Bioinformatics Lab

ISBRA’10

ion — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:49:31 +0000

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. The deadline for submitting extended abstracts (LNBI proceedings) is January 29, 2010; for short abstracts (oral or poster presentation) the deadline is April 2, 2010. For more details visit the symposium website at http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra10/.

ISBRA’09 Best Poster Award

ion — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:11:12 +0000

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 generated from a mouse cancer tumor cell line are currently under experimental validation in the Srivastava lab at UCHC.

DIMACS Workshop on Computational Issues in Genetic Epidemiology

ion — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:54:18 +0000

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 at http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/ComputationalIssues/program.html. Pre-registration deadline is August 14, 2008.

Bogdan graduates and starts post-doc at ICSI

ion — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:26:45 +0000

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 July.

ISBRA’08 best poster award

ion — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:37:21 +0000

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 such as those available in HapMap. Detection of genotyping errors and imputation of missing genotypes is based on multi-locus genotype likelihoods efficiently computed using an HMM that captures the linkage disequilibrium in the population under study. With a runtime that scales linearly both in the number of markers and the number of typed individuals, GEDI is able to handle very large datasets while achieving high accuracy rates for both error detection and imputation.

Sasha receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

ion — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:18:00 +0000

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.

“Bioinformatics Algorithms” book published by Wiley

ion — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:53:09 +0000

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 and systems biology. An errata for the book will be maintained here.

Tenure track Assistant Professor position in Biomedical Engineering

ion — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:06:59 +0000

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 simulation, computational genomics, or systems biology emphasis. Consideration will be given to candidates with Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in computer science & engineering, computational biology, or other related fields, provided a strong and broad background in biomedical engineering is demonstrated. For full job details and application procedure see the ad on the ISCB website.

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for Bogdan

ion — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:56:47 +0000

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 school website.