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.
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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.
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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

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