Murat Tasan, Ph.D.

Research Fellow, Roth Lab
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
C2-322, BCMP
250 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA 02115
murat[dot]tasan[at]hms[dot]harvard[dot]edu

me in a nutshell

math + computer science + a sprinkle of biochemistry = all-around good guy.

recent publications

Pascal Braun*, Murat Tasan*, Matija Dreze*, Miriam Barrios-Rodiles, Irma Lemmens, Julie Sahalie, Ryan Murray, Kavitha Venkatesan, Jean-Francois Rual, Michael E. Cusick, Tony Pawson, David E. Hill, Jan Tavernier, Jeff Wrana, Frederick P. Roth, and Marc Vidal.

An experimentally derived confidence score for binary protein-protein interactions.

in review (Nature Methods).
Nicolas Simonis*, Jean-Francois Rual*, Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis*, Murat Tasan*, Irma Lemmens*, Tomoko Hirozane-Kishikawa, Tong Hao, Julie M, Sahalie, Kavitha Venkatesan, Fana Gebreab, Sebiha Cevik, Niels Klitgord, Changyu Fan, Pascal Braun, Ning Li, Nono Ayivi-Guedehoussou, Elizabeth Dann, Nicolas Bertin, David Szeto, Amelie Dricot, Muhammed A. Yildirim, Chenwei Lin, Anne-Sophie de Smet, Huey-Ling Kao, Christophe Simon, Alex Smolyar, Jin Sook Ahn, Muneesh Tewari, Mike Boxem, Stuart Milstein, Haiyuan Yu, Matija Dreze, Jean Vandenhaute, Kristin C. Gunsalus, Michael E. Cusick, David E. Hill, Jan Tavernier, Frederick P. Roth, and Marc Vidal.

High-quality high-throughput mapping of the Caenorhabditis elegans interactome.

in review (Nature Methods).
Weidong Tian*, Lan V. Zhang*, Murat Tasan, Francis D. Gibbons, Oliver D. King, Julie Park, Zeba Wunderlich, J. Michael Cherry, and Frederick P. Roth.

Combining guilt-by-association and guilt-by-profiling to predict Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene function.

Genome Biology, 2008 (to appear).
Murat Tasan*, Weidong Tian*, David P. Hill, Francis D. Gibbons, Judith A. Blake, and Frederick P. Roth.

An en masse phenotype and function prediction system for Mus musculus.

Genome Biology, 2008 (to appear).
Lourdes Pena-Castillo, Murat Tasan, Chad L. Myers, Hyunju Lee, Trupti Joshi, Chao Zhang, Yuanfang Guan, Michele Leone, Andrea Pagnani, Wan Kyu Kim, Chase Krumpelman, Weidong Tian, Guillaume Obozinski, Yanjun Qi, Sara Mostafavi, Guan Ning Lin, Gabriel Berriz, Frank Gibbons, Gert Lanckriet, Jian Qiu, Charles Grant, Zafer Barutcuoglu, David P. Hill, David Warde-Farley, Chris Grouios, Debajyoti Ray, Judith A. Blake, Minghua Deng, Michael Jordan, Willian S. Noble, Quaid Morris, Judith Klein-Seetharaman, Ziv Bar-Joseph, Ting Chen, Fengzhu Sun, Olga G. Troyanskaya, Edward M. Marcotte, Dong Xu, Timothy R. Hughes, and Frederick P. Roth.

A critical assessment of Mus musculus gene function prediction using integrated genomic evidence.

Genome Biology, 2008 (to appear).
Denis Dupuy*, Nicolas Bertin*, Cesar A. Hidalgo, Kavvitha Venkatesan, Domena Tu, David Lee, Jennifer Rosenberg, Nenad Svrzikapa, Aurelie Blanc, Alain Carnec, Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, Rock Pulak, Jane Shingles, John Reece-Hoyes, Rebecca Hunt-Newbury, Ryan Viveiros, William A. Mohler, Murat Tasan, Frederick P. Roth, Christian Le Peuch, Ian A. Hope, Robert Johnsen, Donald G. Moerman, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, David Baillie, and Marc Vidal.

Genome-scale analysis of in vivo spatiotemporal promoter activity in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Nature Biotechnology, 25(6): 663--668, June 2007.
Murat Tasan.

Distance-Based Indexing: Observations, Applications, and Improvements.

Ph.D. Thesis (Computer Science, Case Western Reserve University), January, 2006.
Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu, Joseph H. Nadeau, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, and Murat Tasan.

Towards an Integrated Software System for Biological Pathways.

IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Commitee on Data Engineering, 27(4): 57--67, 2004.
Emre Karakoc, Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu, S. Cenk Sahinalp, Murat Tasan, and Xiang Zhang.

Novel Approaches to Biomolecular Sequence Indexing.

IEEE Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering, 27(3): 40--47, 2004.
Murat Tasan and Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu.

Improvements in Distance-Based Indexing.

In Proceedings of the IEEE 16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2004), pages 161--170, 2004.
S. Cenk Sahinalp, Murat Tasan, Jai Macker, and Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu.

Distance-Based Indexing for String Proximity Search.

In Proceedings of the IEEE 19th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2003), pages 125--136, 2003.
Wanhong Xu, Lakshmi Krishnamurthy, Murat Tasan, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Joseph H. Nadeau, Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu, and Greg Schaeffer.

Pathways Database System: An Integrated Set of Tools for Biological Pathways.

In Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2003), pages 96--102, 2003.
Lakshmi Krishnamurthy, Joseph H. Nadeau, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Z. Meral Ozsoyoglu, Greg Schaeffer, Murat Tasan, and Wanhong Xu.

Pathways Database System: An Integrated System for Biological Pathways.

Bioinformatics, 19(8): 930--937, 2003.

* indicates equal contribution to work amongst authors.

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