Lorenz Wernisch

Publication List Details

Period

1994 - 2009

Number

68

Co-Authors

Transcriptional programs: Modelling higher order structure in transcriptional control (2009)

Reid, John E, Ott, Sascha, Wernisch, Lorenz

Abstract Background Transcriptional regulation is an important part of regulatory control in eukaryotes. Even if binding motifs for transcription factors are known, the task of finding binding sites...

Automatic Prediction of Functional Site Regions in Low-Resolution Protein Structures (2008)

Jaspreet Singh Sodhi, Liam J. Mcguffin, Kevin Bryson, Jonathan J. Ward, Lorenz Wernisch, David T. Jones

www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/J.Sodhi World-wide structural genomics initiatives are rapidly accumulating structures for which limited functional information is available. Additionally, state-of-the art...

Figure Legends (2008)

Richard Newton, Jason Hinds, Lorenz Wernisch, Richard Newton, Birkbeck College

Figure 1- Plot of M values with genome position A typical plot of M values with genome position for an array from the TB data set (test strain 2122/97). Figure 2- Density distribution of M values...

Contents Summary..................................................................................................................2 (2008)

Jacques Van Helden, Lorenz Wernisch, David Gilbert

Introduction..............................................................................................................2 Sources of data on metabolic...

Predicting metal-binding site residues in low-resolution structural models (2008)

Jaspreet Singh Sodhi, Kevin Bryson, Liam J. Mcguffin, Jonathan J. Ward, Lorenz Wernisch, David T. Jones, ...

The accurate prediction of biological function on a genome-wide scale promises wide-ranging benefits in understanding complex biological processes. Such understanding will be a key

References (2008)

Iosifina Pournara, Lorenz Wernisch

Learning Bayesian networks from microarray data

A Bayesian Change point model for differential gene expression patterns of the DosR regulon of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (2008)

Zhang, Yi, Hatch, Kim A, Wernisch, Lorenz, Bacon, Joanna

Abstract Background Low oxygen availability has been shown previously to stimulate M. tuberculosis to establish non-replicative persistence in vitro . The two component sensor/regulator dosRS is a...

Using Temporal Correlation in Factor Analysis for Reconstructing Transcription Factor Activities (2008)

Iosifina Pournara, Lorenz Wernisch

Two-level gene regulatory networks consist of the transcription factors (TFs) in the top level and their regulated genes in the second level. The expression profiles of the regulated genes are the...

Using Temporal Correlation in Factor Analysis for Reconstructing Transcription Factor Activities (2008)

Iosifina Pournara, Lorenz Wernisch

Two-level gene regulatory networks consist of the transcription factors (TFs) in the top level and their regulated genes in the second level. The expression profiles of the regulated genes are the...

Quantification of global transcription patterns in prokaryotes using spotted microarrays (2007)

Sidders, Ben, Withers, Mike, Kendall, Sharon L, Bacon, Joanna, Waddell, Simon J, Hinds, Jason, ...

Abstract We describe an analysis, applicable to any spotted microarray dataset produced using genomic DNA as a reference, that quantifies prokaryotic levels of mRNA on a genome-wide scale. Applying...

Markov Chains for Linear Extensions, (2007)

Stefan Felsner, Lorenz Wernisch

Abstract. We study the generation of uniformly distributed linear extensions using Markov chains. In particular we show that monotone coupling from the past can be applied in the case of linear...

A comparative study of S/MAR prediction tools (2007)

Evans, Kenneth, Ott, Sascha, Hansen, Annika, Koentges, Georgy, Wernisch, Lorenz

Abstract Background S/MARs are regions of the DNA that are attached to the nuclear matrix. These regions are known to affect substantially the expression of genes. The computer prediction of S/MARs...

A comparative study of S/MAR prediction tools (2007)

Evans, Kenneth, Ott, Sascha, Hansen, Annika, Koentges, Georgy, Wernisch, Lorenz

Abstract Background S/MARs are regions of the DNA that are attached to the nuclear matrix. These regions are known to affect substantially the expression of genes. The computer prediction of S/MARs...

Factor analysis for gene regulatory networks and transcription factor activity profiles (2007)

Pournara, Iosifina, Wernisch, Lorenz

Abstract Background Most existing algorithms for the inference of the structure of gene regulatory networks from gene expression data assume that the activity levels of transcription factors (TFs)...

Microarray analysis after RNA amplification can detect pronounced differences in gene expression using limma (2006)

Diboun, Ilhem, Wernisch, Lorenz, Orengo, Christine, Koltzenburg, Martin

Abstract Background RNA amplification is necessary for profiling gene expression from small tissue samples. Previous studies have shown that the T7 based amplification techniques are reproducible but...

The Heat Shock Response of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Linking Gene Expression, Immunology and Pathogenesis (2006)

Graham R. Stewart, Lorenz Wernisch, Richard Stabler, Joseph A. Mangan, Jason Hinds, Ken G. Laing, ...

The regulation of heat shock protein (HSP) expression is critically important to pathogens such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and dysregulation of the heat shock response results in increased immune...

Can Replication Save Noisy Microarray Data? (2006)

Lorenz Wernisch

Microarray experiments are multi-step processes. At each step—the growth of cultures, extraction of mRNA, reverse transcription, labelling, hybridization, scanning, and image...

Archaeology and evolution of transfer RNA genes in the Escherichia coli genome (2006)

Withers, Mike, Wernisch, Lorenz, Reis, Mario Dos

Transfer RNA genes tend to be presented in multiple copies in the genomes of most organisms, from bacteria to eukaryotes. The evolution and genomic structure of tRNA genes has been a somewhat...

Archaeology and evolution of transfer RNA genes in the Escherichia coli genome (2006)

Withers, Mike, Wernisch, Lorenz, Reis, Mario Dos

Transfer RNA genes tend to be presented in multiple copies in the genomes of most organisms, from bacteria to eukaryotes. The evolution and genomic structure of tRNA genes has been a somewhat...

Archaeology and evolution of transfer RNA genes in the Escherichia coli genome (2006)

Withers, Mike, Wernisch, Lorenz, Reis, Mario Dos

Transfer RNA genes tend to be presented in multiple copies in the genomes of most organisms, from bacteria to eukaryotes. The evolution and genomic structure of tRNA genes has been a somewhat...

BIOINFORMATICS APPLICATIONS NOTE Data and text mining Applying GIFT, a Gene Interactions Finder in Text, to fly literature (2005)

Núria Domedel-puig, Lorenz Wernisch

Summary: A number of freely available text mining tools have been put together to extract highly reliable Drosophila gene interaction data from text. The system has been tested with The Interactive...

Applying GIFT, a Gene Interactions Finder in Text, to fly literature (2005)

Domedel-Puig, Núria, Wernisch, Lorenz

Summary: A number of freely available text mining tools have been put together to extract highly reliable Drosophila gene interaction data from text. The system has been tested with The Interactive...

A universally applicable method of operon map prediction on minimally annotated genomes using conserved genomic context (2005)

Edwards, Martin T., Rison, Stuart C. G., Stoker, Neil G., Wernisch, Lorenz

An important step in understanding the regulation of a prokaryotic genome is the generation of its transcription unit map. The current strongest operon predictor depends on the distributions of...

Applying GIFT, a gene interactions finder in text, to fly literature (2005)

Domedel-Puig, Núria, Wernisch, Lorenz

Summary: A number of freely available text mining tools have been put together to extract highly reliable Drosophila gene interaction data from text. The system has been tested with The Interactive...

Reconstruction of gene networks using Bayesian learning and manipulation experiments (2004)

Pournara, Iosifina, Wernisch, Lorenz

Motivation: The analysis of high-throughput experimental data, for example from microarray experiments, is currently seen as a promising way of finding regulatory relationships between genes....

Solving the riddle of codon usage preferences: a test for translational selection (2004)

Reis, Mario Dos, Savva, Renos, Wernisch, Lorenz

Translational selection is responsible for the unequal usage of synonymous codons in protein coding genes in a wide variety of organisms. It is one of the most subtle and pervasive forces of...

Reconstruction of gene networks using Bayesian learning and manipulation experiments (2004)

Pournara, Iosifina, Wernisch, Lorenz

Motivation: The analysis of high-throughput experimental data, for example from microarray experiments, is currently seen as a promising way of finding regulatory relationships between genes....

Reconstruction of gene networks using Bayesian learning and manipulation experiments (2004)

Pournara, Iosifina, Wernisch, Lorenz

Motivation: The analysis of high-throughput experimental data, for example from microarray experiments, is currently seen as a promising way of finding regulatory relationships between genes....

Analysis of Whole-Genome Microarray Replicates Using Mixed Models (2003)

Lorenz Wernisch Birkbeck, Lorenz Wernisch, Andreas Wietzorrek, Philip D. Butcher, Sharon L. Kendall, Tanya Parish, ...

Motivation: Microarray experiments are inherently noisy. Replication is the key to estimating realistic fold-changes despite such noise. In the analysis of the various sources of noise the dependency...

Unexpected correlations between gene expression and codon usage bias from microarray data for the whole Escherichia coli K-12 genome (2003)

Dos Reis, Mario, Wernisch, Lorenz, Savva, Renos

Escherichia coli has long been regarded as a model organism in the study of codon usage bias (CUB). However, most studies in this organism regarding this topic have been computational or, when...

Analysis of whole-genome microarray replicates using mixed models (2003)

Wernisch, Lorenz, Kendall, Sharon L., Soneji, Shamit, Wietzorrek, Andreas, Parish, Tanya, Hinds, Jason, ...

Motivation: Microarray experiments are inherently noisy. Replication is the key to estimating realistic fold-changes despite such noise. In the analysis of the various sources of noise the dependency...

Can Replication Save Noisy Microarray Data? (2002)

Lorenz Wernisch

Microarray experiments are multi-step processes. At each step—the growth of cultures, extraction of mRNA, reverse transcription, labelling, hybridization, scanning, and image analysis—variation...

The Heat Shock Response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Linking Gene Expression, Immunology and Pathogenesis (2002)

Graham R. Stewart, Lorenz Wernisch, Richard Stabler, Joseph A. Mangan, Jason Hinds, Ken G. Laing, ...

The regulation of heat shock protein (HSP) expression is critically important to pathogens such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and dysregulation of the heat shock response results in increased immune...

Applications of regulatory sequence analysis and metabolic network analysis to the interpretation of gene expression data (2001)

Jacques Van Helden, David Gilbert, Lorenz Wernisch, Michael Schroeder, Shoshana Wodak

We present two complementary approaches for the interpretation of clusters of co-regulated genes, such as those obtained from DNA chips and related methods. Starting from a cluster of genes with...

Automatic procedures for protein design (2001)

Alfonso Jaramillo, Lorenz Wernisch, Stephanie Héry, Shoshana J. Wodak

Abstract: This review describes computational procedures for deriving the amino acid sequences that are compatible with a given protein backbone structure. Such procedures can be used to gain insight...

Applications of regulatory sequence analysis and metabolic network analysis to the interpretation of gene expression data (2001)

Jacques Van Helden, Lorenz Wernisch, Michael Schroeder, Shoshana Wodak

We present two complementary approaches for the interpretation of clusters of co-regulated genes, such as those obtained from DNA chips and related methods. Starting from a cluster of genes with...

Maximum k-chains in planar point sets: Combinatorial structure and algorithms (1999)

Stefan Felsner, Lorenz Wernisch

Germany. A chain of a set P of n points in the plane is a chain of the dominance order on P. A k-chain is a subset C of P that can be covered by k chains. A k-chain C is a maximum k-chain if no other...

Trapezoid graphs and generalizations, geometry and algorithms (1997)

Stefan Felsner, Rudolf M, Lorenz Wernisch

Trapezoid graphs are a class of cocomparability graphs containing interval graphs and permutation graphs as subclasses. They were introduced by Dagan, Golumbic and Pinter [DGP]. They propose an O(n...

Trapezoid graphs and generalizations, geometry and algorithms (1997)

Stefan Felsner, Rudolf M Uller, Lorenz Wernisch

Trapezoid graphs are a class of cocomparability graphs containing interval graphs and permutation graphs as subclasses. They were introduced by Dagan, Golumbic and Pinter [DGP]. They propose an O(n...

Trapezoid Graphs and Generalizations, Geometry and Algorithms (1994)

Stefan Felsner, Rudolf Müller, Lorenz Wernisch

Trapezoid graphs are a class of cocomparability graphs containing interval graphs and permutation graphs as subclasses. They were introduced by Dagan, Golumbic and Pinter [DGP]. They propose an O(n 2...

Folding free energy function selects native-like protein sequences in the core but not on the surface

Jaramillo, Alfonso, Wernisch, Lorenz, Héry, Stéphanie, Wodak, Shoshana J.

An automatic protein design procedure is used to select amino acid sequences that optimize the folding free energy function for a given protein. The only information used in designing the sequences...

Unexpected correlations between gene expression and codon usage bias from microarray data for the whole Escherichia coli K-12 genome

Dos Reis, Mario, Wernisch, Lorenz, Savva, Renos

Escherichia coli has long been regarded as a model organism in the study of codon usage bias (CUB). However, most studies in this organism regarding this topic have been computational or, when...

Solving the riddle of codon usage preferences: a test for translational selection

Reis, Mario Dos, Savva, Renos, Wernisch, Lorenz

Translational selection is responsible for the unequal usage of synonymous codons in protein coding genes in a wide variety of organisms. It is one of the most subtle and pervasive forces of...

A universally applicable method of operon map prediction on minimally annotated genomes using conserved genomic context

Edwards, Martin T., Rison, Stuart C. G., Stoker, Neil G., Wernisch, Lorenz

An important step in understanding the regulation of a prokaryotic genome is the generation of its transcription unit map. The current strongest operon predictor depends on the distributions of...

Archaeology and evolution of transfer RNA genes in the Escherichia coli genome

Withers, Mike, Wernisch, Lorenz, Reis, Mario Dos

Transfer RNA genes tend to be presented in multiple copies in the genomes of most organisms, from bacteria to eukaryotes. The evolution and genomic structure of tRNA genes has been a somewhat...

Folding free energy function selects native-like protein sequences in the core but not on the surface

Jaramillo, Alfonso, Wernisch, Lorenz, Héry, Stéphanie, Wodak, Shoshana J.

An automatic protein design procedure is used to select amino acid sequences that optimize the folding free energy function for a given protein. The only information used in designing the sequences...

Unexpected correlations between gene expression and codon usage bias from microarray data for the whole Escherichia coli K-12 genome

Dos Reis, Mario, Wernisch, Lorenz, Savva, Renos

Escherichia coli has long been regarded as a model organism in the study of codon usage bias (CUB). However, most studies in this organism regarding this topic have been computational or, when...

Solving the riddle of codon usage preferences: a test for translational selection

Reis, Mario Dos, Savva, Renos, Wernisch, Lorenz

Translational selection is responsible for the unequal usage of synonymous codons in protein coding genes in a wide variety of organisms. It is one of the most subtle and pervasive forces of...

A universally applicable method of operon map prediction on minimally annotated genomes using conserved genomic context

Edwards, Martin T., Rison, Stuart C. G., Stoker, Neil G., Wernisch, Lorenz

An important step in understanding the regulation of a prokaryotic genome is the generation of its transcription unit map. The current strongest operon predictor depends on the distributions of...

Archaeology and evolution of transfer RNA genes in the Escherichia coli genome

Withers, Mike, Wernisch, Lorenz, Reis, Mario Dos

Transfer RNA genes tend to be presented in multiple copies in the genomes of most organisms, from bacteria to eukaryotes. The evolution and genomic structure of tRNA genes has been a somewhat...

Quantification of global transcription patterns in prokaryotes using spotted microarrays

Sidders, Ben, Withers, Mike, Kendall, Sharon L, Bacon, Joanna, Waddell, Simon J, Hinds, Jason, ...

An analysis is described, applicable to any spotted microarray dataset that is produced using genomic DNA as a reference for quantifying prokaryotic levels of mRNA on a genome-wide scale.

Using Temporal Correlation in Factor Analysis for Reconstructing Transcription Factor Activities

Pournara, Iosifina, Wernisch, Lorenz

Two-level gene regulatory networks consist of the transcription factors (TFs) in the top level and their regulated genes in the second level. The expression profiles of the regulated genes are the...

The Heat Shock Response of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: Linking Gene Expression, Immunology and Pathogenesis

Stewart, Graham R., Wernisch, Lorenz, Stabler, Richard, Mangan, Joseph A., Hinds, Jason, Laing, Ken G., ...

The regulation of heat shock protein (HSP) expression is critically important to pathogens such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis and dysregulation of the heat shock response results in increased immune...

Can Replication Save Noisy Microarray Data?

Wernisch, Lorenz

Microarray experiments are multi-step processes. At each step—the growth of cultures, extraction of mRNA, reverse transcription, labelling, hybridization, scanning, and image analysis—variation...

Estimating Translational Selection in Eukaryotic Genomes

Dos Reis, Mario, Wernisch, Lorenz

Natural selection on codon usage is a pervasive force that acts on a large variety of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. Despite this, obtaining reliable estimates of selection on codon usage has...

A HaemAtlas: characterizing gene expression in differentiated human blood cells

Watkins, Nicholas A., Gusnanto, Arief, De Bono, Bernard, De, Subhajyoti, Miranda-Saavedra, Diego, Hardie, Debbie L., ...

Hematopoiesis is a carefully controlled process that is regulated by complex networks of transcription factors that are, in part, controlled by signals resulting from ligand binding to cell-surface...