Books
Building Bioinformatics Solutions with Perl, R and MySQL, C. Bessant, I. Shadforth, D. Oakley, Oxford University Press, 2008.
Journal Papers
Investigation of Support Vector Machines and Raman Spectroscopy for Lymph Node Diagnostics, M. Sattlecker, C. Bessant, J. Smith, N. Stone, Analyst, in press.
The Quantification of Pollutants in Drinking Water by use of Artificial Neural Networks. M. Cauchi, L. Bianco, C. Bessant, Natural Computing, in press.
Free Computational Resources for Designing Selected Reaction Monitoring (SRM) Transitions. J. A. Cham, L. Bianco, C. Bessant, Proteomics, in press.
MRMaid-DB: a public repository for published SRM transitions, J. A. Cham, L. Bianco, C. Barton, C. Bessant, Journal of Proteome Research, 2010, 9, 620-625.
Application of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for Cleaning Verification in Pharmaceutical Manufacture. D.K. Corrigan, M. Cauchi, S. Piletsky, S. McCrossen, Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, PDA Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, 2009, 63, 568-574.
Evaluation of a Combination of SIFT-MS and Multivariate Data Analysis for the Diagnosis of Mycobacterium Bovis in Wild Badgers. A. D. Spooner, C. Bessant, C. Turner, H. Knobloch and M. Chambers, Analyst, 2009, 134, 1922-1927.
Comparison of Novel Decoy Database Designs for Optimizing Protein Identification Searches using ABRF sPRG2006 Standard MS/MS Datasets. L. Bianco, J.A. Mead, C. Bessant, Journal of Proteome Research, 2009, 8 (4), 1782-1791.
Dye Array for Measuring Physicochemical Parameters. E. Moczko, I.V. Meglinski, C. Bessant, S.A. Piletsky, Analytical Chemistry, 2009, 81 (6), 2311-2316.
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of T-Cell Lymphoma, B-cell Lymphoid and Myeloid Leukaemia Cell Lines, J. Babrah, K. McCarthy, R. J. Lush, A. D. Rye, C. Bessant and N. Stone, Analyst, 2009, 134 (4), 763-768.
MRMaid: The Web-Based Tool for Designing Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) Transitions, J.A. Mead, L. Bianco, V. Ottone, C. Barton, R.G. Kay, K.S. Lilley, N.J. Bond, C. Bessant, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 2009, 8 (4), 696-705.
Recent Developments in Public Proteomic MS Repositories and Pipelines, J. Mead, L. Bianco, C. Bessant, Proteomics, 2009, 9 (4), 861-881.
Chemometric Profiling of Pre-Climacteric Sri Lankan Mango Fruit (Mangifera Indica L.), T. Thanaraj, L. Terry, C. Bessant, Food Chemistry, 2009, 112, 786-794.
Metalloprotein Metal Pools: Identification and Quantification by Coupling Native and Non-Native Separations Through Principal Component Analysis, N. Robinson, K. Waldron, S. Tottey, C. Bessant, Nature Protocols, 2008.
Protein-Folding Location Can Regulate Manganese Binding Versus Copper- or Zinc-Binding, S. Tottey, K.J. Waldron, S.J. Firbank, B. Reale, C. Bessant, K. Sato, T.R. Cheek, J. Gray, M.J. Banfield, C. Dennison & N.J. Robinson, Nature, 2008, 455, 1138-1142.
Simultaneous Quantitative Determination of Cadmium, Lead, and Copper on Carbon-Ink Screen-Printed Electrodes by Differential Pulse Anodic Stripping Voltammetry and Partial Least Squares Regression, M. Cauchi, C. Bessant, S. Setford, Electroanalysis, 2008, 20 (23), p2571-2577.
OSPACS: Ultrasound Image Management System, W. Stott, A. Ryan , I.J Jacobs , U. Menon , C. Bessant, C. Jones Source Code for Biology and Medicine, 2008, 3:11.
Proposed Minimum Reporting Standards for Data Analysis in Metabolomics. R. Goodacre, D. Broadhurst, A. Smilde, B.S. Kristal, J.D., Baker, R. Beger, C. Bessant, S. Connor, G. Capuani, A. Craig, T. Ebbels, D.B. Kell, C. Manetti, J. Newton, G. Paternostro, R. Somorjai, M. Sjöström, J. Trygg, F. Wulfert, Metabolomics, 2007, 3, 231-241.
Public Proteomic MS Repositories and Pipelines: Available Tools and Biological Applications, J. Mead, I. Shadforth, C. Bessant, Proteomics, 2007, 7, 2769-2786.
A Novel Graph Optimisation Algorithm for the Extraction of Gene Regulatory Networks from Temporal Microarray Data. J. Kumuthini, L. Jouffe, C. Bessant, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, 4414, 28-37.
Quantitative Proteomic Approach to Study Subcellular Localization of Membrane Proteins, P. Sadowski, T. P. J. Dunkley, I. P. Shadforth, P. Dupree, C. Bessant, J. L. Griffin, K. S. Lilley, Nature Protocols, 2006, 1, 1778-1789.
Genome Annotating Proteomics Pipelines: Available Tools, I. Shadforth, C. Bessant, Expert Review of Proteomics, 2006, 3 (6), 621-629.
GAPP: A Fully Automated Software for the Confident Identification of Human Peptides from Tandem Mass Spectra, I. Shadforth, W. Xu, D. Crowther, C. Bessant, Journal of Proteome Research, 2006, 5(10), 2849-2852.
Evaluation of a Genomics Platform for Cross-Species Transcriptome Analysis of Recombinant CHO Cells, W. Ernst, E. Truemmer, J. Mead, C. Bessant, H. Strelec, H. Katinger, F. Hesse, Biotechnology Journal, 2006, 1, 639-650.
Detection of M. Tuberculosis Infections in Culture and Sputum Using Electronic Nose Technology: Prospects for Clinical Application, R. Fend, A. Kolk, C. Bessant, P. Buijtels, P. Klatser, A.C. Woodman J. Clinical Microbiology, 2006, 44, 2039-2045.
Mapping the Arabidopsis Organelle Proteome, T. P. J. Dunkley, S. Hester, I. P. Shadforth, J. Runions, T. Weimar, S.L. Hanton, J. L. Griffin, C. Bessant, F. Brandizzi, C. Hawes, R. B. Watson, P. Dupree, K. S. Lilley. PNAS, 2006, 103, 6518-6523.
Protein and Peptide Identification Algorithms Using Mass Spectrometry for Use in High-Throughput, Automated Pipelines, I. Shadforth, D. Crowther, C. Bessant, Proteomics, 5 (16), 2005, 4082-4095.
Confident Protein Identification Using the Average Peptide Score Method Coupled with Search-Specific, Ab Initio Thresholds. I. Shadforth, T. Dunkley, K. Lilley, C. Bessant. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 19 (22), 2005, 3363-3368.
i-Tracker: For Quantitative Proteomics using iTRAQ. I. Shadforth, T. Dunkley, K. Lilley, C. Bessant. BMC Genomics, 6, 2005, 145.
Determination of Partial Amino Acid Composition from Tandem Mass Spectra for use in Peptide Identification Strategies, I. Shadforth, K. Todd, D. Crowther, C. Bessant, Proteomics, 5, 2005, 1787-1796.
Simultaneous Quantification of Analytes in Quaternary Mixtures Using Dual Pulse Staircase Voltammetry and Genetically Optimised Neural Networks. E. Richards, C. Bessant and S. Saini, Analyst, 129 (4), 2004, 355-358.
Monitoring Haemodialysis Using Electronic Nose and Chemometrics, R. Fend, C. Bessant, A.J. Williams, A. C. Woodman, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 19 (12), 2004, 1581-1590.
Identification of Oil Contaminants on Polymer Coated Beverage Cans using Fluorescence Spectroscopy. M. Malecha, C. Bessant, S. Saini, Applied Spectroscopy, 2003, 57, 1042-1048.
A Liquid Handling System for the Automated Acquisition of Data for Training, Validating and Testing Calibration Models. E. Richards, C. Bessant and S. Saini, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 2003, 88, 149-154.
Multivariate Data Analysis in Electroanalytical Chemistry. E. Richards, C. Bessant and S. Saini, Electroanalysis, 2002, 14 (22), 1522-1542.
Principal Components Analysis for the Visualisation of Multidimensional Chemical Data Acquired by Scanning Raman Microspectroscopy. M. Malecha, C. Bessant and S. Saini, Analyst, 2002, 127 (9), 1261-1266.
Identification of Oil Contaminants on Polymer Coated Beverage Cans using Raman Spectroscopy. M. Malecha , C. Bessant , D. Perry and S. Saini , Analyst, 2002, 127, 297-303.
Optimisation of a Neural Network Model for Calibration of Voltammetric Data. E. Richards, C. Bessant, S. Saini, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, 2002, 61, 35-49.
Simultaneous Resolution of Overlapping Tailing Peaks of Isomers using Dual Detector Diode Array Liquid Chromatography Electrospray Mass Spectrometry. R. G. Brereton, C. Bessant, Journal of the Institute of Science and Technology of Balikesir University, 2001, 2(1), 148-174.
Sniffing Out Disease Using the Artificial Nose. S.Saini, H.Barr, C.Bessant, Biologist, 2001, 48 (5), 229-233.
A Chemometric Evaluation of Synchronous Scan Fluorescence Spectroscopy for the Determination of Regulatory Conformance and Usage History of Insulation Oils. C. Bessant, L. J. Ritchie, S. Saini, B. Pahlavanpour & G. Wilson, Applied Spectroscopy, 2001, 55(7), 840-846.
A Ten Channel Fibre-Optic Device for Distributed Sensing of Underground Hydrocarbon Leakage. L. J. Ritchie, C. P. Ferguson, C. Bessant & S. Saini, Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2000, 2, 670-673.
A Chemometric Analysis of Dual Pulse Staircase Voltammograms Obtained in Mixtures of Ethanol, Fructose and Glucose. C. Bessant, S. Saini, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, 2000, 489, 76-83.
Integrated Processing of Triply Coupled Diode Array Liquid Chromatography Electrospray Mass Spectrometric Signals by Chemometric Methods. C. Bessant, R. G. Brereton, S. Dunkerley, Analyst, 1999, 124, 1733-1744.
Simultaneous Determination of Ethanol, Fructose and Glucose at an Unmodified Platinum Electrode using Artificial Neural Networks. C. Bessant, S.Saini, Analytical Chemistry, 1999, 71 (14), 2806-2813.
An Object Oriented Approach to Electroanalytical Technique Implementation. C. Bessant, S. Saini, Electroanalysis, 1997, 9, 926-931.
Book Chapters
Mining Proteomic MS/MS Data for MRM Transitions, J. A. Mead, L. Bianco, C. Bessant in Proteomic Bioinformatics (Eds. S. Hubbard, A. Jones), Humana Press, in press.
Microarray Analysis Software and its Applications, C. Bessant in The Handbook of Biosensors and Biochips (Eds. R. Marks, D. Cullen, I. Karube, H. Weetall, C. Lowe), Wiley, 2007.
An Overview of Soft Computing Techniques Used in the Drug Discovery Process. A. Oduguwa, A. Tiwari, R. Roy, C. Bessant, Advances in Soft Computing, 2006, 465-480.
Neural Networks for the Calibration of Voltammetric Data, C. Bessant & E. Richards in Nature-Inspired Methods in Chemometrics: Genetic Algorithms and Artificial Neural Networks (Ed. R. Leardi), Elsevier Science 2003.
