Nikolas Fechner

Background

  • Oct. 2000 - Jun. 2006: Studies of Computer Science (Bioinformatics) at the University of Tübingen
  • since Aug. 2006 Research assistant at the Center of Bioinformatics (ZBIT), University of Tübingen
  • Aug.-Oct. 2009 Internship in the Group of Dr. Christoph Steinbeck at the EBI-EMBL, Cambridge, UK

 

Research Interests

  • Chemoinformatics
  • Proteochemometrics
  • Machine Learning in Chemo-/Bioinformatics
  • Problem-Specific Kernel Methods

 

Current Projects

  • JOELib2: A Java based cheminformatics (computational chemistry) library
  • Optimal Assignment Kernels (OAK) for chemical compounds
  • BlueDesc: A ready-to-use executable jar that calculates the molecular descriptors available in JOELib and CDK

 

Publications

Book Chapters

Molecular Descriptors
    Nikolas Fechner, Georg Hinselmann, and Joerg K. Wegner
    Handbook of Chemoinformatics Algorithms
    Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical & Computational Biology, to appear 2010

Journal Publications

Optimal assignment methods for ligand-based virtual screening
Andreas Jahn, Georg Hinselmann, Nikolas Fechner and Andreas Zell
Journal of Cheminformatics, 2009, 1:14
Abstract, PDF, DOI: 10.1186/1758-2946-1-14
Atomic local neighborhood flexibility incorporation into a structured similarity measure for QSAR
Nikolas Fechner, Andreas Jahn, Georg Hinselmann and Andreas Zell
in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2009, 49 (3), pp 549-560
DOI: 10.1021/ci800329r BibTeX
 
Chronic Rat Toxicity Prediction of Chemical Compounds using Kernel Machines
Georg Hinselmann, Andreas Jahn, Nikolas Fechner and Andreas Zell
in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (EvoBIO 2009) , Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2009, 5483, 25-36
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01184-9_3 BibTeX
 
Assessing the selectivity of serine proteases inhibitors using structural similarity
Nikolas Fechner, Andreas Jahn, Georg Hinselmann and Andreas Zell
in Chemistry Central Journal, 2009, 3(Suppl 1), P10.
Abstract, DOI: 10.1186/1752-153X-3-S1-P10
 
An extension of the pharmacophore kernel using radial atomtype fingerprints
Georg Hinselmann, Matthias Eckert, Thomas Holder, Andreas Jahn, Nikolas Fechner and Andreas Zell
in Chemistry Central Journal, 2009, 3(Suppl 1), P11.
Abstract, DOI: 10.1186/1752-153X-3-S1-P11
 
Two-step hierarchical assignments on molecular graphs
Andreas Jahn, Nikolas Fechner, Georg Hinselmann and Andreas Zell
in Chemistry Central Journal, 2009, 3(Suppl 1), P13.
Abstract, DOI: 10.1186/1752-153X-3-S1-P13
 
Estimating the applicability domain of kernel based QSPR models using classical descriptor vectors
Nikolas Fechner, Georg Hinselmann, Christina Schmiedl and Andreas Zell
in Chemistry Central Journal, 2008, 2(Suppl 1), P2.
BibTeX, Abstract, DOI: 10.1186/1752-153X-2-S1-P2
 
Beyond descriptor vectors: QSAR modelling using structural similarity
Andreas Zell, Georg Hinselmann, Nikolas Fechner and Andreas Jahn
in Chemistry Central Journal, 2008, 2(Suppl 1), S3.
BibTeX, Abstract, DOI: 10.1186/1752-153X-2-S1-S3
 
Comparison of Different Approaches to Vibration-based Terrain Classification
Christian Weiss, Nikolas Fechner, Matthias Stark and Andreas Zell
in Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2007), Freiburg, Germany, September 19-21, 2007, pp. 7-12

Presentations

Incorporating Molecular Flexibility into three-dimensional Structural Kernels
A. Jahn, N. Fechner, G. Hinselmann and Andreas Zell,
4. German Conference on Cheminformatics, 9-11. November 2008, Goslar
 
Altered Ligands for Heterodimers of Toll-Like Receptors 1 and 2
K.-H. Wiesmüller, S. Voss, G. Hinselmann, N. Fechner, R. Spohn and Andreas Zell,
12th Japanese-German Symposium on Peptide Science, Akabori, Japan.
 
Beyond Descriptor Vectors: QSAR Modelling with structural similarity measures
G. Hinselmann, N. Fechner, A. Jahn and A. Zell
3. German Conference on Cheminformatics, 11-13. November 2007, Goslar [pdf, ~14MB including a demo movie]

Poster

Kernel-based Estimation of the Applicability Domain of QSAR models
N. Fechner, G. Hinselmann, A. Jahn, A. Zell
presented on the German Conference on Chemoinformatics 2009

 

Assessing the Selectivity of Serine Proteases Inhibitors using Structural Similarity
N. Fechner, A. Jahn, G. Hinselmann, A. Zell
presented on the German Conference on Chemoinformatics 2008

 

Two-Step Hierarchical Assignments on Molecular Graphs
A. Jahn, N. Fechner, G. Hinselmann, A. Zell
presented on the German Conference on Chemoinformatics 2008

 

Extending Pharmacophore Kernels with Radial Fingerprint Environments
G. Hinselmann, M. Eckert, T. Holder, A. Jahn, N. Fechner, A. Zell
presented on the German Conference on Chemoinformatics 2008

 

Altered Ligands for Heterodimers of Toll-Like Receptors 1 and 2
S. Voss, D. Bächle, R. Spohn, G. Hinselmann, N. Fechner, A. Zell, A.J. Ulmer and K.-H. Wiesmüller, 
presented at the  IEIIS 2008, Edingburgh, Scottland

 

Estimating the Applicability Domain of Kernel based QSPR Models using Classical Descriptor Vectors
N. Fechner, G. Hinselmann, C. Schmiedl, A. Zell
presented on the German Conference on Chemoinformatics 2007

 

Structural Similarity Measures with Kernel Properties for Ligand based Virtual Screening
N. Fechner, G. Hinselmann, A. Zell
presented on the NAD Workshop 2007 at Rauischholzhausen

 

Implicitly Defined Substructure Fingerprints for Support Vector Machines
N. Fechner, G. Hinselmann, A. Zell
presented on the German Conference on Chemoinformatics 2006

 

In Silico Lead-Structure Proposal with Filters using Support Vector Machines and Implicit Defined Substructure Fingerprints
N. Fechner, G. Hinselmann, A. Zell
presented on the German Conference on Bioinformatics 2006

 

 

Address, Phone, Fax, Email

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik
Lehrstuhl Rechnerarchitektur
Sand 1
D - 72076 Tübingen
 
Germany

Tel: (+49/0) 7071 / 29 77174
Fax: (+49/0) 7071 / 29 5091
Email: nikolas.fechner@uni-tuebingen.de