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Continental breakfast |
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8:15-8:30 |
Opening remarksRoom 236 |
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8:30-9:30 |
Keynote: From Meaningful use to Precision Medicine: Lessons LearnedRoom 236
Douglas B. Fridsma, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Medical Informatics Association |
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9:30-10:00 |
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10:00-12:00 |
Session 1A: Genome and Sequence Analysis IRoom 222Chair: Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University |
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10:00-10:24 |
Alexej Gossmann, Shaolong Cao and Yu-Ping Wang. Identification of significant genetic variants via SLOPE, and its extension to Group SLOPE |
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10:24-10:48 |
Aika Terada, Hanyoung Kim and Jun Sese. High-speed Westfall-Young permutation procedure for genome-wide association studies |
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10:48-11:12 |
Veronika Strnadova-Neeley, Aydin Buluc, Jarrod Chapman, John Gilbert, Joseph Gonzalez and Leonid Oliker. Efficient Data Reduction for Large-Scale Genetic Mapping |
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11:12-11:36 |
Segun Jung, Hongjian Jin and Ramana Davuluri. Identification of Candidate Regulatory SNPs by Integrative Analysis for Prostate Cancer Genome Data |
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11:36-12:00 |
Shaolong Cao, Huaizhen Qin, Alexej Gossmann, Hong-Wen Deng and Yu-Ping Wang. Unified tests for fine scale mapping and identifying sparse high-dimensional sequence associations |
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10:00-12:00 |
Session 1B: Data Privacy and Epidemiological ModelingRoom 233Chair: Pierangelo Veltri, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro |
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10:00-10:24 |
Dingcheng Li, Majid Rastegar, Ravikumar Komandur Elayavilli, Yanshan Wang, Yue Yu, Saeed Mehrabi, Naveed Afzal, Sunghwan Sohn, Yanpeng Li and Hongfang Liu. A Frequency-filtering Strategy of Obtaining PHI-free Sentences from Clinical Data Repository |
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10:24-10:48 |
Feng Chen, Noman Mohammed, Shuang Wang, Wenbo He, Samuel Cheng and Xiaoqian Jiang. Cloud-Assisted Distributed Private Data Sharing |
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10:48-11:12 |
Carl Gunter, Muhammad Naveed, Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Erman Ayday, Ellen Clayton, Xiaofeng Wang, Brad Malin and Jacques Fellay. Privacy in the Genomic Era (H) |
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11:12-11:36 |
Suruchi Deodhar, Jiangzhuo Chen, Mandy Wilson, Keith Bisset, Bryan Lewis, Chris Barrett and Madhav Marathe. EpiCaster: An Integrated Web Application For Forecasting of Global Epidemics |
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11:36-12:00 |
Sherif Abdelhamid, Chris Kuhlman, Gizem Korkmaz, Madhav Marathe and S. S. Ravi. EDISON: A Web Application for Computational Health Informatics At Scale |
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10:00-12:20 |
NIH trainee sessionRoom 334-335More Information NIH-NIGMS Session Handbook |
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12:00-13:15 |
Lunch |
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13:15-14:15 |
Editors-In-Chief PlenaryRoom 236More Information |
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14:15-15:30 |
Session 2A: Genome and Sequence Analysis IIRoom 222Chair: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University |
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14:15-14:40 |
Qingming Tang, Sheng Wang, Jian Peng, Jianzhu Ma and Jinbo Xu. Bermuda: Bidirectional de novo assembly of transcripts with new insights for handling uneven coverage |
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14:40-15:05 |
Darya Filippova and Carl Kingsford. Rapid Separable Compression Enables Fast Analyses of Sequence Alignments |
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15:05-15:30 |
Dan Deblasio and John Kececiogu. Ensemble Multiple Sequence Alignment via Advising |
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14:15-15:30 |
Session 2B: Machine Learning and ApplicationsRoom 233Chair: Umit Catalyurek, Ohio State University |
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14:15-14:40 |
Asish Ghoshal, Ananth Grama, Saurabh Bagchi and Somali Chaterji. An Ensemble SVM Model for the Accurate Prediction of Non-Canonical MicroRNA Targets |
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14:40-15:05 |
Chanchala Kaddi and May D. Wang. Developing Robust Predictive Models for Head and Neck Cancer across Microarray and RNA-seq Data |
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15:05-15:30 |
Dong Nie. A Deep Framework for Bacteria Image Segmentation and Classification |
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15:30-16:00 |
Break |
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16:00-18:00 |
SIGBio General MeetingRoom 236 |
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18:00-20:00 |
Poster Reception |
| Friday, September 11 |
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7-8:30 |
Breakfast |
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8:30-9:30 |
Keynote: Computational biology in the 21st century: Algorithms that scaleRoom 236Bonnie Berger, Professor of Applied Math and Computer Science at MIT, and head of the Computation and Biology group at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab |
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9:30-10:00 |
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10:00-12:00 |
Session 3A: Networks and OntologiesRoom 222Chair: Predrag Radivojac, Indiana University |
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10:00-10:24 |
Shi Qiao, Mehmet Koyutürk and Z. Meral Özsoyoğlu. Integrated Querying of Disparate Association and Interaction Data in Biomedical Applications |
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10:24-10:48 |
Haitham Gabr, Alin Dobra and Tamer Kahveci. Estimating Reachability in Dense Biological Networks |
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10:48-11:12 |
Cen Wan and Alex A. Freitas. Two Methods for Constructing a Gene Ontology-based Feature Network for a Bayesian Network Classifier and Applications to Datasets of Aging-related Genes |
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11:12-11:36 |
Shufan Ji, Xing Tian and Jin Chen. Improving Biological Signicance of Gene Expression Biclusters with Key Missing Genes |
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11:36-12:00 |
Gaurav Pandey, Sonali Arora, Sahil Manocha and Sean Whalen. Enhancing the Functional Content of Eukaryotic Protein Interaction Networks (H) |
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10:00-12:00 |
Session 3B: Clinical and Health Decision Support SystemsRoom 233Chair: Saeid Belkasim, Georgia State University |
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10:00-10:24 |
Nikhil Yadav, Christian Poellabauer, Louis Daudet, Tomas Collins, Shane McQuillan, Patrick Flynn and Sandra Schneider. Portable Neurological Disease Assessment Using Temporal Analysis of Speech |
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10:24-10:48 |
Michael Uelschen and Heinz-Josef Eikerling. A Mobile Sensor System for Gait Analysis supporting the Assessment of Rehabilitation Measures |
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10:48-11:12 |
Xun Lu, Aston Zhang, Carl A. Gunter, Daniel Fabbri, David Liebovitz and Brad Malin. Discovering De Facto Diagnosis Specialties |
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11:12-11:36 |
Daniel Riofrio, Shuang Luan, Jun Zhou and Lijun Ma. Particle Swarm Optimization for Radiation Therapy Planning |
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10:00-12:00 |
Industry Track: Big Data Analytic Technology for Bioinformatics and Health InformaticsRoom 225Track Chairs: Xin Deng, Ph.D., Microsoft, xinde@microsoft.comDonghui Wu, Ph.D., Knowledgent, donghui.wu@knowledgent.comMore information
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10:00 - 10:20 |
Building and Implementing Data Science Products to Change Healthcare ITVincent A. Emanuele II, Ph.D, Wellcentive, vincent.emanuele@wellcentive.comDavid Lloyd, Wellcentive, david.lloyd@wellcentive.com
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10:20 - 10:40 |
Senior Health Management through Internet of Things and Real-Time Big Data AnalyticsXin Deng, Ph.D., Microsoft, xinde@microsoft.comDonghui Wu, Ph.D., Knowledgent, donghui.wu@knowledgent.com |
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10:40 - 11:00 |
A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach for Latent Class Regression AnalysisNong Shang, Ph.D., Division of Bacterial Diseases, NCIRD, nms6@cdc.gov |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
Learning Causal Structures with Background Knowledge in Health DataYiheng Liang, Ph.D., University of North Texas, yihengliang@my.unt.eduArmin R. Mikler, Ph.D., University of North Texas, mikler@cs.unt.edu |
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11:20 - 11:40 |
Development of a mobile app to address a healthcare gap about laboratory testingJulie Taylor, Ph.D., CDC, jtaylor1@cdc.gov |
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11:40 - 12:00 |
Big Data and Predictive Modeling Topics in HealthcarePanel Chairs: Xin Deng, Ph.D., Microsoft, xinde@microsoft.comDonghui Wu, Ph.D., Knowledgent, donghui.wu@knowledgent.com |
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12:00-13:30 |
Lunch; Women in Bioinformatics panelRoom 158 |
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13:30-15:30 |
Session 4A: Genome and Sequence Analysis IIIRoom 222Chair: Vasant Honavar, Pennsylvania State University |
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13:30-13:54 |
Dan He and Laxmi Parida. SAME: A Sampling-based Multi-locus Epistasis Algorithm for Quantitative Genetic Trait Prediction |
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13:54-14:18 |
Marzieh Ayati and Mehmet Koyuturk. Assessing The Collective Disease Association of Multiple Genomic Loci |
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14:18-14:42 |
Aseel Awdeh, Hilary Phenix, Mads Kaern and Theodore Perkins. The Potential Power of Dynamics in Epistasis Analysis |
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14:42-15:06 |
Darya Filippova, Rob Patro, Geet Duggal and Carl Kingsford. Identification of alternative topological domains in chromatin (H) |
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15:06-15:30 |
David Ream, Asma Riyaz and Iddo Friedberg. An event-driven approach for studying gene block evolution in bacteria (H) |
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13:30-15:30 |
Session 4B: Proteins, Structures, and ModelsRoom 233Mehmet Koyuturk, Case Western Reserve University |
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13:30-13:54 |
Chao Ji, Yong Li, Earl Bellinger, Sujun Li, Randy Arnold, Predrag Radivojac and Haixu Tang. A maximum-likelihood approach to absolute protein quantification in mass spectrometry |
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13:54-14:18 |
Xuefeng Cui, Hiroyuki Kuwahara, Shuai Cheng Li and Xin Gao. Compare Local Pocket and Global Protein Structure Models by Small Structure Patterns |
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14:18-14:42 |
Deukhyun Cha, Qin Zhang, Alexander Rand, Jesmin Jahan Tithi, Rezaul Chowdhury and Chandrajit Bajaj. Accelerated Molecular Mechanical and Solvation Energetics on Multicore CPUs and Manycore GPUs |
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14:42-15:06 |
Minghan Chen, Fei Li, Kartik Subramanian, John Tyson and Yang Cao. Two-dimensional Model of PopZ Bipolarization in Caulobacter crescentus |
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15:06-15:30 |
Jin Chen and Lei Xu. Plant photosynthesis phenomics data quality control (H) |
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13:30-15:30 |
National Surveys of Population Health: A CDC PanelRoom 225More Information |
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16:00-18:00 |
NSF travel awardee sessionRoom 225NSF Forum Handbook |
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18:30-20:30 |
Banquet |
| Saturday, September 12 |
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7-8:30 |
Breakfast |
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8:30-9:30 |
Keynote: What is a gene? How and why computer science helps in answering this Question?Room 236
Paola Bonizzoni, Professor of Computer Science at the Università di Milano-Bicocca |
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9:30-10:00 |
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10:00-12:00 |
Session 5A: Genome and Sequence Analysis IVRoom 222Chair: John Kececioglu, University of Arizona |
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10:00-10:24 |
Christopher Hoobin, Trey Kind, Christina Boucher and Simon Puglisi. Fast and Efficient Compression of High-Throughput Sequencing Reads |
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10:24-10:48 |
Kun Wang, Kan Cao and Sridhar Hannenhalli. Chromatin and Genomic determinants of alternative splicing |
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10:48-11:12 |
Cheng Yang, Po-Yen Wu, Li Tong, John Phan and May Wang. The impact of RNA-seq aligners on gene expression estimation |
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11:12-11:36 |
Zihe Chen, Danyang Chen, Xiangyu Wang, Andrew Fritz, Nitasha Sehgal, Ronald Berezney, Jinhui Xu and Hu Ding. Mining k-Median Chromosome Association Graphs from a Population of Heterogeneous Cells |
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11:36-12:00 |
Sharma V. Thankachan, Sriram Chockalingam, Yongchao Liu, Alberto Apostolico and Srinivas Aluru. The k-Mismatch Maximal Common Substring Problem: Efficient Algorithms and Applications (H) |
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10:00-12:00 |
Session 5B: Predictive Modeling and Text MiningRoom 233Chair: May Wang, Georgia Tech |
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10:00-10:24 |
Hui Li, Xiaoyi Li, Xiaowei Jia, Murali Ramanathan and Aidong Zhang. Bone Disease Prediction and Phenotype Discovery using Feature Representation over Electronic Health Records |
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10:24-10:48 |
Nhathai Phan, Dejing Dou, Hao Wang, David Kil and Brigitte Piniewski. Ontology-based Deep Learning for Human Behavior Prediction in Health Social Networks |
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10:48-11:12 |
Chih-Wen Cheng and May Wang. Improving Personalized Clinical Risk Prediction Based on Causality-Based Association Rules |
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11:12-11:36 |
Sanghoon Lee, Yanjun Zhao, Mohamed Eid Mahmoud Masoud, Maria Valero and Saeid Belkasim. Domain Specific Information Retrieval and Text Mining in Medical Document |
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11:36-12:00 |
Anthony Rios and Ramakanth Kavuluru. Convolutional Neural Networks for Biomedical Text Classification: Application in Indexing Biomedical Articles |
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10:00-12:00 |
Student Educational SessionRoom 225 |
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10:00-12:00 |
How to write paper (by communication director at Georgia Tech) |
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10:00-12:00 |
How to prepare for career in industry (by Industrial Track chair) |
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10:00-12:00 |
How to prepare for career in academic |
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12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-15:30 |
Session 6A: Genome and Sequence Analysis VRoom 222Chair: Filip Jagodzinski, Western Washington University |
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13:30-13:54 |
Dan Gusfield. Persistent Phylogeny: A Galled-Tree and Integer Linear Programming Approach |
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13:54-14:18 |
Elisabetta Bergamini, Romina D'Aurizio, Mauro Leoncini and Marco Pellegrini. CNVScan: detecting borderline copy number variations in NGS data via scan statistics |
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14:18-14:42 |
Chen Peihua, Weiheng Huang and Hongmin Cai. Discrimination of recurrent CNVs from individual ones from multisample aCGH by jointly constrained minimization |
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14:42-15:06 |
Subrata Saha and Sanguthevar Rajasekaran. HECTOR: A Novel Paradigm for Correcting Short Reads |
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15:06-15:30 |
Hamid Mirebrahim, Timothy Close and Stefano Lonardi. De novo meta-assembly of ultra-deep and single-cell sequencing data (H) |
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13:30-15:30 |
Session 6B: Networks and ModulesRoom 233Chair: Christina Boucher, Colorado State University |
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13:30-13:54 |
Md Abdul Alim, Ahmet Ay, Md Mahmudul Hasan, My Thai and Tamer Kahveci. Multiple Reference Networks Improve Accuracy of Signaling Network Construction |
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13:54-14:18 |
Andrei Todor, Alin Dobra and Tamer Kahveci. Counting Motifs in Probabilistic Biological Networks |
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14:18-14:42 |
Ayat Hatem, Kamer Kaya, Jeffrey Parvin, Kun Huang and Umit Catalyurek. MICA: MicroRNA Integration for Active Module Discovery |
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Guopeng Wei, Connor Walsh, Irina Cazan and Radu Marculescu. Molecular Tweeting: Unveiling the Social Network behind Heterogeneous Bacteria Populations |
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Adib Shafi, Michele Donato and Sorin Draghici. A systems biology approach for the identification of significantly perturbed genes |