Publications

I have worked and published in three distinct scientific fields: bioinformatics, computer science and statistical physics.

For more details on the data analysis software development see the Software Projects page.

List of publications

1. Nucleosome organization in the Drosophila genome Travis N. Mavrich,, Cizhong Jiang, Ilya P. Ioshikhes, Xiaoyong Li, Bryan J. Venters, Sara J. Zanton, Lynn P. Tomsho, Ji Qi, Robert Glaser, Stephan C. Schuster, David S. Gilmour, Istvan Albert, and B. Franklin Pugh Nature (2008) - more at Genome Cartography
2. A barrier nucleosome model for statistical positioning of nucleosomes throughout the yeast genome Travis N. Mavrich, Ilya P. Ioshikhes, Bryan J. Venters, Cizhong Jiang, Lynn P. Tomsho, Ji Qi, Stephan C. Schuster, Istvan Albert, and B. Franklin Pugh Genome Research (2008) - more at Genome Cartography
3. Boolean network simulations for life scientist Istvan Albert, Juilee Thakar, Song Li, Ranran Zhang , Reka Albert Source Code for Biology and Medicine (2008) - more at BooleanNet
4. GeneTrack - a genomic data processing and visualization framework Istvan Albert, Shinichiro Wachi, Cizhong Jiang, and B. Franklin Pugh Bioinformatics (2008) - more at GeneTrack
5. Translational and rotational settings of H2A.Z nucleosomes across the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome Istvan Albert, Travis N. Mavrich, Lynn P. Tomsho, Ji Qi, Sara J. Zanton , Stephan C. Schuster, and B. Franklin Pugh Nature 446, 572-576, (2007) - more at Genome Cartography
6. A framework for collaborative analysis of ENCODE data: Making large-scale analyses biologist-friendly Daniel Blankerberg, James Taylor, Ian Schenk, Jianbin He, Yi Zhang, Matthew Ghent, Narayan Veeraraghavan, Istvan Albert, Webb Miller, Kateryna Makova, Ross C. Hardison, and Anton Nekrutenko Genome Research 17:960-964, (2007) - more at Galaxy
7. Nucleosome positions predicted by comparative genomics Ilya P. Ioshikhes, Istvan Albert, Sara J. Zanton, and B. Franklin Pugh, Nature Genetics 38 , 1210 - 1215 (2006) - more at Genome Cartography
8. Rapid and Asymmetric Divergence of Duplicate Genes in the Human Gene Coexpression Network Wen-Yu Chung, Reka Albert, Istvan Albert, Anton Nekrutenko and Kateryna D. Makova BMC Bioinformatics, 7 : 46 (2006)
9. Galaxy: A platform for interactive large-scale genome analysis Belinda Giardine, Cathy Riemer, Ross Hardison, Richard Burnharns, Laura Elnitski, Prachi Shah, Yi Zhang, Daniel Blankerberg, Istvan Albert, Webb Miller, James Kent and Anton Nekrutenko Genome Research 15:1451-1455, 2005 - more at Galaxy
10. Conserved network motifs allow protein-protein interaction prediction Istvan Albert and Reka Albert Bioinformatics, 12 December 2004; Vol. 20, No. 18
11. HyBrow - A Prototype System for Computer Aided Hypothesis Evaluation Stephen Racunas , Nigam Shah, Istvan Albert and Nina Fedoroff Bioinformatics 4 Aug 2004; Vol 20, Suppl 1:I257-I264 more at HyBrow
12. Structural Vulnerability of the North American Power Grid Reka Albert, Istvan Albert and Gary L. Nakarado Physical Review E, 69, 025103(R) (2004)
13. Experiences with a Recommender System on Four Mobile Devices Brad Miller, Istvan Albert, Shyong Lam, Joe Konstan & John Riedl 17th Annual Human-Computer Interaction Conference (HCI‘03), Bath, England, 8-12 September 2003
14. Is Seeing Believing? How Recommender Systems Influence Users’ Opinions Cosley, D., Lam, S.K., Albert, I., Konstan, J., & Riedl, J. Proceedings of CHI 2003 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI‘03) , Fort Lauderdale, FL, pp. 585-592
15. MovieLens Unplugged: Experiences with an Occasionally Connected Recommender System Bradley N. Miller, Istvan Albert, Shyong K. Lam, Joseph A. Konstan, John Riedl Proceedings of ACM 2003 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI‘03)
16. Getting to Know You: Learning New User Preferences in Recommender Systems Rashid, A.M., Albert, I., Cosley, D., Lam, S.K., McNee, S., Konstan, J.A., & Riedl, J. Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI‘02) , San Francisco, CA, pp. 127-134.
17. On the Recommending of Citations for Research Papers McNee, S., Albert, I., Cosley, D., Gopalkrishnan, P., Lam, S.K., Rashid, A.M., Konstan, J.A., & Riedl, J. Proceedings of ACM 2002 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW‘02), New Orleans, LA, pp. 116-125.
18. Modeling relaxation and jamming in granular media B. Kahng, I. Albert, P. Schiffer, and A.-L. Barabasi Physical Review E 64, 051303 (2001)
19. Granular Drag on a Discrete Object: Shape Effects on Jamming I. Albert, J. G. Sample, A. J. Morss, S. Rajagopalan, A.-L. Barabasi, and P. Schiffer Physical Review E 64, 061303-1 - 061303-4 (2001)
20. The Drag Force in Granular Media P. Schiffer, I. Albert, J. G. Sample, and A.-L. Barabasi Proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Micromechanics of Granular Media, ed. Y. Kishino, (A. A. Balkema, Lisse, 2001)
21. Stick-Slip Fluctuations in Granular Drag I. Albert, P. Tegzes, R. Albert, J. G. Sample, A.-L. Barabasi, T.Vicsek, and P. Schiffer Physical Review E 64, 031307-1- 031307-9 (2001)
22. An Experimental Study of the Fluctuations in Granular Drag by Istvan Albert, Pal Tegzes, Reka Albert, John Sample, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Tamas Vicsek, B. Kahng and Peter Schiffer Proc. Materials Research Society Symposium Series 627, ed. S. Sen, M. Hunt (2000)
23. Jamming and Fluctuations in Granular Drag I. Albert, P. Tegzes, B. Kahng, R. Albert, J. Sample, M. Pfiefer, A.-L. Barabasi, T. Vicsek, and P. Schiffer, Physical Review Letters 84, 5122-5 (2000)
24. Maximum Angle of Stability in Wet and Dry Spherical Granular Media R. Albert, I. Albert, D. J. Hornbaker, P. Schiffer, and A.-L. Barabasi Physical Review E 56, R6271 (1997)
25. What Keeps Sandcastles Standing D. J. Hornbaker, R. Albert, I. Albert, A.-L. Barabasi, and P. Schiffer Nature 387, 765 (1997)

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