Contact Details


Dr. Richard Howey
Catalyst Building
Newcastle University
3 Science Square
Newcastle Helix
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE4 5TG
United Kingdom

Email: richard.howey@ncl.ac.uk

Publications


"Comparison of regmed and BayesNetty for exploring causal models with many variables"
R. Howey and H. J. Cordell Genetic Epidemiology. vol. 47 pp. 496-502 2023. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Confirmation of the superior performance of the causal Graphical Analysis Using Genetics (cGAUGE) pipeline in comparison to various competing alternatives"
R. Howey and H. J. Cordell Wellcome Open Research. vol. 7(180) 2022. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"A Bayesian network approach incorporating imputation of missing data enables exploratory analysis of complex causal biological relationships"
R. Howey, A. D. Clark, N. Naamane, L. N. Reynard, A. G. Pratt and H. J. Cordell PLOS Genetics. vol. 17(9) pp. e1009811 2021. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Bayesian network analysis incorporating genetic anchors complements conventional Mendelian randomization approaches for exploratory analysis of causal relationships in complex data"
R. Howey, S.-Y. Shin, C. Relton, G. Davey Smith and H. J. Cordell PLOS Genetics. vol. 16(3) pp. e1008198 2020. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Application of Bayesian networks to GAW20 genetic and blood lipid data"
R. A. J. Howey and H. J. Cordell BMC Proceedings. vol. 12(Suppl 9):19 pp. 21-27 2018. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Causal modeling in a multi-omic setting: insights from GAW20"
J. Auerbach, R. Howey, L. Jiang, A. Justice, L. Li†, K. Oualkacha, S. Sayols-Baixeras and S. W. Aslibekyan BMC Genetics. vol. 19(Suppl 1):74 pp. 73-79 2018. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Using penalized regression to predict phenotype from SNP data"
S. Cherlin, R. A. J. Howey and H. J. Cordell BMC Proceedings. vol. 12(Suppl 9):38 pp. 223-228 2018. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Further investigations of the W-test for pairwise epistasis testing"
R. Howey and H. J. Cordell Wellcome Open Research. vol. 2(54) pp. 1-19 2017. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Examination of previously identified associations within the Genetic Analysis Workshop 19 data"
R. A. J. Howey, J. Eu-ahsunthornwattana, R. Darlay and H. J. Cordell BMC Proceedings. vol. 10(7) pp. 97-101 2016. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Increased Power for Detection of Parent-of-Origin Effects via the Use of Haplotype Estimation"
R. Howey, C. Mamasoula, Ana Töpf, R. Nudel, J. A. Goodship, B. D. Keavney and H. J. Cordell The American Journal of Human Genetics. vol. 97(3) pp. 419-434 2015. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Imputation Without Doing Imputation: A New Method for the Detection of Non-Genotyped Causal Variants"
R. Howey and H. J. Cordell Genet. Epidemiol.. vol. 38(3) pp. 173-190 2014. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Accounting for relatedness in family-based association studies: application to GAW18 data"
J. Eu-ahsunthornwattana, R. A. J. Howey and H. J. Cordell BMC Proceedings. 8(Suppl 1):S79 2014. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Understanding foot-and-mouth disease virus transmission biology: identification of the indicators of infectiousness"
M. E. Chase-Topping, I. Handle, B. Bankowski, N. D. Juleff, D. Gibson, S. J. Cox, M. Windsor, E. Reid, C. Doel, R. Howey, P. V. Barnett, M. E. J. Woolhouse and B. Charleston Veterinary Research. vol. 44(1):46 2013. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Human viruses: discovery and emergence"
M. Woolhouse, F. Scott, Z. Hudson, R. Howey and M. Chase-Topping Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. vol. 367 pp. 2864-2871 2012. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"PREMIM and EMIM: Tools for estimation of maternal, imprinting and interaction effects using multinomial modelling"
R. Howey and H. J. Cordell BMC Bioinformatics. vol. 13 pp. 149 2012. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Modelling the within-host dynamics of the foot-and-mouth disease virus in cattle"
R. Howey, B. Bankowski, N. Juleff, N. J. Savill, D. Gibson, J. Fazakerley, B. Charleston and M. E. J. Woolhouse Epidemics. vol. 4(2) pp. 93-103 2012. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Finding genes that influence quantitative traits with tree-based clustering"
I. J. Wilson, R. A. J. Howey, D. T. Houniet and M. Santibanez-Koref BMC Proceedings. vol. 5(supp 9):S98 2011. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Relationship between clinical symptoms and transmission of infectious diseases and the implications for control"
B. Charleston, B. Bankowski, M.E. Chase-Topping, S. Gubbins, D. Schley, R. Howey, P.V. Barnett, D. Gibson, N.D. Juleff and M.E.J. Woolhouse. Science. vol. 332(6030) pp. 726-729 2011. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Potential for transmission of infections in networks of cattle farms."
V. V. Volkova, R. Howey, N. J. Savill and M.E.J. Woolhouse. Epidemics. vol. 2(3) pp. 116-122 2010. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Sheep movement networks and the transmission of infectious diseases."
V. V. Volkova, R. Howey, N. J. Savill and M.E.J. Woolhouse. PLoS ONE. vol. 5(6) pp. e11185 2010. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Effect of the initial dose of foot-and-mouth disease virus on the early viral dynamics within pigs."
R. Howey, M. Quan, N. J. Savill, L. Matthews, S. Alexandersen and M. E. J. Woolhouse. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. vol. 6 pp. 835-847 2009. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Planning Domains and Plans: Validation and Analysis."
D. Long, M. Fox and R. Howey. Proceedings of the Verification and Validation in Planning workshop, ICAPS'09. 2009. Download PDF (BibTeX)


"Temporal trends in the discovery of human viruses."
M. E. J Woolhouse, R. Howey, E. Gaunt, L. Reilly, M. Chase-Topping and N. Savill. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. vol. 275(1647)  pp. 2111-2115 2008. Visit Website (BibTeX)


"Defining the period of infectiousness in cattle naturally infected with foot-and-mouth disease virus."
B. M. Bankowski, R. Howey, N. Juleff, D. Gibson, S. J. Cox, P. V. Barnett, M. E.J. Woolhouse and B. Charleston. The Global control of FMD - Tools, ideas and ideals. ERICE, Sicily October 2008. Download PDF (BibTeX)


"Exploration of the Robustness of Plans."
M. Fox, R. Howey, and D. Long. Proceedings of National Conference on AI (AAAI). 2006. Download PDF (BibTeX)


"Exploration of the Robustness of Plans."
M. Fox, R. Howey, and D. Long. Proceedings ICAPS 2005 Workshop on Verification and Validation of Model-Based Planning and Scheduling Systems. June 2005. Download PDF (BibTeX)


"Validating Plans in the Context of Processes and Exogenous Events."
M. Fox, R. Howey, and D. Long. Proceedings of The 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05). July 2005. Visit website (BibTeX)


"Plan Validation and Mixed-Initiative Planning in Space Operations."
R. Howey, D. Long, and M. Fox. In Planning, Scheduling and Constraint Satisfaction: From Theory to Practice. Edited by L. Castillo and D. Borrajo and M. A. Salido and A. Oddi. IOS Press. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. vol. 117 pp. 60-70 2005. Download PDF (BibTeX)


"VAL: Automatic Plan Validation, Continuous Effects and Mixed Initiative Planning using PDDL."
R. Howey, D. Long, and M. Fox. The 16th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence. pp. 294-301 November 2004. Download PDF (BibTeX)


"Validating Plans with Exogenous Events."
R. Howey, D. Long, and M. Fox. Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group. pp. 78-87 December 2004. Download PDF (BibTeX)


"Plan Validation and Mixed-Initiative Planning in Space Operations."
R. Howey, D. Long, and M. Fox. Proceedings of ECAI Workshop on Planning: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice. pp. 65-74 August 2004. Download PDF (BibTeX)


"VAL's Progress: The Automatic Validation Tool for PDDL2.1 used in the International Planning Competition."
R. Howey and D. Long. Proceedings of the ICAPS 2003 workshop on "The Competition: Impact, Organization, Evaluation, Benchmarks". Trento, Italy. pp. 28-37 June 2003. Download PDF (BibTeX)


"Validating Plans with Continuous Effects."
R. Howey and D. Long. Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group. pp. 115-124 December 2003. Download PDF (BibTeX)


"The Automatic Validation Tool for PDDL2.1."
R. Howey and D. Long. The Tenth Workshop on Automated Reasoning. Liverpool, UK. pp. 37-38 April 2003. Download PDF (BibTeX)


"Approximately Multiplicative Functionals on Algebras of Smooth Functions."
R. Howey. Journal of The London Mathematical Soc. vol. 68(2). pp. 739-752 2003. Download PDF (BibTeX)