http://www.vanbug.org Vancouver Bioinformatics User Group Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:41:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Download Seminar Poster ~ 1 molecule per cell and that two major expression levels can be identified which vary by roughly one to two orders of magnitude. This gives rise to bimodal distributions of gene expression levels in cell populations. Analysis of histone modifications by ChIP-seq indicates that ... http://www.vanbug.org/2010/sarah-teichmann/ Download Seminar Poster Talk Title: Intrinsically disordered proteins: Regulation and Disease Date/Time: Thursday, April 8, 2010, 6:00pm Affiliation: Centre for High-Throughput Biology, University of British Columbia URL: Joerg Gsponer Abstract: Over one-third of all proteins in a eukaryotic cell contain regions that are intrinsically disordered. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) lack a unique 3-dimensional structure, either entirely or in parts, when alone ... http://www.vanbug.org/2010/joerg-gsponer/ Download Seminar Poster Talk Title: Using protein design to dissect the form and function of biological networks Date/Time: Thursday, March 11, 2010, 6:00pm Affiliation: Department of Biology/Computer Science, New York University URL: Richard Bonneau Abstract: I will discuss recent applications of the Rosetta protein structure prediction and design platform to understanding genomes. There are two main ways we can ... http://www.vanbug.org/2010/richard-bonneau/ Download Seminar Poster Talk Title: Human Genome Structural Variation, Disease and Evolution Date/Time: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 6:00pm **NOTE DATE CHANGE** Affiliation: Department of Genome Sciences, HHMI, University of Washington, Seattle URL: Evan Eichler Abstract: Structural variation of the genome is an important aspect in our understanding of human disease and evolution. Accurately characterizing such variation an unmet challenge of both ... http://www.vanbug.org/2010/evan-eichler/ Download Seminar Poster Talk Title: Mutation discovery in cancer using next generation sequencing and probabilistic models Date/Time: November 26, 2009, 6:00pm **PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE** http://www.vanbug.org/2009/sohrab-shah/ Download Seminar Poster Talk Title: Visual Analytics and Biological Information Date/Time: October 8, 2009, 6:00pm Affiliation: School of Interactive Arts and Technology, SFU URL: Chris Shaw Abstract: Visual Analytics is the study of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. It is an outgrowth of Information Visualization and encompasses expertise from fields such as Statistics, Cognitive Psychology, ... http://www.vanbug.org/2009/chris-shaw/ Download Seminar Poster Talk Title: An Open Source Software Framework for High-Throughput Flow Cytometry Data Analysis and its Application to Discovery and Diagnosis Date/Time: September 10, 2009, 6:00pm Affiliation: Terry Fox Laboratories, BC Cancer Research Centre URL: Ryan Brinkman Abstract: High-throughput FCM (HT-FCM) is poised to reshape dramatically biomedical research by increasing the efficiency of an already ... http://www.vanbug.org/2009/rbrinkman_sept09/ Download Seminar Poster Talk Title: Life by the Book: Pragmatically Using Text in Large Scale -Omics Date/Time: April 9, 2008, 6:00pm Affiliation: School of Computing, Queen's University URL: Hagit Shatkay Abstract: The genomic era, which dawned upon us with the sequencing of the human genome, is characterized by tremendous amounts of biomedical data, accompanied by a ... http://www.vanbug.org/2009/april2009/ Download Seminar Poster Talk Title: Digging in data: how computation can be used to drive biological discovery Date/Time: March 12, 2009, 6:00pm Affiliation: Princeton University, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics URL: Olga Troyanskaya Abstract: The explosion of functional genomics data, including microarray, proteomics, and high-throughput genetic studies, has the promise of a systems-level view of protein function, interactions, and ... http://www.vanbug.org/2009/march2009/ Download Seminar Poster Presentation: Download Presentation Talk Title: Driver and Passenger Mutations in Cancer Date/Time: February 12, 2009, 6:00pm Affiliation: The Scripps Research Institute URL: Nicholas Schork Abstract: Recent studies investigating the genetic determinants of cancer suggest that some of the genetic alterations contributing to tumorigenesis may be inherited, but most of them are somatically acquired during the transition ... http://www.vanbug.org/2009/february-12-2009/