Biocomputation Research Group

Publications since 2001


Journal articles

2006

Maria J. Schilstra, Lu Li, Joanne Matthews, Andrew Finney, Michael Hucka, and Nicolas Le Novère

CellML2SBML: conversion of CellML into SBML

Bioinformatics, 2006, Advance publication on line.

ISSN: Print: 1367-4803 Electronic: 1460-2059

url: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/btl047v1

 

M. J. Schilstra and S. R. Martin

An elastically tethered viscous load imposes a regular gait on the motion of myosin-V. Simulation of the effect of transient force relaxation on a stochastic process

J. Royal. Soc. Interface, Vol 3, pp 153-165, 2006.

ISSN: Print: 1742-5689 Electronic: 1742-5662

doi: 10.1098/rsif.2005.0098

url: http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1098/rsif.2005.0098

 

Nicolas Le Novère, Benjamin Bornstein, A. Broicher, M. Courtot, Marco Donizelli, H. Dharuri, Lu Li, Herbert M. Sauro, Maria J. Schilstra, Bruce E. Shapiro, Jacky L. Snoep, and Michael Hucka

BioModels Database: A Free, Centralized Database of Curated, Published, Quantitative Kinetic Models of Biochemical and Cellular Systems

Nucl. Acids Res., Vol 34, pp D689-691, 2006.

ISSN: Print: 0305-1048 Electronic: 1362-4962

url: http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/34/suppl_1/D689

 

2005

Arumugam Sujatha, Sreedhar Balaji, Rajan Devi, and Wolfgang Marwan

Isolation of Physarum polycephalum plasmodial mutants altered in sporulation by chemical mutagenesis of flagellates

European Journal of Protistology, Vol 41, p 19, 2005.

ISSN: 0932-4739

doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2004.08.001

url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B7GW3-4DTKYT2-1/2/a1446d06cde74a06c60034129bfcad23

 

Irina Abnizova, René te Boekhorst, Klaudia Walter, and Walter Gilks

Some statistical properties of regulatory DNA sequences, and their use in predicting regulatory regions in the Drosophila genome: the fluffy-tail test

Bmc Bioinformatics, Vol 6, 2005.

ISSN: 1471-2105

doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-109

url: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/6/109

 

Wolfgang Marwan, Arumugam Sujatha, and Christine Starostzik

Reconstructing the regulatory network controlling commitment and sporulation in Physarum polycephalum based on hierarchical Petri Net modelling and simulation

J. Theor. Biol., Vol 236, pp 349-365, 2005.

ISSN: 0022-5193

doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.03.018

url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WMD-4G65VM2-1/2/c52421e1183b89a9de89de64f4c078ef

 

Yi Sun, Mark. Robinson, Rod Adams, Paul Kaye, and Neil Davey

Integrating binding site predictions using meta classification methods

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2005.

 

Dieter Oesterhelt and Wolfgang Marwan

Salz in der Suppe des Lebens

Biospektrum, Vol 11, pp 60-62, 2005.

ISSN: 0947-0867

 

T. Nutsch, D. Oesterhelt, E.-D. Gilles, and W. Marwan

A Quantitative Model of the Switch Cycle of an Archaeal Flagellar Motor and its Sensory Control

Biophys. J., Vol 89, pp 2307-2323, 2005.

ISSN: Print: 0006-3495 Electronic: 1542-0086

PMID: 16192281

url: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16192281&query_hl=2

 

S.C. Materna and W. Marwan

Estimating the number of plasmids taken up by a eukaryotic cell during transfection and evidence that antisense RNA abolishes gene expression in Physarum polycephalum

FEMS Microbiol Lett., Vol 243, pp 29-35, 2005.

ISSN: 0378-1097

url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T2W-4DXJVD1-6/2/ab9208e93ffdab9deeb0678855dc015c

 

2004

Michael Hucka, Andrew Finney, Benjamin Bornstein, Sarah M. Keating, Bruce E. Shapiro, Joanne Matthews, Benjamin Kovitz, Maria J. Schilstra, Akira Funahashi, John C. Doyle, and Hiroaki Kitano

Evolving a Lingua Franca and Associated Software Infrastructure for Computational Systems Biology: The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) Project

Systems Biology, Vol 1, pp 41-53, 2004.

ISSN: Print: 1741-2471 Electronic: 1741-248X

doi: 10.1049/sb:20045008

url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/sb:20045008

 

Bruce E. Shapiro, Michael Hucka, Andrew Finney, and John Doyle

MathSBML: a package for manipulating SBML-based biological models

Bioinformatics, Vol 20, pp 2829-2831, 2004.

ISSN: Print: 1367-4803 Electronic: 1460-2059

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth271

url: http://bioinformatics.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/16/2829

 

2003

Maria J. Schilstra, Andrew Finney, Michael Hucka, and Herbert M. Sauro

Expressing biochemical network models in SBML

Fourth European Biophysics Conference, Vol Eur. Biophys. J. 32, p 209, 2003.

ISSN: Print: 0175-7571 Electronic: 1432-1017

 

Michael Hucka, Andrew Finney, Herbert M. Sauro, Hamid Bolouri, John C. Doyle, Hiroaki Kitano, and the rest of the Sbml Forum, A. P. Arkin, B. J. Bornstein, D. Bray, A. Cornish-Bowden, A. A. Cuellar, S. Dronov, E. D. Gilles, M. Ginkel, V. Gor, I. I. Goryanin, W. J. Hedley, T. C. Hodgman, J. H. Hofmeyr, P. J. Hunter, N. S. Juty, J. L. Kasberger, A. Kremling, U. Kummer, N. Le Novere, L. M. Loew, D. Lucio, P. Mendes, E. Minch, E. D. Mjolsness, Y. Nakayama, M. R. Nelson, P. F. Nielsen, T. Sakurada, J. C. Schaff, B. E. Shapiro, T. S. Shimizu, H. D. Spence, J. Stelling, K. Takahashi, M. Tomita, J. Wagner, and J. Wang

The systems biology markup language (SBML): a medium for representation and exchange of biochemical network models

Bioinformatics, Vol 19, pp 524-531, 2003.

ISSN: Print: 1367-4803 Electronic: 1460-2059

PMID: 12611808

url: http://bioinformatics.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/4/524

 

Andrew Finney and Michael Hucka

Systems biology markup language: Level 2 and beyond

Biochem. Soc. Trans., Vol 31, p 1472–1473, 2003.

ISSN: Print: 0300-5127

Electronic: 1470-8752

PMID: 14641091

url: http://www.biochemsoctrans.org/bst/031/1472/bst0311472.htm

 

2002

C. Titus Brown, Alistair G. Rust, Peter J. C. Clarke, Zhengjun Pan, Maria J. Schilstra, Tristan De Buysscher, Gareth Griffin, Barbara J. Wold, R. Andrew Cameron, Eric H. Davidson, and Hamid Bolouri

New Computational Approaches for Analysis of cis-Regulatory Networks

Developmental Biology, Vol 246, pp 86-102, 2002.

ISSN: 0012-1606

doi:10.1006/dbio.2002.0619

url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WDG-45WRK44-8/2/def3b58adf50a3ec4b287aa04a85c7bc

 

Eric H. Davidson, Jonathan P. Rast, Paola Oliveri, Andrew Ransick, Cristina Calestani, Chiou-Hwa Yuh, Takuya Minokawa, Gabriele Amore, Veronica Hinman, Cesar Arenas-Mena, Ochan Otim, C. Titus Brown, Carolina B. Livi, Pei Yun Lee, Roger Revilla, Alistair G. Rust, Zheng jun Pan, Maria J. Schilstra, Peter J. C. Clarke, Maria I. Arnone, Lee Rowen, R. Andrew Cameron, David R. McClay, Leroy Hood, and Hamid Bolouri

A Genomic Regulatory Network for Development

Science, Vol 295, pp 1669-1678, 2002.

ISSN: 0036-8075

doi: 10.1126/science.1069883

url: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/295/5560/1669

 

Eric H. Davidson, Jonathan P. Rast, Paola Oliveri, Andrew Ransick, Cristina Calestani, C.-H. Yuh, Takuya Minokawa, Gabriele Amore, Veronica Hinman, Cesar Arenas-Mena, Ochan Otim, C. Titus Brown, Carolina B. Livi, Pei Yun Lee, Roger Revilla, Maria J. Schilstra, Peter J. C. Clarke, Alistair G. Rust, Zhengjun Pan, Maria I. Arnone, Lee Rowen, R. Andrew Cameron, David R. McClay, Leroy Hood, and Hamid Bolouri

A provisonal regulatory gene network for specification of endomesoderm in the sea urchin embryo

Developmental Biology, Vol 246, pp 162-190, 2002.

ISSN: 0012-1606

doi:10.1006/dbio.2002.0635

url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WDG-45WRK44-F/2/efb4a250a5717db1111e3da7d8cd50e2

 

Maria J. Schilstra, Alistair G. Rust, Rod Adams, and Hamid Bolouri

A finite state automaton model for multi-neuron simulations

Neurocomputing, Vol 44 - 46C, pp 1141-1148, 2002.

ISSN: 0925-2312

doi:10.1016/S0925-2312(02)00438-1

url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V10-45F90MH-T/2/b9aa84a205464363836a89dd184bdc53

 


 

Submitted manuscripts

 

John F. Eccleston, Stephen R. Martin, and Maria J. Schilstra

Rapid Kinetic Techniques

Accepted for: Biophysical tools for the biologist, Vol. 1, eds. JJ Correia and WH Dietrich

Methods in Molecular Biology, eds L Wilson and PT Matsudaira

Elsevier Inc., San Diego

(26 June 2006)

 

Maria J. Schilstra, Stephen R. Martin, and Sarah M. Keating

Methods for simulating the dynamics of complex biological processes

Accepted for: Biophysical tools for the biologist, Vol. 1, eds. JJ Correia and WH Dietrich

Methods in Molecular Biology, eds L Wilson and PT Matsudaira

Elsevier Inc., San Diego

(9 June 2006)

 

Stephen R. Martin and Maria J. Schilstra

Circular dichroism and its application to the study of biomolecules

Accepted for: Biophysical tools for the biologist, Vol. 1, eds. JJ Correia and WH Dietrich

Methods in Molecular Biology, eds L Wilson and PT Matsudaira

Elsevier Inc., San Diego

(30 May 2006)

 

Maria J. Schilstra and Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

Bio-logic: gene expression and the laws of combinatorial logic

Accepted by Artificial Life

(3 May 2006)

 

Johannes F. Knabe, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, and M. J. Schilstra

Genetic regulatory network models of biological clocks: evolutionary history matters

Accepted by Artificial Life

(3 May 2006)

 

Yi Sun, Mark Robinson, Rod Adams, Paul Kaye, René Te Boekhorst, Alistair G. Rust, and Neil Davey

Integrating genomic binding site predictions using real-valued meta classifiers

Submitted to Pattern Recognition

 


Conference proceedings

Johannes F. Knabe, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, and M. J. Schilstra

Evolvability of differentiation in genetic regulatory networks

Proceedings of  GWAL-7, 2006

Submitted 26 April 2006

 

 Johannes F. Knabe, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Maria J. Schilstra, and Tom Quick

Evolving Biological Clocks using Genetic Regulatory Networks

Proceedings of  ALife X, 2006

Submitted 13 January 2006

Available as University of Hertfordshire Technical Report nr 438

 

Mark Robinson, Yi Sun, René te Boekhorst, Paul Kaye, Rod Adams, Neil Davey, and Alistair G. Rust

Improving computational predictions of cis-regulatory binding sites

In Proceedings of Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii, 2006

 

N. Le Novere, B. Bornstein, A. Broicher, M. Courtot, M. Donizelli, H. Dharuri, L. Li, H. Sauro, M. J. Schilstra, J. L. Snoep, and M. Hucka

BioModels Database, storage and exchange of curated quantiative models in Systems Biology

In Proceedings of International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2005), Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA, 2005

 

Michael Hucka, Andrew Finney, Benjamin Bornstein, Bruce E. Shapiro, Sarah M. Keating, Maria J. Schilstra, Akira Funahashi, A. Jouraku, Joanne Matthews, and Benjamin Kovitz

Software from the SBML Team: LibSBML, MathSBML, SBMLToolbox, CellML2SBML, KEGG2SBML, SBML Test Suite, and the Online Tools

In Proceedings of International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB), Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA, 2005

 

M. J. Schilstra and S. R. Martin

Nano-escapement: the motion of a molecular motor dragging a large viscous load is predicted to be regular and uniform

In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2005), Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA, 2005

 

Yi Sun, Rod. Adams, Paul Kaye, Alistair G. Rust, and Neil Davey

Improving accuracy of binding site predictions by use of non-linear integration of multiple algorithmic predictions

In Proceedings of ECCB/JBI Computational Biology, Madrid, 2005

url: http://www.eccb05.org/PostersDetail.php?s_Topic=&s_Surname=robinson&s_Title=&poster_id=218

 

Y. Sun, M. Robinson, A. Rust, R. Adams, P. Kaye, and N. Davey

Using real-valued meta classifiers to integrate binding site predictions

In Proceedings of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN05, Montreal, Canada, 2005, pp 481-486

ISBN: 0-7803-9049-0

 

Yi Sun, Mark Robinson, Alistair G. Rust, Rod Adams, Paul Kaye, and Neil Davey

Integrating binding site predictions using meta classification methods

In Proceedings of ICANNGA2005, Coimbra, Portugal, 2005, pp 321-324

ISBN: 3-211-24934

 

S. M. Keating, B. Bornstein, M. Hucka, and A. Finney

SBMLToolbox: a MATLAB toolbox for SBML users

In Proceedings of International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2004), Heidelberg, Germany, 2004

 

Benjamin Bornstein, Sarah M. Keating, Michael Hucka, and Andrew Finney

libSBML: a software library for the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBM)

In Proceedings of International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB), Heidelberg, Germany, 2004

 

Yi Sun, Rod Adams, Mark Robinson, Alistair G. Rust, and Neil Davey

Integrating binding site predictions using non-linear classification methods

In Proceedings of Sheffield Machine Learning Workshop, 2004

 

Rod Adams, Neil Davey, Paul Kaye, and Wanida Pensuwon

Optimising a Hierarchical Neural Clusterer Applied to Large Gene Sequence Data Sets

In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS04), Varna, Bulgaria, 2004

ISBN: 0-7803-8278-1

 

T. Nutsch, W. Marwan, D. Oesterhelt, and E.-D. Gilles

A coherent kinetic model of sensing and response in Halobacterium salinarium phototaxis based on the mechanims of flagellar motor switching

In Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure, Novosibirsk, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004

 

Andrew Finney and Michael Hucka

Developing SBML beyond Level 2: Proposals for Development

In Proceedings of International Conference CMSB, Paris, France, 2004

ISBN: 3-540-25375-0

 

Rod Adams, René te Boekhorst, Alistair G. Rust, Paul. Kaye, and Maria J. Schilstra

Design of Spatially Extended Neural Networks for Specific Applications

In Proceedings of IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN04), Budapest, Hungary, 2004

ISBN: 0-7803-8360-5

 

Maria J. Schilstra and Hamid Bolouri

The logic of gene regulation

In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB): The Logic of Life, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2002

ISBN: 91-85910-63-5

 

Maria J. Schilstra and Hamid Bolouri

Logical modelling of developmental genetic regulatory networks with NetBuilder

In Proceedings of 2nd Int. Conf. Systems Biology (ICSB 2001), Los Angeles, CA, 2001

 

Maria J. Schilstra and Hamid Bolouri

NetBuilder: a graphical tool for modelling genetic regulatory networks

In Proceedings of 2nd Workshop on Computation of Biochemical Pathways and Genetic Networks, Heidelberg, Germany, 2001

 


Other conference and workshop presentations

Maria J. Schilstra

The logic of gene regulation

Presented at Systems Modelling in Plants and Microbes, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 2005.

url: http://www2.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~vlm/symposium/schilstra.html

 

Maria J. Schilstra

SBML and CellML: XML-based markup languages for models of biochemical systems

Presented at 3th International Symposium on Networks in Bioinformatics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2005.

url: http://isnb.amc.uva.nl/isnb2005/index.html

 

Maria J. Schilstra

A closer look at gene transcription

Presented at Workshop Microbial Systems Biology, University of Surrey, Guildford, 2005.

url: http://www.soc.surrey.ac.uk/ias/reports/bsb.htm

 

M. Hucka, A. Finney, B. J. Bornstein, B. Shapiro, S. M. Keating, A. Funahashi, M. J. Schilstra, B. Kovitz, and J. Matthews

SBML Software and Services

Presented at Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2004), Glasgow, UK, 2004.

url: http://sbml.org/documents/

 

Maria J. Schilstra

Transient Force Relaxation in a Processive Molecular Motor

Presented at XIth Workshop of the BioThermoKinetics Study Group: Developing concepts for systems biology (BTK 2004), Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 2004.

url: http://btk2004.brookes.ac.uk:8080/BTK2004/Abstracts/Accepted%20Abstracts

 

Maria J. Schilstra, Alistair G. Rust, Rod Adams, and Hamid Bolouri

A finite state automaton model for multi-neuron simulations

Presented at 10th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, 2001.

 


Book chapters

Andrew Finney, Michael Hucka, Benjamin Bornstein, Sarah M. Keating, Bruce E. Shapiro, Joanne Matthews, Ben L. Kovitz, Maria J. Schilstra, Akira Funahashi, John C. Doyle, and Hiroaki Kitano

Software infrastructure for effective communication and reuse of computational models

In: System modeling in cellular biology, 'Vol., eds. Z Szallasi, S Jörg, and V Periwal, pp 355-378

The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2006.

ISBN: 0-262-19548-8

 

Hamid Bolouri and Maria J. Schilstra

Models of genetic regulatory networks

In: Computation in Cells. Perspectives and Tools of Thought, eds. Paton, R, Bolouri, H, Holcombe, M, Parish, JH, and Tateson, R

Springer-Verlag: Berlin. pp 149-160, 2004

ISBN: 3-540-00358-4

url: http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,3-156-22-2312344-detailsPage%253Dppmmedia%257Ctoc%257Ctoc,00.html

 

Alistair G. Rust, Rod Adams, Maria J. Schilstra, and Hamid Bolouri

Evolving computational neural systems using synthetic developmental mechanisms

In: On growth, form, and computers, eds. Bentley, P and Kumar, S

Elsevier: Oxford, UK. pp 353-376, 2003

ISBN: 0-12-428765-4

 


 

Technical reports

 

Johannes F. Knabe, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Maria J. Schilstra, and Tom Quick
Evolving Biological Clocks using Genetic Regulatory Networks

University of Hertfordshire Technical Report nr 438