Publications

Conference Papers

• Ferhat Ay, Tamer Kahveci, Valerie de Crecy-Lagard,
  Consistent alignment of metabolic pathways without any abstraction in modeling,
  International Conference on Computational Systems Biology (CSB), 2008. (Abstract) (PDF) (Best paper)
  
• Jun Liu, Sanjay Ranka, Tamer Kahveci,
  Classification and Feature Selection Algorithms for Multi-class CGH data,
  International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), 2008. (Abstract) (PDF) (PPT)
  
• Padmavati Sridhar, Bin Song, Tamer Kahveci and Sanjay Ranka,
  Mining metabolic networks for optimal drug targets,
  Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 2008, 13: 291-302. (Abstract) (PDF)
  
• Jun Liu, Sanjay Ranka, and Tamer Kahveci
  A web server for mining Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) data,
  Data mining, systems analysis and optimization in biomedicine, 2007, pages 144-131 (PDF)
  
• Xu Zhang, Tamer Kahveci,
  QOMA2: Optimizing the alignment of many sequences,
  IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 2007. (Abstract) (PDF)
  
• Padmavati Sridhar, Tamer Kahveci, Sanjay Ranka
  An iterative algorithm for metabolic network-based drug target identification,
  Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 2007, 12:88-99. (Abstract) (PDF) (PPT)
  
• Xuehui Li, Tamer Kahveci,
  Quality-based similarity search for biological sequence databases,
  BIOCOMP, 2007
• Jayendra Venkateswaran, Deepak Lachwani, Tamer Kahveci, Christopher Jermaine
  Reference-based Indexing of Sequence Databases,
  International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2006, pages 906-917. (Abstract) (PDF)
  
• Jayendra Venkateswaran, Tamer Kahveci, Orhan Camoglu
  Finding Data Broadness Via Generalized Nearest Neighbors,
  International Conference on Extending Database Technologies (EDBT), 2006, pages 645-663. (Abstract) (PDF)
  
• Xu Zhang, Tamer Kahveci
  A New Approach for Alignment of Multiple Proteins,
  Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 2006, pages 339-350. (Abstract) (PDF)
  
• Yue Li, Lan Luo, Tao Li and Tamer Kahveci,
  Microarchitecture Characteristics and Implications of Alignment of Multiple Bioinformatics Sequences,
  Workshop on Unique Chips and Systems (Held in conjunction with IEEE ISPASS), 2006.
• Tamer Kahveci, Venkatakrishnan Ramaswamy, Han Tao, Tao Li
  Approximate Global Alignment of Sequences,
  IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 2005, pages 81-88. (Abstract) (PDF)
  
• Abhijit Pol, Tamer Kahveci
  Highly Scalable and Accurate Seeds for Subsequence Alignment,
  IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 2005, pages 27-31. (Abstract) (PDF)
  
• Yue Li, Tao Li, Tamer Kahveci, Jose Fortes
  Workload Characterization of Bioinformatics Applications on Pentium 4 Architecture,
  MASCOTS, 2005, pages 15-22. (PDF)
  
• Xu Zhang, Tamer Kahveci
  A New Approach for Multiple Sequence Alignment,
  RECOMB, 2005 (poster paper).
  
• Arnab Bhattacharya, Tamer Kahveci, Ambuj K. Singh
  Motif Finding and Multiple Alignment through Vector-Space Embeddings of Protein Sequences,
  RECOMB, 2004 (poster paper).
  
• Arnab Bhattacharya, Tolga Can, Tamer Kahveci, Ambuj K. Singh, Yuan-Fang Wang
  ProGreSS: Simultaneous Searching of Protein Databases by Sequence and Structure,
  Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 2004, pages 264-275. (PDF)
  
• Orhan Camoglu, Tamer Kahveci, Ambuj K. Singh,
  Towards Index-based Similarity Search for Protein Structure Databases,
  International Conference on Computational Systems Biology (CSB), 2003, pages 148-158.(PDF)
  
• Orhan Camoglu, Tamer Kahveci, Ambuj K. Singh,
  PSI: Indexing Protein Structures for Fast Similarity Search,
  International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), 2003, pages 81-83 (also in Bioinformatics journal). (PDF)
  
• Tamer Kahveci, Ambuj K. Singh,
  Fast Alignment of Large Genome Databases,
  International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2003 (demo paper), pages 768-770. (PDF)
  
• Tamer Kahveci, Christian Lang, Ambuj K. Singh,
  Joining Massive High-Dimensional Databases,
  International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2003, pages 264-276. (Abstract) (PDF) (PPT) (TR)
  
• Tamer Kahveci, Ambuj K. Singh,
  MAP: Searching Large Genome Databases,
  Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 2003, pages 303-314. (Abstract) (PDF)
  
• Tamer Kahveci, Ambuj K. Singh, and Aliekber Gurel,
  Similarity Searching for Multi-Attribute Sequences,
  Statistical and Scientific Database Management (SSDBM), 2002. (Abstract) (PDF)
• Tamer Kahveci, Ambuj K. Singh, and Aliekber Gurel,
  An Efficient Index Structure for Shift and Scale Invariant Search of Multi-Attribute Time Sequences,
  International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2002 (poster paper), San Jose, CA. (Abstract) (PDF) (TR)
• Tamer Kahveci and Ambuj K. Singh,
  An Efficient Index Structure for String Databases,
  International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2001, pages 351-360. (Abstract) (PDF) (PPT) (TR)
• Tamer Kahveci and Ambuj K. Singh,
  Variable Length Queries for Time Series Data,
  International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2001, pages 273-282. (Abstract) (PDF) (TR)
• Tuba Yavuz-Kahveci, Tamer Kahveci and Ambuj K. Singh,
  Buffering of Index Structures,
  SPIE, 2000, October, Boston. (Abstract) (PDF)

Journal Papers

• Xuehui Li, Tamer Kahveci and Mark Settles,
  A Novel Genome-Scale Repeat Finder Geared towards Transposons,
  Bioinformatics 24(4): 468-476, 2008. (Bioinformatics)
• Jayendra Venkateswaran, Deepak Lachwani, Tamer Kahveci, Christopher Jermaine
  Reference-Based Indexing for Metric Spaces with Costly Distance Measures,
  the VLDB Journal, 17:5, pages 1231 - 1251, 2008. (SpringerLink)
• Bin Song, Padmavati Sridhar, Tamer Kahveci and Sanjay Ranka,
  Double Iterative Optimization for Metabolic Network-Based Drug Target Identification,
  accepted to International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 2007. (Abstract)
• Jun Liu, Sanjay Ranka, Tamer Kahveci,
  Markers improve clustering of CGH data,
  Bioinformatics, 23:4, pages 450-457, 2007. (PubMed) (Bioinformatics)
• Xu Zhang, Tamer Kahveci,
  QOMA: Quasi-Optimal Multiple Alignment of Protein Sequences,
  Bioinformatics, 23:2, pages 162-168, 2007. (PubMed) (Bioinformatics)
• Xuehui Li, Tamer Kahveci,
  A novel algorithm for identifying low-complexity regions in a protein sequence,
  Bioinformatics, 22:24, pages 2980-2987, 2006. (PubMed) (Bioinformatics)
• Jun Liu, Jaaved Mohammed, James Carter, Sanjay Ranka, Tamer Kahveci, Michael Baudis,
  Distance-based Clustering of CGH Data,
  Bioinformatics, 22:16, pages 1971-1978, 2006. (PubMed) (Bioinformatics)
• Tamer Kahveci, Vebjorn Ljosa and Ambuj K. Singh,
  Speeding up Whole Genome Alignment by Indexing Frequency Vectors,
  Bioinformatics, 20:13, pages 2122-2134, 2004. (PubMed) (Bioinformatics)
• Tamer Kahveci and Ambuj K. Singh,
  Progressive Searching of Biological Sequences,
  IEEE Database Engineering Bulletin, 27:3, pages 32-39, 2004. (PS)
• Orhan Camoglu, Tamer Kahveci and Ambuj K. Singh,
  Towards Index-based Similarity Search for Protein Structure Databases,
  Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB), 2:1, pages 99-126, 2004. (invited paper). (PubMed)
• Tamer Kahveci and Ambuj K. Singh,
  Optimizing Similarity Search for Arbitrary Length Time Series Queries,
  IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 16:4, pages 418-433, 2004. (Digital Library)

Book Chapters

• Tamer Kahveci, Ambuj K. Singh,
  Index Structures for Approximate Matching in Sequence Databases,
  to appear in "Handbook on Computational Biology", editor Srinivas Aluru, CRC Press