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Journals

1. B. Zhang, D.T. Yehdego, K.L. Johnson, M.-Y. Leung, and M. Taufer (2013) Enhancement of accuracy and efficiency for RNA secondary structure prediction by sequence segmentation and MapReduce. BMC Structural Biology, 13 (Suppl. 1)(S3), 1-24. www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6807/13/S1/S3; Accessed 11/17/14.
2. J. Rosskopf, J. Upton, III, L. Rodarte, T. Romero, M. Leung, M. Taufer, and K. Johnson: A 3′ Terminal Stem-loop Structure in Nodamura Virus RNA2 Forms an Essential Cis-acting Signal for RNA Replication. Virus Research, 150(1-2): 12–21, 2010.
3. M. Taufer, A. Licon, R. Araiza, D. Mireles, A. Gultyaev, F. van Batenburg, and M. Leung: PseudoBase++: An Extension of PseudoBase for Easy Searching, Formatting, and Visualization of Pseudoknots. Nucleic Acids Research, 37(Database Issue): D127-135, 2009.
4. M. Taufer, M. Leung, T. Solorio, A. Licon, D. Mireles, R. Araiza, and K. Johnson: RNAVLab: A Virtual Laboratory for Studying RNA Secondary Structures Based on Grid Computing Technology. Parallel Computing, 34: 661-680, 2008.

Peer-reviewed Papers in Conferences, Workshops, and Symposiums

1. M. Taufer, T. Solorio, A. Licon, D. Mireles, and M. Leung: On the Effectiveness of Rebuilding RNA Secondary Structures from Sequence Chunks. In Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB'08), April 2008, Miami, Florida, USA.
2. R. Araiza, M. Taufer, and M. Leung: Towards Optimal Scheduling for Global Computing Under Probabilistic, Interval, and Fuzzy Uncertainty, with Potential Applications to Bioinformatics. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS'2007), June 2007San Diego, California, USA.
3. M. Taufer, M. Leung, K. Johnson, and A. Licon: RNAVLab: A Unified Environment for Computational RNA Structure Analysis Based on Grid Computing Technology. Sixth IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (HiCOMB'07), in conjunction with IPDPS'07 March 2007, Long Beach, California, USA.
4. T. Estrada, A. Licon, and M. Taufer: CompPknots: a Framework for Parallel Prediction and Comparison of RNA Secondary Structures with Pseudoknots. In Proceedings of 1st Frontier on High Performance Computing and Networking Workshop (FHPCN-06), in conjunction with ISPA 2006, December 2006, Sorrento, Italy.

Posters

1. M. Taufer, M. Leung, K. Johnson, T. Solorio, A. Licon, P. Tungjatooronrusamee, Y. Dayal, R. Araiza, and D. Mireles: RNAVLab - A Modular Tool for the Study of RNA Secondary Structures. New Mexico Bioinformatics Symposium (NMBIS) March 8-9, 2007 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2. Y. Dayal, V. Shatdarsanam, M. Taufer, and M. Leung: RNAVBase-PK: A Tool for Studying RNA Pseudoknots. New Mexico Bioinformatics Symposium (NMBIS) March 8-9, 2007 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
3. M. Taufer, M. Leung, K. Johnson, A. Licon, P. Tungjatooronrusamee, Y. Dayal, D. Catarino, and H. Lei: "RNAVLab: An Open- source User-friendly Virtual Laboratory for the Study of RNA Secondary Structures. First annual meeting for the Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CA-HSI), December 2006, El Paso, Texas.
4. M. Taufer, M. Leung, K. Johnson, A. Licon, P. Tungjatooronrusamee, Y. Dayal, D. Catarino, and H. Lei: "RNAVLab: An Open- source User-friendly Virtual Laboratory for the Study of RNA Secondary Structures. International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC'06), November 2006, Tampa, Florida.
5. M. Taufer, M. Leung, K. Johnson, A. Licon, P. Tungjatooronrusamee, Y. Dayal, D. Catarino, and H. Lei: RNAVLab: An Open-source User-friendly Virtual Laboratory for the Study of RNA Secondary Structures. First Poster Session for Bioinformatics and Related Research at UTEP, November 2006, El Paso, Texas.