Selected Recent Publications by M. A. Langston

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``Kernelization Algorithms for the Vertex Cover Problem: Theory and Experiments,'' Proceedings, Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments, New Orleans, Louisiana, January, 2004, with F. N. Abu-Khzam, R. L. Collins, M. R. Fellows, W. H. Suters and C. T. Symons.
``High Performance Computational Tools for Motif Discovery,'' Proceedings, IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April, 2004, with N. E. Baldwin, R. L. Collins, M. R. Leuze, C. T. Symons and B. H. Voy.
``A Direct Algorithm for the Parameterized Face Cover Problem,'' Proceedings, International Workshop on Parameterized and Exact Computation, Bergen, Norway, September, 2004, with F. N. Abu-Khzam.
``Detecting Network Motifs in Gene Co-expression Networks,'' Proceedings, International Conference for the Critical Assessment of Microarray Data Analysis, Durham, North Carolina, November, 2004, with N. E. Baldwin, X. Peng, A. M. Saxton and J. R. Snoddy.
``Fast, Effective Vertex Cover Kernelization: A Tale of Two Algorithms,'' Proceedings, ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Cairo, Egypt, January, 2005, with F. N. Abu-Khzam and W. H. Suters.
``On the Relative Efficiency of Maximal Clique Enumeration Algorithms, with Application to High-Throughput Computational Biology,'' Proceedings, International Conference on Research Trends in Science and Technology, Beirut, Lebanon, March, 2005, with F. N. Abu-Khzam, N. E. Baldwin and N. F. Samatova.
``Complex Trait Analysis of Gene Expression Uncovers Polygenic and Pleiotropic Networks that Modulate Nervous System Function,'' Nature Genetics 37 (2005), 233-242, with N. E. Baldwin, E. J. Chesler, J. Gu, H. C. Hsu, L. Lu, K. F. Manly, J. D. Mountz, Y. Qu, S. Shou, D. W. Threadgill, J. Wang and R. W. Williams.
``Computational, Integrative and Comparative Methods for the Elucidation of Genetic Co-Expression Networks,'' Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology 2 (2005) 172-180, with N. E. Baldwin, E. J. Chesler, S. Kirov, J. R. Snoddy, R. W. Williams and B. Zhang.
``Asymptotically Faster Algorithms for the Parameterized Face Cover Problem,'' Proceedings, International Workshop on Algorithms and Complexity in Durham, Durham, England, July, 2005, with F. N. Abu-Khzam and H. Fernau.
``A New Approach and Faster Exact Methods for the Maximum Common Subgraph Problem,'' Proceedings, International Computing and Combinatorics Conference, Kunming, China, August, 2005, with F. N. Abu-Khzam, N. F. Samatova, W. Henry Suters, C. T. Symons and Y. Zhang.
``Genome-Scale Computational Approaches to Memory-Intensive Applications in Systems Biology,'' Proceedings, SuperComputing 2005, Seattle, Washington, November, 2005, with F. N. Abu-Khzam, N. E. Baldwin, E. J. Chesler, N. F. Samatova and Y. Zhang.
``Combinatorial Genetic Regulatory Network Analysis Tools for High Throughput Transcriptomic Data,'' Proceedings, RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Systems Biology and Regulatory Genomics, San Diego, California, December, 2005, with E. J. Chesler.
``Computational Analysis of Mass Spectrometry Data Using Novel Combinatorial Methods,'' Proceedings, ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, March, 2006, with A. Fadiel, F. Naftolin, X. Peng, A. D. Perkins, P. Pevsner, H. S. Taylor, O. Tuncalp and D. Vitello.
``Innovative Computational Methods for Transcriptomic Data Analysis,'' Proceedings, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Dijon, France, April, 2006, with A. D. Perkins, A. M. Saxton, J. A. Scharff and B. H. Voy.
``Combinatorial Algorithms and High Performance Implementations for Elucidating Complex Ecosystem Relationships from North Sea Historical Data,'' Proceedings, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Annual Science Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands, September, 2006, with D. J. Beare, R. W. Gauldie, A. J. Kenny, P. J. Kershaw, A. D. Perkins, J. Reid and K. Winpenny.
``North Sea Integrated Assessment - Implications for Marine Management,'' Proceedings, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Annual Science Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands, September, 2006, with D. J. Beare, M. Devlin, A. Gallego, R. W. Gauldie, C. Haughton, A. J. Kenny, P. J. Kershaw, P. Licandro, A. D. Perkins, J. Reid, H. R. Skjoldal and K. Winpenny.
``The Cluster Editing Problem: Implementations and Experiments,'' Proceedings, International Workshop on Parameterized and Exact Computation, Zürich, Switzerland, September, 2006, with F. Dehne, X. Luo, S. Pitre, P. Shaw and Y. Zhang.
``The Undirected Feedback Vertex Set Problem Has a Poly(k) Kernel,'' Proceedings, International Workshop on Parameterized and Exact Computation, Zürich, Switzerland, September, 2006, with K. Burrage, V. Estivill-Castro, M. R. Fellows, S. Mac and F. A. Rosamond.
``A Network-Based Analysis of the Late Phase Reaction of the Skin,'' Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 118 (2006), 220-225, with M. Adner, B. Andersson, M. Benson, L. O. Cardell and A. Torinssson-Naluai.
``Extracting Gene Networks for Low Dose Radiation using Graph Theoretical Algorithms,'' PLoS Computational Biology 2 (2006), e89, with B. Borate, L. K. Branstetter, E. J. Chesler, A. D. Perkins, A. M. Saxton, J. A. Scharff and B. H. Voy.
``Scalable Parallel Algorithms for FPT Problems,'' Algorithmica 45 (2006), 269-284, with F. N. Abu-Khzam, P. Shanbhag and C. T. Symons.
``Detecting Differential and Correlated Protein Expression in Label-Free Shotgun Proteomics,'' Journal of Proteome Research 5 (2006), 2909-2918, with R. L. Hettich, N. F. Samatova, E. Uberbacher, N. C. VerBerkmoes and B. Zhang.
``A Network-Based Analysis of Allergen-Challenged CD4+ T Cells from Patients with Allergic Rhinitis,'' Genes and Immunity 7 (2006), 514-521, with B. Andersson, M. Benson, L. Carlsson, G. Guillot, M. Jernas and M. Rudemo.
``Quadratic Kernelization for Convex Recoloring of Trees,'' Proceedings, International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics (COCOON), Banff, Alberta, Canada, July, 2007, with H. L. Bodlaender, M. R. Fellows, M. A. Ragan, F. A. Rosamond and M. Weyer.
``Efficient Parameterized Preprocessing for Cluster Editing,'' Proceedings, International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory, Budapest, Hungary, August, 2007, with M. R. Fellows, F. A. Rosamond and P. Shaw.
``Inferring Transcriptional Regulation through Logical Networks from Temporal Mouse Brain Gene Expression Data,'' Proceedings, Foundations of Systems Biology in Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany, September, 2007, with S. E. Bergeson, E. J. Chesler, R, Kirova, E. R. Lance, C. K. Lewis and J. Song.
``Statistical Tools are Needed for Microarray Expression and Co-Expression,'' in Prediction with Regression: A Comparison of Methods (R. J. Freund, editor), American Statistical Association, 2007, 4381-4386, with A. M. Saxton and B. H. Voy.
``Combinatorial and Algorithmic Issues for Microarray Analysis,'' in Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics (T. F. Gonzales, editor), Taylor & Francis, 2007, 74.1-74.14, with C. Cotta and P. Moscato.
``Linear-Time Algorithms for Planar Graphs of Fixed Disk Dimension,'' Information Processing Letters 101 (2007), 36-40, with F. N. Abu-Khzam.
``Crown Structures for Vertex Cover Kernelization,'' Theory of Computing Systems 41 (2007), 411-430, with F. N. Abu-Khzam, M. R. Fellows and W. H. Suters.
``An O*(2^O(k)) FPT Algorithm for the Undirected Feedback Vertex Set Problem,'' Theory of Computing Systems 41 (2007), 479-492, with F. Dehne, M. R. Fellows, F. A. Rosamond and K. Stevens.
``Genome-Level Analysis of Genetic Regulation of Liver Gene Expression Networks,'' Hepatology 46 (2007), 548-557, with E. J. Chesler, D. Gatti, R. Kirova, O. Kosyk, L. Lu, A. Maki, K. Manly, A. D. Perkins, Y. Qu, I. Rusyn, R. W. Williams and D. Threadgill.
``On Finding Bicliques in Bipartite Graphs: a Novel Algorithm with Application to the Integration of Diverse Biological Data Types,'' Proceedings, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Big Island, Hawaii, January, 2008, with E. J. Chesler and Y. Zhang.
``Graph Algorithms for Integrated Biological Analysis, with Applications to Type 1 Diabetes Data,'' in Clustering Challenges in Biological Networks (S. Butenko, W. A. Chaovalitwongse and P. Pardalos, editors), World Scientific, with J. D. Eblen, I. C. Gerling, A. M. Saxton and J. R. Snoddy, accepted for publication.
``Innovative Computational Methods for Transcriptomic Data Analysis: A Case Study in the Use of FPT for Practical Algorithm Design and Implementation,'' The Computer Journal, with A. D. Perkins, A. M. Saxton, J. A. Scharff and B. H. Voy,
``A Systems Genetic Analysis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Combinatorial Data Integration from SNPs to Differential Diagnosis of Disease,'' in Methods of Microarray Data Analysis VI (J. Cuticchia and S. M. Lin, editors), LuLu Publishing, with E. J. Chesler, R. Kirova, X. Peng and A. D. Perkins, accepted for publication. accepted for publication.