloc, Paul Dallaire, Arkadiy Reunov, François Major	10
9	Role of SLV in SLI substrate recognition by the Neurospora VS ribozyme 2008 ·RNA ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Véronique Lisi, Sébastien Lemieux, François Major, Pascale Legault	22
10	A comparative analysis of the triloops in all high-resolution RNA structures reveals sequence–structure relationships 2007 ·RNA ·Véronique Lisi, François Major	24
11	Ranking the factors that contribute to protein β‐sheet folding 2007 ·Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Marc Parisien, François Major	15
12	Identification of a Conserved RNA Motif Essential for She2p Recognition and mRNA Localization to the Yeast Bud 2005 ·Molecular and Cellular Biology ·Catherine Olivier, (unknown), Patrick Gendron, (unknown), François Major, Pascal Chartrand	76
13	A new catalog of protein β‐sheets 2005 ·Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics ·Marc Parisien, François Major	16
14	Modifications and deletions of helices within the hairpin ribozyme–substrate complex: An active ribozyme lacking helix 1 2004 ·RNA ·Robert Pinard, Dominic Lambert, (unknown), François Major, John M. Burke	3
15	NMR structure of the active conformation of the Varkud satellite ribozyme cleavage site 2003 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Bernd Hoffmann, (unknown), Patrick Gendron, François Major, Angela A. Andersen, Richard A. Collins, Pascale Legault	49
16	Computational methods for RNA structure determination 2001 ·Current Opinion in Structural Biology ·François Major, Richard H. Griffey	19
17	Leadzyme 2001 ·Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology ·Laurent David, Donald H. Lambert, Patrick Gendron, François Major	8
18	Modeling the Tertiary Structure of RNA 1998 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Robert Cedergren, François Major	2
19	A secondary and tertiary structure editor for nucleic acids 1988 ·Computer applications in the biosciences ·Robert Cedergren, Daniel Gautheret, Guy Lapalme, François Major	9
20	FUS: a system to simulate conformational changes in biological macromolecules 1988 ·Computer applications in the biosciences ·François Major, Richard J. Feldmann, Guy Lapalme, Robert Cedergren	3

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