Mustafa Kirac Research Assistant email: (my last name)@case.edu

Address

    Case Western Reserve University
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
    10900 Euclid Avenue
    Olin Bldg 503
    Cleveland, OH, 44106
    Office Phone: +1 216-368-8843

CV

Academic History

• B.S. in Computer Engineering  Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering (2003)
• Ph.D. in Computer Science  Case Western Reserve University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Expected May 2008)

Research

I am a member of the Database and Bioinformatics Lab and currently working with Prof. Gultekin Ozsoyoglu.

Interests

• Bioinformatics
• Computational Biology
• Databases
• Data Mining

Publications

Peer Reviewed Conference Publications

• Mustafa Kirac , Ali Cakmak, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu. Task-Oriented Integrated Use of Biological Web Data Sources. 18th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Databases (SSDBM), Vienna, Austria, 2006. [Link]

• Mustafa Kirac , Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Jiong Yang. Annotating Proteins by Mining Protein Interaction Networks. In Proceedings of 14th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), Fortaleza, Brazil, 2006.
  • Website of the project

• Ali Cakmak, Mustafa Kirac, Marc Reynolds, Meral Ozsoyoglu, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu. Gene Ontology-Based Annotation Analysis and Categorization of Metabolic Pathways. 19th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Databases (SSDBM). Banff, Canada, 2007. [Link]

• Mustafa Kirac and Gultekin Ozsoyoglu. Protein Function Prediction Based on Patterns in Biological Networks, 12th Annual Int. Conf. on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), Singapore, March 30-April 2, 2008.
  • Website of the project

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

• Mustafa Kirac, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, and Jiong Yang. Annotating proteins by mining protein interaction networks. Bioinformatics, 2006. 22(14):e260-e270.
  • Website of the project

• Brendan Elliott, Mustafa Kirac, Ali Cakmak, Gokhan Yavas, Stephen Mayes, En Cheng, Yuan Wang, Chirag Gupta, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, and Z.Meral Ozsoyoglu. PathCase: Pathways Database System. Bioinformatics (submitted).

Research In Progress

• Mustafa Kirac and Gultekin Ozsoyoglu. Assessing Reliability and Essentiality of Protein Interactions. (In Progress).

• Mustafa Kirac and Gultekin Ozsoyoglu. Pattern-oriented Prediction of Metabolic Reactions and Pathways. (In Progress).

Projects & Software

• PathCase Java-GraphViewer : A Metabolic Pathway Visualization Tool.
• PopulusLog People Information Database : Data collection and Visualization.
• PopulusLog People Information Database: CASE Edition : Data collection and Visualization.

Personal Links

• Mustafa Kirac's Homepage
• Case Western Reserve University Union of Turkish Students
• Ismicik Koyu
• Learn Turkish Online