Publications
Laurence Loewe: Here is a list of my scientific publications.
Peer-reviewed publications
- Loewe L (2009) "A framework for evolutionary systems biology", BMC Systems Biology 3:27. PubMed | DOI | Journal
- Loewe L & Hillston J (2008) "The distribution of mutational effects
on fitness in a simple circadian clock", Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology 11-15 Oct 2008 Rostock, Germany,
CMSB08, published in: Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 5307:156-175. PDF | DOI
- Loewe L & Cutter A (2008) "On the potential for extinction by
Muller’s Ratchet in Caenorhabditis elegans", BMC Evolutionary Biology
8:125. (13 pages). PDF | Journal
- Loewe L & Charlesworth B (2008) "Quantifying the threat from Muller's ratchet in the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa)", BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:88. (20 pages). Designated as ‘highly accessed’ by BMC. PDF | Journal
- Loewe L & Charlesworth B (2007) "Background selection in single genes may explain patterns of codon bias", Genetics 175:1381-1393. PDF | PubMed | DOI | Journal
- Loewe L (2007) "Evolution@home: observations on participant choice, work unit variation and low-effort global computing". Software Practice & Experience 37:1289-1318. (DOI link).
- Loewe L & Charlesworth B (2006) "Inferring the distribution of mutational effects on fitness in Drosophila", Biology Letters 2:426-430. PDF | ISI | PubMed | DOI | Journal
- Loewe L (2006) "Quantifying the genomic decay paradox due to Muller's ratchet in human mitochondrial DNA" Genetics Research 87:133-159. PDF | ISI | PubMed | DOI | Journal
- Loewe L & Charlesworth B, Bartolomé C & Nöel V (2006) "Estimating selection on non-synonymous mutations", Genetics 172:1079-1092. PDF | ISI | PubMed | DOI | Journal | Poster
- Loewe L (2004) "Response to comment on 'High deleterious genomic mutation rate in stationary phase of Escherichia coli'", Science 304:518-518. PDF | ISI | DOI | Journal
- Loewe L, Textor V & Scherer S (2003) "High deleterious genomic mutation rate in stationary phase of Escherichia coli", Science 302:1558-1560. PDF-core | PDF-collect | ISI | PubMed | DOI | Journal
- Loewe L (2002) "evolution@home: Experiences with work units that span more than 7 orders of magnitude in computational complexity", 425-431. 2nd International Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing on Large Scale Distributed Systems at the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid2002), 21-24 May, Berlin, Germany, IEEE Computer Society. PDF | DOI | ConferenceProceedings
- Loewe L (2002) "Global computing for bioinformatics", Briefings in Bioinformatics 3:377-388. PDF | PubMed | DOI | Journal
- Loewe L & Scherer S (1997) "Mitochondrial Eve: The plot thickens", Trends Ecol. Evol. 12:422-423.
Other publications
- Loewe L & Hillston J (2008) "Meeting report: Computational models in systems biology", Genome Biology 9:328. (3 pages). PDF | Pubmed | DOI | Journal
- Loewe L (2008) “Designing a Front-End for Bio-PEPA”. In: Gilmore S, editor. Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Process Algebra and Stochastically Timed Activities, 30-31 July 2008, Edinburgh, UK. http://pastaworkshop.org/proceedings/loewe-pasta2008.pdf (5 pages).
- Loewe L (2008) “Negative Selection”, Nature Education 1(1), Short introduction as invited by the editors of the “Evolutionary Genetics” section of the new “Nature Education” initiative. Stable URL: http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/Negative-Selection-1136
- Loewe L (2008) “Genetic Mutation”, Nature Education 1(1), Short introduction as invited by the of the “Evolutionary Genetics” section of the new “Nature Education” initiative. Stable URL: http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/Genetic-Mutation-1127
- Loewe L (2008) "Evolution@home: The first global computing system for evolutionary biology", invited chapter in the book "Distributed & Grid Computing - Science Made Transparent for Everyone. Principles, Applications and Supporting Communities" edited by M. Weber, Rechenkraft.net.
- Loewe L (2006) “Population Genetics Group Meeting 2006”, Meeting report, Genetics Society News, Issue 57, pp. 22-25. PDF of the issue
- Loewe L (2005) "Evolution@home: Global computing quantifies evolution
due to Muller's ratchet", BMC Bioinformatics 2005, vol. 6, suppl 3,
p.18-18. Published poster abstract.

