Selected Publications

Publications are ordered by publication year - most recent first.

2016

Toralf Kirsten, Jan Bumberger, Galina Ivanova, Peter Dietrich, Christoph Engel, Markus Loeffler, Wieland Kiess

On Integrating Health and Environmental Data in Epidemiological Studies

Proc. Intl. Workshop on Integrative Analysis and Computation of LIFE Data in smart Ecosystems: Proc. 19th Intl. Conf. on Business Information Systems (BIS), Springer LNBIP
Olaf Reinhold, Matthias Wittwer, Rainer Alt, Toralf Kirsten, Wieland Kiess

Exploring the Context from the Consumer Perspective: Insights from the eBusiness and Health Care

Proc. Intl. Workshop on Integrative Analysis and Computation of LIFE Data in smart Ecosystems: Proc. 19th Intl. Conf. on Business Information Systems (BIS), Springer LNBIP
Ying-Chi Lin, Anika Groß, Toralf Kirsten

Integration an Visualization of Spatial Data in LIFE

Proc. Intl. Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences

2015

Alexander Uciteli and Toralf Kirsten:

Ontology-based retrieval of scientific data in LIFE

Proc. Workshop on Data Management for Life Sciences: Proc. 13th Conf. of Database Systems for Business, Technology and Web (BTW)

Workshop Proceedings: http://www.btw-2015.de
Löffler M, Engel C, Ahnert P, Alfermann D, Arelin K, Baber R, Beutner F, Binder H, Brähler E, Burkhardt R, Ceglarek U, Enzenbach C, Fuchs M, Glaesmer H, Girlich F, Hagendorff A, Häntzsch M, Hegerl U, Henger S, Hensch T, Hinz A, Holzendorf V, Husser D, Kersting A, Kiel A, Kirsten T, Kratzsch J, Krohn K, Luck T, Melzer S, Netto J, Nüchter M, Raschpichler M, Rauscher FG, Riedel-Heller SG, Sander C, Scholz M, Schönknecht P, Schroeter ML, Simon JC, Speer R, Stäker J, Stein R, Stöbel-Richter Y, Stumvoll M, Tarnok A,Teren A, Teupser D, Then FS, Tönjes A, Treudler R, Villringer A, Weissgerber A, Wiedemann P, Zachariae S, Wirkner K, Thiery J

The LIFE-Adult-Study: objectives and design of a population-based cohort study with 10,000 deeply phenotyped adults in Germany

BMC Public Health 15 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-1983-z

Journal Homepage: http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-015-1983-z

2013

Toralf Kirsten, Alexander Kiel, Michael Kleinert, Ronald Speer, Christoph Engel, and Markus Loeffler:

Research data and proband management in LIFE (in German)

Proc. of 58. Conf. German Society Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), 2013

2012

Anika Groß, Michael Hartung, Toralf Kirsten, Erhard Rahm

GOMMA Results for OAEI 2012

Proc. of 7th Intl. Workshop on Ontology Matching, in conjunction with ISWC, 2012
Michael Hartung, Anika Groß, Toralf Kirsten, and Erhard Rahm

Effective Mapping Composition for Biomedical Ontologies

Proc. of Intl. Workshop on Semantic Interoperability in Medical Informatics, in conjunction with the ESWC, 2012
Frank Meineke, Sebastian Stäubert, and Toralf Kirsten:

Medizinische Forschungsdatenbanken als Baustein des Forschungsdatenmanagements an der Universität Leipzig

Proc. of 57. Conf. German Society Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS), 2012

2011

Anika Groß, Michael Hartung, Toralf Kirsten, and Erhard Rahm:

Mapping Composition for Matching Large Life Science Ontologies

In: Proc. of 2nd Intl. Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO), 2011

Workshop Homepage:
Toralf Kirsten, Anika Groß, Michael Hartung, Lars Kolb, and Erhard Rahm

GOMMA: A Component-based Infrastructure for managing and analyzing Life Science Ontologies and their Evolution

Journal of Biomedical Semantics (2011), Nr.6

Workshop Homepage:

2010

Toralf Kirsten, Lars Kolb, Michael Hartung, Anika Groß, Hanna K&olig;pcke, and Erhard Rahm

Data Partitioning for Parallel Entity Matching

8th International Workshop on Quality in Databases in conjunction with VLDB 2010

Workshop Homepage: http://www.dbis.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/QDB2010
Toralf Kirsten and Alexander Kiel

Ontology-based Registration of Entities for Data Integration in large biomedical Research Projects

Proc. Workshop on Information Integration in Service Architectures (IISA), attached at the German Informatics Conference, Leipzig (Germany), 2010

Workshop Homepage: http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/iisa, Pre-print version on publication server
Michael Hartung, Anika Groß, Toralf Kirsten, and Erhard Rahm

Discovering Evolving Regions in Life Science Ontologies

Proc. 7th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), Gothenburg (Sweden), 2010

Conference Homepage: http://www.chalmers.se/cse/dils2010-en
Anika Groß, Michael Hartung, Toralf Kirsten, and Erhard Rahm

On Matching Large Life Science Ontologies in Parallel

Proc. 7th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), Gothenburg (Sweden), 2010

Conference Homepage: http://www.chalmers.se/cse/dils2010-en
Clara Bermudez-Santana, Camille Stephan-Otto Attolini, Toralf Kirsten, Jan Engelhardt, Sonja J. Prohaska, Stephan Steigele and Peter F. Stadler

Genomic organization of eukaryotic tRNAs.

BMC Genomics, 11:270, 2010.

Open Access Article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/270

2009

Toralf Kirsten, Michael Hartung, Anika Groß, and Erhard Rahm

Efficient Management of biomedical ontology versions.

Proc. of the 4th International Workshop on Ontology Content (OnToContent), Vilamoura (Portugal),2009

Workshop Homepage: http://www.onthemove-conferences.org/index.php/otc2009, Pre-print version on publication server
Michael Hartung, Toralf Kirsten, Anika Groß, and Erhard Rahm

OnEX: Exploring changes in life science ontologies.

BMC Bioinformatics, 10:250, 2009

Open Access Article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/250
Anika Groß, Michael Hartung, Toralf Kirsten, and Erhard Rahm

Estimating the quality of ontology-based annotations by considering evolutionary changes.

Proc. 6th International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), Manchester (UK), 2009.

Workshop Homepage: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/DILS09/, Pre-print version on publication server
Andreas Thor, Michael Hartung, Anika Groß, Toralf Kirsten, and Erhard Rahm

An evolution-based approach for assessing ontology mappings - A case study in the life sciences.

Proc. 13th Conf. of Database Systems for Business, Technology and Web (BTW), Münster (Germany), 2009.

Conference Homepage: http://btw2009.uni-muenster.de/oe20/cms/website.php, Pre-print version on publication server

2008

Manuela Marz, Toralf Kirsten, and Peter F. Stadler

Evolution of spliceosomal snRNA genes in metazoan animals.

Journal of Molecular Evolution, 67(6): 594-607, 2008.

Publisher page
Michael Hartung, Toralf Kirsten, and Erhard Rahm

Analyzing the evolution of life science ontologies and mappings.

Proc. 5th International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), Evry (France), 2008.

Workshop Homepage: http://dils2008.lri.fr/, Pre-print version on publication server
Michael Hartung, Toralf Kirsten, and Erhard Rahm

Analyzing the evolution of life science ontologies and mappings

Technical Report (extended version) and IZBI Working Paper No. 17, ISSN 1860-2746

2007

Toralf Kirsten

Data-warehouse- and mapping-based data integration platforms in the bioinformatics.

Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, 2007.

(in German)
Toralf Kirsten, Andreas Thor, and Erhard Rahm

Instance-based matching of large life science ontologies.

Proc. 4th International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), Philadelphia (USA), 2007.

Workshop Homepage: http://dils07.cis.upenn.edu/, Pre-print version on publication server
Erhard Rahm, Toralf Kirsten, and Jörg Lange:

The GeWare data warehouse platform for the analysis of molecular-biological and clinical data.

Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 4(1):47, 2007.

Journal Link (open access)
Andreas Thor, Toralf Kirsten, and Erhard Rahm:

Instance-based matching of hierarchical ontologies.

Proc. 12th Conf. of Database Systems for Business, Technology and Web (BTW), Aachen (Germany), 2007.

Conference Homepage: http://www.btw2007.de, Pre-print version on publication server

2006

Jörg Lange, Toralf Kirsten, and Erhard Rahm:

An integrated analysis platform for experimental and clinical data in modern cancer research studies.

Proc. 51st Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS), Leipzig (Germany), 2006.

Conference Homepage: http://www.gmds2006.de, Abstract
Toralf Kirsten and Erhard Rahm:

BioFuice: Mapping-based data integration in bioinformatics.

Proc. 3rd International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), Hinxton (UK), 2006.

Workshop Homepage: http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/dils2006/, Pre-print version on publication server
Toralf Kirsten, Jörg Lange, and Erhard Rahm:

An integrated platform for analyzing molecular-biological data within clinical studies.

Proc. International Workshop on Information Integration in Healthcare Applications (IIHA) in conjunction with EDBT 2006, Munich (Germany), 2006.

Workshop Homepage: http://www6.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/events/wsIIHAedbt2006/, Pre-print version on publication server

2005

Erhard Rahm, Andreas Thor, David Aumüller, Hong-Hai Do, Nick Golovin, and Toralf Kirsten

iFuice - Information fusion utilizing instance correspondences and peer mappings.

Proc. 8th International Workshop on the Web & Databases (WebDB) in conjunction with SIGMOD 2005, Baltimore (USA), 2005.

Workshop Homepage: http://webdb2005.uhasselt.be/, Pre-print version on publication server
Toralf Kirsten, Hong-Hai Do, Christine Körner, and Erhard Rahm:

Hybrid integration of molecular-biological annotation data.

Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), San Diego (USA), 2005.

Pre-print version on publication server
Hans Binder, Stephan Preibisch, Toralf Kirsten:

Base pair interactions and hybridization isotherms of matched and mismatched oligonucleotide probes on microarrays.

Langmuir 2005, 21, 9287-9302.

Arxiv Preprint server: q-bio.BM/0501008
Christine Körner, Toralf Kirsten, Hong-Hai Do, and Erhard Rahm:

Hybride Integration von molekularbiologischen Annotationsdaten.

Proc. 11th Conf. of Database Systems for Business, Technology and Web (BTW), Karlsruhe (Germany), 2005.

(in German)

Conference Program, Pre-print version on publication server

2004

Toralf Kirsten, Hong-Hai Do, and Erhard Rahm:

A Data warehouse for multidimensional gene expression analysis.

Technical Report, IZBI, November 2004.

Pre-print version on publication server, IZBI Working Paper
Hans Binder, Toralf Kirsten, Markus Löffler, and Peter F. Stadler:

Sensitivity of microarray oligonucleotide probes: Variability and effect of base composition.

J.Phys.Chem.B 108: 18003-18014 (2004).

Online Journal
Hans Binder, Toralf Kirsten, Ivo L. Hofacker, Peter F. Stadler, and Markus Löffler:

Interactions in oligonucleotide hybrid duplexes on microarrays.

J.Phys.Chem.B 108: 18015-18025 (2004).

Online Journal
Toralf Kirsten, Hong-Hai Do, and Erhard Rahm:

The IZBI Gene Expression Analysis Platform - A status report.

Technical Report, IZBI, January 2004

2003

Hong-Hai Do, Toralf Kirsten, and Erhard Rahm:

Comparative evaluation of microarray-based gene expression databases.

Proc. 10. Conf. of Database Systems for Business, Technology and Web (BTW), Leipzig (Germany), 2003

Pre-print version on publication server, Talk

2001

Klaus Kruczynski and Toralf Kirsten:

Grundzüge der Data Warehouse Architektur: Die Corporate Information Factory.

IS report, 10 / 2001, pp. 36 - 41

(in German)

2000

Klaus Kruczynski and Toralf Kirsten:

Data Warehouse: Architekturen & Clusterung - Beispiel im eCRM-Kontext.

Proc. of the 8th Leipzig Informatics Days(LIT), September 2000, pp. 33 - 38

(in German)

LIT Online

1998

Klaus Kruczynski, Dirk Kahlert, and Toralf Kirsten:

Konzepte zu Datenlogistik und Data Warehousing für die Verbundnetz Gas AG Leipzig.

Technical Report,

Faculty of Business Administration, University of Applied Science Leipzig

(in German)

Last modified: 25.06.2010 by Toralf Kirsten