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Walter de Azevedo Jr.
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Walter F. de Azevedo Jr.

PeerJ Editor & Reviewer

Summary

Prof. Azevedo is frontiers section editor (Bioinformatics and Biophysics) for the Current Drug Targets, section editor (Bioinformatics in Drug Design and Discovery) for the Current Medicinal Chemistry, member of the editorial board of Current Bioinformatics, academic editor for PeerJ, and editor of Docking Screens for Drug Discovery (Methods of Molecular Biology)(Springer Nature). He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of São Paulo (USP)(1997). During his Ph.D., he worked under the supervision of Prof. Sung-Hou Kim (University of California, Berkeley), on a split Ph.D. program with a fellowship from the Brazilian Research Council (1993-1996). His Ph.D. was about the structure of CDK2 (de Azevedo Jr. et al., 1996)(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8610110). He is the coordinator of the Structural Biochemistry Laboratory at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul. His research interests are interdisciplinary with two major emphases: molecular simulations and protein-ligand interactions. He published over 180 scientific papers about protein structures and computer models to assess intermolecular interactions involving proteins and potential ligands. These publications have over 4900 citations in the Web of Science (Publons h-index: 37)(https://publons.com/researcher/1890214/walter-f-de-azevedo-jr/), +5500 citations (Scopus h-index: 41)(https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7006435557), and +7100 citations(Google Scholar h-index: 44).

Artificial Intelligence Biochemistry Bioinformatics Biomolecules Biophysical Chemistry Biophysics Chemometrics Computational Biology Crystallography Data Mining & Machine Learning Scientific Computing & Simulation Theoretical & Computational Chemistry Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics

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Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

Work details

Professor

Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul-Brazil.
August 2005
School of Health and Life Sciences
Prof. Azevedo is the coordinator of the Structural Biochemistry Laboratory at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (https://azevedolab.net/). His research interests are interdisciplinary with two major emphases: molecular simulations and protein-ligand interactions.

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 30
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August 4, 2020
Expression of Aspergillus niger glucose oxidase in Pichia pastoris and its antimicrobial activity against Agrobacterium and Escherichia coli
Yonggang Wang, Jiangqin Wang, Feifan Leng, Jianzhong Ma, Alnoor Bagadi
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9010 PubMed 32832258
June 30, 2020
Analysis of deubiquitinase OTUD5 as a biomarker and therapeutic target for cervical cancer by bioinformatic analysis
Mixue Bai, Yingying Che, Kun Lu, Lin Fu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9146 PubMed 32655987
June 10, 2020
Mining of candidate genes involved in the biosynthesis of dextrorotatory borneol in Cinnamomum burmannii by transcriptomic analysis on three chemotypes
Zerui Yang, Wenli An, Shanshan Liu, Yuying Huang, Chunzhu Xie, Song Huang, Xiasheng Zheng
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9311 PubMed 32566406
May 7, 2020
Integrated analysis of lymphocyte infiltration-associated lncRNA for ovarian cancer via TCGA, GTEx and GEO datasets
Meijing Wu, Xiaobin Shang, Yue Sun, Jing Wu, Guoyan Liu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8961 PubMed 32419983
May 6, 2020
Identification of key miRNAs in the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma using an integrated bioinformatics approach
Qi Zheng, Xiaoyong Wei, Jun Rao, Cuncai Zhou
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9000 PubMed 32411519
April 29, 2020
A non-linear reverse-engineering method for inferring genetic regulatory networks
Siyuan Wu, Tiangang Cui, Xinan Zhang, Tianhai Tian
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9065 PubMed 32391205
April 29, 2020
ECMPride: prediction of human extracellular matrix proteins based on the ideal dataset using hybrid features with domain evidence
Binghui Liu, Ling Leng, Xuer Sun, Yunfang Wang, Jie Ma, Yunping Zhu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9066 PubMed 32377454
April 23, 2020
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes produced after forest fires improve germination and development of Eysenhardtia polystachya
Gladys Juárez-Cisneros, Mariela Gómez-Romero, Homero Reyes de la Cruz, Jesús Campos-García, Javier Villegas
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8634 PubMed 32351779
April 21, 2020
RNA sequencing of CD4 T-cells reveals the relationships between lncRNA-mRNA co-expression in elite controller vs. HIV-positive infected patients
Chaoyu Chen, Xiangyun Lu, Nanping Wu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8911 PubMed 32341894
April 6, 2020
DeepBindPoc: a deep learning method to rank ligand binding pockets using molecular vector representation
Haiping Zhang, Konda Mani Saravanan, Jinzhi Lin, Linbu Liao, Justin Tze-Yang Ng, Jiaxiu Zhou, Yanjie Wei
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8864 PubMed 32292649
April 1, 2020
Prediction of antiviral drugs against African swine fever viruses based on protein–protein interaction analysis
Zhaozhong Zhu, Yunshi Fan, Yang Liu, Taijiao Jiang, Yang Cao, Yousong Peng
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8855 PubMed 32274268
March 23, 2020
PigLeg: prediction of swine phenotype using machine learning
Siroj Bakoev, Lyubov Getmantseva, Maria Kolosova, Olga Kostyunina, Duane R. Chartier, Tatiana V. Tatarinova
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8764 PubMed 32231879
March 18, 2020
Discovery of potential targets of Triptolide through inverse docking in ovarian cancer cells
Qinhang Wu, Gang Bao, Yang Pan, Xiaoqi Qian, Furong Gao
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8620 PubMed 32219016
March 13, 2020
FGL2 is positively correlated with enhanced antitumor responses mediated by T cells in lung adenocarcinoma
Kai Yuan, Yanyan Feng, Hesong Wang, Lu Zhao, Wei Wang, Ting Wang, Yuyin Feng, Guangrui Huang, Anlong Xu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8654 PubMed 32206449
February 25, 2020
A comparative study of machine learning algorithms for predicting acute kidney injury after liver cancer resection
Lei Lei, Ying Wang, Qiong Xue, Jianhua Tong, Cheng-Mao Zhou, Jian-Jun Yang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8583 PubMed 32140301
February 21, 2020
The complete mitogenome of Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon, 1855 (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora): mitochondrial genome architecture, evolution and phylogenetic considerations within Stylommatophora
Özgül Doğan, Michael Schrödl, Zeyuan Chen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8603 PubMed 32117634
February 19, 2020
The expression of small RNAs in exosomes of follicular fluid altered in human polycystic ovarian syndrome
Junhe Hu, Tao Tang, Zhi Zeng, Juan Wu, Xiansheng Tan, Jiao Yan
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8640 PubMed 32117643
February 14, 2020
A transcriptional co-expression network-based approach to identify prognostic biomarkers in gastric carcinoma
Danqi Liu, Boting Zhou, Rangru Liu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8504 PubMed 32095347
February 13, 2020
LINC00958 and HOXC13-AS as key candidate biomarkers in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by integrated bioinformatics analysis
Dan Xiong, Wei Wu, Lijuan Kan, Dayang Chen, Xiaowen Dou, Xiang Ji, Mengmeng Wang, Zengyan Zong, Jian Li, Xiuming Zhang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8557 PubMed 32095369
February 6, 2020
Integrated analysis of the roles and prognostic value of RNA binding proteins in lung adenocarcinoma
Wei Li, Na Li, Lina Gao, Chongge You
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8509 PubMed 32071816
January 6, 2020
Gene co-expression network for analysis of plasma exosomal miRNAs in the elderly as markers of aging and cognitive decline
Zheng Ye, Bo Sun, Xue Mi, Zhongdang Xiao
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8318 PubMed 31934508
December 17, 2019
Prognostic factors and survival outcomes according to tumor subtype in patients with breast cancer lung metastases
Siying Chen, Jin Yang, Yang Liu, Haisheng You, Yalin Dong, Jun Lyu
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8298 PubMed 31871847
December 16, 2019
Significance of TP53 mutation in bladder cancer disease progression and drug selection
Guang Wu, Fei Wang, Kai Li, Shugen Li, Chunchun Zhao, Caibin Fan, Jianqing Wang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8261 PubMed 31871844
November 15, 2019
UV synchrotron radiation linear dichroism spectroscopy of the anti-psoriatic drug anthralin
Duy Duc Nguyen, Nykola C. Jones, Søren Vrønning Hoffmann, Jens Spanget-Larsen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-pchem.5
November 20, 2017
PBxplore: a tool to analyze local protein structure and deformability with Protein Blocks
Jonathan Barnoud, Hubert Santuz, Pierrick Craveur, Agnel Praveen Joseph, Vincent Jallu, Alexandre G. de Brevern, Pierre Poulain
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4013 PubMed 29177113
August 28, 2017
BioFuelDB: a database and prediction server of enzymes involved in biofuels production
Nikhil Chaudhary, Ankit Gupta, Sudheer Gupta, Vineet K. Sharma
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3497 PubMed 28875065
March 23, 2017
Systematic drug repositioning through mining adverse event data in ClinicalTrials.gov
Eric Wen Su, Todd M. Sanger
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3154 PubMed 28348935
December 1, 2016
A methodology for the design of experiments in computational intelligence with multiple regression models
Carlos Fernandez-Lozano, Marcos Gestal, Cristian R. Munteanu, Julian Dorado, Alejandro Pazos
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2721 PubMed 27920952
August 9, 2016
Probing the origins of human acetylcholinesterase inhibition via QSAR modeling and molecular docking
Saw Simeon, Nuttapat Anuwongcharoen, Watshara Shoombuatong, Aijaz Ahmad Malik, Virapong Prachayasittikul, Jarl E.S. Wikberg, Chanin Nantasenamat
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2322 PubMed 27602288
February 12, 2013
How long is a piece of loop?
Yoonjoo Choi, Sumeet Agarwal, Charlotte M. Deane
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1 PubMed 23638343

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February 18, 2021
Estimation of parameters for a humidity-dependent compartmental model of the COVID-19 outbreak
Csaba Farkas, David Iclanzan, Boróka Olteán-Péter, Géza Vekov
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10790 PubMed 33643707