Who am I?

Brief Biography

Research Interest

Publications

1. Ho JWK, Stefani M, dos Remedios CG, Charleston MA (2009) A model selection approach to discover age-dependent gene expression patterns using quantile regression models. BMC Genomics, accepted
   
   
2. Xie X, Ho J Murphy C, Kaiser G, Xu B, Chen TY (2009) Application of Metamorphic Testing to Supervised Classifiers. In Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Quality Software, accepted
   
   
3. Mohamed A, Koundinya R, Junius F, Dyer W, Yong A, Ho J, Kritharides L, Freedman B, dos Remedios C (2009) CD antibody microarrays as an objective tool to differentiate between inflammatory conditions of coronary arteries. In Proceedings of The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ) 57th Annual Scientific Meeting, accepted
   
   
4. Estigoy CB, Ponten F, Odeberg J, Herbert B, Guilhaus M, Charleston M, Ho JWK, Cameron D, dos Remedios CG (2009) Intercalated Discs: Multiple proteins perform multiple functions in non-failing and failing human hearts. Biophy. Rev., 1, 43-49
   
   
5. Jermiin LS, Ho JWK, Lau KW, Jayaswal V (2009) SeqVis: A tool for detecting compositional heterogeneity among aligned nucleotide sequences. In Bioinformatics for DNA sequence analysis (Ed. Posada D), Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. 65-91
   
   
6. Chen TY, Ho JWK, Liu H, Xie X (2009) An innovative approach for testing bioinformatics programs using metamorphic testing. BMC Bioinformatics, 10, 24 [labeled as "Highly accessed" by BMC Bioinformatics]
   
   
7. Hassan MR, Hossain MM, Bailey J, Macintyre G, Ho JWK, Kotagiri R (2009) A voting approach to identify a small number of highly predictive genes using multiple classifiers. BMC Bioinformatics, 10, S19
   
   
8. Ho JWK, Koundinya R, Caetano TS, dos Remedios CG, Charleston MA (2008) Inferring differential leukocyte activity from antibody microarrays using a latent variable model. Genome Informatics, 21, 126-137
   
   
9. Ho JWK, Stefani M, dos Remedios CG, Charleston MA (2008) Differential variability analysis of gene expression and its application to human diseases, Bioinformatics, 24, i390-i398
   
   
10. Ho JWK, Charleston MA (2007) Modeling the Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks. In Proceedings of The Eighth International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2007), Long Beach, USA
    
    
11. Ho JWK, Morrissey B, Downard KM (2007) A Computer Algorithm for the Identification of Protein Interaction from the Spectra of Masses (PRISM). J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 18, 563-566
    
    
12. Ho JWK, Adams CE, Lew JB, Matthews TJ, Ng CC, Shahabi-Sirjani A, Tan LH, Zhao Y, Easteal S, Wilson SR, Jermiin LS (2006) SeqVis: Visualization of compositional heterogeneity in large alignments of nucleotides. Bioinformatics, 22(17), 2162-2163
    
    
13. Ho JWK, Manwaring T, Hong SH, Roehm U, Fung DCY, Xu K, Kraska T, Hart D (2006) PathBank: Web-based Querying and Visualization of an Integrated Biological Pathway Database. In Banissi E, Sarfraz M, Huang ML, Wu Q (Eds) Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualization - Techniques and Application (Proceedings of CGIV2006), IEEE Computer Society,84-89
    
    
14. Ho J, Lukov L, Chawla S (2005) Sequential Pattern Mining with Constraints on Large Protein Databases. In Chakrabarti S, Sudarshan S, Radha Krishnan P (Eds) Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD 2005b), 89-100
    
    
15. Ho J, Hong SH (2005) Drawing Clustered Graph in Three Dimensions. In Haely P, Nikolov NS (Eds) Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium of Graph Drawing (GD2005). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 492-502
    
    
16. Ahmed A, Dwyer T, Foster M, Fu X, Ho J, Hong SH, Koschutzki D, Murray C, Nikolov N, Taib R, Tarassov A, Xu K, (2005) GEOMI:GEOmetry for Maximum Insight. In Haely P, Nikolov NS (Eds) Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium of Graph Drawing (GD2005). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer,468-479

Poster

1. Ho JWK (2008) Towards a Bayesian network approach for microarray gene set analysis. The fourth ISCB Student Symposium, Toronto, Canada
   
   
2. Ho JWK, Stefani M, dos Remedios C and Charleston MA (2007) Computational Genomics of The Failing Heart ICE-EM Summer Symposium in Bioinformatics (BioinfoSummer 2007), Canberra, Australia [Winner of the Hilary Booth Prize for the best poster]
   
   
3. Ho JWK, Charleston MA (2007) Modeling the Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks The Eighth International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2007), Long Beach, USA
   
   
4. Ho JWK, Charleston MA(2007) Assessing Limitations of Gene Regulatory Network Inference Methods The Fifth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2007), Hong Kong, China
   
   
5. Ho JWK, Charleston MA (2006) Evolving and Simulating Gene Regulatory Networks The First Bioinformatics Australia Conference, Sydney, Australia

Thesis

1. Ho JWK (2006) Computational Analysis of Evolution and Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks. BSc (Advanced) (Honours) Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Sydney

Software

1. Heart Tissue Bank - A SQL database management system for a collection of human heart tissues (restricted access)
2. SeqVis - A tool to visualize compositional heterogeneity in large alignmnet of nucleotide sequences.
3. GNLab - A tool of large-scale analysis of gene regulatory network
4. PexSPAM - A tool for mining high-confident sequential features for protein secondary structure prediction
5. GEOMI - A 3D visual analytic tool. It includes a few modules for clusterd graph drawing that I developed. A gallery of 3D clustered graph visualization is available here .