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2024

Rangan, R., Huang, R. , Hunter O., Pham P., Ares, Jr., M., Das, R. (2024) “RNA structure landscape of S. cerevisiae introns” bioRxiv Paper | Preprint

He, S., Huang, R., Townley, J., C. Kretsch, R., Karagianes, T.G., Cox, D.B.T., Blair, H., Penzar, D., Vyaltsev, V., Aristova, E., Zinkevich, A., Bakulin, A., Sohn, H., Krstevski, D., Fukui, T., Tatematsu, F., Uchida, Y., Jang, D., Seong Lee, J., Shieh, R., Ma, T., Martynov, E., Shugaev, M.V., Bukhari, H.S.T., Fujikawa, K., Onodera, K., Henkel, C., Ron, S., Romano, J., Nicol, J.J. , Nye, G.P., Wu, Y., Choe, C., Reade, W., Eterna participants., Das, R. (2024)
“Ribonanza: deep learning of RNA structure through dual crowdsourcing”
bioRxiv
Preprint Link

Choe, C.A., Andreasson, J.O.L., Melaine, F., Kladwang, W., Wu, M.J., Portela, F., Wellington-Oguri, R., Nicol, J.J., Wayment-Steele, H.K., Gotrik, M., Eterna Participants, Khatri, P., Greenleaf, W.J., Das, R. (2024) “Compact RNA sensors for increasingly complex functions of multiple inputs” bioRxiv Paper | Preprint

SL5_TOCKretsch, R.C., Xu, L., Zheludev, I.N., Zhou, X., Huang, R., Nye, G., Li, S., Zhang, K., Chiu, W., Das, R. (2024)
“Tertiary folds of the SL5 RNA from the 5’ proximal region of SARS-CoV-2 and related coronaviruses”
PNAS 121 (10) : e2320493121
Paper Link

Tangpradabkul, T., Palo, M., Townley, J., Hsu, K.B., Eterna participants, Smaga, S., Das, R., Schepartz, A. (2024) “Minimization of the E. coli ribosome, aided and optimized by community science” Nucleic Acids Research 2024 : 1 – 16 Paper | Link

2023

Mulvaney, T., Kretsch, R., Elliott, L., Beton, J., Kryshtafovych, A., Rigden, D.J., Das, R., Topf, M. (2023) “CASP15 cryoEM protein and RNA targets: refinement and analysis using experimental maps” Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 91 (12) : 1935 – 1951 Paper | Link

FP_CoverDas, R., Kretsch, R., Simpkin, A., Mulvaney, T., Pham, P., Rangan, R., Bu, F., Keegan, R., Topf, M., Rigden, D., Miao, Z., Westhof, E. (2023)
“Assessment of three-dimensional RNA structure prediction in CASP15”
Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 91 (12) : 1747 – 1770
Paper Link

Kretsch, R., Andersen, E., Bujnicki, J., Chiu, W., Das, R., Luo, B., Masquida, B., McRae, E., Schroeder, G., Su, Z., Wedekind, J., Xu, L., Zhang, K., Zheludev, I., Moult, J., Kryshtafovych, A. (2023) “RNA target highlights in CASP15: Evaluation of predicted models by structure providers” Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 91 (12) : 1600 – 1615 Paper | Link

Kryshtafovych, A., Antczak, M., Szachniuk, M., Zok, T., Kretsch, R., Rangan, R., Pham, P., Das, R., Robin, X., Studer, G., Durairaj, J., Eberhardt, J., Sweeney, A., Topf, M., Schwede, T., Fidelis, K., Moult, J. (2023) “New prediction categories in CASP15” Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 91 (12) : 1550 – 1557 Paper | Link

Krüger, A, Watkins A.M., Wellington-Oguri R., Romano, J., Kofman, C., DeFoe, A., Kim, Y., Anderson-Lee, J., Fisker, E., Townley J., Eterna Participants, d’Aquino, A.E., Das, R., Jewett, M.C. (2023) “Community science designed ribosomes with beneficial phenotypes” Nature Communications 14 : 961 Paper | Link

Watkins, A.M. and Das, R. (2023) “RNA 3D Modeling with FARFAR2, Online” Methods Mol Biol 2586 : 233 – 249 Paper | Link

Ma, H., Pham, P., Luo, B., Rangan, R., Kappel, K., Su, Z., Das, R. (2023) “Auto-DRRAFTER: automated RNA modeling based on cryo-EM density” Methods Mol Biol. 2568 : 193 – 211 Paper | Link

2022

dualcrowdsourcing_ryos2_tSNEWayment-Steele H., Kladwang W., Watkins A., Kim D., Tunguz B., Reade W., Demkin M., Romano J., Wellington-Oguri R., Nicol J., Gao J., Onodera K., Fujikawa K., Mao H., Vandewiele G., Tinti M., Steenwinckel B., Ito T., Noumi T., He S., Ishi K., Lee Y., Öztürk F., Chiu K., Öztürk E., Amer K., Fares M., Eterna Participants , Das R. (2022)
“Deep learning models for predicting RNA degradation via dual crowdsourcing”
Nature Machine Intelligence 4, 1174–1184
Paper Link

Kofman, C., Watkins, A., Kim, D., Willi, J., Wooldredge, A., Karim, A., Das, R., Jewett, M. (2022) “Computationally-guided design and selection of high performing ribosomal active site mutants” Nucleic Acids Research 50(22):13143-13154 Paper | Link

EternaFoldWayment-Steele, H.K., Kladwang, W., Strom, A.I., Lee, J., Treuille, A., Becka, A., Eterna Participants, Das R. (2022)
“RNA secondary structure packages ranked and improved by high-throughput experiments”
Nature Methods 19 : 1234 – 1242
Paper Link | EternaBench repository | EternaFold server

Li, S., Palo, M.Z., Pintilie, G., Zhang, X., Su, Z., Kappel, K., Chiu, W., Zhang, K., Das, R. (2022) “Topological crossing in the misfolded Tetrahymena ribozyme resolved by cryo-EM” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (37) : e2209146119 Paper | Link

Hagey, R.J., Elazar, M., Pham, E.A., Tian, S., Ben-Avi, L., Bernardin-Souibgui, C., Yee, M.F., Moreira, F.R., Rabinovitch, M.V., Meganck, R.M., Fram, B., Beck, A., Gibson, S.A., Lam, G., Devera, J., Kladwang, W., Nguyen, K., Xiong, A., Schaffert, S., Avisar, T., Liu, P., Rustagi, A., Fichtenbaum, C.J., Pang, P.S., Khatri, P., Tseng, C., Taubenberger, J.K., Blish, C.A., Hurst, B.L., Sheahan, T.P., Das, R., Glenn, J.S. (2022) “Programmable antivirals targeting critical conserved viral RNA secondary structures from influenza A virus and SARS-CoV-2” Nature Medicine 28 (9) : 1944 – 1955 Paper | Link

Kim, D.S., Watkins, A., Bidstrup, E., Lee, J., Topkar, V., Kofman, C., Schwarz, K.J., Liu, Y., Pintilie, G., Roney, E., Das, R., Jewett, M.C. (2022) “Three-dimensional structure-guided evolution of a ribosome with tethered subunits” Nature Chemical Biology 18 (9) : 990 – 998 Paper | Link

Andreasson, J.O.L., Gotrik, M.R., Wu, M.J., Wayment-Steele, H.K., Kladwang, W., Portela, F., Wellington-Oguri, R., Das, R., Greenleaf, W.J. (2022) “Crowdsourced RNA design discovers diverse, reversible, efficient, self-contained molecular sensors” PNAS 119 (18) : e2112979119 Paper | Link

Leppek, K.*, Byeon, G.W.*, Kladwang, W.*, Wayment-Steele, H.K.*, Kerr, C.H.*, Xu, A.F.*, Kim, D.S.*, Topkar, V.V., Choe, C., Rothschild, D., Tiu, G.C., Wellington-Oguri, R., Fujii, K., Sharma, E., Watkins, A.M., Nicol, J.J., Romano, J., Tunguz, B., Diaz F., Cai, H., Guo, P., Wu, J., Meng, F., Shi, S., Eterna Participants, Dormitzer, P.R., Solórzano, A., Barna, M., Das, R. *These authors contributed equally. (2022)
“Combinatorial optimization of mRNA structure, stability, and translation for RNA-based therapeutics”
Nature Communications 13 : 1536
Paper Link

2021

Das, R., Russell, R. (2021) “How to Kinetically Dissect an RNA Machine” Biochemistry 60 (46) : 3485 – 3490 Paper | Link

Das, R., Watkins, A.W. (2021) “RiboDraw: semiautomated two-dimensional drawing of RNA tertiary structure diagrams” NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics 3 (4) Paper | Link

Wayment-Steele, H.K., Kim, D.S., Choe, C.A., Nicol, J.J., Wellington-Oguri, R., Sperberg, R.A.P., Huang, P., Eterna Participants, Das, R. (2021)
“Theoretical basis for stabilizing messenger RNA through secondary structure design”
Nucleic Acids Research 49 (18) : 10604 – 10617
Paper Link | Data (OpenVaccine-solves)

Wayment-Steele, H.K., Kladwang, W., Watkins, A.M., Kim, D.S., Tunguz, B., Reade, W., Demkin, M., Romano, J., Wellington-Oguri, R., Nicol, J.J., Jiayang, G., Kazuki, O., Kujikawa, K., Mao, H., Vandewiele, G., Tinti, M., Steenwinckel, B., Ito, T., Noumi, T., He, S., Ishi, K., Lee, Y., Ozturk, F., Chiu, A., Ozturk, E., Amer, K., Fares, M., Eterna Participants, Das, R. (2021) “Predictive models of RNA degradation through dual crowdsourcingarXiv

Koodli, R.V., Rudolfs, B., Wayment-Steele, H.K., Eterna Structure Designers, Das, R. (2021) “Redesigning the Eterna100 for the Vienna 2 folding engine” bioRxiv Paper | Preprint

R. J. L. Townshend, S. Eismann, A.M. Watkins, R. Rangan, M. Karelina, R. Das, R.O. Dror (2021) “Geometric deep learning of RNA structure” Science 373 (6558) : 1047 – 1051 Paper | Link

Zhang, K., Zheludev, I. N., Hagey, R. J., Wu, M. T.-P., Haslecker, R., Hou, Y. J., Kretsch, R., Pintilie, G. D., Rangan, R., Kladwang, W., Li, S., Pham, E. A., Bernardin-Souibgui, C., Baric, R. S., Sheahan, T. P., D Souza, V., Glenn, J. S., Chiu, W., Das, R. (2021)
“Cryo-EM and antisense targeting of the 28-kDa frameshift stimulation element from the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome”
Nature Structure and Molecular Biology 28 : 747 – 754
Paper Link

Su, Z., Zhang, K., Kappel, K., Li, S., Palo, M.Z., Pintilie, G.D., Rangan, R., Lou, B., Wei, Yuquan., Das, R., Chiu, W. (2021)
“Cryo-EM structures of full-length Tetrahymena ribozyme at 3.1 Å resolution”
Nature 596 : 603 – 607
Paper Link

Das R. (2021) “RNA structure: a renaissance begins?” Nature Methods 18 : 439 Paper | Link

Byeon, G.W., Cenik, E.S., Jiang, L., Tang, H., Das, R., Barna, M. (2021) “Functional and structural basis of extreme conservation in vertebrate 5’ untranslated regions” Nature Genetics 53 : 729 – 741 Paper | Link

Liu, X., Sun, T., Shcberbina, A., Li, Q., Jarmoskaite, I., Kappel, K., Ramaswami, G., Das, R., Kundaje, A., Li, J.B. (2021) “Learning cis-regulatory principles of ADAR-based RNA editing from CRISPR-mediated mutagenesis” Nature Communications 12 (2165) Paper | Link

Ghanim, G. E., Fountain, A. J., van Roon, A. M., Rangan, R., Das, R., Collins, K., Nguyen, T.H.D. (2021) “Structure of human telomerase holoenzyme with bound telomeric DNA” Nature 593 : 449 – 453 Paper | Link

Le, K., Adolf-Bryfogle, J., Klima, J., Lyskov, S., Labonte, J., Bertolani, S., Roy Burman, S., Leaver-Fay, A., Weitzner, B., Maguire, J., Rangan, R., Adrianowycz, M., Alford, R., Adal, A., Nance, M., Das, R., Dunbrack, R., Schief, W., Kuhlman, B., Siegel, J., Gray, J. (2021) “PyRosetta jupyter notebooks teach biomolecular structure prediction and design” The Biophysicist 2 (1) : 108 – 122 Paper | Link

Rangan, R., Watkins, A. M., Chacon, J., Kretsch, R., Kladwang, W., Zheludev, I.N., Townley, J., Rynge, M., Thain, G., Das, R. (2021) “De novo 3D models of SARS-CoV-2 RNA elements from consensus experimental secondary structures” Nucleic Acids Research 49 (6) : 3092 – 3108 Paper | Link Data (Model collection, SARS-CoV-2 structures) | Data (Model collection, positive control structures)

2020

Leman, J.K., Weitzner, B.D., Lewis, S.M., Adolf-Bryfogle, J., Alam, N., Alford, R.F., Aprahamian, M., Baker, D., Barlow, K.A., Barth, P., Basanta, B., Bender, B.J., Blacklock, K., Bonet, J., Boyken, S.E., Bradley, P., Bystroff, C., Conway, P., Cooper, S., Correia, B.E., Coventry, B., Das, R., De Jong, R.M., DiMaio, F., Dsilva, L., Dunbrack, R., Ford, A.S., Frenz, B., Fu, D.Y., Geniesse, C., Goldschmidt, L., Gowthaman, R., Gray, J.J., Gront, D., Guffy, S., Horowitz, S., Huang, P.S., Huber, T., Jacobs, T.M., Jeliazkov, J.R., Johnson, D.K., Kappel, K., Karanicolas, J., Khakzad, H., Khar, K.R., Khare, S.D., Khatib, F., Khramushin, A., King, I.C., Kleffner, R., Koepnick, B., Kortemme, T., Kuenze, G., Kuhlman, B., Kuroda, D., Labonte, J.W., Lai, J.K., Lapidoth, G., Leaver-Fay, A., Lindert, S., Linsky, T., London, N., Lubin, J.H., Lyskov, S., Maguire, J., Malmström, L., Marcos, E., Marcu, O., Marze, N.A., Meiler, J., Moretti, R., Mulligan, V.K., Nerli, S., Norn, C., Ó’Conchúir, S., Ollikainen, N., Ovchinnikov, S., Pacella, M.S., Pan, X., Park, H., Pavlovicz, R.E., Pethe, M., Pierce, B.G., Pilla, K.B., Raveh, B., Renfrew, P.D., Burman, S.S.R., Rubenstein, A., Sauer, M.F., Scheck, A., Schief, W., Schueler-Furman, O., Sedan, Y., Sevy, A.M., Sgourakis, N.G., Shi, L., Siegel, J.B., Silva, D.A., Smith, S., Song, Y., Stein, A., Szegedy, M., Teets, F.D., Thyme, S.B., Wang, R.Y., Watkins, A., Zimmerman, L., Bonneau, R. (2020) “Macromolecular modeling and design in Rosetta: recent methods and frameworks.” Nature Methods 17 (7) : 665 – 680

Palka, C., Forino, N.M., Henstchel, J., Das, R., Stone, M.D. (2020) “Folding heterogeneity in the essential human telomerase RNA three-way junction” RNA 26 : 1787 – 1800 Paper | Link

Ribosolve modelsKappel, K., Zhang, K., Su, Z., Watkins, A.M., Kladwang, W., Li, S., Pintilie, G., Topkar, V.V., Rangan, R., Zheludev, I.N., Yesselman, J.D., Chiu, W., and Das, R. (2020)
“Accelerated cryo-EM-guided determination of three-dimensional RNA-only structures”
Nature Methods 17 : 699 – 707
Paper Link

Watkins, A.M., Rangan, R., Das, R. (2020) “FARFAR2: Improved de novo Rosetta prediction of complex global RNA folds” Structure 28 (8) : 963 – 976 Paper | Link Server | Benchmarking scripts

ain, N., Blauch, L. R., Szymanski, M. R., Das, R., Tang, S. K. Y., Yin, Y. W., Fire, A. Z. (2020) “Transcription polymerase–catalyzed emergence of novel RNA replicons” Science 368 : eaay0688 Paper | Link

Miao, Z., Adamiak, R. W., Antczak, M., Boniecki, M. J., Bujnicki, J., Chen, S.-J., Cheng, C. Y., Cheng, Y., Chou, F.-C., Das, R., Dokholyan, N. V., Ding, F., Geniesse, C., Jiang, Y., Joshi, A., Krokhotin, A., Magnus, M., Mailhot, O., Major, F., Mann, T. H., Piatkowski, P., Pluta, R., Popenda, M., Sarzynska, J., Sun, L., Szachniuk, M., Tian, S., Wang, J., Wang, J., Watkins, A. M., Wiedemann, J., Xiao, Y., Xu, X., Yesselman, J. D., Zhang, D., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zhao, P., Zhou, Y., Zok, T., Zyla, A., Ren, A., Batey, R. T., Golden, B. L., Huang, L., Lilley, D. M. J., Liu, Y., Patel, D. J., Westhof, E. (2020) “RNA-Puzzles Round IV: 3D structure predictions of four ribozymes and two aptamers” RNA 26 : 982 – 995 Paper | Link

Kladwang, W., Topkar, V.V., Liu, B., Rangan R., Hodges, T.L., Keane, S.C., Al-Hashimi, H., Das, R. (2020) “Anomalous reverse transcription through chemical modifications in polyadenosine stretches” Biochemistry 59 (23) : 2154 – 2170 Paper | Link

Rangan, R., Zheludev I.N., Hagey, R.J., Pham, E.A., Wayment-Steele, H.K., Glenn, J.S., Das, R. (2020) “RNA genome conservation and secondary structure in SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-related viruses: a first look” RNA 26 : 937 – 959 Paper | Link Code

2019

sam_iv_mapZhang, K., Li, S., Kappel, K., Pintilie, G., Su, Z., Mou, T.-C., Schmid, M. F., Das, R., Chiu, W. (2019)
“Cryo-EM structure of a 40 kDa SAM-IV riboswitch RNA at 3.7 Å resolution”
Nature Communications 10 : Article number: 5511
Paper Link

Magnus, M., Kappel, K., Das, R., Bujnicki, J.M. (2019) “RNA 3D structure prediction guided by independent folding of homologous sequences” BMC Bioinformatics 20 : article 512 Paper | Link

Li, X., Liu, S., Zhang, L., Issaian, A., Hill, R. C., Espinosa, S., Shi, S., Cui, Y., Kappel, K., Das, R., Hansen, K. C., Zhou, Z. H., Zhao, R. (2019) “A unified mechanism for intron and exon definition and back-splicing” Nature 573 : 375 – 380 Paper | Link

RNAmake_spinachTTRsYesselman, J.D., Eiler, D., Carlson, E.D., Gotrik, M.R., d’Aquino, A.E., Ooms, A.N., Kladwang, W., Carlson, P.D., Shi, X., Costantino, D., Herschlag, D., Lucks, J.B., Jewett, M.C., Kieft, J.S., and Das, R. (2019)
“Computational design of three-dimensional RNA structure and function”
Nature Nanotechnology 14 : 866 – 873
Paper Link

Koirala, D., Shao, Y., Koldobskaya, Y., Fuller, J.R., Watkins, A.M., Shelke, S.A., Pilipenko, E.V., Das, R., Rice, P.A., and Piccirilli, J.A. (2019) “A conserved RNA structural motif for organizing topology within picornaviral internal ribosome entry sites” Nature Communications 10 : 3629 Paper | Link

Das, R., Keep, B., Washington, P, Riedel-Kruse, I. H. (2019) “Scientific discovery games for biomedical research” Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science 2 : 253 – 279 Paper | Link

Yesselman, J.D. Denny, S.K. Bisaria, N. Herschlag, D. Greenleaf, W.J. Das, R. (2019) “Sequence-dependent RNA helix conformational preferences predictably impact tertiary structure formation” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (34) : 16847 – 16855 Paper | Link

Wu, M.J., Andreasson, J., Kladwang, W., Greenleaf, W.J., and Das, R. (2019) “Automated design of diverse stand-alone riboswitches” ACS Synthetic Biology 8 : 1838 – 1846 Paper | Link

Koodli, R. V., Keep, B., Coppess, K. R., Portela, F., Eterna Participants, and Das, R. (2019) “EternaBrain: automated RNA design through move sets and strategies from an Internet-scale RNA videogame” PLOS Computational Biology 15 (6) : e1007059 Paper | Link EternaBrain software

Wayment-Steele, H., Wu, M., Gotrik, M., and Das, R. (2019) “Evaluating riboswitch optimality” Methods in Enzymology 623 : 417 – 450 Paper | Link

Watkins, A. M., Rangan, R., and Das, R. (2019) “Using Rosetta for RNA homology modeling” Methods in Enzymology 623 : 177 – 207 Paper | Link

Jarmoskaite, I., Denny, S. K., Vaidyanathan, P. P., Becker, W. R., Andreasson, J. O. L., Layton, C. J., Kappel, K., Shivashankar, V., Sreenivasan, R., Das, R., Greenleaf, W. J., and Herschlag, D. (2019) “A quantitative and predictive model for RNA binding by human Pumilio proteins” Molecular Cell 74 : 966 – 981 Paper | Link

Huang, L., Wang, J., Watkins, A. M., Das, R., and Lilley, D. M. J. (2019) “Structure and ligand binding of the glutamine-II riboswitch” Nucleic Acids Research 47 (7666) : 7666 – 7675 Paper | Link

MS2_KappelddG2Kappel, K. Jarmoskaite, I. Vaidyanathan, P.P. Greenleaf, W.J. Herschlag, D. and Das R. (2019)
“Blind tests of RNA-protein binding affinity prediction”
PNAS 116 : 8336 – 8341
Paper Link | Rosetta RNP-ddG Software | ROSIE RNP-ddG Server

Boeynaems, S., Holehouse, A.S., Weinhardt, V., Kovacs, D., Van Lindt, J., Larabell, C., Van Den Bosch, L., Das, R., Tompa, P.S. Pappu, R.V., and Gitler, A.D. (2019) “Spontaneous driving forces give rise to protein-RNA condensates with coexisting phases and complex material properties” PNAS 116 : 7889 – 7898 Paper | Link

Kappel K. and Das R. (2019) “Sampling native-like structures of RNA-protein complexes through Rosetta folding and docking” Structure 27 (1) : 140 – 151 Paper | Link Rosetta RNP modeling software

Koodli, R., Keep, B., Coppess, K.R., Portela, F., Eterna Players, and Das, R. (2019) “RNA design movesets and strategies from an Internet-scale videogameBioRxiv

2018

Hartwick EW, Costantino DA, MacFadden, A, Nix, JC, Tian S, Das R, and Kieft JS (2018) “Ribosome-induced RNA conformational changes in a viral 3′-UTR sense and regulate translation levels” Nature Communications 9 (1) Paper | Link

Denny, S.K., Bisaria, N. Yesselman, J.D. Das, R. Herschlag, D. Greenleaf, W.J. (2018) “High-throughput investigation of diverse junction elements in RNA tertiary folding” Cell 174 (2) : 377 – 390 Paper | Link

Zettl, T., Das, R., Harbury, P.A.B., Herschlag, D., Lipfert, J., Mathew, R.S., and Shi X. (2018) “Recording and analyzing nucleic acid distance distributions with X-ray scattering interferometry (XSI)” Curr Protoc Nucleic Acid Chem 73 : e54 Paper | Link

Kappel_DRRAFTER_MS2_v2Kappel, K. Liu, S. Larsen, K.P. Skiniotis, G. Puglisi, E.V., Puglisi, J.D., Zhou, Z.H., Zhao, R., and Das, R. (2018)
“De novo computational RNA modeling into cryoEM maps of large ribonucleoprotein complexes”
Nature Methods 15 : 947 – 954
Paper Link | DRRAFTER Rosetta Software

Chen, L., Roake, C.M., Freund, A., Batista, P.J., Tian, S., Yin, Y.A., Gajera, C.R., Lin, S., Lee, B., Pech, M.F., Venteicher, A.S., Das, R., Chang, H.Y., and Artandi, S.E. (2018) “An activity switch in human telomerase based on RNA conformation and shaped by TCAB1” Cell 174 (1) : 218-230 Paper | Link

Shi, J., Eterna players, Das, R., and Pande, V.S. (2018) “SentRNA: Improving computational RNA design by incorporating a prior of human design strategies” BioRxiv Preprint SentRNA Software

stepwise_iconWatkins, A.M., Geniesse, C., Kladwang, W., Zakrevsky, P., Jaeger, L., and Das, R. (2018)
“Blind prediction of noncanonical RNA structure at atomic accuracy”
Science Advances 4 (5) : eaar5316
Paper Link | Stanford Digital Repository PURL | ROSIE server

Wu, M.J., Andreasson, J.O.L, Kladwang, W., Greenleaf, W.J., Eterna players, and Das, R. (2018) “Prospects for recurrent neural network models to learn RNA biophysics from high-throughput data” BioRxiv Preprint

Das, R. (2018) “LIkelihood-based Fits of Folding Transitions (LIFFT) for Biomolecule Mapping Data” BioRxiv Preprint LIFFT Software

Gracia, B., Al-Hashimi, H.M., Bisaria N., Das, R., Herschlag, D., and Russell, R. (2018) “Hidden structural modules in a cooperative RNA folding transition” Cell Reports 22 : 3240 – 3250 Link

add_ensembleTian, S., Kladwang, W., and Das, R. (2018)
“Allosteric mechanism of the V. vulnificus adenine riboswitch resolved by four-dimensional chemical mapping”
eLife 7 : e29602
Paper Link

Omabegho, T., Gurel, P. S., Cheng, C. Y., Kim, L., Y., Ruijgrok, P. V., Das, R., Alushin, G.M., and Bryant, Z. (2018) “Controllable molecular motors engineered from myosin and RNA” Nature Nanotechnology 13 : 34 – 40 Paper | Link

Moretti, R., Lyskov, S., Das, R., Meiler, J., and Gray, J.J. (2018) “Web-accessible molecular modeling with Rosetta: The Rosetta Online Server That Includes Everyone (ROSIE)” Protein Science 27 (1) : 259 – 268 Paper | Link ROSIE Servers

2017

Leppek, K., Das, R., and Barna, M. (2017) “Functional 5′ UTR mRNA structures in eukaryotic translation regulation and how to find them” Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 19 : 158 – 174 Paper | Link

Yesselman, J.D., Tian, S., Liu, X., Shi, L., Li, J.B., and Das, R. (2017) “Updates to the RNA mapping database (RMDB), version 2” Nucleic Acids Research 46 (D1) : D375 – D379 Paper | Link

Fig4_FourRNAs_UpdatedForSecondProofsCheng, C.Y., Kladwang, W., Yesselman, J.D., and Das, R. (2017)
“RNA structure inference through chemical mapping after accidental or intentional mutations”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 114 (37) : 9876 – 9881
Paper Link

Alford, R.F., Leaver-Fay, A., Jeliazkov, J.R., O’Meara, M.J., DiMaio, F.D., Park, H., Shapovalov, M.V., Renfrew, P.D., Mulligan, V.K., Kappel, K., Labonte, J.W., Pacella , M.S., Bonneau, R., Bradley, P., Dunbrack, Jr., R.L., Das, R., Baker, D., Kuhlman, B., Kortemme, T., and Gray, J.J. (2017) “The Rosetta all-atom energy function for macromolecular modeling and design” Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 13 (6) : 3031 – 3048 Paper | Link

Puzzle8MiaoOverlayMiao, Z., Adamiak, R. W., Antczak, M., Batey, R. T., Becka, A. J., Biesiada, M., Boniecki, M. J., Bujnicki, J. M., Chen, S.-J., Cheng, C. Y., Chou, F.-C., Ferré-D’Amaré, A. R., Das, R., Dawson, W. K., Ding, F., Dokholyan, N. V., Dunin-Horkawicz, S., Geniesse, C., Kappel, K., Kladwang, W., Krokhotin, A., Lach, G. E., Major, F., Mann, T. H., Magnus, M., Pachulska-Wieczorek, K., Patel, D. J., Piccirilli, J. A., Popenda, M., Purzycka, K. J., Ren, A., Rice, G. M., Santalucia, J. Jr., Sarzynska, J., Szachniuk, M., Tandon, A., Trausch, J. J., Tian, S., Wang, J., Weeks, K. M., Williams, B. II, Xiao, Y., Xu, X., Zhang, D., Zok, T., and Westhof, E. (2017)
“RNA-Puzzles Round III: 3D RNA structure prediction of five riboswitches and one ribozyme”
RNA 23 (5) : 655 – 672
Paper Link

Parks, J.W., Kappel, K., Das, R., and Stone, M.D. (2017) “Single-molecule FRET-Rosetta reveals RNA structural rearrangements during human telomerase catalysis” RNA 23 (2) : 175 – 188 Paper | Link

Tian, S., and Das, R. (2017) “Primerize-2D: automated primer design for RNA multidimensional chemical mapping” Bioinformatics 33 (9) : 1405 – 1406 Paper | Link

2016

Yesselman, J.D., and Das, R. (2016) “Modeling small noncanonical RNA motifs with the Rosetta FARFAR server” Methods in Molecular Biology 1490 : 187 – 198 Paper | Link

RECCES_previewChou, F-C., Kladwang, W., Kappel, K., and Das, R. (2016)
“Blind tests of RNA nearest neighbor energy prediction”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 113 (30) : 8430 – 8435
Paper Link

Tian, S., and Das, R. (2016) “RNA structure through multidimensional chemical mapping” Quarterly Review of Biophysics 49 (e7) : 1 – 30 Paper | Link

player_JMBdifficultyAnderson-Lee, J., Fisker, E., Kosaraju,V., Wu, M., Kong, J., Lee, J., Lee, M., Zada, M., Treuille, A., Das, R., and Eterna Players (2016)
“Principles for predicting RNA secondary structure design difficulty”
Journal of Molecular Biology 428 (5) : 748 – 757
Paper Link

Chou, F.-C., Echols, N., Terwilliger, T.C., and Das, R. (2016) “RNA structure refinement using the ERRASER-Phenix pipeline” Methods in Molecular Biology 1320 : 269 – 282 Paper | Link

2015

Cordero, P., and Das, R. (2015) “Rich RNA structure landscapes revealed by mutate-and-map analysis” PLOS Computational Biology 11 (11) : e1004473 Paper | Link Software

2015_Cheng_eLifeCheng, C.Y., Chou, F.-C., Kladwang, W., Tian, S., Cordero, P., and Das, R. (2015)
“Consistent global structures of complex RNA states through multidimensional chemical mapping.”
eLife 4 : e07600
Paper Link | Software

Tian, S., Yesselman, J.D., Cordero, P., and Das, R. (2015) “Primerize: Automated primer assembly for transcribing non-coding RNA domains.” Nucleic Acid Research 43 (W1) : W522 – W526 Paper | Link Server

Yesselman, J.D., and Das, R. (2015) “RNA-Redesign: A web server for fixed-backbone 3D design of RNA.” Nucleic Acid Research 43 (W1) : W498 – W501 Paper | Link Server

Lee, S., Kim, H., Tian, S., Lee, T., Yoon, S., and Das, R. (2015) “Automated band annotation for RNA structure probing experiments with numerous capillary electrophoresis profiles.” Bioinformatics 31 (17) : 2808 – 2815 Paper | Link

RNAPuzzle_RoundIIMiao, Z., Adamiak, R.W., Blanchet, M-F., Boniecki, M., Bujnicki, J.M., Chen, S-J., Cheng, C.Y., Chojnowski, G., Chou, F-C., Cordero, P., Cruz, J.A., Ferré-D’Amaré, A, Das, R., Ding, F., Dokholyan, N.V., Dunin-Horkawicz, S., Kladwang, W., Krokhotin, A., Lach, G., Magnus, M., Major, F., Mann, T.H., Masquida, B., Matelska, D., Meyer, M., Peselis, A., Popenda, M., Purzycka, K.J., Serganov, A., Stasiewicz, J., Szachniuk, M., Tandon, A., Tian, S., Wang, J., Xiao, Y., Xu, X., Zhang, J, Zhao, P., Zok, T., and Westhof, E. (2015)
“RNA-Puzzles Round II: Assessment of RNA structure prediction programs applied to three large RNA structures.”
RNA 21 (6) : 1066 – 1084
Paper Link

Cheng, C.Y., Chou, F.-C., and Das, R. (2015) “Modeling complex RNA tertiary folds with Rosetta.” Methods in Enzymology 553 : 35 – 64 Paper | Link

Xue, S., Tian, S., Fujii, K., Kladwang, W., Das, R., and Barna, M. (2015) “RNA regulons in Hox 5′ UTRs confer ribosome specificity to gene regulation” Nature 517 (7532) : 33 – 38 Paper | Link

2014

scientific rigorTreuille, A., and Das, R. (2014)
“Scientific rigor through videogames.”
Trends in Biochemical Sciences 39 (11) : 507 – 509
Paper Link

Lipfert, J., Skinner, G.M., Keegstra, J.M., Hensgens, T., Jager, T., Dulin, D., Köber, M., Yu, Z., Donkers, S.P., Das, R., and Dekker, N.H. (2014) “Double-stranded RNA under force and torque: Similarities to and striking differences from double-stranded DNA.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 111 (43) : 15408 – 15413 Paper | Link

Chou, F.-C., Lipfert, J., and Das, R. (2014) “Blind predictions of DNA and RNA tweezers experiments with force and torque.” PLOS Computational Biology 10 (8) : e1003756 Paper | Link Software

Lipfert, J., Doniach, S., Das, R., and Herschlag, D. (2014) “Understanding nucleic acid-ion interactions” Annual Review of Biochemistry 83 : 813 – 841 Paper | Link

Cordero, P., Kladwang, W., VanLang, C.C., and Das, R. (2014) “The mutate-and-map protocol for inferring base pairs in structured RNA” Methods in Molecular Biology 1086 : 53 – 77 Paper | Link

Seetin, M.G., Kladwang, W., Bida, J.P., and Das, R. (2014) “Massively parallel RNA chemical mapping with a reduced bias MAP-Seq protocol” Methods in Molecular Biology 1086 : 95 – 117 Paper | Link

2014_Tian_RNATian, S., Cordero, P., Kladwang, W., and Das, R. (2014)
“High-throughput mutate-map-rescue evaluates SHAPE-directed RNA structure and uncovers excited states”
RNA 20 (11) : 1815 – 1826
Paper Link

Kladwang, W., Mann, T.H., Becka, A., Tian, S., Kim, H., Yoon, S., and Das, R. (2014) “Standardization of RNA chemical mapping experiments” Biochemistry 53 (19) : 3063 – 3065 Paper | Link

Beauchamp, K., Pande, V., and Das, R. (2014) “Bayesian energy landscape tilting: towards concordant models of molecular ensembles” Biophysics Journal 106 (6) : 1381 – 1390 Paper | Link

2014_Sripakdeevong_NatMethSripakdeevong, P., Cevec, M., Chang, A.T., Erat, M.C., Ziegeler, M., Zhao, Q., Fox, G.E., Gao, X., Kennedy, S.D., Kierzek, R., Nikonowicz, E.P., Schwalbe, H., Sigel, R.K.O., Turner, D.H., and Das, R. (2014)
“Consistent structure determination of noncanonical RNA motifs from 1H NMR chemical shift data”
Nature Methods 11 : 413 – 416
Paper Link | Server

Kryshtafovych, A., Moult, J., Bales, P., Bazan, J.F., Burgin, A., Chen, C., Cochran, F.V., Craig, T.K., Das, R., Fass, D., Garcia-Doval, C., Herzberg, O., Lorimer, D., Luecke, H., Ma, X., Nelson, D., van Raaij, M.J., Rohwer, F., Segall, A., Seguritan, V., Zeth, K., and Schwede, T. (2014) “Challenging the state-of-the-art in protein structure prediction: Highlights of experimental target structures for the 10th critical assessment of techniques for protein structure prediction experiment CASP10” Proteins 82 (S2) : 26 – 42 Paper | Link

2014_Lee_PNASLee, J., Kladwang, W., Lee, M., Cantu, D., Azizyan, M., Kim, H., Limpaecher, A., Yoon, S., Treuille, A., Das, R., and EteRNA Participants (2014)
“RNA design rules from a massive open laboratory”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 111 (6) : 2122 – 2127
Paper Link | SHAPE Data Files | EternaBot Software

2013

2013_Chou_NatMethChou, F.-C., Sripakdeevong, P., Dibrov, S.M, Hermann, T., and Das, R. (2013)
“Correcting pervasive errors in RNA crystallography through enumerative structure prediction”
Nature Methods 10 : 74 – 76
Paper Link | ERRASER Server

2013_Das_PLOSOneDas, R. (2013)
“Atomic-accuracy prediction of protein loop structures enabled by an RNA-inspired ansatz”
PLOS One 8 (10) : e74830
Paper Link

Drew, K., Renfrew, P.D., Craven, T., Butterfoss, G.L., Chou, F.-C., Lyskov, S., Bullock, B.N., Watkins, A., Leaver-Fay, A., Kuhlman, B., Gray, J.J., Bradley, P., Kirshenbaum, K., Arora, P.S., Das, R., and Bonneau, R. (2013) “Adding diverse noncanonical backbones to Rosetta: enabling peptidomimetic and foldamer design” PLOS One 8 (7) : e67051 Paper | Link

Kim, H., Cordero, P., Das, R., and Yoon, S. (2013) “HiTRACE-Web: an online tool for robust analysis of high-throughput capillary electrophoresis” Nucleic Acid Research 41 (W1) : W492 – W498 Paper | Link Server

Lyskov, S., Chou, F.-C., Ó Conchúir, S., Der, B.S., Drew, K., Kuroda, D., Xu, J., Weitzner, B.D., Renfrew, P.D., Sripakdeevong, P., Borgo, B., Havranek, J.J., Kuhlman, B., Kortemme, T., Bonneau, R., Gray, J.J., and Das, R. (2013) “Serverification of molecular modeling applications: the Rosetta online server that includes everyone (ROSIE)” PLOS One 8 (5) : e63906 Paper | Link Server

Adams, P.D., Baker, D., Brunger, A.T., Das, R., DiMaio, F., Read, R.J., Richardson, D.C., Richardson, J.S., and Terwilliger, T.C. (2013) “Advances, interactions, and future developments in the CNS, Phenix, and Rosetta structural biology software systems” Annual Review of Biophysics 42 : 265 – 287 Paper | Link

Molski, M.A., Goodman, J.L, Chou, F-C., Baker, D., Das, R., and Schepartz, A. (2013) “Remodeling a beta-peptide bundle” Chemical Science 4 : 319 – 324 Paper | Link Design Server

2012

Cordero, P., Lucks, J., and Das, R. (2012) “An RNA Mapping Database for curating RNA structure mapping experiments” Bioinformatics 28 (22) : 3006 – 3008 Paper | Link Database

Cordero, P., Kladwang, W., VanLang, C.C., and Das, R. (2012) “Quantitative dimethyl sulfate (DMS) mapping for automated RNA secondary structure inference” Biochemistry 51 (36) : 7037 – 7039 Paper | Link

Kladwang, W., Hum, J., and Das, R. (2012) “Ultraviolet shadowing of RNA can cause significant chemical damage in seconds” Scientific Reports 2 : 517 Paper | Link

2012_Bida_CurrOpinStructBiolBida, J.P., and Das, R. (2012)
“Squaring theory with practice in RNA design”
Current Opinion in Structural Biology 22 (4) : 457 – 466
Paper Link

Sripakdeevong, P., Beauchamp, K., and Das, R. (2012) “2012_Sripakdeevong_NAMB” in RNA 3D Structure Analysis and Prediction, eds. Leontis, N. and Westhof, E., Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology 27 : 43 – 65 Paper | Link

Beauchamp, K., Lin, Y-S., Das, R., and Pande. V.S. (2012) “Are protein force fields getting better? A systematic benchmark on 524 diverse NMR measurements” Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 8 (4) : 1409 – 1414 Paper | Link

Frederiksen, J.K., Li, N.S., Das, R., Herschlag, D., and Piccirilli, J.A. (2012) “Metal-ion rescue revisited: Biochemical detection of site-bound metal ions important for RNA folding” RNA 18 (6) : 1123 – 1141 Paper | Link

Puzzle1OverlayCruz, J.A., Blanchet, M., Boniecki, M., Bujnicki, J., Chen, S-J., Cao, S., Das, R., Ding, F., Dokholyan, N.V., Flores, S.C., Huang, L., Lavender, C.A., Lisi, V., Major, F., Mikolajczak, K., Patel, D.J., Philips, A., Puton, T., Santalucia, J., Sijenyi, F., Hermann, T., Rother, K., Rother, M., Serganov, A., Skorupski, M., Soltysinski, T., Sripakdeevong, P., Tuszynska, I., Weeks, K.M., Waldsich, C., Wildauer, M., Leontis, N.B., and Westhof, E. (2012)
“RNA-Puzzles: A CASP-like evaluation of RNA three-dimensional structure prediction”
RNA 18 (4) : 610 – 625
Paper Link

Kladwang, W., Chou, F.-C., and Das, R. (2012) “Automated RNA structure prediction uncovers a kink-turn linker in double glycine riboswitches” Journal of the American Chemical Society 134 (3) : 1404 – 1407 Paper | Link Models

Sripakdeevong, P., Kladwang, W., and Das, R. (2012)
“An enumerative stepwise ansatz enables atomic-accuracy RNA loop modeling”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 108 (51) : 20573 – 20578
Paper Link

2011

Kladwang, W., VanLang, C.C., Cordero P., and Das, R. (2011) “Understanding the errors of SHAPE-directed RNA structure modeling” Biochemistry 50 (37) : 8049 – 8056 Paper | Link

MutateMap_ncRNA_KladwangVanLangCorderoDas_TOC_figure_whitebkgdKladwang, W., VanLang, C.C., Cordero P., and Das, R. (2011)
“A two-dimensional mutate-and-map strategy for non-coding RNA structure”
Nature Chemistry 3 : 954 – 962
Paper Link

Beauchamp, K.A., Ensign, D.L., Das, R., and Pande, V.S. (2011) “Quantitative comparison of villin headpiece subdomain simulations and triplet-triplet energy transfer experiments” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 108 (31) : 12734 – 12739 Paper | Link

Das, R. (2011) “Four small puzzles that Rosetta doesn’t solve” PLOS One 6 (5) : e20044 Paper | Link

Yoon, S., Kim, J., Hum, J., Kim, H., Park, S., Kladwang, W., and Das, R. (2011) “HiTRACE: High-throughput robust analysis for capillary electrophoresis” Bioinformatics 27 (13) : 1798 – 1805 Paper | Link Software

Rocca-Serra, P., Bellaousov, S., Birmingham, A., Chen, C., Cordero, P., Das, R., Davis-Neulander, L., Duncan, C.D., Halvorsen, M., Knight, R., Leontis, N.B., Mathews, D.H., Ritz, J., Stombaugh, J., Weeks, K.M., Zirbel, C.L., and Laederach, A. (2011) “Sharing and archiving nucleic acid structure mapping data” RNA 17 (7) : 1204 – 1212 Paper | Link

Kladwang, W., Cordero P., and Das, R. (2011) “A mutate-and-map strategy accurately infers the base pairs of a 35-nucleotide model RNA” RNA 17 (3) : 522 – 534 Paper | Link

Leaver-Fay, A., Tyka, M., Lewis, S.M., Lange, O.F., Thompson, J. Jacak, R., Kaufmann, K.W., Renfrew, P.D., Smith, C.A., Sheffler, W., Davis, I.W., Cooper, S., Treuille, A., Mandell, D.J., Richter, F., Ban, YE., Fleishman, S.J., Corn, J.E., Kim, D.E., Lyskov, S., Berrondo, M., Mentzer, S., Popovic, Z., Havranek, J.J., Karanicolas, J., Das, R., Meiler, J., Kortemme, T., Gray, J.J., Kuhlman, B., Baker, D., and Bradley, P. (2011) “ROSETTA3: An object-oriented software suite for the simulation and design of macromolecules” Methods in Enzymology 487 : 545 – 574 Paper | Link

2010

2010_Kladwang_BiochemKladwang, W., and Das, R. (2010)
“A mutate-and-map strategy for inferring base pairs in structured nucleic acids: proof of concept on a DNA/RNA helix”
Biochemistry 49 (35) : 7414 – 7416
Paper | Link

Fleishman S.J., Corn J.E., Strauch E.M., Whitehead T.A., Andre I., Thompson J., Havranek J.J., Das, R., Bradley P., and Baker D. (2010) “Rosetta in CAPRI rounds 13-19” Proteins 78 (15) : 3212 – 3218 Paper | Link

Das, R., Karanicolas, J., and Baker., D. (2010) “Atomic accuracy in predicting and designing noncanonical RNA structure” Nature Methods 7 : 291 – 294 Paper | Link Server | Models

2009

Das, R., Andre, I., Shen, Y., Wu, Y., Lemak, A., Bansal, S., Arrowsmith, C.H., Szyperski, T., and Baker, D. (2009) “Simultaneous prediction of protein folding and docking at high resolution” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 106 (45) : 18978 – 18983 Paper | Link

Raman, S., Vernon, R., Thompson, J., Tyka, M., Sadreyev, R., Pei, J., Kim, D., Kellogg, E., DiMaio, F., Lange, O., Kinch, L., Sheffler, W., Kim, B.H., Das, R., Grishin, N.V., and Baker, D. (2009) “Structure prediction for CASP8 with all-atom refinement using Rosetta.” Proteins 77 (S9) : 88 – 99 Paper | Link

Kim, J., Yu, S., Shim, B., Kim, H., Min, H., Chung, E-Y., Das, R., and Yoon S. (2009) “A robust peak detection method for RNA structure inference by high-throughput contact mapping” Bioinformatics 25 (9) : 1137 – 1144 Paper | Link

Schwede T., Sali, A., Honig, B., Levitt, M., Berman, H.M., Jones, D., Brenner, S.E., Burley, S.K., Das, R., Dokholyan, N.V., Dunbrack, R.L., Fidelis, K., Fiser, A., Godzik, A., Huang, Y.J., Humblet, C., Jacobson, M.P., Joachimiak, A., Krystek, S.R., Kortemme, T., Kryshtafovych, A., Montelione, G.T., Moult, J., Murray, D., Sanchez, R., Sosnick, T.R., Standley, D.M., Stouch, T., Vajda, S., Vasquez, M., Westbrook, J.D., and Wilson, I.A. (2009) “Outcome of a workshop on applications of protein models in biomedical research” Structure 17 (2) : 151 – 159 Paper | Link

Das, R., and Baker, D. (2009) “Prospects for de novo phasing with protein de novo models” Acta Crystallographica Section D 65 (5) : 169 – 175 Paper | Link

Jonikas, M.A., Radmer, R.J., Laederach, A., Das, R., Pearlman, S., Herschlag D., and Altman, R.B. (2009) “Coarse-grained modeling of large RNA molecules with knowledge-based potentials and structural filters” RNA 15 (2) : 189 – 199 Paper | Link

2008

Fenn, R.M., Das, R., and Harbury, P.B. (2008) “Remeasuring the double helix” Science 322 (5900) : 446 – 449 Paper | Link

Fenn, R.M., Das, R., Silverman, J.A., Fenn, T.D., Walker, P., and Harbury, P.B. (2008) “An X-ray molecular ruler for measuring quantitative distance distributions in solution” PLOS One 3 (10) : e3229 Paper | Link

Laederach, A., Das, R., Vicens, Q., Pearlman, S., Brenowitz, M., Herschlag, D., and Altman, R.B. (2008) “Semi-automated and rapid quantification of nucleic acid footprinting and structure mapping experiments” Nature Protocols 3 : 1395 – 1401 Paper | Link

Das, R., and Baker, D. (2008) “Macromolecular modeling with Rosetta” Annual Review of Biochemistry 77 : 363 – 382 Paper | Link

Das, R., Kudaravalli, M., Jonikas, M., Laederach, A., Fong, R., Schwans, J.P., Baker, D., Piccirilli, J.A., Altman, R.B., and Herschlag, D. (2008) “Structural inference of native and partially folded RNA by high throughput contact mapping” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 105 (11) : 4144 – 4149 Paper | Link Scripts

2007

Qian, B., Raman, V.S., Das, R., Bradley, P., McCoy, A.J., Read, R.J., and Baker, D. (2007) “High resolution structure prediction and the crystallographic phase problem” Nature 450 : 259 – 264 Paper | Link

Das, R., Qian, B., Raman, V.S., Vernon, R., Thompson, J., Bradley, P., Khare, S., Tyka, M., Bhat, D., Chivian, D.C., Kim, D.E., Sheffler, W., Malmstrom, L., Wollacott, A., Wang, C., Andre, I., and Baker, D. (2007) “Structure prediction for CASP7 targets using extensive all-atom refinement with Rosetta@home” Proteins 69 (S8) : 118 – 128 Paper | Link

Das, R., and Baker, D. (2007) “Automated de novo prediction of native-like RNA tertiary structures” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 104 (37) : 14664 – 14669 Paper | Link Models

Blum, B., Jordan, M.I., Kim, D., Das, R., Bradley, P., and Baker, D. (2007) “Feature selection methods for improving protein structure prediction with Rosetta” in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 21, eds. Platt, J., Koller, D., Singer, Y., and McCallum, A., MIT Press. Paper | Link

Lipfert, J., Das, R., Chu, V.B., Kudaravalli, M., Boyd, N., Herschlag, D. and Doniach, S. (2007) “Structural transitions and thermodynamics of a glycine-dependent riboswitch from Vibrio cholerae” Journal of Molecular Biology 365 (2) : 1393 – 1406 Paper | Link

2006

Russell, R., Das, R., Suh, H., Travers, K., Laederach, A., Engelhardt, M., and Herschlag, D. (2006) “The paradoxical behavior of a highly structured misfolded intermediate in RNA folding” Journal of Molecular Biology 363 (2) : 531 – 544 Paper | Link

Das, R., and Doniach, S. (2006) “Structural studies of proteins and nucleic acids in solution using small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS).” in Soft Matter: Scattering, Imaging and Manipulation, eds. Pecora, R. and Borsali, R., Kluwer Press : 1083 – 1108 Paper | Link

2005

Das, R., Travers, K.J., Bai, Y., and Herschlag, D. (2005) “Determining the Mg2+ stoichiometry for folding an RNA’s metal ion core” Journal of the American Chemical Society 127 (23) : 8272 – 8273 Paper | Link

Bai, Y., Das, R., Millett, I.S., Herschlag, D., and Doniach, S. (2005) “2005_Bai_PNAS.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 102 (4) : 959 – 960 Paper | Link

Das, R., Laederach, A., Pearlman, S.M., Herschlag, D., and Altman, R.B. (2005) “SAFA: Semi-Automated Footprinting Analysis software for high-throughput quantification of nucleic acid footprinting experiments.” RNA 11 (3) : 344 – 354 Paper | Link Software

2004

Andresen, K., Das, R., Park, H.Y., Smith, H., Kwok, L.W., Lamb, J.S., Kirkland, E.J., Herschlag, D., Finkelstein, K.D., and Pollack, L. (2004) “Spatial distribution of competing ions around DNA in solution.” Physical Review Letters 93 (24) : 32767 Paper | Link

Naumov, D. Chukanov, A., Naumova, E., Popv, B., Astier, et al. [NOMAD collaboration] (2004) “A study of strange particles produced in neutrino neutral current interactions in the NOMAD experiment” Nuclear Physics B 700 (1) : 51 – 68 Paper | Link

Takamoto, K., Das, R., He, Q., Doniach, S., Brenowitz, M., Herschlag, D., and Chance, M. (2004) “Principles of RNA compaction: insights from the equilibrium folding pathway of the P4-P6 RNA domain in monovalent cations.” Journal of Molecular Biology 343 (5) : 1195 – 1206 Paper | Link

2003

Das, R., Kwok, L.W., Millet, I.S., Bai, Y., Mills, T.T., Jacob, J., Maskel, G.S., Seifert, S., Simon, M.G.J., Thiyagarajan, P., Doniach, S., Pollack, L., and Herschlag, D. (2003) “The fastest global events in RNA folding: electrostatic relaxation and tertiary collapse of the Tetrahymena ribozyme.” Journal of Molecular Biology 332 (2) : 311 – 319 Paper | Link

Das, R., Mills, T.T., Kwok, L.W., Maskel, G.S., Millett, I.S., Doniach, S., Finkelstein, K.D., Herschlag, D., and Pollack, L. (2003) “The counterion distribution around DNA probed by solution x-ray scattering.” Physical Review Letters 90 (18) : 32767 Paper | Link

Bartley, L., Zhuang, X., Das, R., Chu, S., and Herschlag, D. (2003) “Exploration of the transition state for tertiary structure formation between an RNA helix and a large structured RNA.” Journal of Molecular Biology 328 (5) : 1011 – 1026 Paper | Link

Saunders, R., Kneissl, R., Grainge, K., Grainger, W.F., Jones, M.E., Maggi, A., Das, R., Edge, A.C., Lasenby, A.N., Pooley, G.G., Shigeru, J.M., Tsuruta, T., Yamashita, K., Tawara, Y., Furuzawa, A., Harada, A., and Hatsukade, I. (2003) “A measurement of H0 from Ryle Telescope, ASCA and ROSAT observations of Abell 773.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 341 (3) : 937 – 940 Paper | Link

2002

Grainger, W.F., Das, R., Grainge, K., Jones, M. E., Kneissl, R., Pooley, G.G., and Saunders, R.D.E. (2002) “A maximum-likelihood approach to removing radio sources from observations of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect, with application to Abell 611.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 337 (4) : 1207 – 1214 Paper | Link

Cotter, G., Buttery, H.J., Das, R., Jones, M.E., Grainge, K., Pooley, G.G, and Saunders, R. (2002) “Observations of the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect in the z = 0.78 cluster MS 1137.5+6625.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 334 (2) : 323 – 326 Paper | Link

Cotter G., Buttery, H.J., Rawlings, S., Croft, S., Hill, G.J., Gay, P., Das, R., Drory, N., Grainge, K., Grainger, W.F., Jones, M.E., Pooley, G.G., and Saunders, R. (2002) “Detection of a cosmic microwave background decrement towards a cluster of mJy radio sources.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 331 (1) : 1 – 6 Paper | Link

2001

Alba, M.M., Das, R., Orengo, C.A., and Kellam, P. (2001) “Genomewide function conservation and phylogeny in the Herpesviridae.” Genomic Research 11 : 43 – 54 Paper | Link

2000

Das, R. (2000) “Theoretical Basis of Likelihood Methods in Molecular Phylogenetic Inference” M. Res. Thesis, Dept. of Biology, University College London. Supervisors: Z. Yang & J. Mallet. Paper

1999

Das, R. (1999) “Analysis of Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Decrements” M. Phil. Thesis, Dept. of Physics, Cambridge University. Supervisor: R. Saunders. Paper

1996

Milton, K., and Das, R. (1996) “Finite-element lattice Hamiltonian matrix elements: Anharmonic oscillators” Letters in Mathematical Physics 36 (2) : 177 – 187 Paper | Link