W. Michael Brown

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Publications

Brown, W.M., Thompson, A.P., Schultz, P.A. Efficient Hybrid Evolutionary Optimization of Interatomic Potential Models. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2010. 132: p. 024108 (1-10).

Gray, Genetha A., Williams, P.J., Brown, W.M., Faulon, J.-L., Sale, K.S. Disparate Data Fusion for Protein Phosphorylation Prediction. Annals of Operations Research. 2010. 174: p. 219-235.

Brown, W.M., Petersen, M.K., Plimpton, S.J., Grest, G.S. Liquid Crystal Nanodroplets in Solution. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2009. 130: p. 044901 (1-7).

Brown, W.M., Martin, S., Pollock, S.N., Coutsias, E.A., Watson, J.-P. Algorithmic Dimensionality Reduction for Molecular Structure Analysis. Journal of Chemical Physics. 2008. 129: p. 064118 (1-13).

Brown, W.M.,  Sasson, A., Bellew, D.R., Hunsaker, L.A., Martin, S., Leitao, A., Deck, L.M., Vander Jagt, D. L., Oprea, T.I. Efficient Calculation of Molecular Properties from Simulation using Kernel Molecular Dynamics. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2008. 48: p. 1626-1637.

Brown, W.M., Martin, S., Rintoul, M.D., Faulon, J.L. Designing Novel Polymers with Targeted Properties using the Signature Molecular Descriptor. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2006. 46: p. 826-835.
Brown, W. M. and Bäcker, A. Optimal Neuronal Tuning for Finite Stimulus Spaces. Neural Computation, 2006. 18: p. 1511-1526.
Brown, W. M., Martin, S., Strauss, C., and Faulon, J.L.  Prediction of Beta-Strand Packing Interactions Using the Signature Product. Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2006. 12: p. 355-361..

Faulon, J.L., Brown, W. M., Martin, S., Faulon, J.L.   Reverse Engineering Chemical Structures from Molecular Descriptors: How Many Solutions? Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, 2005. 19: p. 637-650.

Brown, W. M.
, Faulon, JL., Sale, K. A Deterministic Algorithm for Constrained Enumeration of Transmembrane Protein Folds. Computational Biology and Chemistry, 2005. 29: p. 143-150.

Sillerud, L.O., Burks, E.J., Brown, W.M., Brown, D.C., and Larson, R.S. NMR Solution Structure of a Potent Peptide Inhibitor of Integrin-based Cell Adhesion Produced by Homologous Amino Acid Substitution. Journal of Peptide Research, 2004. 64: p. 127-140.

Brown, W.M. and Vander Jagt, D.L. Creating Artificial Binding Pocket Boundaries to Improve the Efficiency of Flexible Ligand Docking. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Science, 2004. 44: p. 1412-1422.

Brown, W.M., Hoard, A.,Vanderjagt, T.A., Hunsaker, L.A., Deck, L.M., Royer, R.E., Piper, R.C., Dame, J., Makler, D.L., and Vander Jagt, D.L. Comparative structural analysis and kinetic properties of lactate dehydrogenases from four species of human malarial parasites. Biochemistry, 2004. 43: p. 6219-6229.

Vander Jagt, D.L., Hunsaker, L.A., Young, B.S. and Brown, W.M. Aldo-Keto Reductase-Catalyzed Detoxication of Endogenous Aldehydes Associated with Diabetic Complications. American Chemical Society Series, 2004. 865: p. 23-35.

Brown, W.M., Hunsaker, L.A., Deck, J.A., Royer, R.E. and Vander Jagt, D.L. 17-Beta-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 1: Computational Design of Active Site Inhibitors Targeted to the Rossmann Fold. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 2003. 143: p. 481-491.

Stoddard Hatch, M., Brown, W.M., Deck, J.A., Hunsaker, L.A., Deck, L.M. and Vander Jagt, D.L. Inhibition of Yeast Lipase (Crl1) and Cholesterol Esterase (Crl3) by 6-Chloro-2-Pyrones: Comparison with Porcine Cholesterol Esterase. Biochim Biophys Acta, 2002. 1596(2): p. 381-91.

Vander Jagt, D.L., Hassebrook, R.K., Hunsaker, L.A., Brown, W.M. and Royer, R.E. Metabolism of the 2-Oxoaldehyde Methylglyoxal by Aldose Reductase and by Glyoxalase-I: Roles for Glutathione in Both Enzymes and Implications for Diabetic Complications. Chemico-Biological Interactions, 2001. 130(1-3): p. 549-562.
   


Conference Proceedings

Martin, S., Brown, W.M., Faulon, J.-L., Weis, D., Visco, D. Inverse Design of Large Molecules using Linear Diophantine Equations. Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computational Systems Biology Conference, 2005. p. 11-16.


Book Chapters

Martin, S., Brown, W.M., Faulon, J.-L., “Using Product Kernels to Predict Protein Interactions,” in Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology: Protein-Protein Interactions, H. Seitz and M. Werther, Eds., Springer-Verlag.


Technical Reports

Brown, W.M., Thompson, A.P., Watson, J-P., Schultz, P.A. Bridging Scales from Ab Initio Models to Predictive Empirical Models for Complex Materials. SAND Reports, 2008. 6454: p. 1-57.

Grest, G. S., Brown, W. M., Lechman, J. B., Petersen, M. K., Plimpton, S. J., Schunk, P. R. Nanoparticle Flow, Ordering, and Self-Assembly. SAND Reports, 2008. 6516: p. 1-29.

Martin, S., Brown, W.M., Klavans, R., Boyack, K.W., DrL: Distributed Recursive (Graph) Layout. SAND Reports, 2008. 2936: p. 1-10.

Brown, W.M., Davidson, G.S. Interactomes to Biological Phase Space: a call to begin thinking at a new level in computational biology. SAND Reports, 2007. 6278: p. 1-30.

May, E.E., Johnston, A.M., Watson, J.P., Hart, W.E., Brown, W.M. Deciphering the Genetic Regulatory Code Using an Inverse Error Control Coding Framework. SAND Reports, 2005. 1029: p. 1-41.

Brown, W.M., Faulon, J.L., Gray, G.A., Hunt, T.W., Schoeniger, J.S.,Shirley, D., Slepoy, A., Young, M.M., Sale, K.L. Model-Building Codes for Membrane Proteins. SAND Reports, 2004. 6383: p. 1-75.


Research Highlights


Scalable GPGPU Accelerated MD Simulations Achieve >150x Speedup on a Single Node. NNSA ASC Quarterly Newsletter. December 2009.

Klein Bottle Discovered in Molecular Conformation Data. CCIM News Notes. 2009.

New Computational Methods Enable Novel Nanoparticle Simulations. Computational Science Research Highlights. 2009. I-42  - I-43.

German, J. Beauty, molecules deep. Sandia Technology - A Quarterly Research and Development Magazine. 2008. 9: p. 5-7.

German, J. Sandia leads three-year alliance with companies interested in nanoparticle coatings, films. Sandia Lab News. March 14 , 2008.






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