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The recent advance of single-cell technologies has provided an unprecedented opportunity to bring new insights into many complex biological phenomena, such as the regulat[...]
2015 | doctoral dissertations |
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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 wh[...]
2018 | doctoral dissertations |
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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[...]
2016 | doctoral dissertations |
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The Flexibility and Stability Test (FAST) is a C++ class library designed in the early 2000’s to execute free energy decomposition and reconstitution operations applied t[...]
2018 | doctoral dissertations |
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At ground level, ozone is a pollutant that poses serious risk to both human health and crop yields. In addition to being a vital economic crop in the US and abroad, conv[...]
2015 | doctoral dissertations |
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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 identif[...]
2014 | doctoral dissertations |
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Gene annotation is a critical step for understanding functions of genomes and host organisms. However, accurately annotating thousands of sequenced genomes can be a chall[...]
2016 | doctoral dissertations |
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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[...]
2018 | doctoral dissertations |
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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 ge[...]
2016 | doctoral dissertations |
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"Bantu" is a term used to describe lineages of people in around 600 different ethnic groups on the African continent ranging from modern-day Cameroon to South Africa. The[...]
2018 | doctoral dissertations |