Forbes Burkowski, University of Waterloo

Latest papers

Using kernelized partial canonical correlation analysis to study directly coupled side chains and allostery in small G proteins.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2015
Sparse networks of directly coupled, polymorphic, and functional side chains in allosteric proteins.
Proteins · 2015

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Using side-chain vibrational interactions as a computational model for protein allostery
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$132,000
Using distance geometry algorithms to derive molecular conformational ensembles
NSERC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$70,000
Computer server for bioinformatics research
NSERC · 2010 · Co-investigator
$63,793

All 11 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Using kernelized partial canonical correlation analysis to study directly coupled side chains and allostery in small G proteins.

Soltan Ghoraie L, Burkowski F, Zhu M

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)2015

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv241 PMID: 26072474

02

Sparse networks of directly coupled, polymorphic, and functional side chains in allosteric proteins.

Soltan Ghoraie L, Burkowski F, Zhu M

Proteins2015

DOI: 10.1002/prot.24752 PMID: 25545075

Using side-chain vibrational interactions as a computational model for protein allostery

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Burkowski, Forbes

$132,000

Using distance geometry algorithms to derive molecular conformational ensembles

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Burkowski, Forbes

$70,000

Computer server for bioinformatics research

Co-investigatorNSERC2010Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Ma, Bin

$63,793

Dimension reduction strategies for the modeling of biomolecular data

Principal investigatorNSERC2004Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Burkowski, Forbes

$85,000

Transforms for evolutionary computation with applications to protein folding

Principal investigatorNSERC2000Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Burkowski, Forbes

$84,000

Bioinformatics research equipment grant

Co-investigatorNSERC2000Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Kearney, Paul

$38,803

Laboratory for database systems research

Co-investigatorNSERC1997Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Salem, Kenneth

$60,444

Using an object-oriented model for structured content in the support of electronic news delivery

Principal investigatorNSERC1996Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Burkowski, Forbes

$74,463

Hybrid models for text retrieval performance evaluation

Principal investigatorNSERC1993Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Burkowski, Forbes

$36,000

Textriever: a search engine for a tagged hierarchical text database

Principal investigatorNSERC1991Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Burkowski, Forbes

$24,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Mu Zhu

Statistics and Actuarial Science

2 shared papers, latest 2015

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