Selected publications and presentations

• Umenhoffer K, Feher T, Baliko G, Ayaydin F, Posfai J, Blattner FR, Posfai G.: Reduced evolvability of Escherichia coli MDS42, an IS-less cellular chassis for molecular and synthetic biology applications. Microb Cell Fact. 2010 May 21;9(1):38.
• J. Posfai, Psychological disorders as consequences of a failed learning process - a hypothesis. 2010 Conference on Behavioural, Cognitive and Psychological Sciences, Singapore. (ISBN 978-1-84626-028-5.)
• C. S. Pedamallu, J. Posfai, Open source tool for prediction of genome wide protein-protein interaction network based on ortholog information. Source Code for Biology and Medicine, 2010, submitted)
• R. J. Roberts, T. Vincze, J. Posfai and D. Macelis, REBASE : a database for DNA restriction and modification: enzymes, genes and genomes. Nucleic Acids Research, (2009) 1-3.
• Hanora A, et al., The complete genome of Teridinobacter turnerae T7901: an intracellular endosymbiont of marine wood-boring bivalves. PLoS One. 2009 4(7) :e6085.
• Yu Zheng, Janos Posfai, Richard D. Morgan, Tamas Vincze and Richard J. Roberts, A Novel Use for Shotgun Sequence Data, Nucleic Acids Research, 2009 37(1)e1.
• J. C. Yang, C. S. Pedamallu, J. Posfai, H. Khouri, S. Durkin, J. H. Badger, and D. L. Distel. Characterization of shipworm polysymbosis using genomic approaches.ASM Meeting, Boston, June 1-5, 2008.
• J. Foster, et al., Evolution of the genome of the obligate Wolbachia endosymbiont of Brugia malayi, a pathogenic nematode responsible for human lymphatic filariasis, PLoS Biology 3 (2005), 599-614.
• Posfai J, Vincze T and Roberts RJ: Mining shotgun sequence data for restriction enzymes and fot other toxic proteins, poster, FEBS Congress, 2005.
• Posfai J: Gold from the refuse: restriction enzyme genes mined from shotgun sequences, seminar, Biological Research Center, Szeged, Hungary, 2005.
• Posfai J, Vincze T, Roberts, RJ. NEBcutter: A program to cleave DNA with restriction enzymes. Encyclopedia of Medical Genomics and Proteomics, Marcel Dekker, 2004.
• R.Roberts, T. Vincze, J. Posfai, D. Macelis, "REBASE: restriction enzymes and methyltransferases:", Nucleic Acids Res. 13 (2003), 3688-91.
• Kolisnychenko V, Plunkett G 3rd, Herring CD, Feher T, Posfai J, Blattner FR, Posfai G. "Engineering a reduced Escherichia coli genome." Genome Res. 2002 Apr;12(4):640-7.
• Posfai, J. and Roberts, R.F. "Prospecting for new restriction enzymes: guilt by association", poster, RECOMB99, Lyon, France, 1999.
• Posfai, J., "Codon usage strategies and virus-host interactions", Aspen Center for Physics workshop on Identifying Features in Biological Sequences, 1996, oral presentation.
• Posfai, J., "Data mining in genome databases", Aspen Center for Physics workshop on Identifying Features in Biological Sequences, 1996. Oral presentation.
• J. Posfai, Z.Szaraz and R.J. Roberts, "VISA: Visual Sequence Analysis for the comparison of multiple amino acid sequences", (1994) CABIOS 10, 537-544.
• Posfai, J. and Roberts, R.J. "Finding errors in DNA Sequences", Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 89, pp. 4698-4702, 1992.
• Posfai, J., Bhagwat, A.S., Posfai, Gy. and Roberts, R.J. "Predictive motifs derived from cytosine methyltransferases", (1989) Nucleic Acids. Res. 17, pp. 2421-2435.