http://dna.engr.uconn.edu Bioinformatics Lab Info & News Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:49:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA'10)will be held on the UCONN campus on May 23-26, 2010.  The ISBRA symposium provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications.  ... http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/?p=96 The poster "Bioinformatics pipeline for detection of immunogenic cancer mutations by high throughput mRNA sequencing" (ppt, poster abstract) received the best poster award at ISBRA 2009. The poster presents a bioinformatics pipeline for detecting immunogenic cancer mutations from high throughput sequencing data. Immunogenic mutations predicted from Illumina mRNA reads ... http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/?p=92 The 1st Workshop on Computational Issues in Genetic Epidemiology will be held on August 21-22, 2008 at the DIMACS Center of Rutgers University. The workshop brings together computer scientists, geneticists, and statisticians aiming to address current computational challenges in gene mapping, for details see the workshop program is available ... http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/?p=89 Congratulations to Bogdan for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis on Scalable Algorithms for Analysis of Genomic Diversity Data! After getting married next month, he will start working as a post-doctoral scholar with the Algorithms group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, CA beginning in ... http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/?p=82 The poster "Genotype Error Detection and Imputation using Hidden Markov Models of Haplotype Diversity" (ppt, poster abstract) received the best poster award at ISBRA 2008. The poster describes GEDI, a software package for genotype error detection and imputation of genotypes at untyped SNP loci based on reference haplotypes ... http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/?p=80 Congratulations to group alumnus Alexander (Sasha) Gusev for receiving a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!  NSF Graduate Research Fellows receive three years of funding at the institution they choose. Sasha is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Columbia University. http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/?p=79 The book "Bioinformatics Algorithms: Techniques and applications" co-edited by Ion and Alex Zelikovsky was published in the Wiley Series on Bioinformatics. The book features 21 chapters on recent algorithmic advances in genome and sequence analysis, microarray design and data analysis, computational analysis of human genetic variation, as well as structural ... http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/?p=76 The University of Connecticut is seeking an exceptional candidate for a tenure track Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering in the School of Engineering. Preference will be given to candidates with Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in biomedical engineering with a biomedical image processing, biomedical data mining and visualization, biomolecular/cellular modeling and ... http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/?p=73 Congratulations to Bogdan for receiving a $2,000 Dissertation Fellowship from the UCONN Research Foundation! Following semi-annual competitions, this fellowship is awarded to advanced doctoral students to enable them to concentrate on writing the doctoral thesis. For more details on the fellowship and eligibility requirements see the graduate ... http://dna.engr.uconn.edu/?p=53