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Ric Colasanti

University of Glasgow
Verified email at glasgow.ac.uk
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[HTML][HTML] KBase: the United States department of energy systems biology knowledgebase

…, CC Bun, JM Chandonia, JM Chia, R Colasanti… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Although similar integrative tools exist (Supplementary Note 2), no other open platform
shares all KBase’s features, which include the following:(i) comprehensive support for data …

A unifying hypothesis for the structure of microbial biofilms based on cellular automaton models

JWT Wimpenny, R Colasanti - FEMS microbiology ecology, 1997 - academic.oup.com
A review of the basic structure of microbial biofilm reveals that at least three conceptual
models exist: (i) heterogeneous mosaic biofilm, (ii) penetrated water-channel biofilm and (iii) …

The DOE systems biology knowledgebase (KBase)

…, CC Bun, JM Chandonia, JM Chia, R Colasanti… - BioRxiv, 2016 - biorxiv.org
The US Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) is an open-source
software and data platform designed to meet the grand challenge of systems biology — …

Analysis of tidal breathing profiles in cystic fibrosis and COPD

RL Colasanti, MJ Morris, RG Madgwick, L Sutton… - Chest, 2004 - Elsevier
Study objectives To explore the flow and time domain characteristics of resting tidal airflow
profiles in the presence of obstructive airway disease. Methods Spirometry was performed on …

[HTML][HTML] Systematic identification and analysis of frequent gene fusion events in metabolic pathways

…, C Lerma-Ortiz, SY Gerdes, JD Mullen, R Colasanti… - BMC genomics, 2016 - Springer
Background Gene fusions are the most powerful type of in silico-derived functional associations.
However, many fusion compilations were made when <100 genomes were available, …

A more unifying hypothesis for biofilm structures–a reply

JWT Wimpenny, R Colasanti - FEMS microbiology ecology, 1997 - academic.oup.com
In this note we respond to comments made by Van Loosdrecht and colleagues regarding
our unifying hypothesis for biofilm formation. We concur with much of what the authors state; …

Real communities of virtual plants explain biodiversity on just three assumptions

R Hunt, RL Colasanti - in silico Plants, 2021 - academic.oup.com
To illuminate mechanisms supporting diversity in plant communities, we construct 2D cellular
automata and ‘grow’ virtual plants in real experiments. The plants are 19 different, fully …

Tapping the wealth of microbial data in high-throughput metabolic model reconstruction

R Colasanti, JN Edirisinghe, T Khazaei… - Metabolic Flux Analysis …, 2014 - Springer
Genome-scale metabolic models are valuable tools in the metabolic engineering process,
based on the ability of these models to integrate diverse sources of data to produce global …

[PDF][PDF] The dynamics of invasion as a function of landscape connectivity.

R Colasanti, RD Klinken, S Coutts, Y Buckley - 2008 - academia.edu
In this paper we investigate the role that landscape connectivity plays in facilitating plant
invasions. Our goal was to describe the effect of local and long-distance dispersal on population …

S‐nitrosylation of viral proteins: molecular bases for antiviral effect of nitric oxide

M Colasanti, T Persichini, G Venturini, P Ascenzi - Iubmb Life, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
… The expression of the wide variety of effects in biological systems is achieved through the
interaction of NO with target (macro)molecules by way of a ric h redox and additive chemistry. …