Isidore Rigoutsos

Metagenomic analysis of phosphorus removing sludge communities (2008)

Garcia Martin, Hector, Ivanova, Natalia, Kunin, Victor, Warnecke, Falk, Barry, Kerrie, McHardy, Alice C., ...

Enhanced Biological Phosphorus Removal (EBPR) is not well understood at the metabolic level despite being one of the best-studied microbially-mediated industrial processes due to its ecological and...

Report on BIOKDD04: Workshop on Data Mining in (2008)

Mohammed J. Zaki, Shinichi Morishita, Isidore Rigoutsos

are numerous sources of biological data that provides challenging opportunities for data mining. For example, the structural genomics initiative aims to catalog the structurefunction information for...

entire genome sequence (2008)

Ioannis Iliopoulos, Sophia Tsoka, Miguel A. Andrade, Anton J. Enright, Mark Carroll, Patrick Poullet, ...

BIOINFORMATICS Motivation: Genome-wide functional annotation either by manual or automatic means has raised considerable concerns regarding the accuracy of assignments and the reproducibility of...

Spring Semester 2003 10.555 Bioinformatics: Principles, Methods and Applications Instructors (2008)

Gregory Stephanopoulos, Isidore Rigoutsos

This course provides an introduction to Bioinformatics. We define this field as the principles and computational methods aiming at the upgrade of the information content of the large volume of...

Human and mouse introns are linked to the same processes and functions through each genome's most frequent non-conserved motifs (2008)

Tsirigos, Aristotelis, Rigoutsos, Isidore

We identified the most frequent, variable-length DNA sequence motifs in the human and mouse genomes and sub-selected those with multiple recurrences in the intergenic and intronic regions and at...

The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology (2008)

Holland, Linda Z., Albalat, Ricard, Azumi, Kaoru, Benito-Gutiérrez, Èlia, Blow, Matthew J., Bronner-Fraser, Marianne, ...

Cephalochordates, urochordates, and vertebrates evolved from a common ancestor over 520 million years ago. To improve our understanding of chordate evolution and the origin of vertebrates, we...

Accurate phylogenetic classification of DNA fragments based on sequence composition (2006)

McHardy, Alice C., Garcia Martin, Hector, Tsirigos, Aristotelis, Hugenholtz, Philip, Rigoutsos, Isidore

Metagenome studies have retrieved vast amounts of sequence out of a variety of environments, leading to novel discoveries and great insights into the uncultured microbial world. Except for very...

Pattern-based phylogenetic distance estimation and tree reconstruction (2006)

Höhl, Michael, Rigoutsos, Isidore, Ragan, Mark A.

We have developed an alignment-free method that calculates phylogenetic distances using a maximum likelihood approach for a model of sequence change on patterns that are discovered in unaligned...

Pattern-Based Phylogenetic Distance Estimation and Tree Reconstruction (2006)

Michael Höhl, Isidore Rigoutsos, Mark A. Ragan

We have developed an alignment-free method that calculates phylogenetic distances using a maximum-likelihood approach for a model of sequence change on patterns that are discovered in unaligned...

Metagenomic analysis of two enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) sludge communities (2006)

Martín, Hector Garcia, Ivanova, Natalia, Kunin, Victor, Warnecke, Falk, Barry, Kerrie W., McHardy, Alice C., ...

Enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) is one of the best-studied microbially mediated industrial processes because of its ecological and economic relevance. Despite this, it is not well...

A generic motif discovery algorithm for sequential data (2006)

Jensen, Kyle L., Styczynski, Mark P., Rigoutsos, Isidore, Stephanopoulos, Gregory N.

Motivation: Motif discovery in sequential data is a problem of great interest and with many applications. However, previous methods have been unable to combine exhaustive search with complex motif...

Camera Calibration. (2005)

Rigoutsos, Isidore, Brown, Christopher M.

Given an image that has been scaled both horizontally and vertically (possibly with different scale factors in the two directions), we determine the camera position and orientation, as well as the...

Evolution of distinct EGF domains with specific functions (2005)

Wouters, Merridee A., Rigoutsos, Isidore, Chu, Carmen K., Feng, Lina L., Sparrow, Duncan B., Dunwoodie, Sally L.

EGF domains are extracellular protein modules cross-linked by three intradomain disulfides. Past studies suggest the existence of two types of EGF domain with three-disulfides, human EGF-like (hEGF)...

A generic motif discovery algorithm for sequential data (2005)

Jensen, Kyle L., Styczynski, Mark P., Rigoutsos, Isidore, Stephanopoulos, Gregory N.

Motivation: Motif discovery in sequential data is a problem of great interest and with many applications. However, previous methods have been unable to combine exhaustive search with complex motif...

A new computational method for the detection of horizontal gene transfer events (2005)

Tsirigos, Aristotelis, Rigoutsos, Isidore

In recent years, the increase in the amounts of available genomic data has made it easier to appreciate the extent by which organisms increase their genetic diversity through horizontally transferred...

An Extension and Novel Solution to the (l,d)-Motif Challenge Problem (2004)

Mark P Styczynski, Kyle L Jensen, Isidore Rigoutsos, Gregory N Stephanopoulos

The (l,d )--motif challenge problem, as introduced by Pevzner and Sze [12], is a mathematical abstraction of the DNA functional site discovery task. Here we expand the (l,d )--motif problem to more...

Chung-Kwei: a Pattern-discovery-based System for the Automatic Identification of Unsolicited E-mail Messages (SPAM) (2004)

Isidore Rigoutsos, Tien Huynh

In this paper, we present Chung-Kwei , a system for the analysis of electronic messages and the automatic identification of unsolicited email messages (=SPAM). The method uses pattern-discovery as...

The web server of IBM’s Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group: 2004 update (2004)

Tien Huynh, Isidore Rigoutsos

In this report, we provide an update on the services and content which are available on the web server of IBM’s Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group. The server, which is operational around...

The web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group: 2004 update (2004)

Huynh, Tien, Rigoutsos, Isidore

In this report, we provide an update on the services and content which are available on the web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group. The server, which is operational around the...

Transcriptional organization of the Clostridium acetobutylicum genome (2004)

Paredes, Carlos J., Rigoutsos, Isidore, Papoutsakis, E. Terry

Prokaryotic genes are frequently organized in multicistronic operons (or transcriptional units, TUs), and usually the regulatory motifs for the whole TU are located upstream of the first TU gene....

The web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group (2003)

Huynh, Tien, Rigoutsos, Isidore, Parida, Laxmi, Platt, Daniel, Shibuya, Tetsuo

We herein present and discuss the services and content which are available on the web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group. The server is operational around the clock and...

Structural details (kinks and non-{alpha} conformations) in transmembrane helices are intrahelically determined and can be predicted by sequence pattern descriptors (2003)

Rigoutsos, Isidore, Riek, Peter, Graham, Robert M., Novotny, Jiri

One of the promising methods of protein structure prediction involves the use of amino acid sequence‐derived patterns. Here we report on the creation of non‐degenerate motif descriptors...

Determining the 3-D Motion of a Rigid Surface Patch without Correspondence, under Pedrspective Projection. I. Planar Surfaces. II. Curved Surfaces, (2002)

Aloimonos,John Y., Rigoutsos,Isidore

A method is presented for the recovery of the 3D motion parameters of a rigidly moving textured surface. The novelty of the method is based on the following two facts: 1) no point-to-point...

Finding Patterns in Three Dimensional Graphs: Algorithms and Applications to Scientific Data Mining (2002)

Xiong Wang, Dennis Shasha, Bruce A. Shapiro, Isidore Rigoutsos, Kaizhong Zhang

This paper presents a method for finding patterns in three dimensional (3D) graphs. Each node in a graph is an undecomposable or atomic unit and has a label. Edges are links between the atomic units....

Copyright © 2003, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. In Silico Pattern-Based Analysis of the Human (2002)

Cytomegalovirus Genome, Isidore Rigoutsos, Jiri Novotny, Tien Huynh, Laxmi Parida, ...

More than 200 open reading frames (ORFs) from the human cytomegalovirus genome have been reported as potentially coding for proteins. We have used two pattern-based in silico approaches to analyze...

Dictionary-driven prokaryotic gene finding (2002)

Shibuya, Tetsuo, Rigoutsos, Isidore

Gene identification, also known as gene finding or gene recognition, is among the important problems of molecular biology that have been receiving increasing attention with the advent of large scale...

Dictionary-driven protein annotation (2002)

Rigoutsos, Isidore, Huynh, Tien, Floratos, Aris, Parida, Laxmi, Platt, Daniel

Computational methods seeking to automatically determine the properties (functional, structural, physicochemical, etc.) of a protein directly from the sequence have long been the focus of numerous...

The emergence of pattern discovery techniques in computational biology (2000)

Isidore Rigoutsos, Aris Floratos, Laxmi Parida, Yuan Gao, Daniel Platt

In the past few years, pattern discovery has been emerging as a generic tool of choice for tackling problems from the computational biology domain. In this presentation, and after defining the...

The emergence of pattern discovery techniques in computational biology (2000)

Isidore Rigoutsos, Aris Floratos, Laxmi Parida, Yuan Gao, Daniel Platt

In the last few years, pattern discovery has been emerging as a generic tool of choice for tackling problems from the computational biology domain. In this presentation, and after defining the...

Determining the 3-D Motion of a Rigid Surface Patch without Correspondence, under Perspective Projection. 1. Planar Surfaces. 2. Curved Surfaces. (1998)

Aloimonos,John Y., Rigoutsos,Isidore

A method is presented for the recovery of the three dimensional motion parameters of a rigidly moving textured surface. The novelty of the method is based on the following two facts: no point to...

Homotopies: A Panacea or Just Another Method? (1998)

Rigoutsos, Isidore

A general framework is presented for the solving of non-linear equations. Also, a discussion about its potential applications in the field of computer vision is made and illustrated by an example...

Musca: An algorithm for constrained alignment of multiple data sequences (1998)

Laxmi Parida, Aris Floratos, Isidore Rigoutsos

Given a set of N sequences, the Multiple Sequence Alignment problem is to align these N sequences, possibly with gaps, that brings out the best commonality of the N sequences. MUSCA 1 is a two-stage...

Musca: An algorithm for constrained alignment of multiple data sequences (1998)

Laxmi Parida, Aris Floratos, Isidore Rigoutsos

Given a set of N sequences, the Multiple Sequence Alignment problem is to align these N sequences, possibly with gaps, that brings out the best commonality of the N sequences. MUSCA 1 isatwo-stage...

Automated Discovery of Active Motifs in Three Dimensional Molecules (1997)

Xiong Wang, Dennis Shasha, Sitaram Dikshitulu, Isidore Rigoutsos, Kaizhong Zhang

In this paper we present a method for discovering approximately common motifs (also known as active motifs) in three dimensional (3D) molecules. Each node in a molecule is represented by a 3D point...

Geometric Hashing (1997)

Isidore Rigoutsos, Haim Wolfson

In this paper we describe the Geometric Hashing paradigm for matching of a set of geometric features against a database of such feature sets. Specific examples are model based object recognition in...

Homotopies: A Panacea or Just Another Method? (1986)

Rigoutsos, Isidore

A general framework is presented for the solving of non-linear equations. Also, a discussion about its potential applications in the field of computer vision is made and illustrated by an example...

Camera Calibration (1986)

Rigoutsos, Isidore, Brown, Christopher M.

Given an image that has been scaled both horizontally and vertically (possibly with different scale factors in the two directions), we determine the camera position and orientation, as well as the...

Determining the 3-D Motion of a Rigid Surface Patch without Correspondence, under Perspective Projection: I. Planar Surfaces. II: Curved Surfaces. (1985)

Aloimonos, John (Yiannis), Rigoutsos, Isidore

A method is presented for the recovery of the 3-D motion parameters of a rigidly moving textured surface. The novelty of the method is based on the following two facts: 1) no point-to-point...

Dictionary-driven prokaryotic gene finding

Shibuya, Tetsuo, Rigoutsos, Isidore

Gene identification, also known as gene finding or gene recognition, is among the important problems of molecular biology that have been receiving increasing attention with the advent of large scale...

Dictionary-driven protein annotation

Rigoutsos, Isidore, Huynh, Tien, Floratos, Aris, Parida, Laxmi, Platt, Daniel

Computational methods seeking to automatically determine the properties (functional, structural, physicochemical, etc.) of a protein directly from the sequence have long been the focus of numerous...

In Silico Pattern-Based Analysis of the Human Cytomegalovirus Genome

Rigoutsos, Isidore, Novotny, Jiri, Huynh, Tien, Chin-Bow, Stephen T., Parida, Laxmi, Platt, Daniel, ...

More than 200 open reading frames (ORFs) from the human cytomegalovirus genome have been reported as potentially coding for proteins. We have used two pattern-based in silico approaches to analyze...

The web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group

Huynh, Tien, Rigoutsos, Isidore, Parida, Laxmi, Platt, Daniel, Shibuya, Tetsuo

We herein present and discuss the services and content which are available on the web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group. The server is operational around the clock and...

Structural details (kinks and non-α conformations) in transmembrane helices are intrahelically determined and can be predicted by sequence pattern descriptors

Rigoutsos, Isidore, Riek, Peter, Graham, Robert M., Novotny, Jiri

One of the promising methods of protein structure prediction involves the use of amino acid sequence-derived patterns. Here we report on the creation of non-degenerate motif descriptors derived...

Reevaluation of human cytomegalovirus coding potential

Murphy, Eain, Rigoutsos, Isidore, Shibuya, Tetsuo, Shenk, Thomas E.

The Bio-Dictionary-based Gene Finder was used to reassess the coding potential of the AD169 laboratory strain of human cytomegalovirus and sequences in the Toledo strain that are missing in the...

Transcriptional organization of the Clostridium acetobutylicum genome

Paredes, Carlos J., Rigoutsos, Isidore, Papoutsakis, E. Terry

Prokaryotic genes are frequently organized in multicistronic operons (or transcriptional units, TUs), and usually the regulatory motifs for the whole TU are located upstream of the first TU gene....

The web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group: 2004 update

Huynh, Tien, Rigoutsos, Isidore

In this report, we provide an update on the services and content which are available on the web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group. The server, which is operational around the...

A new computational method for the detection of horizontal gene transfer events

Tsirigos, Aristotelis, Rigoutsos, Isidore

In recent years, the increase in the amounts of available genomic data has made it easier to appreciate the extent by which organisms increase their genetic diversity through horizontally transferred...

A sensitive, support-vector-machine method for the detection of horizontal gene transfers in viral, archaeal and bacterial genomes

Tsirigos, Aristotelis, Rigoutsos, Isidore

In earlier work, we introduced and discussed a generalized computational framework for identifying horizontal transfers. This framework relied on a gene's nucleotide composition, obviated the need...

Short blocks from the noncoding parts of the human genome have instances within nearly all known genes and relate to biological processes

Rigoutsos, Isidore, Huynh, Tien, Miranda, Kevin, Tsirigos, Aristotelis, McHardy, Alice, Platt, Daniel

Using an unsupervised pattern-discovery method, we processed the human intergenic and intronic regions and catalogued all variable-length patterns with identically conserved copies and multiplicities...

Dictionary-driven prokaryotic gene finding

Shibuya, Tetsuo, Rigoutsos, Isidore

Gene identification, also known as gene finding or gene recognition, is among the important problems of molecular biology that have been receiving increasing attention with the advent of large scale...

Dictionary-driven protein annotation

Rigoutsos, Isidore, Huynh, Tien, Floratos, Aris, Parida, Laxmi, Platt, Daniel

Computational methods seeking to automatically determine the properties (functional, structural, physicochemical, etc.) of a protein directly from the sequence have long been the focus of numerous...

In Silico Pattern-Based Analysis of the Human Cytomegalovirus Genome

Rigoutsos, Isidore, Novotny, Jiri, Huynh, Tien, Chin-Bow, Stephen T., Parida, Laxmi, Platt, Daniel, ...

More than 200 open reading frames (ORFs) from the human cytomegalovirus genome have been reported as potentially coding for proteins. We have used two pattern-based in silico approaches to analyze...

The web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group

Huynh, Tien, Rigoutsos, Isidore, Parida, Laxmi, Platt, Daniel, Shibuya, Tetsuo

We herein present and discuss the services and content which are available on the web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group. The server is operational around the clock and...

Structural details (kinks and non-α conformations) in transmembrane helices are intrahelically determined and can be predicted by sequence pattern descriptors

Rigoutsos, Isidore, Riek, Peter, Graham, Robert M., Novotny, Jiri

One of the promising methods of protein structure prediction involves the use of amino acid sequence-derived patterns. Here we report on the creation of non-degenerate motif descriptors derived...

Reevaluation of human cytomegalovirus coding potential

Murphy, Eain, Rigoutsos, Isidore, Shibuya, Tetsuo, Shenk, Thomas E.

The Bio-Dictionary-based Gene Finder was used to reassess the coding potential of the AD169 laboratory strain of human cytomegalovirus and sequences in the Toledo strain that are missing in the...

Transcriptional organization of the Clostridium acetobutylicum genome

Paredes, Carlos J., Rigoutsos, Isidore, Papoutsakis, E. Terry

Prokaryotic genes are frequently organized in multicistronic operons (or transcriptional units, TUs), and usually the regulatory motifs for the whole TU are located upstream of the first TU gene....

The web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group: 2004 update

Huynh, Tien, Rigoutsos, Isidore

In this report, we provide an update on the services and content which are available on the web server of IBM's Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery group. The server, which is operational around the...

A new computational method for the detection of horizontal gene transfer events

Tsirigos, Aristotelis, Rigoutsos, Isidore

In recent years, the increase in the amounts of available genomic data has made it easier to appreciate the extent by which organisms increase their genetic diversity through horizontally transferred...

A sensitive, support-vector-machine method for the detection of horizontal gene transfers in viral, archaeal and bacterial genomes

Tsirigos, Aristotelis, Rigoutsos, Isidore

In earlier work, we introduced and discussed a generalized computational framework for identifying horizontal transfers. This framework relied on a gene's nucleotide composition, obviated the need...

Short blocks from the noncoding parts of the human genome have instances within nearly all known genes and relate to biological processes

Rigoutsos, Isidore, Huynh, Tien, Miranda, Kevin, Tsirigos, Aristotelis, McHardy, Alice, Platt, Daniel

Using an unsupervised pattern-discovery method, we processed the human intergenic and intronic regions and catalogued all variable-length patterns with identically conserved copies and multiplicities...

Evolution of distinct EGF domains with specific functions

Wouters, Merridee A., Rigoutsos, Isidore, Chu, Carmen K., Feng, Lina L., Sparrow, Duncan B., Dunwoodie, Sally L.

EGF domains are extracellular protein modules cross-linked by three intradomain disulfides. Past studies suggest the existence of two types of EGF domain with three-disulfides, human EGF-like (hEGF)...

Human and mouse introns are linked to the same processes and functions through each genome's most frequent non-conserved motifs

Tsirigos, Aristotelis, Rigoutsos, Isidore

We identified the most frequent, variable-length DNA sequence motifs in the human and mouse genomes and sub-selected those with multiple recurrences in the intergenic and intronic regions and at...

The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology

Holland, Linda Z., Albalat, Ricard, Azumi, Kaoru, Benito-Gutiérrez, Èlia, Blow, Matthew J., Bronner-Fraser, Marianne, ...

Cephalochordates, urochordates, and vertebrates evolved from a common ancestor over 520 million years ago. To improve our understanding of chordate evolution and the origin of vertebrates, we...

Pattern-Based Phylogenetic Distance Estimation and Tree Reconstruction

Höhl, Michael, Rigoutsos, Isidore, Ragan, Mark A.

We have developed an alignment-free method that calculates phylogenetic distances using a maximum-likelihood approach for a model of sequence change on patterns that are discovered in unaligned...