Education
B.S. from Univ. of Nebraska-Omaha (UNO)
4th year student
Advisor
Hesham Ali, Ph.D.
Research Area
Application of integrated biological network models to identify subsystems of interest in high-throughput data
Publications
Kathryn Dempsey, Ishwor Thapa, Dhundy Bastola, Hesham Ali. Identifying Modular Function via Edge Annotation in Gene Correlation Networks using Gene Ontology Search. 2011 BIBM Workshop on Data Mining for Biomarker Discovery: November 2011. Atlanta, GA.
Kathryn Dempsey, Hesham Ali. Evaluation of Essential Genes in Correlation Networks using Measures of Centrality. 4th Annual 2011 BIBM Workshop on Biomolecular Network Analysis: November 2011. Atlanta, GA.
Kanimathi Duraisamy, Kathryn Dempsey, Hesham Ali, Sanjukta Bhowmick. A noise reducing sampling approach for uncovering critical properties in large scale biological networks. High Performance Computing and Simulation 2011 International Conference (HPCS): July 4-8,2011. Istanbul, Turkey.
Kathryn Dempsey, Kanimanthi Duraisamy, Hesham Ali, Sanjukta Bhowmick. A Parallel Graph Sampling Algorithm for Analyzing Gene Correlation Networks. International Conference on Computational Science 2011. June 1-3, 2011. Singapore.
Kathryn Dempsey, Stephen Bonasera, Dhundy Bastola, Hesham Ali. A Novel Correlation Networks Approach for the Identification of Gene Targets. 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). January 4-7,2011.
Kathryn Dempsey, Benjamin Currall, Richard Hallworth, Hesham Ali. An intelligent data-centric approach toward identification of conserved motifs in protein sequences. ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2010. Accepted May 02, 2010. Winner of Student Travel Award
Daniel Quest, Kathryn Dempsey, Mohammad Shafiullah, Dhundy Bastola, and Hesham Ali. MTAP: The motif tool assessment. BMC Bioinformatics 2008 Aug 12; 9 Suppl 9:S6.
Daniel Quest, Kathryn Dempsey, Mohammad Shafiullah, Dhundy Bastola, and Hesham Ali. A Parallel Architecture for Regulatory Motif Algorithm Assessment.41st HiCOMB 2008: Seventh IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology. April 14th 2008.
Book Chapters
Kathryn Dempsey, Benjamin Currall, Richard Hallworth, Hesham Ali. Case Study for Identification of Essential Residues: A Glance at the Current State of Homology Alignment. Handbook of Research on Computational and Systems Biology: Interdisciplinary Applications. Published July 15, 2011.
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