Catherine Putonti

University of Houston, 218 PGH, Houston, Texas 77204-3058

Fax (713) 743-1250    Phone (713) 743-3992

E-mail putonti@bioinfo.uh.edu

 

Education Current Research Publications

 

 

Education

B.S. in Computer Science, Loyola University New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana (2000)

M.S. in Computer Science, University of Houston, Houston, Texas (2004)

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Houston, Houston, Texas (anticipated 2006)

 

 

Current Research

The general approach of the proposed research will be to further explore the utilization of short subsequences.  In particular, we have the following specific goals:

Currently receiving an NLM pre-doctoral fellowship made possible through the Keck Center for Computational and Structural Biology.

 

 

Conference Work & Publications

2004

Catherine Putonti and Yuriy Fofanov. “PIDA: A New Algorithm for Pattern Identification.” Submitted for Publication.

Putonti, C. and Fofanov, Y. (2004) Analysis of Promoter Regions for Essential Genes of Bacillus subtilis using PIDA. Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences, pp 276-82. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Chumakov, S., Putonti, C., Pettitt, B.M., Fox, G., Willson, R.C. and Fofanov, Y. (2004) Using Statistical Properties of Short Subsequences in Microbial Identification. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Engineering Techniques in Medicine and Biological Sciences (Las Vegas, Nevada), 363-7.

Putonti, C., Fox, G.E., Willson, R.C., Pettitt, B.M. and Fofanov, Y. (2004) DNA Microbial and Viral Identification using Ultraspecific Probes "Blind" to Host and Background DNA. In The National Library of Medicine Informatics Training Conference, p 73. Indianapolis, Indiana. Abstract.

Catherine Putonti, Sergei Chumakov, George Fox, Richard Willson, B. Montgomery Pettitt and Yuriy Fofanov. “DNA Microbial and Viral Identification Using Ultraspecific Probes ‘Blind’ to Host and Background DNA” (West Nile Virus). In Proceedings Interface 2004:
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Balitimore, MD).

Catherine Putonti, Sergei Chumakov, George Fox, Richard Willson, B. Montgomery Pettitt and Yuriy Fofanov. “DNA Microbial and Viral Identification Using Ultraspecific Probes ‘Blind’ to Host and Background DNA” (Dengue Virus). 9th Structural Biology Symposium (Galveston, TX), p. 139. Abstract.

Catherine Putonti, Ranjan Mannige, Sergei Chumakov, B. Montgomery Pettitt and Yuriy Fofanov. “P-PIDA: An Algorithm for Detection of Active Sites in Proteins”. 9th Structural Biology Symposium (Galveston, TX), p. 140.

Catherine Putonti, Tong-Bin Li, Sergei Chumakov, B. Montgomery Pettitt, and Yuriy Fofanov. “An Algorithm for the Identification of Transcription Binding Sites.” 21st Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research (Houston, Texas), p. 189. Abstract.

Sergei Chumakov, Yuan Sun, Tong-Bin Li, Arturo Chavez Chavez, Catherine Putonti, B. Montgomery Pettit, and Yuriy Fofanov. “Using Mutual Information to Discover Temporal Patterns in Gene Expression Data.” 21st Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research (Houston, Texas), p. 192. Abstract.

Chetan Belapurkar, Sergei Chumakov, Tong-Bin Li, Catherine Putonti, B. Montgomery Pettitt, George Fox, Richard Willson, and Yuriy Fofanov. “Host-Blind Microarray Probes and PCR Primers.” 21st Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research (Houston, Texas), p. 191. Abstract.
 

2003

Catherine Putonti, Tong-Bin Li, Sergey Chumakov, B. Montgomery Pettitt, and Yuriy Fofanov: “A New Algorithm for the Identification of Transcription Binding Sites.” 2003 Annual Research Conference hosted by the W.M. Keck Center for Structural and Computational Biology and the Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Program (Clear Lake, Texas).  Abstract.
 

2001

B. Czejdo, K. Messa, and C. Putonti: “Integration of Aggregated Attributes in a Data Warehouse”, Proceedings of The International Symposium on Systems Integration, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2001, p. III1-8.

Bogdan Czejdo, Kenneth Messa, Tadeusz Morzy, Catherine Putonti: “Design of Data Warehouses with Dynamically Changing Data Sources.” 2001 Southern Conference on Computing (Hattiesburg, Mississippi).

Catherine Putonti, Bogdan Czejdo: “Generalization and Presentation of Drill-Down Operator for Data Warehouses.” 2001 Southern Conference on Computing (Hattiesburg, Mississippi).
 

2000

Bogdan D. Czejdo, Malcolm C. Taylor, Catherine Putonti: “Model of Summary Tables Selection for Data Warehouse.” ADVIS 2000 (Izmir, Turkey).