Wei Zhu

Electronic structure in gapped graphene with a Coulomb potential (2009)

Zhu, Wei, Wang, Zhengfei, Shi, Qinwei, Szeto, Kwok-Yip, Chen, Jie, Hou, J. G.

In this paper, we numerically study bound electron states induced by long-range Coulomb impurities in gapped graphene and quasibound states in the supercritical region based on the lattice model. We...

Prediction for unintegrated parton distributions (2009)

Ruan, Jianhong, Zhu, Wei

Unintegrated parton distributions in the proton and nucleus are predicted by a modified DGLAP equation incorporating the shadowing corrections, which include exact energy-momentum conservation in...

Cotton metallothionein GhMT3a, a reactive oxygen species scavenger, increased tolerance against abiotic stress in transgenic tobacco and yeast (2009)

Xue, Tongtong, Li, Xinzheng, Zhu, Wei, Wu, Changai, Yang, Guodong, Zheng, Chengchao

A cDNA clone encoding a 64-amino acid type 3 metallothionein protein, designated GhMT3a, was isolated from cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) by cDNA library screening. Northern blot analysis indicated that...

Epigenomic profiling indicates a role for DNA methylation in early postnatal liver development (2009)

Waterland, Robert A., Kellermayer, Richard, Rached, Marie-Therese, Tatevian, Nina, Gomes, Marcus V., Zhang, Jiexin, ...

The question of whether DNA methylation contributes to the stabilization of gene expression patterns in differentiated mammalian tissues remains controversial. Using genome-wide methylation...

Improvement of whole-genome annotation of cereals through comparative analyses (2007)

Zhu, Wei, Buell, C. Robin

Rice is an important model species for the Poaceae and other monocotyledonous plants. With the availability of a near-complete, finished, and annotated rice genome, we performed genome level...

The TIGR Plant Transcript Assemblies database (2007)

Childs, Kevin L., Hamilton, John P., Zhu, Wei, Ly, Eugene, Cheung, Foo, Wu, Hank, ...

The TIGR Plant Transcript Assemblies (TA) database (http://plantta.tigr.org) uses expressed sequences collected from the NCBI GenBank Nucleotide database for the construction of transcript...

The TIGR Rice Genome Annotation Resource: improvements and new features (2007)

Ouyang, Shu, Zhu, Wei, Hamilton, John, Lin, Haining, Campbell, Matthew, Childs, Kevin, ...

In The Institute for Genomic Research Rice Genome Annotation project (http://rice.tigr.org), we have continued to update the rice genome sequence with new data and improve the quality of the...

The TIGR Plant Transcript Assemblies database (2006)

Childs, Kevin L., Hamilton, John P., Zhu, Wei, Ly, Eugene, Cheung, Foo, Wu, Hank, ...

The TIGR Plant Transcript Assemblies (TA) database (http://plantta.tigr.org) uses expressed sequences collected from the NCBI GenBank Nucleotide database for the construction of transcript...

The TIGR Rice Genome Annotation Resource: improvements and new features (2006)

Ouyang, Shu, Zhu, Wei, Hamilton, John, Lin, Haining, Campbell, Matthew, Childs, Kevin, ...

In The Institute for Genomic Research Rice Genome Annotation project (http://rice.tigr.org), we have continued to update the rice genome sequence with new data and improve the quality of the...

The TIGR Plant Transcript Assemblies database (2006)

Childs, Kevin L., Hamilton, John P., Zhu, Wei, Ly, Eugene, Cheung, Foo, Wu, Hank, ...

The TIGR Plant Transcript Assemblies (TA) database (http://plantta.tigr.org) uses expressed sequences collected from the NCBI GenBank Nucleotide database for the construction of transcript...

The TIGR Rice Genome Annotation Resource: improvements and new features (2006)

Ouyang, Shu, Zhu, Wei, Hamilton, John, Lin, Haining, Campbell, Matthew, Childs, Kevin, ...

In The Institute for Genomic Research Rice Genome Annotation project (http://rice.tigr.org), we have continued to update the rice genome sequence with new data and improve the quality of the...

Frequency and Distribution of AP-1 Sites in the Human Genome (2005)

Zhou, Huamin, Zarubin, Tyler, Ji, Zhiliang, Min, Zheng, Zhu, Wei, Downey, Jocelyn S., ...

The AP-1–binding sequences are promoter/enhancer elements that play an essential role in the induction of many genes in mammalian cells; however, the number of genes containing AP-1 sites remains...

Gene structure prediction from consensus spliced alignment of multiple ESTs matching the same genomic locus (2004)

Brendel, Volker, Xing, Liqun, Zhu, Wei

Motivation: Accurate gene structure annotation is a challenging computational problem in genomics. Best results are achieved with spliced alignment of full-length cDNAs or multiple ESTs with...

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ETHANOL-INDUCED CHANGES IN BRAIN REGIONAL METABOLISM AND ITS MOTOR, BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE EFFECTS (2004)

Zhu, Wei, Volkow, Nora D., Ma, Yeming, Fowler, Joanna S., Wang, Gene-Jack

Aims and Methods: Acute alcohol administration induces marked decreases in glucose metabolism throughout the human brain. However, the relationship between alcohol's effects on brain metabolism and...

Gene structure prediction from consensus spliced alignment of multiple ESTs matching the same genomic locus (2004)

Brendel, Volker, Xing, Liqun, Zhu, Wei

Motivation: Accurate gene structure annotation is a challenging computational problem in genomics. Best results are achieved with spliced alignment of full-length cDNAs or multiple ESTs with...

Gene structure identification with MyGV using cDNA evidence and protein homologs to improve ab initio predictions (2002)

Zhu, Wei, Brendel, Volker

Summary: MyGV is an application to visualize (potentially genome-scale) gene structure annotation and prediction. The output of any external gene prediction program can be easily converted to a...

High affinity YY1 binding motifs: identification of two core types (ACAT and CCAT) and distribution of potential binding sites within the human {beta} globin cluster (1995)

Yant, Stephen R., Zhu, Wei, Millinoff, David, Slightom, Jerry L., Goodman, Morris, Gumucio, Deborah L.

PCR-assisted binding site selection was used to define the sequence characteristics of high affinity YY1 binding sites. Compilation of the sequences of 189 selected oligonucleotides containing high...

A CBR System for Fish Disease Diagnosis (1970)

Wei Zhu, Daoliang Li

Fish disease diagnosis is a complicated process and requires high level of expertise. However, theres no accepted general knowledge in fish disease diagnosis. This paper describes a CBR (case-based...

A new polymorphism in the GRP78 is not associated with HBV invasion

Zhu, Xiao, Wang, Yi, Tao, Tao, Li, Dong-Pei, Lan, Fei-Fei, Zhu, Wei, ...

AIM: To examine the association between -86 bp (T > A) in the glucose-regulated protein 78 gene (GRP78) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) invasion.

Study on protecting effects of Baicalin and Octreotide on hepatic injury in rats with severe acute pancreatitis

Zhang, Xi-Ping, Zhang, Jie, Ren, Zheng, Feng, Guang-Hua, Zhu, Wei, Cai, Yang, ...

AIM: To investigate the protective effects and mechanisms of Baicalin and Octreotide on hepatic injury in rats with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP).