The Bioinformatics / Algorithmics Reading Group

2013-2014 schedule: every other Wednesday 11:00 am - 12:00 pm. Undergraduate students are welcome to attend.

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---Winter Term 2, 2013-2014---

Date Time Room Presenter Paper / Topic / Title
Monday Jan 20 2014,
15:00-16:00
304, ICICS/CS
Fatemeh Dorri
Detecting single nucleotide variants using feature based classifier
Monday Feb 3 2014,
15:00-16:00
226, Michael Smith Building
Daniel Lai
InteRRact: A comparative method for improving RNA-RNA interaction predictions with machine learning
Monday Feb 17 2014,
15:00-16:00
304, ICICS/CS
Shu Yang
Predicting in vivo binding sites of RNA-binding proteins using mRNA secondary structure

---Winter Term 1, 2013-2014---

Date Time Room Presenter Paper / Topic / Title
Wednesday, Oct 30 2013
11:00-12:00
304, ICICS/CS
NA
Organizational Meeting
Wednesday, Nov 13 2013
11:00-12:00
X530, ICICS/CS
Rachel Edgar
DNA methylation analysis (slides)
Wednesday, Nov 27 2013
11:00-12:00
304, ICICS/CS
Isabel Darcy
Knotted Life
Wednesday, Dec 11 2013
11:00-12:00
X530, ICICS/CS
Alborz Mazloomian
Identification and Analysis of A-to-I RNA Editing (slides)

---Winter Term 2, 2012-2013---

Date Time Room Presenter Paper / Topic / Title
Tuesday, Jan 08 2013
11:00-12:00
X836, ICICS/CS
NA
Organizational Meeting
Thursday, Jan 24 2013
15:30-16:30
226, Michael Smith Building (MSL)
Meeta Mistry
Modeling gene expression using chromatin features in various cellular context (slides)
Thursday, Feb 07 2013
15:30-16:30
X836, ICICS/CS
Patrick Tan
The Ortholog Conjecture Is Untestable by the Current Gene Ontology but Is Supported by RNA Sequencing Data. (slides)
Thursday, Feb 21 2013
15:30-16:30
226, MSL
Shu Yang
Understanding transcriptional regulation by integrative analysis of transcription factor binding data. (slides)
Thursday, Mar 07 2013
15:30-16:30
X836, ICICS/CS
Evan Gatev
Ubiquitous heterogeneity and asymmetry of the chromatin environment at regulatory elements. (slides)
Thursday, Mar 21 2013
15:30-16:30
226, MSL
Jing Yun Alice Zhu
The long-range interaction landscape of gene promoters. (slides)
Thursday, Apr 04 2013
15:30-16:30
X836, ICICS/CS
Murray Patterson
Reconstruction of ancestral genome organization in bacteria. (slides)
Thursday, Apr 18 2013
15:30-16:30
226, MSL
Daniel Lai
The ENCODE project: Missteps overshadowing a success (slides)
Thursday, May 02 2013
15:30-16:30
X836, ICICS/CS
Alborz Mazloomian
Epigenetics in Alternative Pre-mRNA Splicing. (slides)
Thursday, May 16 2013
15:30-16:30
226, MSL
Adriana Sedeno
PRISM offers a comprehensive genomic approach to transcription factor function prediction. (slides)
Thursday, May 30 2013
15:30-16:30
Cancelled
Eloi Mercier
Thursday, Jun 27 2013
15:30-16:30
X836, ICICS/CS
Monir Hajiaghayi
Deterministic Function Computation with Chemical Reaction Networks. (slides)

---Winter Term 1, 2012-2013---

Date Time Presenter Paper / Topic / Title
Tuesday, November 20 11:00-12:00 Shu Yang Computational Prediction for RNA-Protein Interaction
Tuesday, November 06 11:00-12:00 Bonnie Kirkpatrick Pedigree Analysis 2.0: Bayesian Pedigree Analysis using Measure
Tuesday, October 23 11:00-12:00 Jan Manuch Self-assembly at temperature 1
Tuesday, October 09 11:00-12:00 Evan Gatev Probabilistic inference of Functional Transcription Modules
Tuesday, September 25 11:00-12:00 Javad Safaei Learning Polytrees From Data
Tuesday, September 11 11:00-12:00 Leigh Anne Mathieson Oxfold: Kinetic Folding of RNA using Stochastic Context-Free Grammars and Evolutionary Information


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