Sep
22nd
Tue
22nd
Lars Juhl Jensen
Research professor in disease systems biology at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research in Copenhagen. Co-founder of the company Intomics. My specialty is data and text mining.
Aug
24th
Mon
24th
Favor moves that increase options; shy away from moves that end well but require cutting off choices; work from strong positions that have many adjoining strong positions. Balance looking ahead to really paying attention to what’s happening now on the whole board.
— Kevin Kelly
Aug
21st
Fri
21st
Metagenomic methods for gut bacterial genomics and biofuel production
Jian Xu presenting approaches to use meta-genomics, -transcriptomics, and -metabolomics for studying the gut microbiota as well as organisms useful for the production of biofuels.
Toward Automatic Reconstruction of a Highly Resolved Tree of Life
Francesca Ciccarelli gives a short presentation of how a unified tree
of life was constructed based on concatenated protein alignments.
The impact of Orthology, Paralogy and Homology assignments
Roland Krause explains how to identify orthologous genes and why it is important to discriminate between orthologs and homologs.
Phylogenetic tree reconstruction
Shamil Sunyaev gives a great overview on the many different algorithms and tools for reconstruction of phylogenetic trees.
Estimation of Genomic Instability with Ultradeep Sequencing
Francesca Ciccarelli presents a new database called “Network of Cancer Genes” that contains information on the evolution and interactions of cancer genes (http://bio.ifom-ieo-campus.it/ncg/).
Global Mapping of Copy-Number Variants in Humans by Next-Generation Sequencing
Jan Korbel gives a beautiful example of how even high-resolution maps can be flawed. This old map of the world is pretty accurate except from Australia being absent.
Bridging from molecular simulation to biochemical networks
Rebecca Wade explaining how molecular simulations can be used to estimate parameters needed for modeling of biological systems.
Aug
20th
Thu
20th
Learning about rates and mechanisms of mutations from functional genomics
Shamil Sunyaev asking the question that I think many researchers should ask themselves more often: why bother?
