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UMBC Biological Sciences
Maricel Kann
Contact Information
Office: BS 116
Phone: 410-455-2258
Maricel Kann
Assistant Professor
Postdoctorate, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NIH, 2007; Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2001
Selected publications

Kann, M. G. (2007). "Protein interactions and disease: computational approaches to uncover the etiology of diseases." Brief Bioinform, 8(5):333-46. Epub 2007 Jul 16

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Singh, A., A. Olowoyeye, P. H. Baenziger, et al. "MutDB: Update on development of tools for the biochemical analysis of genetic variation " Nucleic Acids Res: Submitted to 2007 Database Issue.

Kann, M. G., S. L. Sheetlin, Y. Park, et al. (2007). "The identification of complete domains within protein sequences using accurate E-values for semi-global alignment." Nucleic Acids Res 35(14): 4678-85.
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Kann, M. G., R. Jothi, P. F. Cherukuri, et al. (2007). "Predicting protein domain interactions from coevolution of conserved regions." Proteins 67(4): 811-20
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Valdivia-Granada, W. A., M. G. Kann and J. Malaga (2007). "Transcriptional Interactions during smallpox infection and identification of early infection biomarkers." Pac Symp Biocomput.: 100-111.
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Kann, M. G., P. A. Thiessen, A. R. Panchenko, et al. (2005). "A structure-based method for protein sequence alignment." Bioinformatics 21(8): 1451-6.
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Jothi, R., M. G. Kann and T. M. Przytycka (2005). "Predicting protein-protein interaction by searching evolutionary tree automorphism space." Bioinformatics 21 Suppl 1: i241-i250
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Marino-Ramirez, L., M. G. Kann, B. A. Shoemaker, et al. (2005). "Histone structure and nucleosome stability." Expert Rev Proteomics 2(5): 719-29.
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Valdivia-Granada, W. A., C. D. Keating, M. Kann, et al. (2005). Detection of Encephalic and Hemorrhagic Viruses: Integration of Micro and Nano-fabrication with Computational Tools. IEEE.International Conference on MEMS, NANO and Smart Systems, IEEE.
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Kann, M. and R. A. Goldstein (2004). OPTIMA: A new score function for the detection of remote homologs. in Mathematical Methods for Protein Structure Analysis and Design. Lectures Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag. Heidelberg: 99-107.
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Kann, M. G. and R. A. Goldstein (2002). "Performance evaluation of a new algorithm for the detection of remote homologs with sequence comparison." Proteins 48(2): 367-76.
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Kann, M., B. Qian and R. A. Goldstein (2000). "Optimization of a new score function for the detection of remote homologs." Proteins 41(4): 498-503.
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Kann, M. and R. A. Goldstein (2000). Optimizing for Success: A new score function for distantly related proteins. Fourth annual international conference on computational molecular biology (RECOMB). Tokyo, Japan, ACM: 177-182
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