Arabi E. keshk

Work place: Faculty of Computers and Information, Menoufia University, Egypt

E-mail: arabikesk@yahoo.com

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Research Interests: Computer systems and computational processes, Autonomic Computing, Computer Architecture and Organization, Data Mining, Data Structures and Algorithms

Biography

Arabi E. keshk received the B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering from Menoufia University, Faculty of Electronic Engineering in 1987 and 1995, respectively and received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Osaka University, Japan in 2001. His research interest includes software testing, software engineering, distributed system, database, data mining, and bioinformatics.

Author Articles
Enhanced PROBCONS for Multiple Sequence Alignment in Cloud Computing

By Eman M. Mohamed Hamdy M. Mousa Arabi E. keshk

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2019.09.05, Pub. Date: 8 Sep. 2019

Multiple protein sequence alignment (MPSA) intend to realize the similarity between multiple protein sequences and increasing accuracy. MPSA turns into a critical bottleneck for large scale protein sequence data sets. It is vital for existing MPSA tools to be kept running in a parallelized design.  Joining MPSA tools with cloud computing will improve the speed and accuracy in case of large scale data sets.  PROBCONS is probabilistic consistency for progressive MPSA based on hidden Markov models.  PROBCONS is an MPSA tool that achieves the maximum expected accuracy, but it has a time-consuming problem. In this paper firstly, the proposed approach is to cluster the large multiple protein sequences into structurally similar protein sequences. This classification is done based on secondary structure, LCS, and amino acids features. Then PROBCONS MPSA tool will be performed in parallel to clusters. The last step is to merge the final PROBCONS of clusters. The proposed algorithm is in the Amazon Elastic Cloud (EC2). The proposed algorithm achieved the highest alignment accuracy. Feature classification understands protein sequence, structure and function, and all these features affect accuracy strongly and reduce the running time of searching to produce the final alignment result.

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Comparative Analysis of Multiple Sequence Alignment Tools

By Eman M. Mohamed Hamdy M. Mousa Arabi E. keshk

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2018.08.04, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2018

The perfect alignment between three or more sequences of Protein, RNA or DNA is a very difficult task in bioinformatics. There are many techniques for alignment multiple sequences. Many techniques maximize speed and do not concern with the accuracy of the resulting alignment. Likewise, many techniques maximize accuracy and do not concern with the speed. Reducing memory and execution time requirements and increasing the accuracy of multiple sequence alignment on large-scale datasets are the vital goal of any technique. The paper introduces the comparative analysis of the most well-known programs (CLUSTAL-OMEGA, MAFFT, BROBCONS, KALIGN, RETALIGN, and MUSCLE). For programs’ testing and evaluating, benchmark protein datasets are used. Both the execution time and alignment quality are two important metrics. The obtained results show that no single MSA tool can always achieve the best alignment for all datasets.

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Enhanced Dynamic Algorithm of Genome Sequence Alignments

By Arabi E. keshk

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2014.06.06, Pub. Date: 8 May 2014

The merging of biology and computer science has created a new field called computational biology that explore the capacities of computers to gain knowledge from biological data, bioinformatics. Computational biology is rooted in life sciences as well as computers, information sciences, and technologies. The main problem in computational biology is sequence alignment that is a way of arranging the sequences of DNA, RNA or protein to identify the region of similarity and relationship between sequences. This paper introduces an enhancement of dynamic algorithm of genome sequence alignment, which called EDAGSA. It is filling the three main diagonals without filling the entire matrix by the unused data. It gets the optimal solution with decreasing the execution time and therefore the performance is increased. To illustrate the effectiveness of optimizing the performance of the proposed algorithm, it is compared with the traditional methods such as Needleman-Wunsch, Smith-Waterman and longest common subsequence algorithms. Also, database is implemented for using the algorithm in multi-sequence alignments for searching the optimal sequence that matches the given sequence.

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