Previous presentations

Monday September 17
Niranjan Nagarajan(Computer Science) and Garmay Leung (Computer Science/Biology)

(1) Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. abstract (2) Optimization of a new score function for the detection of remote homologs. abstract

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Monday September 24
Rommel Regis(Operations Research) and Wendy Wong (Biometrics)

(1) Twilight zone of protein sequence alignments abstract (2) Statistical alignment: computational properties, homology testing and goodness-of-fit abstract

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Monday October 1
Catherine Grasso (Applied Math)

(1) Multiple Sequence Alignment Using Partial Order Graphs abstract, paper, figures (2) T-Coffee: A Novel Method for Fast and Accurate Multiple Sequence Alignment. abstract

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Monday October 15
Bill Pottle (Computer Science)

(1) Searching the Protein Structure Databank with Weak Sequence Patterns and Structural Constraints. abstract

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Monday October 22
Mauricio La Rota (Plant Biology)

(1) A homology identification method that combines protein sequence and structure information. abstract

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Monday October 29
Christopher Chau (Electrical Engineering)

(1) Analysis and prediction of functional sub-types from protein sequence alignments. abstract, paper (2) A method to predict functional residues in proteins. abstract

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Monday November 5
Dr. David Lin (Dept. of Biomedical Sciences)

Introduction to Microarray Technology and Analysis

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Monday November 12
Jing Qiu (Statistics)

(1) Comparison of methods for image analysis on cDNA microarray data. paper (2) Normalization for cDNA Microarray Data. paper


Monday November 19
John Pool (Genetics)

(1) Importance of replication in microarray gene expression studies: Statistical methods and evidence from repetitive cDNA hybridizations abstract, paper (2) Design and Analysis of Gene Expression Microarray Experiments. paper

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Monday November 26
Daniel Korenblum (Biophysics)

(1) Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns. abstract, paper (2) Gene shaving' as a method for identifying distinct sets of genes with similar expression patterns. abstract, paper

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Monday December 3
Dr. Marty Wells (Biometrics) and Steve Ayers (Genetics)

(1) Singular value decomposition for genome-wide expression data processing and modeling. abstract, paper (2) Distinct types of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma identified by gene expression profiling. abstract, paper

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Monday December 10
Dr. Mike Stillman and Dr. Harry Tsai (Math)

(1) Using graphical models and genomic expression data to statistically validate models of genetic regulatory networks. abstract (2) Supervised harvesting of expression trees. abstract

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