Ahmet Sacan

“Hello World!” in Batman, Turkey, in 1979.

Proud husband of Dulcy, and father of a dangerously cute and yaramaz baby (who is munching on an artichoke leaf on the right).

Research Interests: Indexing and Data Mining in Biological Databases, Protein Sequence and Structure, Similarity Search

Software Development: The Software page lists some of the software I have developed.

See my resume for more detailed information.

Ahmet Sacan, I. Hakki Toroslu, and Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu. Integrated Search and Alignment of Protein Structures. Bioinformatics, (submitted).

Ahmet Sacan, I. Hakki Toroslu, and Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu. Distance-based Indexing of Residue Contacts for Protein Structure Retrieval and Alignment. IEEE 8th International Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (IEEE-BIBE2008), (to appear).

Ahmet Sacan, Nilgun Ferhatosmanoglu, and Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu. MaD: An Online Search Tool and Repository for Near–Optimal Microarray Experimental Designs. BMC Bioinformatics, (submitted).

Hong Sun, Ahmet Sacan, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, and Yusu Wang. Smolign: A Spatial Motifs Based Multiple Protein Structures Alignment Method. Bioinformatics, (under submission).

Hong Sun, Ahmet Sacan, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, and Yusu Wang. Smolign: A Spatial Motifs Based Multiple Protein Structures Alignment Method (poster presentation). Ohio Collaborative Conference on Bioinformatics (OCCBIO), Toledo, OH, 2008.

Ahmet Sacan, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, and Huseyin Coskun. CellTrack: An Open-Source Software for Cell Tracking and Motility Analysis. Bioinformatics, 24(14):1647-1649, 2008.

Ahmet Sacan and I. Hakki Toroslu. Approximate Similarity Search in Genomic Sequence Databases using Landmark-Guided Embedding. 1st International Workshop on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP, an ICDE-2008 workshop) April 11-12, 2008, Cancún, Mexico.

Fatih Altiparmak, Ali Tosun, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, and Ahmet Sacan. Automated Data Discovery in Similarity Score Queries. International Conference of Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2008), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, India, 2008.

Ahmet Sacan and I. Hakki Toroslu. Amino acid substitution matrices based on 4-body Delaunay contact profiles. IEEE 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics & Bioengineering (IEEE-BIBE2007), 796-801, 2007.

Ahmet Sacan, Ozgur Ozturk, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, and Yusu Wang. LFM-Pro: A Tool for Detecting Significant Local Structural Sites in Proteins. Bioinformatics, 23(6):709-716, 2007.

Ahmet Sacan, Ozgur Ozturk, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, and Yusu Wang. LFM-Pro: a tool for mining family-specific sites in protein structure databases (Poster presentation). Third Midwest Database Research Symposium, Apr 2006.

Ahmet Sacan. Mapping Protein Sequences and Structures to Feature Spaces for Efficient Indexing. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics 2005 (HIBIT 2005)