Computational Genomics Journal Club

Alternate Mondays at 4pm

Feb 28 Meeting Moved to March 6


Purpose
The purpose of the journal club is to bring together members of the MIT community interested in the problem of mining genomic data for biological information.

Two general sets of questions act as organizing principles for the meeting:  (1) What methods exist for computational sequence analysis.  What are their theoretical underpinnings, and what are their advantages and disadvantages? and (2)  What biological questions are amenable to computational methods? Do tools exists to answer these questions?  If not, can tools be modified to answer these questions, or can we develop new tools to answer these questions?
 

Format
Meetings are held once every other Monday at 4pm on a predetermined subject (a schedule is presented below).  Volunteers will be responsible for organizing material for each meeting and leading the discussion.

 

Schedule

Links lead to pages with additional information for each topic including links for downloading focus papers and links to relevant sites.
 
Date Location Focus Papers
Dec 6 5th Floor Conference Room, One Kendall Square Marcotte et. al. (1999) A combined algorithm for genome-wide prediction of protein function.  Nature 402: 83-86.
Jan 3 Founder's Room, Main Whitehead Hardison et. al. (1997) Locus control regions of mammalian beta-globin gene clusters: combining phylogenetic analyses and experimental results to gain functional insights. Gene 205, 73-94.
Jan 24 5th Floor Conference Room, One Kendall Square Batzoglou, et. al. Human and mouse gene structure: comparative analysis and application to exon prediction
Mar 6 5th Floor Conference Room, One Kendall Square Murakami, K. and Takagi, T. (1998) Gene recognition by combination of several gene-finding programs

 
Contact Information
For more information or to add your name to club mailing list, please contact either James Galagan (jgalag@mit.edu) or Bruce Birren (bwb@genome.wi.mit.edu).