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- Fournier, C.T., Cherny, J.C., Truncali, K., Robbins-Pianka, A., Lin, M.S., Krizanc, D. and Weir, M.P. (2012). Amino termini of many yeast proteins map to downstream start codons. J. Proteome Res. 11: 5712-19.
- Robbins-Pianka, A., Rice, M.D. and Weir, M.P. (2010). The mRNA landscape at yeast translation initiation sites. Bioinformatics 26: 2651-2655.
Rank-ordering filter to analyze RNA secondary structure data; see Robbins-Pianka et al. 2010
- Weir, M. and Rice, M. (2010). TRII: A Probabilistic Scoring of Drosophila melanogaster Translation Initiation Sites. Eurasip Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. 2010: 814127.
- Stark, A., Lin, M. F., Kheradoiyr, P., Pedersen, J. S. et al. [including Weir, M and Rice, M] (2007). Discovery of functional elements in 12 Drosophila genomes using evolutionary signatures. Nature 450: 219-32.
- Weir, M., Eaton, M. and Rice M. (2006). Challenging the spliceosome machine. Genome Biology 7: R3.
- Weir, M. and Rice, M. (2004). Ordered Partitioning reveals extended splice site consensus information. Genomic Research 14, 67-78.
- 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.
- Das, T.K., Purkayastha-Mukherjee, C., D’Angelo, J. and Weir, M. (2002). A conserved F-box gene with unusual transcript localization. Development Genes and Evolution 212: 134-140.
- Raj, L., Vivekanand, P., Das, T.K., Badam, E., Fernandes, M., Finley, R.L.Jr., Brent. R., Appel, L.F., Hanes, S., and Weir, M. (2000). Targeted localized degradation of Paired protein in Drosophila development. Current Biology 10:1265-1272. (See Nature Cell Biology: News and Views, December, 2000; Pairing Partners)
Roles of RNA secondary structure in translation initiation; see Robbins-Pianka et al. 2010
- Fujioka, M., Jaynes, J. B., Bejsovec, A. M. and Weir, M. (2000). Production of transgenic Drosophila. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol.136, Developmental Biology Protocols. Vol. 2, pp. 353-364 (R. Tuan and C. Lo, eds.) Humana Press.
- Lan, Y., Fujioka, M., Polsgrove, R., Miskiewicz, P., Morrissey, D., Goto, T. and Weir, M. (1998). Plasticity of Drosophila Paired function. Developmental Genetics 23: 45-55.
- Miskiewicz, P., Morrissey, D., Lan, Y., Raj, L., Kessler, S., Fujioka, M., Goto, T., and Weir, M. (1996). Both the paired domain and homeodomain are required for in vivo function of Drosophila Paired. Development 122: 2709-2718
- Fujioka, M., Miskiewicz, P., Raj, L., Gulledge, A.A., Weir, M., and Goto, T. (1996). Drosophila Paired regulates late even-skipped expression through a composite binding site for the paired domain and the homeodomain. Development 122: 2697-2707.
- Cai, J., Lan, Y., Appel, L. F., and Weir, M. (1994). Dissection of the Drosophila Paired Protein: Functional requirements for conserved motifs. Mechanisms of Development 47: 139-150.
- Ananthan, J., Morrissey, D., Baler, R., Lan, Y., Weir, M., and Voellmy, R. (1993). Synergistic activation of transcription is mediated by the N-terminal domain of Drosophila fushi tarazu homeoprotein and can occur without DNA binding by the protein Molecular and Cellular Biology 13: 1599-1609.
- Morrissey, D., Askew, D., Raj, L., and Weir, M. (1991). Functional dissection of the paired segmentation gene in Drosophila embryos. Genes and Development 5: 1684-1696.
- Kamb, A., Weir, M., Rudy, B., Varmus, H. and Kenyon, C. (1989). Identification of genes from pattern formation, tyrosine kinase and potassium channel families by DNA amplification. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 12: 4372-4376.
- Weir, M. P., and Kornberg, T. (1985). Patterns of engrailed and fushi tarazu transcripts reveal novel intermediate stages in Drosophila segmentation. Nature 318: 433-445.
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