Kevin J. Naidoo
  • Faculty, University of Cape Town
Research fields
  • Biophysics
Personal information

Education

PhD, University of Michigan, 1993

Lab information

Kevin J Naidoo Lab
http://www.scientificomputing.uct.ac.za/

Research focus

Scientific Computing Methods development for Biomedical Applications
Free Energy Method Development
Reaction Dynamics of Glycoenzymes
Machine Learning for Cancer Gene Expression Data sets
Rational Design of Diagnostics and Therapeutics for Cancer

Publications

SELECTED CANCER GENE EXPRESSION DIAGNOSTIC RELATED PAPERS
Ferles, C., Papanikolaou, Y. & Naidoo, K. J. Denoising Autoencoder Self-Organizing Map (DASOM). Neural Networks 105, 112-131, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2018.04.016 (2018).

Ferles, C., Papanikolaou, Y. & Naidoo, K. J. Cancer Types: RNA Sequencing Values from Tumor Samples/Tissues May 2018
DOI: 10.17632/sf5n64hydt.1

Ashkani, J. & Naidoo, K. J. Glycosyltransferase Gene Expression Profiles Classify Cancer Types and Propose Prognostic Subtypes. Scientific Reports 6, 26451, doi:10.1038/srep26451 (2016).


SELECTED BIOINFORMATICS PAPERS
Suruzhon, M., Senapathi, T., Bodnarchuk, M. S., Viner, R., Wall, I. D., Barnett, C. B., Naidoo, K. J. & Essex, J. W. ProtoCaller: Robust Automation of Binding Free Energy Calculations. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 60, 1917-1921, doi:10.1021/acs.jcim.9b01158 (2020).

Senapathi, T., Bray, S., Barnett, C. B., Gruning, B. & Naidoo, K. J. Biomolecular Reaction and Interaction Dynamics Global Environment (BRIDGE). Bioinformatics 35, 3508-3509, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz107 (2019).

Barnett, C. B., Aoki-Kinoshita, K. F. & Naidoo, K. J. The Glycome Analytics Platform: an integrative framework for glycobioinformatics. Bioinformatics 32, 3005-3011, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw341 (2016).

SELECTED REACTION DYNAMICS PAPERS
Rogers, I. L. & Naidoo, K. J. Producing DFT/MM enzyme reaction trajectories from SCC-DFTB/MM driving forces to probe the underlying electronics of a glycosyltransferase reaction.
J Comput Chem 38, 1789-1798, doi:10.1002/jcc.24820 (2017).

Rogers, I. L. & Naidoo, K. J. Multidimensional Reaction Dynamics Reveal How the Enzyme TcTS Suppresses Competing Side Reactions and Their Side Products. ACS Catalysis, 6384-6392, doi:10.1021/acscatal.6b01522 (2016).

Govender, K., Gao, J. & Naidoo, K. J. AM1/d-CB1: A Semiempirical Model for QM/MM Simulations of Chemical Glycobiology Systems. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 10, 4694-4707, doi:10.1021/ct500372s (2014).

Renison, C. A., Fernandes, K. D. & Naidoo, K. J. Quantum supercharger library: Hyper-parallel integral derivatives algorithms for ab initioQM/MM dynamics. J. Comp. Chem. 36, 1410-1419, doi:10.1002/jcc.23938 (2015).

Crous, W., Field, M. J. & Naidoo, K. J. Simple Link Atom Saccharide Hybrid (SLASH) Treatment for Glycosidic Bonds at the QM/MM Boundary. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 10, 1727-1738, doi:10.1021/ct400903n (2014).
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