TY - CHAP A1 - Gesing, Sandra A1 - Grunzke, Richard A1 - Balasko, Akos A1 - Birkenheuer, Georg A1 - Blunk, Dirk A1 - Breuers, Sebastian A1 - Brinkmann, André A1 - Fels, Gregor A1 - Herres-Pawlis, Sonja A1 - Kacsuk, Peter A1 - Kozlovszky, Miklos A1 - Krüger, Jens A1 - Packschies, Lars A1 - Schäfer, Patrick A1 - Schuller, Bernd A1 - Schuster, Johannes A1 - Steinke, Thomas A1 - Szikszay Fabri, Anna A1 - Wewior, Martin A1 - Müller-Pfefferkorn, Ralph A1 - Kohlbacher, Oliver T1 - Granular Security for a Science Gateway in Structural Bioinformatics T2 - Proc. IWSG-Life 2011 Y1 - 2011 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Birkenheuer, Georg A1 - Blunk, Dirk A1 - Breuers, Sebastian A1 - Brinkmann, Andre A1 - Fels, Gregor A1 - Gesing, Sandra A1 - Grunzke, Richard A1 - Herres-Pawlis, Sonja A1 - Kohlbacher, Oliver A1 - Krüger, Jens A1 - Lang, Ulrich A1 - Packschies, Lars A1 - Müller-Pfefferkorn, Ralph A1 - Schäfer, Patrick A1 - Schuster, Johannes A1 - Steinke, Thomas A1 - Warzecha, Klaus Dieter A1 - Wewior, Martin T1 - MoSGrid: Progress of Workflow driven Chemical Simulations T2 - Proc. of Grid Workflow Workshop 2011, Cologne, Germany Y1 - 2011 UR - http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-826/paper02.pdf VL - 826 PB - CEUR Workshop Proceedings ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gesing, Sandra A1 - Grunzke, Richard A1 - Krüger, Jens A1 - Birkenheuer, Georg A1 - Wewior, Martin A1 - Schäfer, Patrick A1 - Schuller, Bernd A1 - Schuster, Johannes A1 - Herres-Pawlis, Sonja A1 - Breuers, Sebastian A1 - Balasko, Akos A1 - Kozlovszky, Miklos A1 - Szikszay Fabri, Anna A1 - Packschies, Lars A1 - Kacsuk, Peter A1 - Blunk, Dirk A1 - Steinke, Thomas A1 - Brinkmann, André A1 - Fels, Gregor A1 - Müller-Pfefferkorn, Ralph A1 - Jäkel, René A1 - Kohlbacher, Oliver T1 - A Single Sign-On Infrastructure for Science Gateways on a Use Case for Structural Bioinformatics JF - Journal of Grid Computing Y1 - 2012 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Baum, Daniel A1 - Mahlow, Kristin A1 - Lamecker, Hans A1 - Zachow, Stefan A1 - Müller, Johannes A1 - Hege, Hans-Christian T1 - The Potential of Surface-based Geometric Morphometrics for Evolutionary Studies: An Example using Dwarf Snakes (Eirenis) T2 - Abstract in DigitalSpecimen 2014 N2 - Geometric morphometrics plays an important role in evolutionary studies. The state-of-the-art in this field are landmark-based methods. Since the landmarks usually need to be placed manually, only a limited number of landmarks are generally used to represent the shape of an anatomical structure. As a result, shape characteristics that cannot be properly represented by small sets of landmarks are disregarded. In this study, we present a method that is free of this limitation. The method takes into account the whole shape of an anatomical structure, which is represented as a surface, hence the term ‘surface-based morphometrics’. Correspondence between two surfaces is established by defining a partitioning of the surfaces into homologous surface patches. The first step for the generation of a surface partitioning is to place landmarks on the surface. Subsequently, the landmarks are connected by curves lying on the surface. The curves, called ‘surface paths’, might either follow specific anatomical features or they can be geodesics, that is, shortest paths on the surface. One important requirement, however, is that the resulting surface path networks are topologically equivalent across all surfaces. Once the surface path networks have been defined, the surfaces are decomposed into patches according to the path networks. This approach has several advantages. One of them is that we can discretize the surface by as many points as desired. Thus, even fine shape details can be resolved if this is of interest for the study. Since a point discretization is used, another advantage is that well-established analysis methods for landmark-based morphometrics can be utilized. Finally, the shapes can be easily morphed into one another, thereby greatly supporting the understanding of shape changes across all considered specimens. To show the potential of the described method for evolutionary studies of biological specimens, we applied the method to the para-basisphenoid complex of the snake genus Eirenis. By using this anatomical structure as example, we present all the steps that are necessary for surface-based morphometrics, including the segmentation of the para-basisphenoid complex from micro-CT data sets. We also show some first results using statistical analysis as well as classification methods based on the presented technique. Y1 - 2014 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Redemann, Stefanie A1 - Baumgart, Johannes A1 - Lindow, Norbert A1 - Shelley, Michael A1 - Nazockdast, Ehssan A1 - Kratz, Andrea A1 - Prohaska, Steffen A1 - Brugués, Jan A1 - Fürthauer, Sebastian A1 - Müller-Reichert, Thomas T1 - C. elegans chromosomes connect to centrosomes by anchoring into the spindle network JF - Nature Communications N2 - The mitotic spindle ensures the faithful segregation of chromosomes. Here we combine the first large-scale serial electron tomography of whole mitotic spindles in early C. elegans embryos with live-cell imaging to reconstruct all microtubules in 3D and identify their plus- and minus-ends. We classify them as kinetochore (KMTs), spindle (SMTs) or astral microtubules (AMTs) according to their positions, and quantify distinct properties of each class. While our light microscopy and mutant studies show that microtubules are nucleated from the centrosomes, we find only a few KMTs directly connected to the centrosomes. Indeed, by quantitatively analysing several models of microtubule growth, we conclude that minus-ends of KMTs have selectively detached and depolymerized from the centrosome. In toto, our results show that the connection between centrosomes and chromosomes is mediated by an anchoring into the entire spindle network and that any direct connections through KMTs are few and likely very transient. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15288 VL - 8 IS - 15288 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - von Lindheim, Johannes A1 - Harikrishnan, Abhishek A1 - Dörffel, Tom A1 - Klein, Rupert A1 - Koltai, Peter A1 - Mikula, Natalia A1 - Müller, Annette A1 - Névir, Peter A1 - Pacey, George A1 - Polzin, Robert A1 - Vercauteren, Nikki T1 - Definition, detection and tracking of persistent structures in atmospheric flows JF - arXiv N2 - Long-lived flow patterns in the atmosphere such as weather fronts, mid-latitude blockings or tropical cyclones often induce extreme weather conditions. As a consequence, their description, detection, and tracking has received increasing attention in recent years. Similar objectives also arise in diverse fields such as turbulence and combustion research, image analysis, and medical diagnostics under the headlines of "feature tracking", "coherent structure detection" or "image registration" - to name just a few. A host of different approaches to addressing the underlying, often very similar, tasks have been developed and successfully used. Here, several typical examples of such approaches are summarized, further developed and applied to meteorological data sets. Common abstract operational steps form the basis for a unifying framework for the specification of "persistent structures" involving the definition of the physical state of a system, the features of interest, and means of measuring their persistence. Y1 - 2021 ER -