Vives, S. Bradford, L., Vazquez, M., Brenner, D.J., Sachs, R.K.,
Hlatky, L, Cornforth, M. and Arsuaga, J. SCHIP: Statistics of
Chromosome Interphase Positioning Based on Interchange Data,
Bioinformatics. (2005) 21(14):3181-2 (PDF)
Arsuaga, J., Greulich-Bode, K., Vazquez, M., Brukner,
M.,Hahnfeldt,P., Brenner, D.J., Sachs, R. and Hlatky, L. Chromosome
positioning through radiogenic aberrations, Int. J. Radiat. Biol. (2004)
80(7):507-15 (PDF)
D. Levy, M. Vazquez, B. Loucas, M. Cornforth, R.K. Sachs, J.
Arsuaga, Comparing DNA damage processing
pathways by computer analysis of chromosome painting data, J. Comput. Biol.
(2004) 11(4): 626-41 (PDF)
M. Vazquez, K.M. Greulich-Bode, J. Arsuaga, M.N. Cornforth, M.
Bruckner, R.K. Sachs, P. Hahnfeldt, M. Molls, L. Hlatky, Computer
analysis of mFISH chromosome aberration data uncovers an excess of very
complex metaphases, International Journal of Radiation Biology (2002) 78:1103-1116
( PDF)
M.N. Cornforth, K.M. Greulich-Bode, B.D. Loucas, J. Arsuaga, M. Vazquez,
R.K. Sachs, M. Bruckner, M. Molls, P. Hahnfeldt, L. Hlatky, D.J. Brenner Chromosomes
are predominantly located randomly with respect to each other in interphase
human cells, Journal of Cell Biology (2002) 159(2):237-244 (PDF)
Refer also to accompanying
commentary: Chromosomal Cliques by A.W. Dove, Journal of Cell Biology
(2002) 159(2):199 (PDF)
R.K. Sachs, J. Arsuaga, M. Vazquez, P. Hahnfeldt, L. Hlatky, Using
Graph Theory to Analyze Chromosome Aberrations, Radiation Research
(2002) 159(5):556-567 (PDF)
L. Hlatky, R.K.Sachs, M. Vazquez, M.N. Cornforth, Radiation-induced
chromosome aberrations: insights gained from biophysical modeling,
Bioessays (2002) 24:714-723 (PDF)
DNA topology
J. Arsuaga, M. Vazquez, P. McGuirck, Trigueros, S., D.W. Sumners, J. Roca
DNA knots reveal a chiral organization of DNA in phage capsids; Proc.
Natl Acad Sci U.S.A (2005) 102(26):9165-9. (PDF)
M. Vazquez, S.D. Colloms, D.W. Sumners, Tangle analysis of Xer
recombination reveals only three solutions, all consistent with a single
3-dimensional topological pathway;J. Mol Biol (2005) 346:
493-504 (PDF)
M. Vazquez, D.W. Sumners, Tangle Analysis of Gin recombination,
Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. (2004) 136:565-582 (PDF)
J. Arsuaga, R. Tam, M. Vazquez, D.W. Sumners, S. Harvey, Investigation
of viral DNA packaging using molecular mechanics models, Journal of
Biophysical Chemistry (2002) 101-102(1):475-484 (PDF)
Y. Saka, M. Vazquez, TangleSolve: topological analysis of
site-specific recombination, Bioinformatics (2002) 18:1011-1012 (PDF)
J. Arsuaga, M. Vazquez, S. Trigueros, D.W. Sumners, J. Roca, Knotting
probability of DNA molecules confined in restricted volumes: DNA knotting in
phage capsids, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (2002) 99(8):5373-5377 (PDF)
S. Trigueros, J. Arsuaga, M.E. Vazquez, D.W. Sumners, J. Roca, Novel
display of knotted DNA molecules by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis,
Nucleic Acids Research (2001) 29(13):e67 (PDF)
M.E. Vazquez, Tangle Analysis of Site-specific Recombination: Gin
and Xer systems, PhD Dissertation, Mathematics FSU (2000)
M.E. Vazquez, Knots and DNA, Revista Situs (1995) IMATE,
UNAM, Mexico
M.E. Vazquez, Applications of Knot
Theory to the Study of DNA, B.Sc. Thesis, Mathematics, UNAM(1995)
Manuscripts submitted or in preparation
Hua, X., Nguyen, D., Raghavan, B., Arsuaga J. and Vazquez, M. Random state
transtitions of knots: a first step towards modeling unknotting by type II
topoisomerases. Submitted to Topology and its Applications June
2005. (PDF)
I. Darcy, J, Luecke, M. Vazquez, The Mu transposome; in
preparation