The
Bioinformatics / Algorithmics Reading Group
2008-2009 schedule: every other Tuesday 1:30-2:30pm, in room X530. Undergraduate students are welcome to attend.
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| Date |
Time |
Presenter |
Paper / Topic / Title |
| Tuesday, Sep 23, 2008 |
1:00-2:00 |
|
Organizational Meeting |
| Tuesday, Sep 30 |
1:00-2:00 |
Philip Lam |
A toolbox for HMMs |
| Tuesday, Oct 7 |
1:00-2:00 |
Sohrab Shah |
Array CGH data analysis |
| Tuesday, Oct 14 |
1:00-2:00 |
Viann Chan |
Transfer RNA
genes in pieces |
| Tuesday, Oct 21 |
1:00-2:00 |
Nick Wiebe |
Bioinformatics approaches to A-to-I RNA editing site prediction |
| Tuesday, Oct 28 |
1:00-2:00 |
Cancelled |
|
| Tuesday, Nov 4 |
1:00-2:00 |
Mirela Andronescu |
Computational Approaches for RNA Energy Parameter Estimation |
| Tuesday, Nov 18 |
1:00-2:00 |
Cancelled |
|
| Tuesday, Nov 25 |
1:00-2:00 |
Cancelled |
|
| Tuesday, Dec 2 |
1:00-2:00 |
Hosna Jabbari |
An O(n^5) Algorithm for MFE Prediction of Kissing Hairpins and 4-Chains in Nucleic Acids |
| Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009 |
1:30-2:30 |
|
Organizational Meeting |
| Tuesday, Feb 3 |
1:30-2:30 |
Viann Chan |
A Probabilistic Model of Local Sequence Alignment That Simplifies Statistical Significance Estimation
|
| Tuesday, Feb 24 |
1:30-2:30 |
Chris Thachuk |
Examples of improved algorithms and implementations for problems in bioinformatics |
| Tuesday, Mar 17 |
1:30-2:30 |
Oana Sandu |
A robust framework for detecting structural variations in a genome |
| Tuesday, Mar 24 |
1:30-2:30 |
Holger Hoos |
Artificial biochemistry |
| Tuesday, Apr 14 |
1:30-2:30 |
Nima Aghaeepour |
Enhanced RNA secondary structure prediction methods |
| Tuesday, Apr 21 |
1:30-2:30 |
Nick Wiebe |
Conservation of transient secondary structures in related RNA sequences |
| Tuesday, May 12 |
1:30-2:30 |
Anne Condon |
NP-completeness of the direct energy barrier problem without pseudoknots |
| Tuesday, Jun 16 |
1:30-2:30 |
Rosalia Aguirre-Hernandez |
Whole genome association strategy for unbiased candidate gene selection in inflammatory diseases |
| Tuesday, Jun 30 |
1:30-2:30 |
Tiffani Williams (Texas A&M) |
MapReduce algorithms for summarizing evolutionary trees on multi-core platforms |
| Tuesday, Jul 7 |
1:30-2:30 |
Nick Wiebe |
Folding kinetics of large RNAs |
| Tuesday, Jul 21 |
1:30-2:30 |
Aashish Dattani |
Estimating RNA Energy parameters for NUPACK |
| Tuesday, Aug 11 |
1:30-2:30 |
Rebecca Hunt-Newbury |
Computational Simulation of Transcription Factor Binding For
the Prediction of Regulatory Regions in DNA sequences |
| Tuesday, Aug 18 |
1:30-2:30 |
Leigh-Anne Mathieson |
Repeated and Temporary Edges in RNA Folding Pathways |
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