Name: Seyed Shahriar Arab
Position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Biological Sciences,
Tarbiat Modares University.
Address: Tarbiat Modares University, Faculty of Biological
Sciences, Department of Biophysics, Jalal-Al Ahmad St,
Tehran, IRAN.
Phone: +98 912 3546184 (mobile); E-mail:
shahriar.arab@gmail.com
http://bioinf.modares.ac.ir/
Research area:
Structural bioinformatics, Protein structure prediction, Protein engineering, Protein design,
Peptide design, Gene regulatory network analysis.
Expertise:
Protein engineering. Chimeric protein design. Antibody optimization, Enhance protein stability.
Key equipment:
Four server machines for providing web services and computation.
Top 5 publications:
 Fahimeh Ghavamipour, S. Shirin Shahangian, Reza H. Sajedi, S. Shahriar Arab, Kamran
Mansouri and Mahmoud Reza Aghamaali (2014) Development of a highly-potent antiangiogenic VEGF8–109 heterodimer by directed blocking of its VEGFR-2 binding
site. FEBS Journal , 281(19):4479-94 doi:10.1111/febs.12956
 Mohammad Mehdi Ghahremanpour, Seyed Shahriar Arab, Saman Biook Aghazadeh, Jin
Zhang and David van der Spoel (2013) MemBuilder: A Web-Based Graphical Interface
to Build Heterogeneously Mixed Membrane Bilayers for the GROMACS Biomolecular
Simulation
Program. Bioinformatics,
Vol.
30,
No.
3
(439-441)
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt680
 Behnam Neyshabur, Ahmadreza Khadem, Somaye Hashemifar, Seyed Shahriar Arab
(2013) NETAL: A new graph-based method for global alignment of protein-protein
interaction networks. Bioinformatics 1:9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt202
 Arab S, Sadeghi M, Eslahchi C, Pezeshk H. A (2010) A pairwise residue contact area-
based mean force potential for discrimination of native protein structure. BMC
Bioinformatics, 11:16 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-16
 Hossein Naderi-Manesh, Mehdi Sadeghi, Seyed Shahriar Arab, and Ali A.Moosavi
Movahed. (2001) Prediction of Protein Surface Accessibility with Information Theory.
PROTEINS: Structure, Function, and Genetics 42: 452 – 459 PMID: 11170200