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Chromatin is a polymer complex of DNA and proteins that regulates gene expression. The three-dimensional structure and organization of chromatin controls DNA transcription and replication. High-throughput chromatin conformation capture…
Highly sensitive and selective label free devices for real-time identification of specific biomarkers are expected to significantly impact the biosensing field. The ability of plasmonic systems to confine the light in nanometer volume and…
Heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) participates in establishing and maintaining heterochromatin via its histone modification dependent chromatin interactions. In recent papers HP1 binding to nucleosomal arrays was measured in vitro and…
DNA and protein microarrays are a high-throughput technology that allow the simultaneous quantification of tens of thousands of different biomolecular species. The mediocre sensitivity and dynamic range of traditional fluorescence…
Chromatin is a complex of DNA and specific proteins forming an intermediary level of organization of eukaryotic genomes, between double-stranded DNA and chromosome. Within a generic modeling of the chromatin assembly, we investigate the…
HEALPix -- the Hierarchical Equal Area iso-Latitude Pixelization -- is a versatile data structure with an associated library of computational algorithms and visualization software that supports fast scientific applications executable…
Gene expression analysis aims at identifying the genes able to accurately predict biological parameters like, for example, disease subtyping or progression. While accurate prediction can be achieved by means of many different techniques,…
Zipr is a tool for static binary rewriting, first published in 2016. Zipr was engineered to support arbitrary program modification with an emphasis on low overhead, robustness, and flexibility to perform security enhancements and…
Questions of understanding and quantifying the representation and amount of information in organisms have become a central part of biological research, as they potentially hold the key to fundamental advances. In this paper, we demonstrate…
An increasing volume of studies utilize geocomputation methods in large spatial data. There is a bottleneck in scalable computation for general scientific use as the existing solutions require high-performance computing domain knowledge and…
Genome-wide gene expression profiles, as measured with microarrays or RNA-Seq experiments, have revolutionized biological and biomedical research by providing a quantitative measure of the entire mRNA transcriptome. Typically, researchers…
High-dimensional biomarkers such as genomics are increasingly being measured in randomized clinical trials. Consequently, there is a growing interest in developing methods that improve the power to detect biomarker-treatment interactions.…
Shape complementarity of molecular surfaces at the interfaces is a well-known characteristic of protein-protein binding regions, and it is critical in influencing the stability of the complex. Measuring such complementarity is at the basis…
Differentiating signals from the background in micrographs is a critical initial step for cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), yet it remains laborious due to low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the presence of contaminants and densely…
The diagnosis of cancer is mainly performed by visual analysis of the pathologists, through examining the morphology of the tissue slices and the spatial arrangement of the cells. If the microscopic image of a specimen is not stained, it…
In this paper we will discuss the current status of coherent integration with the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer (NPOI) (Armstrong et al. 2008). Coherent integration relies on being able to phase reference interferometric…
We present a prospective work undertaken on Spectro-Polarimetric INterferometry (SPIN). Our theoretical studies suggest that SPIN is a powerful tool for studying the mass loss from early type stars. Based on Monte Carlo simulations, we…
Analyzing a functional genomics experiment, such as ATAC-, ChIP- or RNA-sequencing, requires reference data including a genome assembly and gene annotation. These resources can generally be retrieved from different organizations and in…
Many peak detection algorithms have been proposed for ChIP-seq data analysis, but it is not obvious which method and what parameters are optimal for any given data set. In contrast, peaks can easily be located by visual inspection of…