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Search Publications by: Steven Lund (Fed)

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Methodology for Increasing Image Feature Measurement Accuracy

June 30, 2016
Author(s)
Michael Paul Majurski, Joe Chalfoun, Steven Lund, Peter Bajcsy, Mary C. Brady
Motivation Image features are computed in cell biology to derive quantitative information regarding cell state, differentiation, biological activity, and cell dynamics. The accuracy of any biological conclusions depends on the accuracy of the measured

Evaluation of microbial qPCR workflows using engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae

January 24, 2016
Author(s)
Sandra M. Da Silva, Lindsay Harris, Nathanael David Olson, Steven Lund, Autumn S. Downey, Zvi Kelman, Marc L. Salit, Jayne D. Morrow
Aims: We describe the development and interlaboratory study of modified Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a candidate material to evaluate a full detection workflow including DNA extraction and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR). Methods and results

Evaluation of two mitochondrial DNA biomarkers for prostate cancer detection

August 17, 2015
Author(s)
Samantha D. Maragh, Steven P. Lund
BACKGROUND: A 3.4kb deletion (3.4kbΔ) in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) found in histologically normal prostate biopsy specimens has been reported to be a biomarker for the increased probability of prostate cancer. Increased mtDNA copy number is also reported

Best Practices for Evaluating Single Nucleotide Variant Calling Methods for Microbial Genomics

July 7, 2015
Author(s)
Nathanael D. Olson, Steven P. Lund, Rebecca Colman, Jeffery T. Foster, Jason W. Sahl, James M. Schupp, Paul Keim, Jayne B. Morrow, Marc L. Salit, Justin M. Zook
Innovations in sequencing technologies have allowed biologists to make incredible advances in understanding biological systems. As experience grows, researchers increasingly recognize that analyzing the wealth of data provided by these new sequencing

International Interlaboratory Study Comparing Single Organism 16S rRNA Sequencing Data: Going Beyond Consensus Sequence Comparisons

March 5, 2015
Author(s)
Nathanael D. Olson, Justin M. Zook, Steven P. Lund, Fabiola Rojas-Cornejo, Jim Huggett, Jayne B. Morrow
The Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance established a working group to advance the metrology of microbial identification and quantification. This study represents the initial step towards international comparability and measurement assurance for

Nonparametric Estimates of Drift and Diffusion Profiles via Fokker-Planck Algebra

October 13, 2014
Author(s)
Steven P. Lund, Michael W. Halter, Joseph B. Hubbard
Diffusion processes superimposed upon deterministic motion play a key role in understanding and controlling the transport of matter, energy, momentum, and even information in physics, chemistry, material science, biology, and communications technology

Assessing technical performance in differential gene expression experiments with external spike- in RNA control ratio mixtures

September 25, 2014
Author(s)
Sarah A. Munro, Steven P. Lund, Patrick S. Pine, Hans Binder, Djork-Arne Clevert, Ana Conesa, Joaquin Dopazo, Mario Fasold, Sepp Hochreiter, Huixao Hong, Nederah Jafari, David P. Kreil, Pawel P. Labaj, Yang Liao, Simon Lin, Christopher E. Mason, Javier Santoyo, Steven J. Schrodi, Leming Shi, Wei Shi, Gordon K. Smyth, Nancy Stralis-Pavese, Zhenqiang Su, Charles Wang, Jian Wang, Joshua Xu, Zhan Ye, Yong Yang, Ying Yu, Paul Zumbo, Marc L. Salit
There is a critical need for standard approaches to assess, report and compare the technical performance of genome-scale differential gene expression experiments. Here we assess technical performance with a proposed standard ‘dashboard’ of metrics derived

Automated Ranking of Stem Cell Colonies by Translating Biological Rules to Computational Models

September 20, 2014
Author(s)
Adele P. Peskin, Steven P. Lund, YaShian Li-Baboud, Michael W. Halter, Anne L. Plant, Peter Bajcsy
This paper addresses the problem of automating an image ranking process for stem cell colonies. We automate the manual process in a novel way: instead of fitting off-the-shelf image features and colony ranks to prediction models, we define a new feature

Boltzmann's H-Function and Diffusion Processes

May 15, 2013
Author(s)
Steven P. Lund, Joseph B. Hubbard, Michael W. Halter
There exists a generalization of Boltzmann's $H$-function that allows for non-uniformly populated stationary states which may exist far from thermodynamic equilibrium. Here we describe a method for obtaining a generalized or collective diffusion