biocomputing.biolab.cs.kent.edu

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science
Kent State University

Degrees

Ph.D., Computer Science, Kent State University, 2010 (expected)
M.S., Computer Science, Kent State University, 2005
B.S., Biology and Computer Science, Ashland University, 2001

Research Interests

• Chaos automaton models
• Fractals and iterated function systems
• Evolutionary algorithms
• Protein structure and function
• Alignment algorithms

Publications

• D. A. Stoffer and L. G. Volkert,
  "Exploring chaos automata for protein sequences",
  in Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB '08),
  Sun Valley, Idaho, USA, September 15-17, pp. 38-45, 2008.
• D. A. Stoffer and L. G. Volkert,
  "A neural network for predicting protein disorder using amino acid hydropathy values",
  in Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB '05),
  San Diego, California, USA, November 14-15, pp. 482-489, 2005.
• L. G. Volkert and D. A. Stoffer,
  "A comparison of sequence alignment algorithms for measuring secondary structure similarity",
  in Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB '04),
  La Jolla, California, USA, October 7-8, pp. 182-189, 2004.
• D. A. Dawson, M. A. Cotter, D. L. Policz, D. A. Stoffer, J. P. Nichols, G. Poch,
  "Comparative evaluation of the combined osteolathyritic effects of two nitrile combinations on xenopus embryos",
  Toxicology, vol. 147, no. 3, pp. 193-207, 2000.

Theses

• D. A. Stoffer, Analysis of Pairwise Sequence Alignment for Protein Secondary Structure,
  M.S. Thesis, Kent State University, Department of Computer Science, 2005.