Publications, Presentations, Patents, Software

Full list available online at http://harts.net/reece/pubs/.

Papers
Storage and Data Management for Life Sciences Research
Hart RK
invited review for Drug Discov. Today (in preparation)
Unison: An Integrated Platform for Computational Biology Discovery
Hart RK, Mukhyala K.
Pac Symp Biocomput. (2009). PDF
Functional characterization of the Bcl-2 gene family in the zebrafish.
Kratz E, Eimon PM, Mukhyala K, Stern H, Zha J, Strasser A, Hart R, Ashkenazi A.
Cell Death Differ. 13(10):1631-40 (2006). PubMed PDF
Computational identification and Experimental Validation of Novel Zebrafish Bcl2 Family Members
Mukhyala K, Kratz E, Ashkenazi A, Hart RK
unpublished manuscript (2005). PDF supplementary data
Systematic and Fully Automatic Discovery of Protein Sequence Patterns
Hart RK, Stolovitzky G, Royyuru AK, and Califano A
J Comput Biol. 7(3-4):585-600 (2000). PubMed PDF WWW
Automatic Discovery of PROSITE Motifs
Hart RK, Stolovitzky G, Royyuru AK, and Califano A
Proceedings of the RECOMB 2000 Conference, Tokyo, Japan (2000).
Note: The J Comput Biol paper above subsumes most of these results.
Exploring the Similarities Between Potential Smoothing and Simulated Annealing.
Hart RK, Pappu RV, and Ponder JW
J. Comput. Chem. 21(7):531-52 (2000). Abstract PDF
Potential Function Smoothing with Application to Molecular Docking (Ph.D. Thesis)
Thesis in Molecular Biophysics (1998). Abstract PDF
Analysis and Application of Potential Energy Smoothing for Global Optimization
Pappu RV, Hart RK, and Ponder JW
J. Phys. Chem. B 102:9725-9742 (1998). Abstract PDF
An Object-Oriented System for the Analysis of Automated DNA Sequencing Data
Thesis in Computer Science (1994) PDF WWW
Isolation, localization, and physical mapping of a highly polymorphic locus on human chromosome 11q13.
Eubanks JH, Selleri L, Hart R, Rosette C, Evans GA
Genomics 11(3):720-9 (1991 Nov) PubMed

Patent

Methods and Compositions Relating to ZPA Polypeptides
Avi Ashkenazi, Reece Hart, Erika Kratz, Kiran Mukhyala
Filed May 4, 2006
Provides new model systems for investigating apoptosis in vivo and in vitro, and provides methods for identifying agents that modulate apoptosis.

Presentations and Posters

A Tour of Research Computing at Genentech
Invited presentation, Bio-IT World Expo, Boston, April 2009. PDF
Unison: Enabling easy, rapid, and comprehensive proteomic mining
UCSF / San Francisco PostgreSQL Users' Group, March 2009. PDF
Integrating Public and Private Data: Lessons Learned with Unison
invited presentation, Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference, San Francisco, February 2009. PDF
Unison: An Integrated Platform for Computational Biology Discovery
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Hawaii, January 2009. PDF
Mining for Novel TNF Ligands using Unison, an Open Source Database for Target Discovery
poster at ISMB, 2005; Detroit, MI PDF
Introduction to and Applications of Unison, an Open Source Database for Target Discovery
poster at Automated Function Prediction 2005; Detroit, MI PDF
Structuring Structural Biology with PostgreSQL
presentation at OSCON (O'Reilly OpenSource Conference) 2004; Portland, OR PDF
Mining for protein sequences with Unison
poster at Gordon Research Conferences, Queen's College, England. (2003)
Systematic and Automated Discovery of Patterns in PROSITE Families
Hart RK, Califano A, Stolovitzky G, Kumar AR
presentation at RECOMB 2000, April 7-11; Tokyo,Japan
SPLASH: Completely Automatic Discovery of PROSITE motifs
Hart RK, Califano A, Stolovitzky G, Kumar AR
poster presentation at the Proteins Gordon Research Conference, Holderness, New Hampshire (1999)
A Detailed Analysis of Potential Smoothing, Analogies with Simulated Annealing, and Applications to Molecular Docking
Invited presentation to the American Chemical Society, Computational Chemistry Subsection
1998 October 28, St. Louis

Software

Unison Protein Database
Unison is an open source project that provides an easily-updated infrastructure for protein sequence analysis, feature-based mining, and other common tasks. (2003)
http://unison-db.org/
Prospect Interface
Perl module for manipulating protein threading results
Available via http://sourceforge.net/projects/prospect-if and CPAN. (2002)
autoseq - Automated DNA Sequence Analysis
C++ classes for the manipulation of automated sequencing data and the implementation of a Bayesian peak identification model
autoseq home page
TINKER - Software Tools for Molecular Design
Co-contributor of potential smoothing and Ewald summation methods to Jay Ponder's TINKER package
http://dasher.wustl.edu/tinker/