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Younhee Ko Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biotechnology, Yonsei University (10/2011 ~ Present) Postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Genomics Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (01/2011 ~ 08/2011) PhD in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010 Advisor: Prof. ChengXiang Zhai, Department of Computer Science Co-Advisor: Prof. Sandra Rodriguez-Zas, Department of Animal Science Co-Advisor: Prof. Nathan Price, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering M.S. in CSE, Korea University, 2003 Advisor: Prof. Hyeoncheol Kim B.S. in CSE, Korea University, 2001

Current Research Interests

• Systems Biology and computational biology
  • Transcriptional Regulation Network, Cell type identification and analysis of network morphology of Human Brain, Immune cell responses from viral infection
• Biological data mining and data integration

Publications

Book Chapter

• S. L. Rodriguez-Zas, Y. Ko. Applied Statistics for Network Biology: Methods in Systems Biology,

Chapter: Elucidation of General and Condition-dependent Gene Pathways Using Mixture Models and Bayesian Networks. Wiley, 91-103, 2011.

Journal Articles

• Y. Ko, S. A. Ament, J. A. Eddy, J. Cabellero, J. C. Earls, L. Hood and N. D. Price. Cell-type specific genes show striking and distinct patterns of spatial expression in the mouse brain. PNAS 110(8):3095-3100 (2013) pubmed pdf
• J. C. Earls, J. A. Eddy, C. Funk, Y. Ko, A. Magis, and N .D. Price, AUREA: An open-source software system for accurate and user-friendly identification of relative expression molecular signatures, (Accepted to BMC Bioinformatics, 2013)
• A. Magis, J. Earls, Y. Ko, J. Eddy and N. Price. Graphics processing unit implementations of relative expression analysis algorithms enable dramatic computational speedup, Bioinformatics, 2011
• Y. Ko, C.Zhai and S. L. Rodriguez-Zas. Discovery of variation in the co-expression patterns of gene pathways across biological replicates, IJBRA, 2010
• Y. Ko, C.Zhai and S. L. Rodriguez-Zas. Inference of gene pathways using mixture Bayesian networks, BMC Systems Biology, 3:54, 2009 Marked as highly accessed
• S. L. Rodriguez-Zas, Y. Ko, H. A. Adams and B. R. Southey. Advancing the understanding of the embryo transcriptome co-regulation using meta-, functional, and gene network analysis tools, Reproduction,135:213-224, 2008
• Y. Ko, H. Kim and W. Lee. Frequent Itemset Search Using LSI Similarity, Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education, 6:2, 2003

Referred Conference Papers

• S. Kim, J. Kim, Y. Ko, S. Hwang and J. Han.PerRank:Personalized Rank Retrieval with Categorical and Numerical Attributes, WAIM, 2008
• Y. Ko, C. Zhai and S. L. Rodriguez-Zas. Inference of Gene Pathways using Gaussian Mixture Models, IEEE BIBM, 2007
• Y. Ko, H. Kim. An effcient algorithm to search frequent itemsets using TID Lists, KISS, 2002
• Y. Ko, H. Kim and W. Lee. Design and Implementation of a XML Editor For DataBases, KISS, 2001