Selected publications

Daniel McShan’s academic publications center on computational prediction of metabolic pathways, heuristic search, and biochemical knowledge representation—foundational to later work in enterprise bioinformatics and semantic graph systems.

• PathMiner: predicting metabolic pathways by heuristic search DC McShan, S Rao, I Shah. Bioinformatics, 2003.
• Symbolic inference of xenobiotic metabolism DC McShan, M Upadhayaya, I Shah. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, 2004.
• Heuristic search for metabolic engineering: de novo synthesis of vanillin D McShan, I Shah. Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2005.
• Towards inference of a biochemical ontology from a metabolic database DC McShan. Comparative and Functional Genomics, 2005.
• Methods, Systems and Software for Predicting Biochemical Networks or Pathways I Shah, D McShan. WO Patent, 2005.

Additional presentations have been given at venues including ISDC, aerospace testing seminars, and NASA Ames Design for Safety conference.