Burcu Ozkaral, A. Ozcan, Burak Alakent, Elif Ozkirimli
{"title":"Analysis of phosphatase 1B WPD loop closure","authors":"Burcu Ozkaral, A. Ozcan, Burak Alakent, Elif Ozkirimli","doi":"10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478888","url":null,"abstract":"Protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) is a negative regulator of insulin and leptin signaling, and is therefore a major molecular target for the treatment of type II diabetes and obesity. WPD loop is a key element in the mechanism of PTP1B catalysis. In the apo form, WPD loop is usually in an “open” conformation, whereas it closes over the active site upon substrate binding. Here, targeted molecular dynamics (TMD) simulations are reported to examine the transition of the WPD loop from the open to closed states as well as the effect of this motion on the PTP1B conformational activation mechanism. Our results indicate that WPD loop motion is described by some residue-residue interactions between the WPD loop and the active site and the changes of some WPD loop dihedral angles. Trp179 side chain dihedral angle changes gradually during the simulation, while Asp181 backbone dihedral angle makes a jump to the end of the simulation. The formation of hydrogen bonds between Trp-179 and Asp-181 with Arg-221 is observed to mediate the closure of WPD loop. Elucidating the detailed mechanism of PTP1B conformational activation will guide future drug design efforts toward type II diabetes and obesity.","PeriodicalId":215457,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115142580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sedat Sarikaya, G. Weber, Yesim Serinagaoglu Dogrusöz
{"title":"Combination of conventional regularization methods and genetic algorithm for solving the inverse problem of electrocardiography","authors":"Sedat Sarikaya, G. Weber, Yesim Serinagaoglu Dogrusöz","doi":"10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478914","url":null,"abstract":"Distribution of electrical potentials over the surface of the heart, which is called the epicardial potential distribution, is a valuable tool to understand whether there is a defect in the heart. Direct measurement of these potentials requires highly invasive procedures. An alternative is to reconstruct these epicardial potentials non-invasively from the body surface potentials, which constitutes one form of the ill-posed inverse problem of electrocardiography (ECG). The goal of this study is to solve the inverse problem of ECG using several regularization methods and compare their performances. We employed Tikhonov Regularization, Truncated Singular Value Decomposition (TSVD), Least Squares QR (LSQR) methods in this study. We compared the effectiveness of these regularization methods to solve the ill-posed inverse ECG problem. Some of the regularization methods require a regularization parameter to solve the inverse problem. We used the well-known L-Curve method to obtain the regularization parameter. The performance of the regularization methods for solving the inverse ECG problem was also evaluated based on a realistic heart-torso model simulation protocol. In this paper, we also investigated the usage of genetic algorithm (GA) for regularizing the ill-posed inverse ECG problem. The results showed that GA can be applied to regularize the ill-posed problem when combined with the results of conventional regularization methods or additional information about solutions.","PeriodicalId":215457,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117210202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classification of normal and abnormal respiration patterns using flow volume curve and neural network","authors":"S. Jafari, H. Arabalibeik, K. Agin","doi":"10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478898","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478898","url":null,"abstract":"Lung diseases affect many people's lives. Early and correct diagnosis of respiratory system abnormalities is vital to patients. While spirometry is the most common pulmonary function test, the interpretation of the results is dependent on the physicians' experience. A decision support system can help physicians in correct diagnoses. This study aims at designing a system for detecting pulmonary system normal and abnormal functions by using spirometry data and multilayer perceptron neural networks (MLPNN). To detect and classify respiratory patterns into normal, obstructive, restrictive and mixed patterns, curves are fitted to flow-volume data of the patients. The fitted curve coefficients and predicted values for FEV1, FVC, and FEV1% are used as inputs to the MLPNN. Different MLP structures were tested. The spirometric data were obtained from 205 adult volunteers. Total accuracy, sensitivity and specificity among the four categories are 97.6%, 97.5% and 98.8% respectively.","PeriodicalId":215457,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131861073","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interaction prediction of PDZ domains using a machine learning approach","authors":"Sibel Kalyoncu, O. Keskin, A. Gursoy","doi":"10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478896","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478896","url":null,"abstract":"Protein interaction domains play crucial roles in many complex cellular pathways. PDZ domains are one of the most common protein interaction domains. Prediction of binding specificity of PDZ domains by a computational manner could eliminate unnecessary, time-consuming experiments. In this study, interactions of PDZ domains are predicted by using a machine learning approach in which only primary sequences of PDZ domains and peptides are used. In order to encode feature vectors for each interaction, trigram frequencies of primary sequences of PDZ domains and corresponding peptides are calculated. After construction of numerical interaction dataset, we compared different classifiers and ended up with Random Forest (RF) algorithm which gave the top performance. We obtained very high prediction accuracy (91.4%) for binary interaction prediction which outperforms all previous similar methods.","PeriodicalId":215457,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114341244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiple sequence alignment based on structural properties","authors":"Bugra Ozer, Gizem Gezici, Cem Meydan, U. Sezerman","doi":"10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478910","url":null,"abstract":"A multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a sequence alignment of three or more biological sequences. Main idea behind multiple sequence alignment is to see the similarities between input sequences, to be able to make phylogenetic analysis and other evolutionary conclusions. We propose a multiple sequence alignment method based on contact maps derived from structural data and network properties. We show that such methods may be useful in creating multiple alignments that can identify domains and similar structures where sequence identity is low.","PeriodicalId":215457,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127850707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stochastic simulation of large biochemical systems by approximate Gillespie algorithm","authors":"V. Purutçuoğlu","doi":"10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478883","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years the fast innovations for the development of new methods and algorithms in system biology enable the biologists to analyze and interpret the complex biochemical structures. One of the speedy development has been seen in mathematical methods for generating these complex systems on the computer. These techniques help the researcher to ask biologically interesting questions and test their expectations before starting their biological experiments. There are a number of methods which can approximately simulate the biochemical systems in a computationally efficient way. In this study we present two applications of a recently developed simulation technique, called the approximate Gillespie, for approximately producing large systems with realistic complexity. We evaluate the performance of the new algorithm by comparing its simulation results with the ones generated from the well-known exact simulation technique, namely the Gillespie method.","PeriodicalId":215457,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120981933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of shape analysis on renal tumors in 3D","authors":"S. Giebel, J. Schiltz, J. Schenk","doi":"10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478889","url":null,"abstract":"There are different kinds of tumors in childhood: nephroblastoma, clear cell sarcoma, neuroblastoma etc. For diagnosis MRI (Magnetic resonance images) are used. Our research is the first mathematical approach on MRI (Magnetic resonance images) of renal tumors. We are using transversal, frontal and sagittal images and compare them in their potential for differentiation different kind of tumors. The procedure of getting three dimensional landmarks by using the edges of the platonic body (C60) as well as a test for the mean shape with the same diagnosis to all others are shown.","PeriodicalId":215457,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127639574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relative protein quantitation with post translational modifications in mass spectrometry based proteomics","authors":"J. Allmer","doi":"10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478886","url":null,"abstract":"Mass spectrometry has become the tool of choice for most investigations in proteomics. Identification of proteins from complex mixtures has long been achieved and is now routinely used in countless high throughput studies. Quantitation by mass spectrometry is comparably newer and many different strategies have been proposed. One such strategy quantitates the difference in protein expression level among samples via extracted ion chromatograms, or spectral counts or a combination thereof. Another strategy involves mass modifications of the analytes in one or more of the samples under investigation. MSMAG has been developed as an extension to 2DB and it has been shown that it can aid in quantitation of data from experiments employing label-free quantitation. Recently, it has been extended to allow for analysis of data based on labelling strategies. This also makes it possible to quickly visualize and investigate inherent mass differences as presented by post translational modifications.","PeriodicalId":215457,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125550180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using amino acid typing to improve the accuracy of NMR structure based assignments","authors":"H. Erdogan, M. Apaydin","doi":"10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478879","url":null,"abstract":"Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR1) spectroscopy is an important experimental technique that allows one to study protein structure in solution. An important challenge in NMR protein structure determination is the assignment of NMR peaks to corresponding nuclei. In structure-based assignment (SBA), the aim is to perform the assignments with the help of a homologous protein. NVR-BIP is a tool that uses Nuclear Vector Replacement's (NVR) scoring function and binary integer programming to solve SBA problem. In this work, we introduce a method to improve NVR-BIP's assignment accuracy with amino acid typing. We use CRAACK that takes the chemical shifts of C, N and H atoms and returns the possible amino acids along with their confidence scores. We obtain improved assignment accuracies and our results show the effectiveness of integrating amino acid typing with NVR.","PeriodicalId":215457,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116589961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coupling between energy and residue position fluctuations in native proteins","authors":"Mert Gur, B. Erman","doi":"10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HIBIT.2010.5478890","url":null,"abstract":"The coupling between energy fluctuations and positional fluctuations in molecular dynamics trajectories of Crambin at 310 K is studied. Coupling with energy fluctuation is evaluated for both atomic positions and residue positions. Couplings show values which fluctuate around the previously proposed theoretical value under harmonic approximation. The magnitude of these correlations is in agreement, on the average, with the harmonic approximation. Additionally coupling between energy fluctuations and atom-atom distance fluctuations are evaluated. This coupling indicates how much each interaction among different atoms/residues is correlated with the protein's total energy fluctuations. Some atom's/residue's interactions have shown outstanding correlation. Moreover coupling of residue fluctuations between different modes is studied.","PeriodicalId":215457,"journal":{"name":"2010 5th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131134476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}