Publications:

Peer reviewed:

  1. Bielewicz S, Bell E, Kong W, Friedberg I, Priscu JC, Morgan-Kiss RM Protist diversity in a permanently ice-covered Antarctic lake during the polar night transition (2011) ISME Journal (accepted) | [PDF] | [Supp. info.]
  2. Kelly RJ, Vincent DE and Friedberg I IPRStats: visualization of the functional potential of an InterProScan run (2010) BMC Bioinformatics 11(Suppl 12):S13 [BMC]
  3. Wooley JC, Godzik A and Friedberg I A Primer on Metagenomics PLoS Computational Biology (2010) [PLoS-CB]
  4. Cock PJ, Antao T, Chang JT, Chapman BA, Cox CJ, Dalke A, Friedberg I, Hamelryck T, Kauff F, Wilczynski B, de Hoon MJ. Biopython: freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology and bioinformatics Bioinformatics (2009) Mar 20 [PubMed]
  5. Godzik A., Jambon M. and Friedberg I. Computational protein function prediction: are we making progress? Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2007) Oct;64(19-20):2505-11[PubMed]
  6. Friedberg I., Nika K., Tautz L., Saito K., Cerignoli F., Friedberg I, Godzik A. and Mustelin T Identification and characterization of Dusp27, a novel dual-specific protein phosphatase (2007) FEBS Letters [PubMed] (Epub ahead of print)
  7. Friedberg I. and Godzik A. Functional Differentiation of Proteins: Implications for Structural Genomics Structure (2007) 15(4):405-415 [preprint]| [PubMed]
  8. Friedberg I., Harder T., Kolodny R., Sitbon E., Li Z. and Godzik A.Using an alignment of fragment strings for comparing protein structures Bioinformatics (2007) 23: e219-e224  [PDF]   [Full Text]
  9. Friedberg I. Automated Function Prediction: the Genomic Challenge Briefings in Bioinformatics (2006) 7(3):225-242 [abstract] |  [Full paper at OUP ]
  10. Friedberg I., Harder T. and Godzik A. JAFA: a Protein Function Annotation Meta-Server Nucleic Acids Research (2006) 24:W379-W381 [NAR]
  11. Friedberg I., Jambon M. and Godzik A. New Avenues in Protein Function Prediction Protein Science (2006) (Accepted)
  12. Friedberg I. and Godzik A. Connecting the Protein Structure Universe by Using Sparse Recurring Fragments Structure (Camb.) (2005) Aug;13(8):1213-24 [Preprint] 4.5MB | [PubMed]
  13. Friedberg I. and Godzik A. Fragnostic: walking through protein structure space Nucleic Acids Research (2005) 33:W249-W251 [PDF]| [HTML]
  14. Alonso A., Sasin J., Bottini N., Friedberg I., Friedberg I., Osterman A., Godzik A., Hunter T., Dixon J., and Mustelin T. Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases in the Human Genome Cell (2004) Jun 11;117(6):699-711 [PubMed] | [Cell Press]
  15. Friedberg I., Jaroszewski L., Ye Y. and Godzik A. The interplay of fold recognition and experimental structure determination in structural genomics Current Opinion in Structural Biology (2004) 14:307-312 [DOI] | [PubMed]
  16. Bourne P.E., Allerston C.K.J., Krebs W., Li W., Shindyalov I.N., Godzik, A., Friedberg I., Liu T., Wild D., Hwang S., Gharamani Z., Chen L., and Westbrook J. The Status of Structural Genomics Defined through the Analysis of Current Targets and Structures Pac. Sym. Biocomp. (2004) 375-386 [PubMed] | [PDF]
  17. Friedberg I., and Margalit H.: PeCoP: automatic determination of persistently conserved positions in protein families Bioinformatics (2002) 18:1276-1277 [PubMed]
  18. Friedberg I, and Margalit H: Persistently Conserved Positions in Structurally-Similar, Sequence Dissimilar Proteins: Roles in Preserving Protein Fold and Function Protein Science, (2002) Feb;11(2):350-360 [PubMed]  [PDF] (Chapter 3 in dissertation).
  19. Friedberg I, Kaplan T, Margalit H: Evaluation of PSI-BLAST alignment Accuracy in comparison to structural alignments (2000) Protein Science, Nov;9(11):2278-84 [PubMed] (Chapter 4 in dissertation)
  20. Friedberg I, Kaplan T, Margalit H: Glimmers in the Midnight Zone: Characterization of Aligned Identical Residues in Sequence-Dissimilar Proteins Sharing a Common Fold (2000) Int. Sys. Mol. Biol.162-170  [PubMed][PDF] (Chapter 2 in dissertation)
  21. Cherradi N, Rossier MF, Vallotton MB, Timberg R, Friedberg I, Orly J, Wang XJ, Stocco DM, Capponi AM: Submitochondrial distribution of three key steroidogenic proteins (steroidogenic acute regulatory protein and cytochrome p450scc and 3beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase isomerase enzymes) upon stimulation by intracellular calcium in adrenal glomerulosa cells (1997) J Biol Chem Mar 21;272(12):7899-7907 [PubMed] | [HTML] | [PDF]
  22. Friedberg I, Orly J, Chavel AC, Weiss AM: A low cost workstation for quantitative fluorescence microscopy and gel analysis (1994) Proceedings of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers Vol. 2426, pp. 2-13
Editorials:
  • Rodrigues APC, Grant BE, Godzik A and Friedberg I: The AFP 2006 Meeting BMC Bioinformatics (2007) BMC
  • Bourne PE and Friedberg I: Ten Simple Rules for Selecting a Postdoctoral Position (2006) PLoS Computational Biology2(11): e121 [PLoS]

Ph.D. dissertation, postscript, gzipped (831k). Completed on 2002 at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem under the supervision of Prof. Hanah Margalit. For copyright reasons, the papers for chaps. 2,3,4 are linked seperately above, or upon request.