The Bioinformatics / Algorithmics Reading Group

2009-2010 schedule: usually every other Tuesday 12:30-1:30pm, in room X530. Undergraduate students are welcome to attend.
Archive


Date Time Presenter Paper / Topic / Title
Tuesday, Aug 31 12:30-1:30 Chrisina Boucher Improved algorithms for DNA motif detection and their application
Wednesday, Aug 25 12:30-1:30 Daniel Lai Building a Next-Generation Sequencing Aligner Library
Wednesday, July 21 12:30-1:30 Sushant Gupta Tools for Design of Novel DNA Technologies
Friday, July 9 10:00-11:30 Chris Thachuk Combinatorial Methods for Nucleic Acid Alignment and Folding
Friday, June 25 11:00-12:00 Tiffani Williams TreeZip: A New Algorithm for Compressing Large-Scale Phylogenentic Tree Collections
Tuesday, June 8 12:30-1:30 David Chan Sequence Factors Influencing the Rate of Toehold Binding in the DNA Toehold Exchange Process
Tuesday, May 25 12:30-1:30 Murray Patterson The Consecutive-Ones Property as a Model for Inferring Ancestral Genomes (continued)
Tuesday, May 11 12:30-1:30 Murray Patterson The Consecutive-Ones Property as a Model for Inferring Ancestral Genomes
Tuesday, April 20 12:30-1:30 Casper Shyr Analysis of NRF2 Binding Specificity
Tuesday, April 13 12:30-1:30 Warren Cheung Optimising Locality-Sensitive Hashing on Sequences in the Context of Motif Finding
Tuesday, March 30 12:30-1:30 Daniel Lai Analysis and Comparison of Rank Queries
Tuesday, March 2 12:30-1:30 Monir Hajiaghayi A set of nearest neighbor parameters for predicting the enthalpy change of RNA secondary structure formation
Tuesday, February 9 12:30-1:30 Leon French Discovering brain wiring mechanisms through gene expression
Tuesday, January 26 12:30-1:30 Rodrigo Goya Overview of next-generation sequencing analysis and applications
Tuesday, January 12 12:30-1:30 Chris Thachuk An algorithm for the energy barrier problem without pseudoknots and temporary arcs
Tuesday, Nov 24 12:00-1:00 YaoJie Chen Evaluation of Transat by comparing it to other co-transcriptional software
Tuesday, Nov 3 12:00-1:00 Monir Hajiaghayi Improved RNA secondary structure prediction by maximizing expected pair accuracy
Tuesday, Oct 6 1:30-2:30 Jiarui Ding Improve peptide identification from tandem mass spectra
Thursday, Sept 17 10-11am John Cheu Improving predictive power of the replica exchange Monte Carlo algorithm for protein folding by application of more complex energy and lattice models