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Title: Structural analysis of protein-DNA binding specificity and its application to protein-DNA docking assessment
Author: Corona de la Fuente, Rosario
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: DNA-binding proteins are involved in essential biological processes including gene expression, DNA packaging and DNA repair. They bind to DNA target sequences with different degrees of binding specificity, ranging from highly specific to non-speci...

Title: MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF RESISTANCE OF PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA CELLS TO ONCOLYTIC VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS
Author: Felt, Sebastien
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Virology, Cytology
Description: Oncolytic virus (OV) therapy is an anticancer therapy using replication-competent viruses selectively infecting, replicating in and killing cancer cells. Human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) cell lines are highly heterogeneous in their pe...

Title: Studies on the relationships between oligonucleotide probe properties and hybridization signal intensities
Author: Gharaibeh, Raad
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Statistics, Bioinformatics
Description: Microarray technology is a commonly used tool in biomedical research for assessing global gene expression, surveying DNA sequence variations, and studying alternative gene splicing. Given the wide range of applications of this technology, comprehe...

Title: Understanding The Role of Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Chemoresistance and Intertumoral Heterogeneity on Vesicular Stomatitis Virus-based Oncolytic Therapy
Author: Goad, Dakota
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Virology, Biomedical engineering
Description: Viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that are now being increasingly harnessed as therapeutics for human diseases. Investigating different cellular factors and processes that affect viral infection allows us to improve the efficacy of viru...

Title: Understanding and overcoming limitations of vesicular stomatitis virus as an oncolytic agent against pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
Author: Hastie, Eric
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Virology, Biology
Description: Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a prototypic nonsegmented negative-strand RNA virus. Lack of preexisting immunity against VSV, inherent oncotropism, and genetic malleability make VSV a widely used platform for vaccine, oncolytic, and gene ther...

Title: Genomic Dissection of Complex Trait Variation in Wild Soybean, Glycine soja
Author: Kofsky, Janice
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Bioinformatics, Plant diseases
Description: There is a considerable demand for crop improvement, especially considering the growing population, continuing climatic fluctuations, and rapidly evolving plant pests and pathogens. Crop wild relatives hold great potential in providing beneficial ...

Title: Evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulation in bacteria
Author: Li, Shan
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Statistics, Bioinformatics
Description: 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...

Title: Toward understanding protein-DNA interactions
Author: Lin, Maoxuan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Bioinformatics, Biochemistry
Description: Knowledge of protein-DNA interactions has important implications in understandingbiological activities and developing therapeutic drugs. Two types of protein-DNAinteractions exist: (1) interactions between double-stranded DNA-binding proteins(DSBs...

Title: The Semantics of Diet and Health: Knowledge Based Discovery Through Data Integration, Text Mining, and Network Analysis
Author: Linchangco, Richard
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Consumption of fruits and vegetables has been linked to a reduced risk of cancer and other chronic diseases, but the molecular mechanisms supporting these connections remain largely unknown. A wealth of association data linking components of a pla...

Title: Hydrogen bond energy-based comparative analysis of protein-ligand interactions and similarity assessment of protein-DNA complex models
Author: Malik, Fareeha
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Computer science
Description: Hydrogen bonds play a vital role in protein-DNA interactions. In particular, side chain-base hydrogen bonds are crucial to the binding specificity between protein and DNA. Mutations effecting interface hydrogen bonds in protein-DNA complexes have ...

Title: VIBRIO VULNIFICUS VIRULENCE AND SURVIVAL MECHANISMS REVEALED THROUGH COMPARATIVE MICROBIAL GENOMIC ANALYSIS
Author: Morrison, Shatavia
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: A sound genome assembly and robust annotations are essential to the differential analysis of bacterial genomes. Using a case study data set of newly sequenced Vibrio vulnificus genomes, both the biology of these bacteria, and the bioinformatics pr...

Title: TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION OF GENES ASSOCIATED WITH DRUG RESISTANCE AND GROWTH OF PANCREATIC CANCER CELLS BY MUCIN 1
Author: Nath, Sritama
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Cytology, Oncology
Description: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is the 4th leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the US. An understanding of the molecular pathogenesis of PDA is of utmost importance to be able to improve the current or design new targeted therapies fo...

Title: UNDERSTANDING BIAS IN NEXT-GENERATION SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGIES AND ANALYSES
Author: Price, Adam
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Bioinformatics, Biophysics
Description: The problem of bias resulting from biological and technological sources is one that must be consistently reexamined alongside the development of new technologies and methods of analysis. This dissertation addresses the complexities of bias identif...

Title: THE EFFECT OF TARGET SECONDARY STRUCTURE ON MICROARRAY DATA QUALITY
Author: Ratushna, Vladyslava
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Biophysics
Description: DNA microarrays have become an invaluable high throughput biotechnology method, which allows a parallel investigation of thousands of cellular events in a single experiment. The principle behind the technology is very simple: fluorescently labeled...

Title: IMPROVING DATA EXTRACTION METHODS FOR LARGE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY DATASETS
Author: Reid, Robert
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: ROBERT WILLIAM REID. Improving data extraction methods for large molecular biology datasets. (Under direction of DR. ANTHONY A. FODOR)In the past, an experiment involving a pair wise comparison normally involved one or a few dependent variables. N...

Title: The evolution of flavonoid pathway in legumes
Author: Safari, Sajedeh
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: Considering the ever growing world population as well as climate change, it has become essential to improve crops in order to reach higher yields, more tolerance to pests and droughts, and better adaptation to different environments. The advanceme...

Title: Elucidation of miRNAs in Avena sativa
Author: Sheridan, Jaime
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Agriculture
Description: 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...

Title: Data Mining the Serous Ovarian Tumor Transcriptome
Author: Tickle, Timothy
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Genetics
Description: 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...

Title: Understanding gene transcriptional regulation at single cell resolution
Author: Xu, Chen
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: The recent advance of single-cell technologies has provided an unprecedented opportunity to bring new insights into many complex biological phenomena, such as the regulation of cell differentiation in a multi-cellular organism and cell-to-cell var...