• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.15B no.6
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• pp.561-574
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• 2008

The spot detection phase of the 2-DE image analysis program segments a gel image into spot regions by an image segmentation algorithm and fits the spot regions to a spot shape model and quantifies the spot informations for the next phases. Currently the watershed algorithm is generally used as the segmentation algorithm and there are the Gaussian model and the diffusion model for the shape model. The diffusion model is closer to real spot shapes than the Gaussian model however spots have very various shapes and especially an asymmetric formation in x-coordinate and y-coordinate. The reason for asymmetric formation of spots is known that a protein could not be diffused completely because the 2-DE could not be processed under the ideal environment usually. Accordingly we propose an asymmetric diffusion model in this paper. The asymmetric diffusion model assumes that a protein spot is diffused from a disc at initial time of diffusing process, but is diffused asymmetrically for x-axis and y-axis respectively as time goes on. In experiments we processed spot matching for 19 gel images by using three models respectively and evaluated averages of SNR for comparing three models. As averages of SNR we got 14.22dB for the Gaussian model, 20.72dB for the diffusion model and 22.85dB for the asymmetric diffusion model. By experimental results we could confirm the asymmetric diffusion model is more efficient and more adequate for spot matching than the Gaussian model and the diffusion model.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.283-287
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• 1994

The crystal stucture of bithional surfoxide, $C_{12}H_6Cl_4O_3S$, has been determined from 2295 independent reflections collected on an automated CAD-4 diffractometer with a graphite-monochromated $Mo-K\alpha$ radiation. The crystal belongs to the monoclinic, space group P2$_1$/n, with a unit cell dimensions a = 12.448(4), b = 9.740(1), c = $11.815(2)\AA$, $\beta$ = $100.06^{\circ}$, $\mu$ = 9.02 cm$^{-1}$, Dm = 1.76 g/cm$^3$, Dc = 1.75 g/cm$^3$, F(000) = 744, and Z = 4. The structure was solved by the direct method and refined by the least-squares method. The final R values was 0.037 for 2295 independent reflections. Overall conformation of the molecule is folded with respect to central surfur atom. Comparing with the molecular conformation of bithional, one of phenyl rings was swinged with about $180^{\circ}.$ This conformational change in the molecule results in the existance of intramolecular-hydrogen bond of S-O(3)---H-O(1) type and its steric hindrance between this moiety and the other phenyl ring. The two best planes of the phenyl rings have a maximum deviation of 0.009 $\AA$ for C(1) atom. The dihedral angle between two phenyl rings is $99.22^{\circ}.$ In the crystal structure, the molecules are packed with intermolecular-hydrogen bond of O(3)---H-O(2).