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D-Index
104
Citations
41286
World Ranking
1049
National Ranking
417

Overview

Ignacio Tinoco was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. The scientist's work took place primarily within this academic setting.

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Best Publications

  • Improved Estimation of Secondary Structure in Ribonucleic Acids

    I. Tinoco;P. N. Borer;B. Dengler;M. D. Levin

  • Nucleic Acids: Structures, Properties, and Functions

    Victor A. Bloomfield;Donald M. Crothers;Ignacio Tinoco

  • How RNA folds.

    Ignacio Tinoco;Carlos Bustamante

  • Verification of the Crooks fluctuation theorem and recovery of RNA folding free energies

    D. Collin;F. Ritort;C. Jarzynski;S. B. Smith

  • Reversible unfolding of single RNA molecules by mechanical force.

    Jan Liphardt;Bibiana Onoa;Steven B. Smith;Ignacio Tinoco

  • Stability of ribonucleic acid double-stranded helices

    Philip N. Borer;Barbara Dengler;Ignacio Tinoco;Olke C. Uhlenbeck

  • Telomeric DNA oligonucleotides form novel intramolecular structures containing guanine-guanine base pairs

    Eric Henderson;Charles C. Hardin;Steven K. Walk;Ignacio Tinoco

  • Absorbance melting curves of RNA.

    Joseph D. Puglisi;Ignacio Tinoco

  • Physical chemistry of nucleic acids

    Ignacio Tinoco

  • Estimation of Secondary Structure in Ribonucleic Acids

    Ignacio Tinoco;Olke C. Uhlenbeck;Mark D. Levine

  • Physical Chemistry: Principles and Applications in Biological Sciences

    Ignacio Tinoco

  • Hypochromism in Polynucleotides1

    Ignacio Tinoco

  • The stability of helical polynucleotides: base contributions.

    Howard DeVoe;Ignacio Tinoco

  • Base-base mismatches. Thermodynamics of double helix formation for dCA3XA3G + dCT3YT3G (X, Y = A,C,G,T).

    Fareed Aboul-ela;David Koh;Ignacio Tinoco;Francis H. Martin

  • Following translation by single ribosomes one codon at a time

    Jin-Der Wen;Laura Lancaster;Courtney Hodges;Ana-Carolina Zeri

  • Solution structure of an unusually stable RNA hairpin, 5'GGAC(UUCG)GUCC.

    Chaejoon Cheong;Gabriele Varani;Ignacio Tinoco

  • A thermodynamic study of unusually stable RNA and DNA hairpins

    Vincent P. Antao;Sandy Y. Lai;Ignacio Tinoco

  • Base pairing involving deoxyinosine: implications for probe design

    Francis H. Martin;Miguel M. Castro;Fareed Aboul-ela;Ignacio Tinoco

  • Comparison between DNA melting thermodynamics and DNA polymerase fidelity.

    John Petruska;Myron F. Goodman;Michael S. Boosalis;Lawrence C. Sowers

  • RNA translocation and unwinding mechanism of HCV NS3 helicase and its coordination by ATP

    Sophie Dumont;Wei Cheng;Victor Serebrov;Rudolf K. Beran

  • Theoretical Aspects of Optical Activity Part Two: Polymers

    Ignacio Tinoco

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Bustamante
Carlos Bustamante Stanford University
Gabriele Varani
Gabriele Varani University of Washington
Harry F. Noller
Harry F. Noller University of California, Santa Cruz
Joseph D. Puglisi
Joseph D. Puglisi Stanford University
Douglas H. Turner
Douglas H. Turner University of Rochester
Arthur Pardi
Arthur Pardi University of Colorado Boulder
Olke C. Uhlenbeck
Olke C. Uhlenbeck Northwestern University
Charles R. Cantor
Charles R. Cantor Boston University
John D. Ferry
John D. Ferry University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul J. Hagerman
Paul J. Hagerman University of California, Davis

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