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Welcome

I am passionate about using computers to solve biological problems.

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• ResearchGate

Education

PhD, Biological Sciences (May 2017)

• Purdue University
• Advisor: Daisuke Kihara
• Dissertation: Computational modeling of multifarious protein interactions

BA, Biological Sciences (May 2010)

• Mount Holyoke College
• Advisor: Stan Rachootin
• Thesis: Failure to launch: Characterization of a flightless strain of Drosophila hydei view

Publications

Lenna Peterson, Y Togawa, J Esquivel-Rodriguez, G Terashi, C Christoffer, A Roy, W Shin, and D Kihara. (pre-print) Modeling the assembly order of multimeric heteroprotein complexes. PLoS Computational Biology. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005937

Lenna Peterson, W Shin, H Kim, and D Kihara. (pre-print) Improved performance in CAPRI round 37 using LZerD docking and template-based modeling with combined scoring functions. Proteins. doi: 10.1002/prot.25376

Lenna Peterson, A Roy, C Christoffer, G Terashi, and D Kihara. (2017) Modeling disordered protein interactions from biophysical principles. PLoS Computational Biology 13: e1005485. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005485

Lenna Peterson, H Kim, J Esquivel-Rodriguez, A Roy, X Han, W Shin, J Zhang, G Terashi, M Lee, and D Kihara. (2017) Human and server docking prediction for CAPRI round 30-35 using LZerD with combined scoring functions. Proteins 85: 513-527. doi: 10.1002/prot.25165

Lenna Peterson, M Jamroz, A Kolinski, and D Kihara. (2017) Predicting real-valued protein residue fluctuation using FlexPred. Methods in Molecular Biology 1484: 175–186. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6406-2_13

M Lensink, … Lenna Peterson, D Kihara, … S Wodak. (2016) Prediction of homo- and hetero-protein complexes by protein docking and template-based modeling: a CASP-CAPRI experiment. Proteins 84: 323-348. doi: 10.1002/prot.25007

Lenna Peterson, X Kang, and D Kihara. (2014) Assessment of protein side-chain conformation prediction methods in different residue environments. Proteins 82: 1971-1984. doi: 10.1002/prot.24552

Projects

• Travel Risk Evaluator (2016): A website to evaluate the risk of contracting Zika virus compared to other risks. It was created for a 4-stage, 21-day hackathon. UX design, HTML/CSS, client-side JavaScript, Plotly.js/D3, server-side Python, 3 API calls

• Coordinate Mapper (2012): A Python (Biopython) module to convert positions between DNA, RNA, and protein numbering systems. It was created as part of Google Summer of Code 2012 via the Open Bioinformatics Foundation. Python: inheritance, decorators, decorator factory, custom exceptions, unit testing