07/28/2016 @ 09:30-10:15 Research Talk by Saharon Rosset Mixed Modeling for Case-control Genome-wide Studies: A Major Challenge 1. Golan, D., Lander, E.S. and Rosset, S., 2014. Measuring missing heritability: inferring the contribution of common variants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(49), pp.E5272-E5281. 2. Golan, D. and Rosset, S., 2014. Effective genetic-risk prediction using…
07/27/2016 @ 09:30-10:15 Tutorial by Kenneth Lange MM Algorithms 1. Hunter, D.R. and Lange, K., 2004. A tutorial on MM algorithms. The American Statistician, 58(1), pp.30-37.
We apologize that this video is not currently available. 07/26/2016 @ 09:30-10:15 Tutorial by John Novembre Models and Methods for Detecting Population Structure in Humans 1. Schraiber, J.G. and Akey, J.M., 2015. Methods and models for unravelling human evolutionary history. Nature Reviews Genetics.
We apologize that this video is not currently available. 07/26/2016 @ 10:15-11:00 Research Talk by Noah Rosenberg Mathematical Bounds on Population-Genetic Statistics 1. Jakobsson, M., Edge, M.D. and Rosenberg, N.A., 2013. The relationship between FST and the frequency of the most frequent allele. Genetics, 193(2), pp.515-528.
We apologize that this video is not currently available. 07/25/2016 @ 09:30-10:15 Tutorial by Paul Medvedev Applying CS Tools to Biological Questions: A Case Study in Genome Assembly 1. Medvedev, P. and Brudno, M., 2009. Maximum likelihood genome assembly. Journal of computational Biology, 16(8), pp.1101-1116.
07/22/2016 @ 15:15-16:0 Research Talk by Kirk Lohmueller The Interplay Between Demography and Selection in Dogs, Wolves, and Foxes 1. Marsden, C.D., Ortega-Del Vecchyo, D., O’Brien, D.P., Taylor, J.F., Ramirez, O., Vilà, C., Marques-Bonet, T., Schnabel, R.D., Wayne, R.K. and Lohmueller, K.E., 2016. Bottlenecks and selective sweeps during domestication have increased deleterious genetic variation in…
07/22/16 @ 14:00-14:45 Research Talk by Jessica (Jingyi) Li NMFP – Identifying mRNA Isoforms from RNASeq Data 1. Ye, Y. and Li, J.J., 2016. NMFP: a non-negative matrix factorization based preselection method to increase accuracy of identifying mRNA isoforms from RNA-seq data. BMC genomics, 17(1), p.11.
07/22/16 @ 10:00-10:45 Tutorial by Wei Wang Alignment-free RNASeq Analysis 1. Zhang, Z. and Wang, W., 2014. RNA-Skim: a rapid method for RNA-Seq quantification at transcript level. Bioinformatics, 30(12), pp.i283-i292.
07/22/2016 @ 09:15-10:00 Tutorial by Sriram Sankararaman Evolutionary Models in Population Genomics 1. Prüfer, K., Racimo, F., Patterson, N., Jay, F., Sankararaman, S., Sawyer, S., Heinze, A., Renaud, G., Sudmant, P.H., De Filippo, C. and Li, H., 2014. The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains. Nature, 505(7481), pp.43-49. 2. Sankararaman, S.,…
07/21/2016 @ 16:00-16:50 Research Talk by Dan Geschwind Integrative Genomics in Neuropsychiatric Diseases 1. Parikshak, N.N., Gandal, M.J. and Geschwind, D.H., 2015. Systems biology and gene networks in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. Nature Reviews Genetics, 16(8), pp.441-458. 2. Parikshak, N.N., Luo, R., Zhang, A., Won, H., Lowe, J.K., Chandran, V., Horvath, S. and Geschwind, D.H.,…