Michael Zuker

34.8k citations

81 papers · 27.1k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 43

Impact in

Molecular Biology top 0.05%
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- RNA modifications and cancer
- RNA Research and Splicing
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Endocrinology top 0.5%

Papers in

Molecular Biology 66
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms 51
- RNA modifications and cancer 26
- RNA Research and Splicing 20
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 12
- DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry 12
- Protein Structure and Dynamics 6
Biophysics 4

Co-authors: Douglas H. Turner Patrick Stiegler David H. Mathews Jeffrey Sabina J. A. Jaeger Susan J. Schroeder Matthew D. Disney Jessica L. Childs‐Disney
Journals: Nucleic Acids Research (11 papers)Journal of Molecular Biology (7 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (4 papers)Science (3 papers)Biochemistry (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Canada Australia

In The Last Decade

Michael Zuker

81 papers receiving 26.4k citations

Hit Papers

8 papers align trajectories log scale

UNAFold 2008 · 774 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.

2008 Methods in molecular biology
2005 Nucleic Acids Research
2004 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2003 Nucleic Acids Research
1999 Journal of Molecular Biology
1989 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1989 Science
1981 Nucleic Acids Research

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#	Work
1	Combining Temperature and Force to Study Folding of Single RNA Molecules Biophysical Journal ·William Stephenson, Cristina Caorsi, Emerson Rodrigues Pereira Juneo, Scott A. Tenenbaum, Michael Zuker, Pan T.X. Li	2013	1
2	Combining temperature and force to study folding of an RNA hairpin Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·William Stephenson, Emerson Rodrigues Pereira Juneo, Cristina Caorsi, Manoj Charti, Álvaro Gómez-Parra, Scott A. Tenenbaum, Michael Zuker, Pan T.X. Li	2013	24
3	Transcriptome-Wide Prediction of miRNA Targets in Human and Mouse Using FASTH PLoS ONE ·Chikako Ragan, Nicole Cloonan, Sean M. Grimmond, Michael Zuker, Mark A. Ragan	2009	26
4	Morphological, Molecular, and Phylogenetic Characterization of Nosema ceranae, a Microsporidian Parasite Isolated from the European Honey Bee, Apis mellifera¹ Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology ·Ивайло Славчев, Jay D. Evans, Charles Murphy, Robin R. Gutell, Michael Zuker, W. Pazdrowski, Jeff Pettis	2009	137
5	22 Predicting RNA Secondary Structure Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·David H. Mathews, Susan J. Schroeder, Douglas H. Turner, Michael Zuker	2006	19
6	DINAMelt web server for nucleic acid melting prediction Nucleic Acids Research ·朋美桜澤, Michael Zuker Hit paper breakdown →	2005	771
7	MicroRNA-responsive 'sensor' transgenes uncover Hox-like and other developmentally regulated patterns of vertebrate microRNA expression Nature Genetics ·Jennifer H. Mansfield, Brian D. Harfe, Robert M. Nissen, John C. Obenauer, Miracle Mudeyi, Aadel A. Chaudhuri, Jamie Denton, Michael Zuker, Amy E. Pasquinelli, Gary Ruvkun, Phillip A. Sharp, Clifford J. Tabin, Michael T. McManus	2004	345
8	Prediction of Hybridization and Melting for Double-Stranded Nucleic Acids Biophysical Journal ·Roumen Dimitrov, Michael Zuker	2004	162
9	Predicting Nucleic Acid Hybridization and Melting Profiles Proceedings Genome Informatics Workshop/Genome informatics ·Michael Zuker	2003	3
10	OligoArray: genome-scale oligonucleotide design for microarrays Bioinformatics ·Jean-Marie Rouillard, C.J. Herbert, Michael Zuker	2002	122
11	RNAML: A standard syntax for exchanging RNA information RNA ·Aleksandra Dziadykiewicz, Patrick Gendron, Russ B. Altman, James W. Brown, David A. Case, Daniel Gautheret, Stephen C. Harvey, Neocles B. Leontis, John Westbrook, Éric Westhof, Michael Zuker, Aline Karla Barbosa da Silva	2002	76
12	The Giardia lamblia actin gene and the phylogeny of eukaryotes Journal of Molecular Evolution ·Guy Drouin, Mário Moniz de Sá, Michael Zuker	1995	80
13	The endogenous vascular elastase that governs development and progression of monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension in rats is a novel enzyme related to the serine proteinase adipsin. Journal of Clinical Investigation ·Ling Zhu, Dennis A. Wigle, Aleksander Hinek, Jun Kobayashi, R. Posadas-Romero, Michael Zuker, Hidemi Dodo, Fred W. Keeley, Marlene Rabinovitch	1994	87
14	Measuring Residue Association in Protein Structures Possible Implications for Protein Folding Journal of Molecular Biology ·Samuel Karlin, Michael Zuker, Luciano Brocchieri	1994	76
15	Structural Analysis by Energy Dot Plot of a Large mRNA Journal of Molecular Biology ·Ann B. Jacobson, Michael Zuker	1993	63
16	Predicting Common Foldings of Homologous RNAs Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics ·Shu‐Yun Le, Michael Zuker	1991	25
17	Suboptimal sequence alignment in molecular biology Journal of Molecular Biology ·Michael Zuker	1991	70
18	Common structures of the 5′ non-coding RNA in enteroviruses and rhinoviruses Journal of Molecular Biology ·Shu‐Yun Le, Michael Zuker	1990	90
19	Resolution of heterogeneous fluorescence into component decay-associated excitation spectra. Application to subtilisins Biophysical Journal ·Katherine J. Willis, Arthur G. Szabo, Woong-Shin Park, Michael Zuker, Robert H. Kinner	1990	18
20	On a unimodal sequence of binomial coefficients Discrete Mathematics ·Stephen M. Tanny, Michael Zuker	1974	15

About Michael Zuker

Michael Zuker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Aging, Cancer Research and Endocrinology, having authored 81 papers that have together received 27.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (51 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (26 papers), RNA Research and Splicing (20 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (12 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (8 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (6 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Molecular Biology (21.4k citations), Endocrinology (876 citations), Genetics (3.7k citations), Virology (621 citations) and Cancer Research (1.9k citations). Michael Zuker has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Douglas H. Turner, Patrick Stiegler, David H. Mathews, Jeffrey Sabina, J. A. Jaeger, Susan J. Schroeder, Matthew D. Disney, Jessica L. Childs‐Disney, Ann B. Jacobson and David Sankoff. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Molecular Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science and Biochemistry.

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