CBCB Seminar Series
Most CBCB seminars are held from 2
p.m. until 3:15 p.m. on Thursdays
in the CBCB seminar room, 3118 at Biomolecular Sciences Building #296
Some external seminars are listed here. These, and some other
exceptions, will have a different time and/or place.
For directions to CBCB please scroll down.
2:00 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010
This event has been canceled due to bad weather. It will be
rescheduled.
Title: "HMMER: a new
generation
of homology search software"
By: Sean Eddy, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Venue: 1103 Biosciences Research Bldg. (not CBCB)
Abstact:
Database homology searching might be the most important application
in computational molecular biology, and since the 1990s, BLAST has
been our main workhorse. Since BLAST's introduction, theoretical
advances have been made in applying probabilistic inference methods
to homology searches using hidden Markov model (HMM) approaches.
General adoption of probabilistic methods has been limited by some
key problems, including the fact that the popular HMM
implementations (including my HMMER software) are computationally
demanding. I will talk about HMMER3, a new generation of HMMER that
aims to even more fully deploy probabilistic inference technology on
homology searches, while at the same time attaining (and perhaps
soon surpassing) BLAST's speed.
Speaker:
Sean Eddy is a group leader at Janelia Farm.
Bio
Web page
11:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 22, 2010
Title: "Copy number
variation detection from SNP genotyping data and next-generation
sequencing data"
By: Kai Wang
Venue: 1140 BPS Biology-Psychology
Speaker information:
kai.genotypic.com
2:00 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010
Title: "Protein interaction
networks in viruses and bacteria"
By: Peter Uetz
Venue: 1103 BRB
Speaker information: JCVI web site
2:00 p.m., Thursday, April 8, 2010
Title: "From genomics data
integration to using functional relationship networks to understand
disease at the molecular level"
By: Olga Troyanskaya
Venue: 3118 Biomolecular Sciences
(directions)
Speaker information: Olga Troyanskaya
Scheduled Events
Past Events
Other Events
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 12, 2009)
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 12, 2008)
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 13, 2007)
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 16, 2006)
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 17, 2005)
- UMCP Hosts NIH Bioinformatics Course (January 19 & 20, 2005)
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 4, 2004)
- UMCP Hosts NIH Bioinformatics Course (January 22 & 23, 2004)
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 5, 2003)
- UMCP Hosts NIH Bioinformatics Course (January 15 & 16, 2003)
Directions
More detailed transportation options to CBCB can be found here.
From the Capital Beltway to Parking
Lot:
- take Capital Beltway (I-495) Exit 25 and turn onto Baltimore
Avenue (US Route 1) South
- go two miles south on Baltimore Ave and enter the main gate at
Campus Drive
- take the right lane into campus and make first right turn onto
Paint Branch Drive
- stop at the first stop sign then pass Stadium Drive on the left
- stop at the second stop sign then pass Parking Lot XX2 on the
right
- look for the Paint Branch Drive Visitor Lot on the left
- turn left onto Technology Drive and park in the Paint Branch
Drive Visitor Lot
From Parking Lot to CBCB:
- the back of the Biomolecular Sciences Building #296 faces this
parking lot
- walk around to the front of the building and using the keypad
near the front door
- dial the number of one of the CBCB staff members in order to
gain entrance to the building
- CBCB is located on the third floor of the Biomolecular Sciences
Building #296