User:Francois Major

Contact Info

 * Francois Major
 * University of Montreal
 * Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer
 * PO Box 6128, Downtown station
 * Montreal, Quebec, CANADA H3C 3J7
 * [mailto:major@iro.umontreal.ca E-mail me]

I work in the Major Lab at the IRIC. I learned about OpenWetWare from surfing the Web!, and I've joined because I would like to add information about our software.

Education

 * 1990, PhD, University of Montreal
 * 1987, MS, University of Montreal
 * 1984, BS, University of Montreal

Research interests

 * 1) RNA structure, folding, and function
 * 2) RNA interference
 * 3) RNA engineering

Publications
2008


 * Parisien M, Major F. The MC-Fold and MC-Sym pipeline infers RNA structure from sequence data. Nature 2008, 452(7183):51-55
 * Bouchard P, Lacroix-Labonté J, Desjardins G, Lampron P, Lisi V, Lemieux S, Major F, Legault P. Role of SLV in SLI Substrate Recognition by the Neurospora VS Ribozyme, RNA 2008, 14(4):736-48

2007


 * Lisi V, Major F. A comparative analysis of the triloops in all high-resolution RNA structures reveals sequence-structure relationships, RNA 2007 13(9):1537-45
 * Parisien M, Major F. Ranking the Factors That Contribute to Protein ß-Sheet Folding, Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics 2007 68(4):824-29
 * Kim YK, Furic L, Parisien M, Major F, DesGroseillers L, Maquat LE. Staufen1 Regulates Diverse Classes of Mammalian Transcripts, EMBO J 2007 26(11):2670-81
 * St-Onge K., Thibault P, Hamel S., Major F. Modeling and aligning RNA motifs by graph-grammars, Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 35(5):1726-36
 * Sylvestre Y, De Guire V, Querido E., Mukhopadhyay UK, Major F., Ferbeyre   G, Chartrand P. An E2F/mirR-20a auto-regulatory feed-back loop, J Biol Chem 2007 282(4):2135-43

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 * Introductory tutorial
 * OpenWetWare help pages