Publications


In review

Dmitry Lyumkis, Axel Brilot, Douglas L. Theobald, and Nikolaus Grigorieff
"Likelihood-based classification of cryo-EM images using FREALIGN."
In review at Journal of Structural Biology

Douglas L. Theobald
"Presenilin adopts the ClC channel fold."
In review at Bioinformatics

Lina Ni, Peter Bronk, Elaine C. Chang, April M. Lowell, Juliette O. Flam, Vincent C. Panzano, Douglas L. Theobald, Leslie C. Griffith, and Paul A. Garrity (2013)
"A gustatory receptor paralog controls rapid warmth avoidance in Drosophila."
In review at Nature


At Brandeis

2013


Erin L. Devine, Daniel D. Oprian, and Douglas L. Theobald (2013)
"Relocating the active-site lysine in rhodopsin."
In review at PNAS

Kristine A. Mackin, Richard A. Roy, and Douglas L. Theobald (2013)
"An empirical test of convergent evolution in rhodopsins."
In review at Molecular Biology and Evolution

Kanti V. Mardia, Christopher J. Fallaize, Stuart Barber, Richard M. Jackson, & Douglas L. Theobald (2013)
"Bayesian alignment of similarity shapes."
The Annals of Applied Statistics, in press [Open Access pdf]

2012


Douglas L. Theobald & Phillip A. Steindel (2012)
"Optimal simultaneous superpositioning of multiple structures with missing data."
Bioinformatics 28(15):1972-1979 [Open Access]
doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts243

Douglas L. Theobald (2012)
"Likelihood and empirical Bayes superpositions of multiple macromolecular structures."
Bayesian Methods in Structural Bioinformatics,
Thomas Hamelryck, Kanti V. Mardia, and Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg, Editors,
Statistics for Biology and Health Series ,
Springer Verlag, New York.
March 31, 2012
ISBN 978-3-642-27224-0 [pdf]
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27225-7_8

2011


Douglas L. Theobald (2011)
"On universal common ancestry, sequence similarity, and phylogenetic structure:
The sins of P-values and the virtues of Bayesian evidence."

Biology Direct 6:60 [Open Access, pdf, alt pdf]
doi:10.1186/1745-6150-6-60
Highly Accessed

Kene Piasta, Douglas L. Theobald, & Chris Miller (2011)
"Potassium-selective block of barium permeation through single KcsA channels."
Journal of General Physiology 138(4):421-436. [pdf]

Douglas L. Theobald & Kanti V. Mardia (2011)
"Full Bayesian analysis of the generalized non-isotropic Procrustes problem with scaling."
In Next Generation Statistics in Biosciences,
Arief Gusnanto, Kanti V. Mardia, and Christopher J. Fallaize, Editors, pp 41-44,
Proceedings of the 30th Leeds Annual Statistical Research (LASR) Workshop,
July 5-7, 2011
Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, UK.
ISBN: 978-0-85316-302-2

Pu Liu, Dmitri K. Agrafiotis, & Douglas L. Theobald (2011)
"Fast determination of the optimal rotation matrix for macromolecular superpositions. Reply."
Journal of Computational Chemistry 32(1):185-186. [Open Access, pdf]

2010


Douglas L. Theobald (2010)
"Was the universal common ancestry proved? Reply"
Nature 468(7326):E10. [pdf]

Douglas L. Theobald (2010)
"A formal test of the theory of universal common ancestry."
Nature 465(7295):219-222. [pdf]

Mike Steel and David Penny (2010)
News & Views — "Origins of life: Common ancestry put to the test."
Nature 465(7295):168-169.


Kyeongjin Kang, Stefan R. Pulver, Vince C. Panzano, Elaine C. Chang, Leslie C. Griffith, Douglas L. Theobald & Paul A. Garrity (2010)
"Analysis of Drosophila TRPA1 reveals an ancient origin for human chemical nociception."
Nature 464(7288):597-600. [pdf]

Douglas L. Theobald & Chris Miller (2010)
"Membrane transport proteins: Surprises in structural sameness."
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 17(1):2-3. [pdf]

Douglas L. Theobald (2010)
"Dawkins' missing link."
Review of The Greatest Show on Earth,
by Richard Dawkins, (2009), Free Press, New York.
Reports of the National Center for Science Education 30(3):37-38.

Pu Liu, Dmitri K. Agrafiotis, & Douglas L. Theobald (2010)
"Fast determination of the optimal rotation matrix for macromolecular superpositions."
Journal of Computational Chemistry 31(7):1561-1563. [Open Access, pdf]
The QCProt C code for determining rapid least-squares rotations.

2009


Douglas L. Theobald (2009)
"A nonisotropic Bayesian approach to superpositioning multiple macromolecules."
In Statistical Tools for Challenges in Bioinformatics,
Arief Gusnanto, Kanti V. Mardia, and Christopher J. Fallaize, Editors, pp 55-59,
Proceedings of the 28th Leeds Annual Statistical Research (LASR) Workshop,
July 7-9, 2009
Department of Statistics, University of Leeds, UK. [pdf, pdf, LASR 2009 full proceedings]
ISBN: 978-0-85316-280-3

2008


Douglas L. Theobald & Deborah S. Wuttke (2008)
"Accurate structural correlations from maximum likelihood superpositions."
PLoS Comput Biol 4(2):e43. [Open Access, pdf]

2007


Douglas L. Theobald (2007)
"Punctuated equilibrium."
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition,
Darity WA, Editor in Chief,
MacMillan Library Reference, Detroit, pp. 629-631. [pdf]


At the University of Colorado at Boulder

2006


Douglas L. Theobald & Deborah S. Wuttke (2006)
"Empirical Bayes hierarchical models for regularizing maximum likelihood estimation in the matrix Gaussian Procrustes problem."
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103(49):18521-18527. [Open Access, pdf]

Douglas L. Theobald & Deborah S. Wuttke (2006)
"THESEUS: Maximum likelihood superpositioning and analysis of macromolecular structures."
Bioinformatics 22(17):2171-2172. [Open Access, pdf]
Supplementary Material [pdf]

2005


Douglas L. Theobald & Deborah S. Wuttke (2005)
"Divergent evolution within protein superfolds inferred from profile-based phylogenetics."
J Mol Biol 354(3):722-737. [PMC, pdf]

Douglas L. Theobald (2005)
"Rapid calculation of RMSDs using a quaternion-based characteristic polynomial."
Acta Crystallogr A 61(4):478-480. [Open Access, pdf]
The QCP C code for determining rapid RMSDs.

2004


Douglas L. Theobald & Deborah S. Wuttke (2004)
"Prediction of multiple tandem OB-fold domains in telomere end-binding proteins Pot1 and Cdc13."
Structure 12(10):1877-1879. [pdf]

Rachel M. Mitton-Fry, Emily M. Anderson, Douglas L. Theobald, Leslie W. Glustrom & Deborah S. Wuttke (2004)
"Structural basis for telomeric single-stranded DNA recognition by yeast Cdc13."
J Mol Biol 338(2):241-55. [ScienceDirect, pdf]

2003


Douglas L. Theobald, Rachel B. Cervantes, Victoria Lundblad & Deborah S. Wuttke (2003)
"Homology among telomeric end-protection proteins."
Structure 11(9):1049-1050. [ScienceDirect, pdf]

Douglas L. Theobald & Steve C. Schultz (2003)
"Nucleotide shuffling and ssDNA recognition in Oxytricha nova telomere end-binding protein complexes."
EMBO Journal 22(16): 4314-4324. [PMC, pdf]

Douglas L. Theobald, Rachel M. Mitton-Fry & Deborah S. Wuttke (2003)
"Nucleic acid recognition by OB-fold proteins."
Annu Rev Biophys Biomol Struct 32(16):115-133. [PMC, pdf]