Douglas B Kell

Summary

Affiliation: University of Manchester
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi The promiscuous binding of pharmaceutical drugs and their transporter-mediated uptake into cells: what we (need to) know and how we can do so
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess St, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    Drug Discov Today 18:218-39. 2013
  2. ncbi The genetic control of growth rate: a systems biology study in yeast
    Pinar Pir
    Cambridge Systems Biology Centre and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Sanger Building, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
    BMC Syst Biol 6:4. 2012
  3. ncbi Large-scale sequestration of atmospheric carbon via plant roots in natural and agricultural ecosystems: why and how
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 131 Princess St, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:1589-97. 2012
  4. ncbi Scientific discovery as a combinatorial optimisation problem: how best to navigate the landscape of possible experiments?
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, Lancs, UK
    Bioessays 34:236-44. 2012
  5. ncbi Interactions among oscillatory pathways in NF-kappa B signaling
    Yunjiao Wang
    Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University, Jennings Hall, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
    BMC Syst Biol 5:23. 2011
  6. ncbi The markup is the model: reasoning about systems biology models in the Semantic Web era
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    J Theor Biol 252:538-43. 2008
  7. ncbi Metabolomics, machine learning and modelling: towards an understanding of the language of cells
    D B Kell
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Faraday Building, Sackville Street, P O Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
    Biochem Soc Trans 33:520-4. 2005
  8. ncbi Towards a unifying, systems biology understanding of large-scale cellular death and destruction caused by poorly liganded iron: Parkinson's, Huntington's, Alzheimer's, prions, bactericides, chemical toxicology and others as examples
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry and The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    Arch Toxicol 84:825-89. 2010
  9. ncbi The virtual human: towards a global systems biology of multiscale, distributed biochemical network models
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry and The Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    IUBMB Life 59:689-95. 2007
  10. ncbi Iron behaving badly: inappropriate iron chelation as a major contributor to the aetiology of vascular and other progressive inflammatory and degenerative diseases
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess St, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
    BMC Med Genomics 2:2. 2009

Detail Information

Publications91

  1. ncbi The promiscuous binding of pharmaceutical drugs and their transporter-mediated uptake into cells: what we (need to) know and how we can do so
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess St, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    Drug Discov Today 18:218-39. 2013
    ..This needs to be acquired in cells that contain the relevant proteins, and we highlight an experimental system for simultaneous genome-wide assessment of carrier-mediated uptake in a eukaryotic cell (yeast)...
  2. ncbi The genetic control of growth rate: a systems biology study in yeast
    Pinar Pir
    Cambridge Systems Biology Centre and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Sanger Building, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
    BMC Syst Biol 6:4. 2012
    ..It has not been determined whether the set of HFC genes is the same at all growth rates or whether it is the same in conditions of nutrient limitation or excess...
  3. ncbi Large-scale sequestration of atmospheric carbon via plant roots in natural and agricultural ecosystems: why and how
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 131 Princess St, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 367:1589-97. 2012
    ..These bring additional benefits related to improvements in soil structure and in the usage of other nutrients and water...
  4. ncbi Scientific discovery as a combinatorial optimisation problem: how best to navigate the landscape of possible experiments?
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, Lancs, UK
    Bioessays 34:236-44. 2012
    ..This analysis fits comfortably with an emerging epistemology that sees scientific reasoning, the search for solutions, and scientific discovery as Bayesian processes...
  5. ncbi Interactions among oscillatory pathways in NF-kappa B signaling
    Yunjiao Wang
    Mathematical Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University, Jennings Hall, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
    BMC Syst Biol 5:23. 2011
    ..Many authors have suggested that this core oscillator should couple to other oscillatory pathways...
  6. ncbi The markup is the model: reasoning about systems biology models in the Semantic Web era
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    J Theor Biol 252:538-43. 2008
    ..Optimization is at the core of many scientific and biotechnological activities, and Reinhart made many major contributions in this area, stimulating our own activities in the use of the methods of evolutionary computing for optimization...
  7. ncbi Metabolomics, machine learning and modelling: towards an understanding of the language of cells
    D B Kell
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Faraday Building, Sackville Street, P O Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
    Biochem Soc Trans 33:520-4. 2005
    ..The language of cells is much richer than we had supposed, and we are now well placed to decode it...
  8. ncbi Towards a unifying, systems biology understanding of large-scale cellular death and destruction caused by poorly liganded iron: Parkinson's, Huntington's, Alzheimer's, prions, bactericides, chemical toxicology and others as examples
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry and The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    Arch Toxicol 84:825-89. 2010
    ..A variety of systems biology approaches, that I summarise, can predict both the mechanisms involved in these cell death pathways and the optimal sites of action for nutritional or pharmacological interventions...
  9. ncbi The virtual human: towards a global systems biology of multiscale, distributed biochemical network models
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry and The Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    IUBMB Life 59:689-95. 2007
    ..This kind of architecture permits the distributed yet integrated goal of an evolving 'digital human' model to be realized...
  10. ncbi Iron behaving badly: inappropriate iron chelation as a major contributor to the aetiology of vascular and other progressive inflammatory and degenerative diseases
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess St, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
    BMC Med Genomics 2:2. 2009
    ..Understanding these requires an integrative, systems-level approach that may lead to novel therapeutic targets...
  11. ncbi Pharmaceutical drug transport: the issues and the implications that it is essentially carrier-mediated only
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess St, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
    Drug Discov Today 16:704-14. 2011
    ..The recognition that drugs necessarily require carriers for uptake into cells provides many opportunities for improving the effectiveness of the drug discovery process...
  12. ncbi Systems biology, metabolic modelling and metabolomics in drug discovery and development
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry, Faraday Building, The University of Manchester PO Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK
    Drug Discov Today 11:1085-92. 2006
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  13. ncbi Breeding crop plants with deep roots: their role in sustainable carbon, nutrient and water sequestration
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    Ann Bot 108:407-18. 2011
    ..This sets an important research agenda, and the breeding of plants with improved and deep rooting habits and architectures is a goal well worth pursuing...
  14. ncbi Theodor Bücher Lecture. Metabolomics, modelling and machine learning in systems biology - towards an understanding of the languages of cells. Delivered on 3 July 2005 at the 30th FEBS Congress and the 9th IUBMB conference in Budapest
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry, Faraday Building, The University of Manchester, UK
    FEBS J 273:873-94. 2006
    ..These include fields such as chemical genomics, synthetic biology, distributed computational environments for biological data and modelling, single cell diagnostics/bionanotechnology, and computational linguistics/text mining...
  15. ncbi Metabolic footprinting and systems biology: the medium is the message
    Douglas B Kell
    School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Faraday Building, PO Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
    Nat Rev Microbiol 3:557-65. 2005
    ..Here, we review the principles, experimental approaches and scientific outcomes that have been obtained with this useful and convenient strategy...
  16. ncbi Genome-wide assessment of the carriers involved in the cellular uptake of drugs: a model system in yeast
    Karin Lanthaler
    School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    BMC Biol 9:70. 2011
    ..The recent recognition that drug uptake is mostly carrier-mediated raises the question of which drugs use which carriers...
  17. ncbi Absolute quantification of the glycolytic pathway in yeast: deployment of a complete QconCAT approach
    Kathleen M Carroll
    Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
    Mol Cell Proteomics 10:M111.007633. 2011
    ..In addition, the same proteins were quantified by intensity-based label-free analysis, and both sets of data were compared with other quantification methods...
  18. ncbi MeMo: a hybrid SQL/XML approach to metabolomic data management for functional genomics
    Irena Spasic
    School of Chemistry, Faraday Building, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK
    BMC Bioinformatics 7:281. 2006
    ..The metabolomic data produced need to be structured and annotated in a machine-usable form to facilitate the exploration of the hidden links between the genes and their functions...
  19. ncbi Calling International Rescue: knowledge lost in literature and data landslide!
    Teresa K Attwood
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
    Biochem J 424:317-33. 2009
    ..We ask you, please, to read the instructions carefully. The time has come: you may turn over your papers.....
  20. ncbi Bayesian inference of the sites of perturbations in metabolic pathways via Markov chain Monte Carlo
    Bayu Jayawardhana
    Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    Bioinformatics 24:1191-7. 2008
    ..In this regard, the ability to identify target and off-target effects of a specific compound or gene therapy is both a major challenge and critical in drug discovery...
  21. ncbi Facilitating the development of controlled vocabularies for metabolomics technologies with text mining
    Irena Spasic
    Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7ND, UK
    BMC Bioinformatics 9:S5. 2008
    ..However, it is time-consuming and non trivial to construct these resources manually...
  22. ncbi Information management for high content live cell imaging
    Daniel Jameson
    Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, School of Chemistry, and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 131, Princess St, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
    BMC Bioinformatics 10:226. 2009
    ..There is therefore a requirement for an information management solution that facilitates the indexing of experimental metadata and results of high content live cell imaging experiments...
  23. ncbi Performing statistical analyses on quantitative data in Taverna workflows: an example using R and maxdBrowse to identify differentially-expressed genes from microarray data
    Peter Li
    Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and School of Chemistry, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 131 Princess St, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
    BMC Bioinformatics 9:334. 2008
    ..Furthermore, this transfer of data may require a reconciliation step in order for there to be interoperability between computational tools...
  24. ncbi Improving metabolic flux predictions using absolute gene expression data
    DAVE LEE
    Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
    BMC Syst Biol 6:73. 2012
    ..Moreover, for the purposes of biotechnological applications, it is normally the flux to a specific metabolite or product that is of interest rather than the rate of production of biomass per se...
  25. ncbi Further developments towards a genome-scale metabolic model of yeast
    Paul D Dobson
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
    BMC Syst Biol 4:145. 2010
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  26. ncbi Detection and identification of novel metabolomic biomarkers in preeclampsia
    Louise C Kenny
    Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester, St Mary s Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom
    Reprod Sci 15:591-7. 2008
    ..The identity of these metabolites provides new insights into the pathology of this condition and raises the possibility of the development of a predictive test...
  27. ncbi Automated manipulation of systems biology models using libSBML within Taverna workflows
    Peter Li
    School of Chemistry and Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, UK
    Bioinformatics 24:287-9. 2008
    ..AVAILABILITY: Taverna and the API Consumer application can be freely downloaded from http://taverna.sourceforge.net..
  28. ncbi Analysis of a complete DNA-protein affinity landscape
    William Rowe
    Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    J R Soc Interface 7:397-408. 2010
    ..These metrics show that the landscape is rugged, with many local optima, and that this arises from a combination of experimental variation and the natural structural properties of the oligonucleotides...
  29. ncbi Procedures for large-scale metabolic profiling of serum and plasma using gas chromatography and liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry
    Warwick B Dunn
    Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    Nat Protoc 6:1060-83. 2011
    ..Methods for quality control-based robust LOESS signal correction to provide signal correction and integration of data from multiple analytical batches are also described...
  30. ncbi Metabolomics by numbers: acquiring and understanding global metabolite data
    Royston Goodacre
    Department of Chemistry, UMIST, P.O. Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
    Trends Biotechnol 22:245-52. 2004
  31. ncbi Enzyme kinetics informatics: from instrument to browser
    Neil Swainston
    Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    FEBS J 277:3769-79. 2010
    ..The system is designed to be extensible, allowing integration with other manufacturer instruments covering a range of analytical techniques...
  32. ncbi Predictive models for population performance on real biological fitness landscapes
    William Rowe
    Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, UK
    Bioinformatics 26:2145-52. 2010
    ..A modification to the standard LSM also proves accurate at predicting the effects of recombination on the evolution...
  33. ncbi In silico modelling of directed evolution: Implications for experimental design and stepwise evolution
    David C Wedge
    Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7ND, UK
    J Theor Biol 257:131-41. 2009
    ..Overall, we find that purely evolutionary techniques fare better than do model-based approaches across all but the smoothest landscapes...
  34. ncbi A systematic approach to modeling, capturing, and disseminating proteomics experimental data
    Chris F Taylor
    School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
    Nat Biotechnol 21:247-54. 2003
    ..These make explicit what data might be most usefully captured about proteomics experiments and provide complementary routes toward the implementation of a proteome repository...
  35. ncbi Optimal construction of a fast and accurate polarisable water potential based on multipole moments trained by machine learning
    Chris M Handley
    Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, UK
    Phys Chem Chem Phys 11:6365-76. 2009
    ..Compared to the Kriging results, combinations are found that are no less accurate (at the 90th energy error percentile), yet are 58% faster for the dimer, and 26% faster for the pentamer...
  36. ncbi A GC-TOF-MS study of the stability of serum and urine metabolomes during the UK Biobank sample collection and preparation protocols
    Warwick B Dunn
    Bioanalytical Sciences Group, School of Chemistry, Manchester Interdiscplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7ND, UK
    Int J Epidemiol 37:i23-30. 2008
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  37. ncbi Automated workflows for accurate mass-based putative metabolite identification in LC/MS-derived metabolomic datasets
    Marie Brown
    School of Biomedicine, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    Bioinformatics 27:1108-12. 2011
    ..One of the limiting factors is that of chemically identifying metabolites from mass spectrometric signals present in complex datasets...
  38. ncbi Array-based evolution of DNA aptamers allows modelling of an explicit sequence-fitness landscape
    Christopher G Knight
    Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    Nucleic Acids Res 37:e6. 2009
    ..We demonstrate an extension to the approach by incorporating prior knowledge into CLADE, resulting in some of the tightest binding sequences...
  39. ncbi Analysis of aptamer sequence activity relationships
    Mark Platt
    Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, UK
    Integr Biol (Camb) 1:116-22. 2009
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  40. ncbi KiPar, a tool for systematic information retrieval regarding parameters for kinetic modelling of yeast metabolic pathways
    Irena Spasic
    Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    Bioinformatics 25:1404-11. 2009
    ..It is also suitable for large-scale mining, since multiple reactions and their kinetic parameters can be specified in a single search request, rather than one reaction at a time, which is unsuitable given the size of genome-scale models...
  41. ncbi Multiobjective optimization in bioinformatics and computational biology
    Julia Handl
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform 4:279-92. 2007
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  42. ncbi Systematic integration of experimental data and models in systems biology
    Peter Li
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
    BMC Bioinformatics 11:582. 2010
    ..Automating the assembly and use of systems biology models is dependent upon data integration processes involving the interoperation of data and analytical resources...
  43. ncbi Visualising biological data: a semantic approach to tool and database integration
    Steve Pettifer
    School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
    BMC Bioinformatics 10:S19. 2009
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  44. ncbi 'Metabolite-likeness' as a criterion in the design and selection of pharmaceutical drug libraries
    Paul D Dobson
    School of Chemistry and The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess St, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    Drug Discov Today 14:31-40. 2009
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  45. ncbi Information-theoretic sensitivity analysis: a general method for credit assignment in complex networks
    Niklas Lüdtke
    School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    J R Soc Interface 5:223-35. 2008
    ..Unlike variance-based approaches, our novel methodology can easily accommodate correlated inputs...
  46. ncbi Development and performance of a gas chromatography-time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis for large-scale nontargeted metabolomic studies of human serum
    Paul Begley
    Bioanalytical Sciences Group, School of Chemistry, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
    Anal Chem 81:7038-46. 2009
    ..This methodology allows the continuous acquisition and application of data acquired over many months in long-term metabolomic studies, including the HUSERMET project (http://www.husermet.org/)...
  47. ncbi Development of a robust and repeatable UPLC-MS method for the long-term metabolomic study of human serum
    Eva Zelena
    Bioanalytical Sciences Group, School of Chemistry, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
    Anal Chem 81:1357-64. 2009
    ..This method allows the acquisition of data and subsequent comparison of data collected across many months or years...
  48. ncbi Metabolic profiling of serum using Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatography and the LTQ-Orbitrap mass spectrometry system
    Warwick B Dunn
    Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, School of Chemistry, The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7DN, UK
    J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 871:288-98. 2008
    ..The data were used to indicate possible biomarkers of pre-eclampsia and showed both the instruments and XCMS to be applicable to the reproducible and valid detection of disease biomarkers present in serum...
  49. ncbi maxdLoad2 and maxdBrowse: standards-compliant tools for microarray experimental annotation, data management and dissemination
    David Hancock
    School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK
    BMC Bioinformatics 6:264. 2005
    ..maxdBrowse is a PHP web-application that makes contents of maxdLoad2 databases accessible via web-browser, the command-line and web-service environments. It thus acts as both a dissemination and data-mining tool...
  50. ncbi Carrier-mediated cellular uptake of pharmaceutical drugs: an exception or the rule?
    Paul D Dobson
    School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    Nat Rev Drug Discov 7:205-20. 2008
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  51. ncbi Efficient discovery of anti-inflammatory small-molecule combinations using evolutionary computing
    Ben G Small
    Doctoral Training Centre, Integrative Systems Biology Molecules to Life, Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    Nat Chem Biol 7:902-8. 2011
    ..Evolutionary searches provide a powerful and general approach to the discovery of new combinations of pharmacological agents with therapeutic indices potentially greater than those of single drugs...
  52. ncbi Predicting the points of interaction of small molecules in the NF-κB pathway
    Yogendra Patel
    Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    BMC Syst Biol 5:32. 2011
    ..Here we show it can be applied to identify the interactions of small molecules within the NF-κB signalling pathway...
  53. ncbi Identification and characterization of high-flux-control genes of yeast through competition analyses in continuous cultures
    Daniela Delneri
    Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    Nat Genet 40:113-7. 2008
    ..This chromosome determines a yeast's mating type, and the concentration of haploinsufficient genes there may be a mechanism to prevent its loss...
  54. ncbi Selective detection of proteins in mixtures using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry: influence of instrumental settings and implications for proteomics
    Seetharaman Vaidyanathan
    Department of Chemistry, Faraday Building, Sackville Street, UMIST, P O Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
    Anal Chem 76:5024-32. 2004
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  55. ncbi Computational cluster validation in post-genomic data analysis
    Julia Handl
    School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Faraday Building, Sackville Street, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
    Bioinformatics 21:3201-12. 2005
    ..Suitable computational cluster validation techniques are available in the general data-mining literature, but have been given only a fraction of the same attention in bioinformatics...
  56. ncbi Implications of the dominant role of transporters in drug uptake by cells
    Paul D Dobson
    School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M17DN, UK
    Curr Top Med Chem 9:163-81. 2009
    ..Finally, the central importance of computational modelling of transporter substrate preferences by structure-activity relationships is discussed...
  57. ncbi Proximate parameter tuning for biochemical networks with uncertain kinetic parameters
    Stephen J Wilkinson
    School of Chemistry, Princess St, Manchester, UK
    Mol Biosyst 4:74-97. 2008
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  58. ncbi Metabolomics and systems biology: making sense of the soup
    Douglas B Kell
    Department of Chemistry, UMIST, Faraday Building, Sackville St, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
    Curr Opin Microbiol 7:296-307. 2004
    ....
  59. ncbi Event extraction for systems biology by text mining the literature
    Sophia Ananiadou
    University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK
    Trends Biotechnol 28:381-90. 2010
    ..The approaches described will be of considerable value in associating particular pathways and their components with higher-order physiological properties, including disease states...
  60. ncbi Arcadia: a visualization tool for metabolic pathways
    Alice C Villéger
    School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    Bioinformatics 26:1470-1. 2010
    ..AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Arcadia is written in C++. The source code is available (along with Mac OS and Windows binaries) under the GPL from http://arcadiapathways.sourceforge.net/...
  61. ncbi Aptamer evolution for array-based diagnostics
    Mark Platt
    Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocenter, University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    Anal Biochem 390:203-5. 2009
    ..The best aptameric sequence was void of the set of four guanine repeats typifying thrombin aptamers and, thus, highlights the benefits of evolution performed in an environment closely mimicking the final diagnostic application...
  62. ncbi Convergent evolution to an aptamer observed in small populations on DNA microarrays
    W Rowe
    Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    Phys Biol 7:036007. 2010
    ..Regime specific differences in the evolutions, such as speed of convergence, could also be observed...
  63. ncbi Mass spectrometry tools and metabolite-specific databases for molecular identification in metabolomics
    M Brown
    Bioanalytical Sciences Group, School of Chemistry, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, UK M1 7DN
    Analyst 134:1322-32. 2009
    ..To provide definitive identification metabolite-specific mass spectral libraries for UPLC-MS and GC-MS have been constructed for 1,065 commercially available authentic standards. The MMD data are available at http://dbkgroup.org/MMD/...
  64. ncbi Utopia documents: linking scholarly literature with research data
    T K Attwood
    School of Computer Science, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    Bioinformatics 26:i568-74. 2010
    ..The need for intelligent tools to bridge this gap, to rescue the knowledge being systematically isolated in literature and data silos, is now widely acknowledged...
  65. ncbi A systematic survey of the response of a model NF-κB signalling pathway to TNFα stimulation
    Yunjiao Wang
    Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7DN, UK
    J Theor Biol 297:137-47. 2012
    ....
  66. ncbi Growth control of the eukaryote cell: a systems biology study in yeast
    Juan I Castrillo
    Faculty of Life Sciences, Michael Smith Building, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
    J Biol 6:4. 2007
    ..Comprehensive studies at the transcriptional, proteomic and metabolic levels under defined controlled conditions are currently lacking...
  67. ncbi Text mining and its potential applications in systems biology
    Sophia Ananiadou
    School of Computer Science, National Centre for Text Mining, The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7ND, UK
    Trends Biotechnol 24:571-9. 2006
    ..By adding meaning to text, these techniques produce a more structured analysis of textual knowledge than simple word searches, and can provide powerful tools for the production and analysis of systems biology models...
  68. ncbi Closed-loop, multiobjective optimization of two-dimensional gas chromatography/mass spectrometry for serum metabolomics
    Warwick B Dunn
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Faraday Building, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
    Anal Chem 79:464-76. 2007
    ..A variety of computational methods served to explain the basis for the improvement. This closed-loop optimization strategy is a generic and powerful approach for the optimization of any analytical instrumentation...
  69. ncbi Something from nothing: bridging the gap between constraint-based and kinetic modelling
    Kieran Smallbone
    Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology, The University of Manchester, UK
    FEBS J 274:5576-85. 2007
    ..Moreover, using this particular methodology affords us analytical forms for steady state determination, stability analyses and studies of dynamical behaviour...
  70. ncbi Deterministic mathematical models of the cAMP pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    Thomas Williamson
    Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK
    BMC Syst Biol 3:70. 2009
    ..A stochastic model of the pathway has been reported...
  71. ncbi Closed-loop, multiobjective optimization of analytical instrumentation: gas chromatography/time-of-flight mass spectrometry of the metabolomes of human serum and of yeast fermentations
    Warwick B Dunn
    School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Faraday Building, Sackville Street, P.O. Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, U.K
    Anal Chem 77:290-303. 2005
    ..The evolutionary closed-loop machine learning strategy we describe is generic to any type of analytical optimization...
  72. ncbi Insights into the behaviour of systems biology models from dynamic sensitivity and identifiability analysis: a case study of an NF-kappaB signalling pathway
    Hong Yue
    School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Sackville St, Manchester, UK
    Mol Biosyst 2:640-9. 2006
    ..The whole analysis scheme we describe provides efficient parameter estimation techniques for complex cell networks...
  73. ncbi Defrosting the digital library: bibliographic tools for the next generation web
    Duncan Hull
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    PLoS Comput Biol 4:e1000204. 2008
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  74. ncbi Automated tracking of gene expression in individual cells and cell compartments
    Hailin Shen
    School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Faraday Building, Sackville Street, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
    J R Soc Interface 3:787-94. 2006
    ..This will lead to substantial benefits for time-lapse-based high-content screening...
  75. ncbi Genotype-phenotype mapping: genes as computer programs
    Douglas B Kell
    Dept of Chemistry, UMIST, Manchester, UK
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    Department of Chemistry, UMIST, Manchester, UK
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    Department of Chemistry, UMIST, P.O. Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD, UK
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    Department of Biomolecular Sciences, UMIST, Manchester, UK
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    Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
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    Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
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    Institute of Biological Sciences, Cledwyn Building, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DD, Wales, UK
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    Jess Allen
    Institute of Biological Sciences, Cledwyn Building, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth SY23 3DD, UK
    Nat Biotechnol 21:692-6. 2003
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    Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth SY23 3DB, UK
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    Helen Jenkins
    Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK
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    Institute of Biological Sciences, Cledwyn Building, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, UKSY23 3DD
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    Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
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    Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
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    Galina V Mukamolova
    Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DD, UK
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