Bioinformatics Supergroup Schedule 2009/2010
Date Speaker Title
Sep 28 Jesse Stombaugh (Biochemistry, C.U.; Knight Lab) Boulder Alignment Editor (AlE): A tool for analyzing, editing and scoring RNA sequence alignments
Oct 19 Todd Gibson (Goldberg Lab,Univ. of Colorado School of Medicine) Evaluating models of protein interaction network evolution
Robin Dowell (MCDB, Dowell Lab) Noncoding Transcripts: Patterns of Expression between Closely Related Individuals
Nov 9 Manuel Lladser (APPM, Lladser research group) and Mike Yarus (MCDB; Yarus lab) Statistical analysis of RNA chirality bias
Jan 11 Joe Heimiller (MCDB, Singh lab) Mass sequencing, analysis of fission yeast
Brad Olwin (MCDB, Olwin lab) Using Ingenuity Pathways Analysis to derive pathway information from microarray data
Feb 8 Stephane Houel (Biochemistry, Ahn lab) Chimera analysis
Larry Hunter (University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine) 3R Systems for Biomedical Discovery Acceleration
Mar 1 Will Old (Biochemistry; Old lab) Peptide identification algorithms and analysis via gas phase fragmentation
Second talk from mass spec group, TBA
Mar 29 Antonio Gonzalez Peña (C.S., Nemergut lab) Different approaches to improve principal coordinate analysis while comparing community structure
Lee F Stanish (Environmental studies, INSTAAR) Title TBA
Apr 19 Hubert Yin (Biochemistry, Yin lab) Protein design, and protein-lipid interaction modeling

Introduction

The Bioinformatics Supergroup brings together people from several departments, including MCDB, EEB, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, and Applied Math, who are interested in applying advanced computational techniques to biological problems.

The goal of the group is to increase communication among people on campus who are doing bioinformatics-related work, and to provide support to people who are just learning about this exciting emerging field.

Format

Meetings are held from 5:00 to 6:30 on selected Mondays in Ekeley W165/W166 (note time change!) (map here), on selected Mondays at roughly 4-week intervals. The typical meeting format is two 30-minute talks, with discussion following each talk.

Resources

Deborah Wuttke (Chem) has put up information about bioinformatics here.

I have put up some information for students, including relevant classes, here. (Warning: needs to be updated with current information).

The Bioinformatics Supergroup is affiliated with the Center for Computational Biology, based at CU Denver, which sponsors several meetings and events.

Many useful databases can be accessed through NCBI and EBI. Good directories of tools can be found here and here. Joe Felsenstein's page on phylogenetics tools can be found here.

Mike Robeson has put up a useful page listing Mac bioinformatics applications here.

Contact

This site is maintained by Rob Knight.

There is a mailing list set up for bioinformatics announcements. To subscribe, send mail to listproc@lists.colorado.edu with the following message:

 subscribe bioinfo [YOUR NAME HERE] 

Page last updated 10/19/09.