Pubblications



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Journal Papers

M. Comin, D. Verzotto,
"The Irredundant Class Method for Remote Homology Detection of Protein Sequences",
Journal of Computational Biology. December 2011, 18(12): 1819-1829.
doi Pdf

A. Apostolico, M. Comin, L. Parida,
"VARUN: Discovering Extensible Motifs under Saturation Constraints"
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, October-December 2010 (vol. 7 no. 4) pp. 752-762.
Pdf

M. Comin, F. Dellaert, C. Guerra,
"Binding Balls: Fast detection of Binding Sites using a property of Spherical Fourier Transform"
Journal of Computational Biology, Vol. 16 No. 11: pp. 1577-1591, (2009) .
Pdf

M. Comin, C. Guerra, G. Zanotti,
"Mining Over-Represented 3DPatterns of Secondary Structures in Proteins"
Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Vol. 6 , No. 06 (2008), pp. 1067 - 1087, (2008).
Pdf Supplemental Material

G. Ciriello, M. Comin, C. Guerra,
"Algorithmic Re-Structuring and Data Replication for Protein Structure Comparison on a GRID"
Future Generation Computer System, Special Issue on Life Science Grids for Biomedicine and Bioinformatics, Vol. 23, pp. 391-397, 2006. Pdf

A. Apostolico, M. Comin and L. Parida,
"Mining, compressing and classifying with extensible motifs"
Algorithms for Molecular Biology, Vol. 1:4, 2006. Pdf doi pmid

A. Apostolico, M. Comin, L. Parida,
"Bridging lossy and lossless compression by motif pattern discovery", (extended abstract)
Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, Volume 21, 1 August 2005, Pages 219-225 Pdf

M. Comin, C. Guerra and G. Zanotti,
"PROuST: a comparison method of three-dimensional structures of proteins using indexing techniques"
in Journal of Computational Biology, Mary Ann Liebert Inc. , Vol. 11, No. 6 (2004), pp 1061-1072. Pdf doi pmid

M. Comin, C. Ferrari, C. Guerra,
"Grid deployment of bioinformatics applications: a case study in protein similarity determination"
in Parallel Processing Letters, World Scientific Publishing Company, Vol. 14 No. 2 (2004), pp 163-176. Pdf

Book chapters and invited contributions

M. Comin, D. Verzotto,
"Comparing ranking and filtering motifs with character classes: application to biological sequence analysis",
in ``Biological Knowledge Discovery Handbook: Preprocessing, Mining and Postprocessing of Biological Data'',
Edited by M. Elloumi and A. Y. Zomaya
Wiley, 2012. Pdf

M. Comin, C. Guerra,
"Protein Structure Comparison, High Performance Computing",
in ``Encyclopedia of System Biology''
Edited by W. Dubitzky, O. Wolkenhauer, K.H. Cho and H. Yokota. Springer, 2012.

M. Comin, D. Verzotto,
"Remote Homology Detection of Protein Sequences",
in Dagstuhl Proceedings 10231 "Structure Discovery in Biology: Motifs, Networks and Phylogenies", 2010: 2741.

M. Comin, C. Guerra, G. Zanotti,
"Invariant geometric properties of secondary structure elements in proteins",
in ``Biological Data Mining'', Chapter 2, pp. 27-49.
Edited by J. Chen and S. Lonardi,
Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009.

M. Comin, L. Parida,
"Detection of Subtle Variations as Consensus Motifs"
in "SAIL – String Algorithms, Information and Learning" edited by R. Giancarlo and S. Lonardi
Special Issue of Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 395 No. 2-3 (2008), pp. 158-170. doi Pdf

A. Apostolico, M. Comin, L. Parida,
"Bridging Lossy and Lossless Compression by Motif Pattern Discovery"
General Theory of Information Transfer and Combinatorics, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4123, pp. 793-813, 2006. Pdf

M. Cannataro, M. Comin, C. Ferrari, C. Guerra, A. Guzzo, and P. Veltri,
"Modelling a Protein Structure Comparison Application on the Grid using PROTEUS"
SAG 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3458, pp: 75-85, 2005. Pdf

Conference Paper

M.Comin, D. Verzotto,
"Classification of Protein Sequences by means of Irredundant Patterns"
Proceedings of Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, 2010.
BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11(Suppl 1):S16.
(accepted 28%) Open Access

M. Comin, C. Guerra and G. Zanotti,
"Mining Over-Represented 3D Patterns of Secondary Structures in Proteins"
Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BIOKDD '07). Pdf
(accepted 25%)

M. Comin, L. Parida,
"Subtle motif discovery for the detection of DNA regulatory sites"
Proceeding of Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference, 2007. Pdf
(accepted 17%)

G.Ciriello, M.Comin, C.Guerra,
"Application Re-Structuring and Data Management on a GRID Environment: a Case Study for Bioinformatics"
Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology, 2006:9. Pdf doi

G. Ciriello and M. Comin,
"High-Performance Protein Structure Comparison", (abstract)
In Proceedings of RECOMB 2006.

A. Apostolico, M. Comin, L. Parida,
"Conservative Extraction of Over-represented Extensible Motifs"
Proceeding of the 13th Annual International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2005)
Supplement of Bioinformatics 2005: pp. 9-18. Pdf doi pmid
(accepted 13%, impact factor 6.02)

A. Apostolico, M. Comin, L. Parida,
"Off-line Compression by Extensible Motifs"
Proceedings of IEEE DCC Data Compression Conference, Computer Society Press, pp. 450, (2005). doi

A. Apostolico, M. Comin, L. Parida,
"Motifs in Ziv-Lempel-Welch Clef"
Proceedings of IEEE DCC Data Compression Conference, Computer Society Press, pp. 72-81, (2004). Pdf doi
(accepted 20%)

Patents

Inventor of the following IBM patents :
- "Method and structure for lossy compression of continuous data with extensible motifs",
US Patent 7259701, 2007.
- "Methods and systems for conservative extraction of over-represented extensible motifs",
United States Patent Application 20070299615, filed.
- "Method and apparatus for detection consensus motifs in data sequences",
United States Patent Application 20080167850, filed.



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