Trevor Ian Dix

Publications:

Journal Publications (Peer reviewed C1):

2009 - E1 Full written paper - refereed

P J Tan, D L Dowe and T I Dix: Building classification models from microarray data with tree-based classification algorithms, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 4830, Springer, Germany, pp. 589-598, 2007.

T I Dix, D R Powell, L Allison, J Bernal, S Jaeger, L Stern. Comparative analysis of long DNA sequences by per element information content using different contexts. BMC Bioinformatics, 8(S2):S10, May 2007.

D R Powell, L Allison and T I Dix: Modelling-Alignment for Non-random Sequences, in G I Webb and X Yu (eds). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 3-540-24059-4, Vol 3339, pp 203-214, 2004.

L Stern, L Allison, R L Coppel and T I Dix: Discovering Patterns in Plasmodium Falciparum Genomic DNA, Journal of Molecular & Biochemical Parasitology, Elsevier Science BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ISSN: 0166-6851, Vol 118, Issue 2, pp 175-186, 2001.

L Allison, L Stern, T Edgoose and T I Dix: Sequence complexity for biological sequence analysis, in J Crabbe (ed), Journal of Computers and Chemistry - Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Elsevier Science, Oxford, UK, ISSN: 0097-8485, Vol 24, Issue 1, 2000, pp 43-55, 2000.

D R Powell, L Allison and T I Dix: Fast, optimal alignment of three sequences using linear gap costs, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Academic Press Ltd, London, UK, ISSN: 0022-5193, Vol 207, Issue 3, pp 325-336, Dec 2000.

L Allison, D Powell and T I Dix: Compression and approximate matching, The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press, UK, ISSN: 0010-4620, Vol 42, No 1, 1-10, 1999.

D R Powell, L Allison and T I Dix: A versatile divide and conquer technique for optimal string alignment, Information Processing Letters, Vol 70, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ISSN: 0020-0190, 127-139, May 1999.

D M Platt and T I Dix: Comparison of clone-ordering algorithms used in physical mapping, Genomics, Academic Press, Orlando FL USA, 490-492, 3pp, 1997.

C N Yee and T I Dix: A platform for restriction mapping, The Journal of Logic Programming, Elsevier Science Inc, New York NY USA, 81-99, 19pp, 1997.

L Allison, T I Dix and C N Yee: Shortest path and closure algorithms for banded matrices, Information Processing Letters 40, 317-22, 1991.

T I Dix and D H Kieronska: Errors between sites in restriction site mapping, Computer Applications in Biological Sciences, 4, 1, 117-123, 1988.

C S McDonald and T I Dix: Support for graphs of processes in a command interpreter, Software Practice and Experience, 18, 10, 1011-1016, 1988.

L. Allison and T I Dix: A bit-string longest-common-subsequence algorithm, Information Processing Letters, 23, 305-310, 1986.

T I Dix: Exceptions and interrupts in CSP, Science of Computer Programming, 3, 2, 189-294, 1983.

Conference Publications (Peer reviewed E1):

M D Cao, T I Dix, L Allison, C Mears: A simple statistical algorithm for biological sequence compression. IEEE Data Compression Conf. (DCC), pp.43-52, 2007.

R Ram, M Chetty and T I Dix: Causal Modeling of Gene Regulatory Network, Proceedings of 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2006), Toronto, Canada, 28-29 September 2006.

R Ram, M Chetty and T I Dix: Fuzzy Model for Gene Regulatory Network, Proceedings of 2006 IEEE World congress on Intelligent systems (WCCI/CEC 2006),Vancouver, Canada, 16-21 July 2006, ISBN: 0 7803 9489 5, pp 5599-5604.

T I Dix, D R Powell, L Allison, S Yaeger, J Bernal and L Stern: Exploring Long DNA Sequences by Information Content, Proceedings of Probabilistic Modeling and Machine Learning in Structural and Systems Biology, Tuusula, Finland, June 2006, pp 97-102, ISBN: 952-10-3277-4.

B Myer, T I Dix, R Coppel and D G Green: Polyome: A Learning System for Extracting Bioinformatic Data. in H.R. Arabnia and H. Valafar (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'06) Las Vegas, USA: June 2006. ISBN: 1-60132-002-7.

B Myers, T I Dix, R Coppel and D G Green: Database Integration and Querying in the Bioinformatics Domain, in F Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben and R Vdovjak (eds), Proceedings of the Web Information Systems Modeling Workshop (WISM 2005), 25 - 29 July Sydney, NSW, Australia, ISBN: 1 74128 103 2, pp 14-20, 2005.

T. Wilkin, A. Nicholson and T. Dix. A Probabilistic prediction-based replanning architecture for a UAV. In IAV-2004 -- Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004.

L Allison, T Edgoose and T I Dix: Compression of strings with approximate repeats, in J Glasgow, T Littlejohn, F Major, R Lathrop, D Sankoff and C Sensen (eds) Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB-98) Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 28 June - 1 July 1998, AAAI Press, CA, USA, ISBN: 0-1-57735-053-7, 8-16, 1998.

T H MacKenzie and T I Dix: Object-oriented ease-based parallel primitives in C++, in C M Huang and C S Yang (eds), Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS '98), Tainan, Taiwan, 14-16 December 1998, IEEE Service Center, NJ, USA, ISBN: 0-8186-8603-0 and ISSN: 1521-9097, 623-630, 1998.

K E Macphee and T I Dix: A framework for dynamic checks of C arrays via a C++ class, in D D Grant (ed), Proceedings of the Eleventh Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC-98), 9-13 November, 1998, Adelaide, Australia, IEEE Services Center, NJ, USA, ISBN: 0-8186-9187-5, 57-65.

D R Powell, L Allison, T I Dix and D L Dowe: Alignment of low information sequences, in X Lin (ed) Australian Computer Science Communications, Computing Theory '98, Proceedings of the Fourth Australasian Theory Symposium (CATS '98) Perth, Australia, 2-3 February 1998, Springer-Verlag, Singapore, ISBN: 98103083-92-1, 20: 3: 215-229.

D R Powell, D L Dowe, L Allison and T I Dix: Discovering simple DNA sequences by compression, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing '98, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 597-608, 12pp, 1998.

K E Macphee and T I Dix: Constructing a generic C++ class for customised C pointers, Australian Computer Science Communications - ACSC'97 Proceedings of the Twentieth Australasian Computer Science Conference, Australian Computer Science Society, Melbourne Australia, 451-461, 11pp, 1997.

D L Dowe, L Allison, T I Dix, L Hunter, C S Wallace and T Edgoose: Circular clustering of protein dihedral angles by Minimum Message Length, Pacific symposium on biocomputing '96 (PSB-1), Hawaii, U.S.A, 3-6 January 1996, World Scientific, Singapore, ISBN: 981-02-2578-4, 242-255, 1996.

D M Platt and T I Dix: A model for comparing genomic restriction maps, Proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual Hawaii international conference on systems science, IEEE Computer Society Press, Hawaii, 24-31, 1995.

D M Platt and T I Dix: Stochastic assembly of Contig restriction maps, Proceedings of the twenty-eighth annual Hawaii international conf on system sciences, IEEE Computer Society Press, Hawaii, 155-64, 1995.

T I Dix and C N Yee: A restriction mapping engine using constraint logic programming, Second int conf on intelligent systems for molecular biology, AAAI Press, California, USA, 112-20, 1994.

T MacKenzie and T I Dix: A distributed memory multiprocessor implementation of C-with-Ease, 1994 int conf on parallel and distributed systems, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 250-7, 1994.

D M Platt and T I Dix: A stochastic method for contig map assembly, Second international conference on intelligent systems for molecular biology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA, 1, 1994.

T I Dix and T T Lien: Safe-C for introductory undergraduate programming, Proc. sixteenth Aust. computer science conf. Brisbane, 15, 1, 371-8, 1993.

D L Dowe, J J Oliver, T I Dix, L Allison and C S Wallace: A decision graph explanation of protein secondary structure prediction, Proc. twenty-sixth annual Hawaii int. conf. on system sciences Hawaii, 1, 669-78, 1993.

T MacKenzie and T I Dix: A distributed implementation of, C-with-Ease' Proc. sixteenth Aust. computer science conf. Brisbane, 15, 1, 407-12, 1993.

T MacKenzie, D M Platt and T I Dix: Modelling errors in restriction mapping, Proc. twenty-sixth annual Hawaii int. conf. on system sciences Hawaii, 1, 613-9, 1993.

D M Platt and T I Dix: Construction of restriction maps using a genetic algorithm, Proc. twenty-sixth annual Hawaii int. conf. on system sciences Hawaii, 1, 756-62, 1993.

T I Dix and C J Ho-Stuart: Constraint checking for circular restriction site mapping, Proc. twenty-fifth Hawaii int. conf. on system sciences Kauai, Hawaii, 1, 635-42, 1992.

S T S Ho, L Allison, C N Yee and T I Dix: Constraint checking for restriction site mapping, Proc. Twenty-fourth Annual Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Science, Hawaii, 1, 605-14, 1991.

T I Dix, D H Kieronska and P H Foong: Assistance in restriction site mapping, Proceedings AAAI Spring symp. series, Stanford University, 33-6, 1990.

G Chelvanayagam, T I Dix and J W Sadleir: Computer graphics for protein structures, 33rd Annual Conference of Aust. Biochemical Society, 1989.

T I Dix and D H Kieronska: Tree pruning in restriction mapping, Proc. 10th Aust. Computer Science Conf., 37-45, 1987.

T I Dix: A model of a distributed UNIX kernel, Proc. 7th Aust. Computer Science Conference, 23. 1-9, 1984.

T I Dix: Towards a distributed UNIX kernel, Proc. 6th Aust. Computer Science Conf., 11-20, 1983.

T I Dix: Resources - type checking and dynamic allocation, Proc. 1st Aust. Computer Science Conf., 134-141, 1978.

T I Dix and P A Dunn: A hybrid operating system for a computer network, Proc. DECUS Conf., 85-90, 1975.

T I Dix: Fragmentation of a scene into polyhedra, Proc. 6th Aust. Computer Conf., 802-810, 1974.

Editorship of Books:

C S Wallace, L Allison and T I Dix (eds.): Australian Computer Science Communications, 12, 1, Australian Computer Science Assoc, Melbourne, 481pp, 1990.

Conference Papers (Peer reviewed by Extended Abstract or by Full paper, not officially E1):

T I Dix and L Allison: Computational techniques for assembling genomic data, in C S Wallace (ed) Research Conference: Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, Monash University Melbourne, 7, 1994.

D L Dowe, J Oliver, L Allison, T I Dix and C S Wallace: Learning rules for protein secondary structure prediction, Computer Science Research Conf., University of Western Australia, 1-12, 1992.

T I Dix: Closing the gap in restriction site mapping, Proc. 1991 Computer Science Research Conf., University of Western Australia, Perth, 1-12, 1991.

Technical Reports:

M D Cao, T I Dix, L Allison and C Mears: A Fast Statistical Biological Sequence Compressor for Pattern Discovery, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, 15pp. Technical report 2006/203.

L Allison, D Powell and T I Dix: Modelling is more versatile than shuffling, Technical report 2000/83, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, 9pp. 2000.

D M Platt and T I Dix: Clone ordering using restriction fingerprinting data, Technical report CS 96/287, Dept Computer Science, Monash Univ, Melbourne Australia, 1-21, 21pp. 1996.

D L Dowe, L Allison, T I Dix, L Hunter, C S Wallace and T Edgoose: Circular clustering by minimum message length of protein dihedral angles, (Technical report 95/237) Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne, 14pp, 1995.

K E Macphee and T I Dix: Generic C++ classes for customised C pointers, Technical report 95/243, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne, 29pp, 1995.

C N Yee and T I Dix: A platform for restriction mapping, Technical report 95/241, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne, 17pp, 1995.

D M Platt and T I Dix: Stochastic assembly of genomic restriction maps, Technical report 94/210, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne, 14pp, 1994.

D L Dowe, J Oliver, L Allison, C S Wallace and T I Dix: A decision graph explanation of protein secondary structure prediction, Technical report 92/163, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne, 13pp, 1992.

T MacKenzie and T I Dix: A distributed implementation of C-with-ease, Technical report 92/167, Dept Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne, 10pp, 1992.

T I Dix: Preemptive guards in CSP, Technical report 83/5, Dept Computer Science, University of Melbourne, 1983.

T I Dix: Detection of impossible trihedral solids using depth coefficients, Technical report 77/5, Dept Computer Science, University of Melbourne, 1977.

Other Publications:

J Gill, T I Dix and R Coppel: Automating data collection and categorisation using the CAS software. ISMB-03 presentation, 2003.

J Gill, T I Dix and R Coppel: GET3D, A genomic exploration tool in 3D. ISMB-03 presentation, 2003.

T I Dix: Restriction mapping of genomic data with a CLP based engine, in K Marriott (ed) Constraint Programming Day Department of Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne, 16, 1995.

T I Dix and L Allison: Computational techniques for assembling genomic data, (abstract) in C S Wallace (ed) Research conference: Faculty of Computing & Information Technology, Monash University Melbourne, 7, 1994.