Journal Papers

  1. M. Taufer, A. Licon, R. Araiza, D. Mireles, A. Gultyaev, F.H.D. Van Batenburg, M-Y Leung: PseudoBase++: An Extension of PseudoBase for Easy Searching, Formatting, and Visualization of Pseudoknots. Nucleic Acids Research, 2008. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkn806.

  2. M. Taufer, M-Y. Leung, A. Licon, D. Mireles, T. Solorio, D. Gomez-Leon, R. Araiza, K.K. Johnson: RNAVLab: A unified environment for computational RNA structure analysis based on grid computing technology. Submitted to the Journal of Parallel Computing, 2007.

Research Papers in Refereed Conferences, Symposiums, and Workshops

(peer-reviewed papers)
  1. M. Taufer, T. Solorio, A. Licon, D. Mireles, and M.-Y. Leung: On the Effectiveness of Rebuilding RNA Secondary Structures from Sequence Chunks. To appear in Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB'08), April 2008, Miami, Florida, USA.

  2. M. Taufer, M.-Y. Leung, K. L. Johnson, A. Licon: RNAVLab: A unified environment for computational RNA structure analysis based on grid computing technology. Sixth IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB'07), in conjunction with IPDPS'07 March 2007, Long Beach, California, USA.

  3. T. Estrada, A. Licon, and M. Taufer: CompPknots: a Framework for Parallel Prediction and Comparison of RNA Secondary Structures with Pseudoknots. In Proceedings of 1st Frontier on High Performance Computing and Networking Workshop (FHPCN-06), in conjunction with ISPA 2006, December 2006, Sorrento, Italy.

Posters

  1. Michela Taufer, Abel Licon, Ming-Ying Leung, Kyle L. Johnson, Thamar Solorio, David Mireles and Roberto Araiza: "RNAVLab - A Unified Tool for the Study of RNA Secondary Structures". International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'07), November 2007, Reno, Nevada.

  2. Michela Taufer, Ming-Ying Leung, Kyle L. Johnson, Thamar Solorio, Abel Licon, Prayook Tungjatooronrusamee, Yash Dayal, Roberto Araiza, and David Mireles: RNAVLab - A Modular Tool for the Study of RNA Secondary Structures. New Mexico Bioinformatics Symposium (NMBIS) March 8-9, 2007 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

  3. Michela Taufer, Ming-Ying Leung, Kyle Johnson, Abel Licon, Prayook Tungjatooronrusamee, Yash Dayal, Daniel Catarino, Hao Lei: "RNAVLab: An Open- source User-friendly Virtual Laboratory for the Study of RNA Secondary Structures". First annual meeting for the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CA-HSI), December 2006, El Paso, Texas.

  4. Michela Taufer, Ming-Ying Leung, Kyle Johnson, Abel Licon, Prayook Tungjatooronrusamee, Yash Dayal, Daniel Catarino, Hao Lei: "RNAVLab: An Open- source User-friendly Virtual Laboratory for the Study of RNA Secondary Structures". International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'06), November 2006, Tampa, Florida.

  5. Michela Taufer, Ming-Ying Leung, Kyle Johnson, Abel Licon, Prayook Tungjatooronrusamee, Yash Dayal, Daniel Catarino, Hao Lei: RNAVLab: An Open- source User-friendly Virtual Laboratory for the Study of RNA Secondary Structures. First Poster Session for Bioinformatics and Related Research at UTEP, November 2006, El Paso, Texas.