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Research

Professor Denis Shields B.A.Mod., PhD.

Book Chapters:

Mooney, C. and Davey, N. and Martin, AJ and Walsh, I. and Shields, D.C. and Pollastri, G. (2011) 'In Silico Protein Motif Discovery and Structural Analysis' In: Bing Yu and Marcus Hinchcliffe (eds). In Silico Tools in Gene Discovery. Humana Press. Available Online [DOI] [Details]
Shields DC, Johnston CR, Wallace IM, Edwards RJ (2007) 'Evolution of specificity and diversity' In: DA Liberles (eds). Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction. Oxford: *. [Details]
Read A.F., P. Aaby, R. Antia, D. Ebert, P.W. Ewald, S. Gupta, E.C. Holmes, R. Moxon, A. Sasaki, D.C. Shields and F. Taddei (1999) 'What can evolutionary biology contribute to the understanding of virulence?' In: Stearns S.C (eds). Evolution in Health and Disease. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Details]
Sharp, P.M., D.G. Higgins, D.C. Shields, and K.M. Devine (1990) 'Protein-coding genes: DNA sequence database and codon usage' In: Harwood, C.R. & Cutting, S.M (eds). Molecular Biological Methods for Bacillus. *: John Wiley and Sons. [Details]
Sharp, P.M., D.G. Higgins, D.C. Shields, K.M. Devine, and J.A. Hoch (1990) 'Bacillus subtilis gene sequences' In: Zukowski M.M., Ganesan, A.T. & Hoch, J.A (eds). Genetics and Biotechnology of Bacilli, Vol. III. San Diego: Academic Press. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals:

Mooney C, Pollastri G, Shields DC, Haslam NJ (2011) 'Prediction of short linear protein binding regions'. Journal of molecular biology, . Available Online [DOI] [Details]
Mooney C, Davey N, Martin AJ, Walsh I, Shields DC, Pollastri G (2011) 'In silico protein motif discovery and structural analysis'. Methods, 760 :341-353. [DOI] [Details]
Casey JP, Magalhaes T, Conroy JM, Regan R, Shah N, Anney R, Shields DC, Abrahams BS, Almeida J, Bacchelli E, Bailey AJ, Baird G, Battaglia A, Berney T, Bolshakova N, Bolton PF, Bourgeron T, Brennan S, Cali P, Correia C, Corsello C, Coutanche M, Dawson G, de Jonge M, Delorme R, Duketis E, Duque F, Estes A, Farrar P, Fernandez BA, Folstein SE, Foley S, Fombonne E, Freitag CM, Gilbert J, Gillberg C, Glessner JT, Green J, Guter SJ, Hakonarson H, Holt R, Hughes G, Hus V, Igliozzi R, Kim C, Klauck SM, Kolevzon A, Lamb JA, Leboyer M, Le Couteur A, Leventhal BL, Lord C, Lund SC, Maestrini E, Mantoulan C, Marshall CR, McConachie H, McDougle CJ, McGrath J, McMahon WM, Merikangas A, Miller J, Minopoli F, Mirza GK, Munson J, Nelson SF, Nygren G, Oliveira G, Pagnamenta AT, Papanikolaou K, Parr JR, Parrini B, Pickles A, Pinto D, Piven J, Posey DJ, Poustka A, Poustka F, Ragoussis J, Roge B, Rutter ML, Sequeira AF, Soorya L, Sousa I, Sykes N, Stoppioni V, Tancredi R, Tauber M, Thompson AP, Thomson S, Tsiantis J, Van Engeland H, Vincent JB, Volkmar F, Vorstman JA, Wallace S, Wang K, Wassink TH, White K, Wing K, Wittemeyer K, Yaspan BL, Zwaigenbaum L, Betancur C, Buxbaum JD, Cantor RM, Cook EH, Coon H, Cuccaro ML, Geschwind DH, Haines JL, Hallmayer J, Monaco AP, Nurnberger JI Jr, Pericak-Vance MA, Schellenberg GD, Scherer SW, Sutcliffe JS, Szatmari P, Vieland VJ, Wijsman EM, Green A, Gill M, Gallagher L, Vicente A, Ennis S. (2011) 'A novel approach of homozygous haplotype sharing identifies candidate genes in autism spectrum disorder'. Human Genetics, . [Details]
Davey, NE,Haslam, NJ,Shields, DC,Edwards, RJ (2011) 'SLiMSearch 2.0: biological context for short linear motifs in proteins'. Nucleic Acids Research, 39 :56-60. [DOI] [Details]
Khaldi, N,Shields, DC (2011) 'Shift in the isoelectric-point of milk proteins as a consequence of adaptive divergence between the milks of mammalian species'. Biology Direct, 6 . [DOI] [Details]
Montanari, F,Shields, DC,Khaldi, N (2011) 'Differences in the Number of Intrinsically Disordered Regions between Yeast Duplicated Proteins, and Their Relationship with Functional Divergence'. PLoS ONE, 6 . [DOI] [Details]

Other Journals:

Cagney, G., Park, S., Chung, C., Tong, B., O'Dushlaine, C., Shields, D.C., Emili, A. (2005) 'Human Tissue Profiling with Multidimensional Protein Identification Technology' J. Proteome Research . [Details]

Conference Publications:

Gallagher HC, Clyne M, Shields DC and O'Connor C (2009) Thematic PhD programmes at the UCD School of Medicine and Medical Science, Dublin, Ireland Orpheus Conference on PhD Education in Europe [Details]
O'Halloran, AM; Stanton, A; O'Brien, E; Shields, DC; (2006) ANNALS OF HUMAN GENETICS The impact on coronary artery disease of common polymorphisms known to modulate responses to pathogens , pp.934-945 [Details]
Dolan, C; Shields, DC; Stanton, A; O'Brien, E; Lambert, DM; O'Brien, JK; Treacy, EP; (2005) BMC MEDICAL GENETICS Polymorphisms of the Flavin containing monooxygenase 3 (FMO3) gene do not predispose to essential hypertension in Caucasians [Details]