Common space sampling AI searches (MC, GA, Pruning, Evolutionary Algs, etc.)
produce infertile conformations. Replacing structure space with matrix space
distances from biology but improves algorithms results and run time.
Tutor: Prof. Bart Selman
Dates: August 2005 - December 2005
By: Yonatan Ben Simhon
An approximation algorithm for finding maximal contacts (minimum energy) in the 2D HP model for protein folding via a pruned search tree.
Tutors:
Prof. Daniel Berend,
Dr. Daniel Fischer
Ben Gurion University
Dates: October 2000 - October 2001
Sponsored by the ministry of Science -
"Eshkol scholarship"
By: Yonatan Ben Simhon
Web based software that finds homologies between two 3D images of Proteins. Allows quality assessment of protein predictions versus real protein structure.
Tutors: Prof. Daniel Berend, Dr. Daniel Fischer
Ben Gurion University
Dates:October 1999 - January 2000
Sponsored by the ministry of Science -
"Eshkol scholarship"
By: Yonatan Ben Simhon and Mirit Tal
We are trying to implement an automatic optimizer that tunes and manages a database. This project was done in colaboration with EMC.
Tutors:
Prof. Daniel Berend,
Dr. Eitan Bachmat
Ben Gurion University
Dates: March 2000 - June 2001
The project is supported by the 'Best to the Industry' scholarship of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
By: Yonatan Ben Simhon and Yael Mandelblat