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Overview

Manuel Ares is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a dominant focus on Molecular Biology as a subfield.

Their scholarly work covers several main topics including:

  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research

Manuel Ares has contributed to multiple recent papers, with notable examples including:

  • "Genetic tool development in marine protists: emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology" (2020), published in Nature Methods
  • "The UCSC SARS-CoV-2 Genome Browser" (2020), published in Nature Genetics
  • "Transposable elements drive intron gain in diverse eukaryotes" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Concerted modification of nucleotides at functional centers of the ribosome revealed by single-molecule RNA modification profiling" (2022), published in eLife
  • "Synthesis of modified nucleotide polymers by the poly(U) polymerase Cid1: application to direct RNA sequencing on nanopores" (2021), published in RNA

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Haller Igel
  • Jason Talkish
  • Jen Quick-Cleveland
  • Sol Katzman
  • John P. Donohue

Publication venues where Manuel Ares has commonly published work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • RNA
  • Nature Methods
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • Knowledge-based analysis of microarray gene expression data by using support vector machines

    Michael P. S. Brown;William Noble Grundy;David Lin;Nello Cristianini

  • Purification of RNA using TRIzol (TRI reagent).

    Donald C. Rio;Manuel Ares;Gregory J. Hannon;Timothy W. Nilsen

  • An RNA gene expressed during cortical development evolved rapidly in humans

    Katherine S Pollard;Sofie R Salama;Nelle Lambert;Marie-Alexandra Lambot

  • Context-dependent control of alternative splicing by RNA-binding proteins

    Xiang-Dong Fu;Manuel Ares

  • A post-transcriptional regulatory switch in polypyrimidine tract-binding proteins reprograms alternative splicing in developing neurons

    Paul L. Boutz;Peter Stoilov;Qin Li;Chia-Ho Lin

  • Ultraconserved elements are associated with homeostatic control of splicing regulators by alternative splicing and nonsense-mediated decay

    Julie Z. Ni;Leslie Grate;John Paul Donohue;Christine Preston

  • RBPmap: a web server for mapping binding sites of RNA-binding proteins

    Inbal Paz;Idit Kosti;Manuel Ares;Melissa S. Cline

  • Genomewide analysis of mRNA processing in yeast using splicing-specific microarrays.

    Tyson A. Clark;Charles W. Sugnet;Manuel Ares

  • Integrative Genome-wide Analysis Reveals Cooperative Regulation of Alternative Splicing by hnRNP Proteins

    Stephanie C. Huelga;Anthony Q. Vu;Justin D. Arnold;Tiffany Y. Liang

  • Depletion of U3 small nucleolar RNA inhibits cleavage in the 5' external transcribed spacer of yeast pre-ribosomal RNA and impairs formation of 18S ribosomal RNA

    J. M. X. Hughes;M. Ares

  • Genome-wide bioinformatic and molecular analysis of introns in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Marc Spingola;Leslie Grate;David Haussler;Manuel Ares

  • Muscleblind-like 2-Mediated Alternative Splicing in the Developing Brain and Dysregulation in Myotonic Dystrophy

    Konstantinos Charizanis;Kuang Yung Lee;Kuang Yung Lee;Ranjan Batra;Marianne Goodwin

  • Aberrant alternative splicing and extracellular matrix gene expression in mouse models of myotonic dystrophy

    Hongqing Du;Melissa S Cline;Robert J Osborne;Daniel L Tuttle

  • The splicing regulator Rbfox1 (A2BP1) controls neuronal excitation in the mammalian brain

    Lauren T Gehman;Peter Stoilov;Jamie Maguire;Andrey Damianov

  • Genome-wide Analysis Reveals SR Protein Cooperation and Competition in Regulated Splicing

    Shatakshi Pandit;Yu Zhou;Lily Shiue;Gabriela Coutinho-Mansfield

  • Transcriptome and genome conservation of alternative splicing events in humans and mice.

    Sugnet Cw;Kent Wj;Ares M;Haussler D

  • Accumulation of unstable promoter-associated transcripts upon loss of the nuclear exosome subunit Rrp6p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Carrie Anne Davis;Manuel Ares

  • RNase III cleaves eukaryotic preribosomal RNA at a U3 snoRNP-dependent site.

    Sherif Abou Elela;Haller Igel;Manuel Ares

  • Unusual intron conservation near tissue-regulated exons found by splicing microarrays.

    Charles W Sugnet;Karpagam Srinivasan;Tyson A Clark;Georgeann O'Brien

  • Test of intron predictions reveals novel splice sites, alternatively spliced mRNAs and new introns in meiotically regulated genes of yeast

    Carrie A. Davis;Leslie Grate;Marc Spingola;Manuel Ares

Frequent Co-Authors

David Haussler
David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz
Gregory J. Hannon
Gregory J. Hannon University of Cambridge
Timothy W. Nilsen
Timothy W. Nilsen Case Western Reserve University
Tyson A. Clark
Tyson A. Clark Pacific Biosciences (United States)
Gene W. Yeo
Gene W. Yeo University of California, San Diego
Alan M. Weiner
Alan M. Weiner University of Washington
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo Pompeu Fabra University
Alexandra Z. Worden
Alexandra Z. Worden Marine Biological Laboratory
Arnab Pain
Arnab Pain King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Andrew E. Allen
Andrew E. Allen J. Craig Venter Institute

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