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Title
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A virtual pebble game to emsemble average graph rigidity
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Author
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Gonzalez, Luis
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Date Created
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2011
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Bioinformatics
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Description
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Previous works have demonstrated that protein rigidity is related to thermodynamic stability, especially under conditions that favor formation of native structure. Mechanical network rigidity properties of a single conformation are efficiently cal...
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ALGORITHMS FOR STRUCTURE BASED-PREDICTION OF TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITES
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Author
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Farrel, Alvin
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Biology, Bioinformatics
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Description
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Transcription factors (TFs) regulate gene expression through binding to specific target DNA sites. Accurate annotation of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) at genome scale represents an essential step toward our understanding of gene regu...
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Arboviruses: The hidden path of an imminent threat
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Author
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de Bernardi Schneider, Adriano
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Virology, Bioinformatics, Epidemiology
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Description
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Arboviruses are a grade of viruses carried by arthropods, which have been in the headlines due to recent epidemics. Members of this grade are the families Flaviviridae which includes Zika (ZIKV), Dengue (DENV), Yellow Fever (YFV), among other viru...
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Title
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF REPEAT LANDSCAPES IN AVENA (OAT)
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Author
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Burkes, Shelvasha
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Biology, Bioinformatics, Botany
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Description
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Avena sativa, or common oat, is a staple crop and member of the Poaceae or Grass family. Following behind wheat, maize and rice, oats account for 10.5 million hectares of the world’s produced crops as of 2017. Phytocompounds such as β-glucan, aven...
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Title
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DE NOVO PREDICTION OF CIS-REGULATORY MODULES IN EUKARYOTIC ORGANISMS
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Author
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Niu, Meng
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Bioinformatics
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Description
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Gene regulation networks (GRNs) are the bases for virtually all biological processes. To gain a global understanding of GRNs encoded in a genome, we first need to identify in all the cis-regulatory elements (CREs) recognized by transcription facto...
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Title
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Data Mining the Serous Ovarian Tumor Transcriptome
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Author
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Tickle, Timothy
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Date Created
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2011
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Subjects--Topical
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Bioinformatics, Genetics
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Description
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Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic cancer in the United States. If caught in early stages, patient survival rate is 94%, late stage survival rates drop to 28%. It is because most cases are caught in late stages that high mortality is se...
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Title
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Development of Structural Informatics Method For Binding Peptides
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Author
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Patterson, John
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Bioinformatics
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Description
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In the continuous pursuit of advanced therapeutics, the field of bioinformatics hasinnovated tools that allow unprecedented control over the proteome, profoundly shaping our understanding and manipulation of biological domains. Computational appro...
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Title
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ELUCIDATING FUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS IN PROTEINS USING THE DISTANCE CONSTRAINT MODEL
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Author
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Singer, Christopher
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Physics
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Description
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Protein thermodynamics has been shown to be insightful and illuminating to the functional mechanisms behind biological function. By characterizing proteins and protein families according to their enthalpy and entropy we can make inferences to the ...
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Title
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ESSENTIAL DYNAMICS OF PROTEINS USING GEOMETRICAL SIMULATIONS AND SUBSPACE ANALYSIS
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Author
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David, Charles
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Physics, Bioinformatics, Biophysics
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Description
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Essential dynamics is the application of principal component analysis to a dynamic trajectory derived from a simulation protocol in order to extract biologically relevant information contained in the high dimensional data. In this work, we apply t...
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Title
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Echinoderm Transcriptomics
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Author
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Linchangco, Gregorio
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Bioinformatics
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Description
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Tissue regeneration and biomineralization are expressed to a diverse extent across metazoans and their life stages. The potential for repair and regrowth in adult stages varies widely within phyla, class and species. For instance, few adult human ...
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Title
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Elucidation of miRNAs in Avena sativa
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Author
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Sheridan, Jaime
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Bioinformatics, Agriculture
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Description
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Micro RNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small non-coding RNAs with post-transcriptional gene regulation responsibilities. In plants, miRNAs regulate development of leaves, roots, shoots, and flowers through targeting families of transcription factors a...
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Title
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Evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulation in bacteria
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Author
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Li, Shan
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Statistics, Bioinformatics
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Description
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Although transcription is one of the most important biological functions of cells, our understanding of its regulation is still limited. In this dissertation, we have studied the transcriptional regulation in prokaryotes in three aspects. First, w...