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  1. High-Resolution Assembly of the Human Y Chromosome Identifies a Vast Landscape of Inverted Repeats Associated with Structural and Functional Genomic Features

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, October 2025, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  2. Abiotic Stresses in Plants: From Molecules to Environment

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2024, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  3. Special Issue “Bioinformatics of Unusual DNA and RNA Structures”

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, May 2024, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  4. Variability of Inverted Repeats in All Available Genomes of Bacteria

    Article • Microbiology Spectrum, August 2023, ASM Journals

    Martin Bartas

  5. Extensive Bioinformatics Analyses Reveal a Phylogenetically Conserved Winged Helix (WH) Domain (Zτ) of Topoisomerase IIα, Elucidating Its Very High Affinity for Left-Handed Z-DNA and Suggesting Novel Putative Functions

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, June 2023, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  6. Identification of annotation artifacts concerning the chalcone synthase (CHS)

    Article • BMC Research Notes, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Martin Bartas

  7. New Low Morphine Opium Poppy Genotype Obtained by TILLING Approach

    Article • Plants, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  8. Analysis of G-Quadruplex-Forming Sequences in Drought Stress-Responsive Genes, and Synthesis Genes of Phenolic Compounds in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Article • Life, January 2023, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  9. Beyond the Primary Structure of Nucleic Acids: Potential Roles of Epigenetics and Noncanonical Structures in the Regulations of Plant Growth and Stress Responses

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Martin Bartas

  10. What Do We Know about Barley miRNAs?

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  11. The Newly Sequenced Genome of Pisum sativum Is Replete with Potential G-Quadruplex-Forming Sequences—Implications for Evolution and Biological Regulation

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  12. Regulation of Phenolic Compound Production by Light Varying in Spectral Quality and Total Irradiance

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  13. Unheeded SARS-CoV-2 proteins? A deep look into negative-sense RNA

    Article • Briefings in Bioinformatics, March 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Martin Bartas

  14. Are There Hidden Genes in DNA/RNA Vaccines?

    Article • Frontiers in Immunology, February 2022, Frontiers

    Martin Bartas

  15. Searching for New Z-DNA/Z-RNA Binding Proteins Based on Structural Similarity to Experimentally Validated Zα Domain

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  16. Beta-lactam resistance development during the treatment processes of municipal wastewater treatment plants

    Article • Chemosphere, October 2021, Elsevier

    Martin Bartas

  17. Searching for G-Quadruplex-Binding Proteins in Plants: New Insight into Possible G-Quadruplex Regulation

    Article • BioTech, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  18. Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analysis of Drought Stress Response in Opium Poppy Plants during the First Week of Germination

    Article • Plants, September 2021, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  19. The Changes in the p53 Protein across the Animal Kingdom Point to Its Involvement in Longevity

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  20. Evolution of Diverse Strategies for Promoter Regulation

    Article • Trends in Genetics, August 2021, Elsevier

    Martin Bartas

  21. G-Quadruplex in Gene Encoding Large Subunit of Plant RNA Polymerase II: A Billion-Year-Old Story

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2021, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  22. Analyses of viral genomes for G-quadruplex forming sequences reveal their correlation with the type of infection

    Article • Biochimie, July 2021, Elsevier

    Martin Bartas

  23. Letter to the Editor: Significant mutation enrichment in inverted repeat sites of new SARS-CoV-2 strains

    Article • Briefings in Bioinformatics, April 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Martin Bartas

  24. Tracing dsDNA Virus–Host Coevolution through Correlation of Their G-Quadruplex-Forming Sequences

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  25. G-quadruplexes in H1N1 influenza genomes

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Martin Bartas

  26. Amino Acid Composition in Various Types of Nucleic Acid-Binding Proteins

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  27. SARS-CoV-2 hot-spot mutations are significantly enriched within inverted repeats and CpG island loci

    Article • Briefings in Bioinformatics, December 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Martin Bartas

  28. G-Quadruplexes in the Archaea Domain

    Article • Biomolecules, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  29. In-Depth Bioinformatic Analyses of Nidovirales Including Human SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV Viruses Suggest Important Roles of Non-canonical Nucleic Acid Structures in Their Lifecycles

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, July 2020, Frontiers

    Martin Bartas

  30. Global analysis of inverted repeat sequences in human gene promoters reveals their non-random distribution and association with specific biological pathways

    Article • Genomics, July 2020, Elsevier

    Martin Bartas

  31. Divergent distributions of inverted repeats and G-quadruplex forming sequences in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • Genomics, March 2020, Elsevier

    Martin Bartas

  32. Characterization of p53 Family Homologs in Evolutionary Remote Branches of Holozoa

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, December 2019, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  33. The Presence and Localization of G-Quadruplex Forming Sequences in the Domain of Bacteria

    Article • Molecules, May 2019, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  34. G4Hunter web application: a web server for G-quadruplex prediction

    Article • Bioinformatics, February 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Martin Bartas

  35. Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document

    Article • Database, January 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Daniel Prieto, Associate Professor James A.L. Brown, Professor Amanda G Thrift, Docent Kutty Selva Nandakumar, Professor Miguel Viveiros, MD Diego A. Valera-Cornejo, Dr Soroush Safaei, Dr Carmen San Martín, Piero Carninci, Dr Florian Rehfeldt, Dr Yoichi Watanabe, Kazuki Ide, Mr Alvin Wong, PD Dr. Adrian Meule, Dr Maurizio Petrelli, Dr Christine McGarrigle, Dr Tristan Reddan, Dr Nicola Roberts, Professor Stefan Lorkowski, Dr Cyrille Goarant, Dr Emma C Hobbs, Dr. Saurab Sharma, Ph.D., Dr Farid Rahimi, Prof. Iseult Lynch, Mirella Walker, Dr Luca Galluzzi, Sophie Ohlsson, Professor Tullio Florio, Dr Rabea A Gadelkareem, Dr Azubuike Christian Ukubuiwe, Prof Gajendra PS Raghava, Prof Jun Shen, Lubna Razak, ABHISHEKA BANSAL, Craig Billington, Dr Alejandro Lazo-Langner, Joan Albiol, MOURAD TAYEBI, Chuang Ma, Christine Toelzer , Dr. Kathrin Karsay, Professor Andrew M Beale, Professor Hugh James Byrne, Dr Ugo Marzocchi, Ana Nordberg, Martin Bartas, Natalia Echeverría, Dr Patricia M Graves

  36. Novel interesting quadruplex binding domain

    Article • Molecules, September 2018, MDPI AG

    Martin Bartas

  37. Complex Analyses of Short Inverted Repeats in All Sequenced Chloroplast DNAs

    Article • BioMed Research International, July 2018, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Martin Bartas

  38. Bioinformatics analyses and in vitro evidence for five and six stacked G-quadruplex forming sequences

    Article • Biochimie, July 2018, Elsevier

    Martin Bartas

  39. Liver regeneration during the associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy procedure in Sus�scrofa is positively modulated by stem cells

    Article • Oncology Letters, February 2018, Spandidos Publications

    Martin Bartas

  40. Complex analyses of inverted repeats in mitochondrial genomes revealed their importance and variability

    Article • Bioinformatics, November 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Martin Bartas