Journal Club

The formal bioinformatics journal club (Bio 493/796) "Current Topics in Bioinformatics" will resume in Spring 2008.

Papers discussed and supplementary material from the Fall 2006 session are linked below.

Schedule of Presentations

Date Title of Paper Presenter
August 31 Introductory Meeting Chris Ross & Jeff Shen
September 7 Introduction to Bioinformatics
Supplementary Reading #1
Supplementary Reading #2
Slideshow
Chris Ross
September 14 How Does DNA Motif Discovery Work
Slideshow
Jeff
September 21 Recent Advances in Gene Structure Prediction
Slideshow
Indika
September 28 Rescheduled --
October 5 Predicting candidate genes for human deafness disorders: a bioinformatics approach
Slideshow
Erica
October 12 Genevestigator. Arabidopsis Microarray Database and Analysis Toolbox Rathany
October 19 Functional genomics of cactus host shifts in Drosophila mojavensis
Slideshow
Allen Gibbs
October 26 Significant sequence similarities in promoters and precursors of Arabidopsis thaliana non-conserved microRNAs
Slideshow
Margaret
November 2 Decoding Human Regulatory Circuits -- Thompson et. al. Chris R.
November 9 Qualitative assessment of gene expression in Affymetrix GeneChip arrays
Slideshow
Indika
November 16 Simultaneous identification of differential gene expression and connectivity in inflammation, adipogenesis and cancer. -- Reverter et. al. Mark
November 23 Thanksgiving Holiday
November 30 Improved Splice Alignment from an Information Theoretic Approach Roy