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Michael Cummings and team publish results of study with drug resistant malaria
Dr. Michael Cummings and an international team, including collaborators at the University of Maryland at Baltimore, have published results of a large clinical and genetic study that identified genetic loci associated with drug resistant malaria parasites in several countries in Southeast Asia.
Read the paper at PNAS Early Edition
New metagenomic assembler published by CBCB scientists
A paper describing the metAMOS software, a new metagenomic assembly and analysis pipeline, has appeared in the journal Genome Biology. This project, initiated in Dr. Mihai Pop's lab, was led by Dr. Todd Treangen, a former postdoctoral fellow in our center, and currently a researcher at NBACC in Frederick, Maryland. The research team includes a number of current and former members of the CBCB as well as other collaborators from NBACC and the University of California, Davis.
The AMOS software can be downloaded from: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/metamos
The open-access paper describing the software is available at http://genomebiology.com/2013/14/1/R2/abstract.
Rita Colwell was featured in Earthzine, November 28
Rita Colwell ((UMIACS and Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology) was featured in Earthzine, November 28, particularly her research studying Vibrio cholera.
link to article
CBCB Presents Lecture by Dr. Daniel Huson, November 28, 2012
Prof. Dr. Daniel Huson
Center for Bioinformatics
University of Tuebingen
Topic: Computational analysis of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data using MEGAN
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Time: 2pm
Location: Room 3118, Biomolecular Sciences Building
Details:
Metagenomic sequencing is currently a hot topic in biology and medicine. As the number and size of sequencing datasets continue to grow, there is a need for continued improvement of the bioinformatics tools that are used to process and analyze such datasets.
Over the last eight years, we have continuously worked on the development of such tools and our main contribution is the program MEGAN, a metagenome analyzer, that can be used to perform both functional and taxonomic analysis of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data, on the scale of hundreds of millions of reads. After an introduction to the area of metagenomics, we will present some of the features of MEGAN, will discuss some metagenome projects that we are currently involved in and then will give a outlook on some new developments.
CBCB presents seminar by Dr. Daniel Huson Nov 28, 2012
Prof. Dr. Daniel Huson
Center for Bioinformatics
University of Tuebingen
Topic: Computational analysis of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data using MEGAN
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Time: 2pm
Location: Room 3118, Biomolecular Sciences Building
Details:
Metagenomic sequencing is currently a hot topic in biology and medicine. As the number and size of sequencing datasets continue to grow, there is a need for continued improvement of the bioinformatics tools that are used to process and analyze such datasets.
Over the last eight years, we have continuously worked on the development of such tools and our main contribution is the program MEGAN, a metagenome analyzer, that can be used to perform both functional and taxonomic analysis of metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data, on the scale of hundreds of millions of reads. After an introduction to the area of metagenomics, we will present some of the features of MEGAN, will discuss some metagenome projects that we are currently involved in and then will give a outlook on some new developments.
CBCB Students Win Best "KDD-Madness" Video Contest
CBCB Ph.D. students Rob Patro, Geet Duggal, Emre Sefer, Hao Wang, and Darya Filippova won the award for best 30-second "KDD-Madness" video for their video promoting their paper "The Missing Models: A Data-Driven Approach for Learning How Networks Grow" at the recent KDD 2012 conference.
The goal of these videos is to "advertise your paper and your talk to attract more people to your session and your poster."
Watch the winning video here: Video
Sridhar Hannenhalli named Interim Director of CBCB
Sridhar Hannenhalli named Interim Director of CBCB: Sridhar Hannenhalli is named as the Interim Director of Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology for the coming year. Sridhar is a prominent computational biologist with extensive experience in the computational biology industry (Glaxo Smith-Kline and Celera Genomics) and academia (University of Southern California, Penn State, and U Penn) before coming to Maryland in 2010. Sridhar has been making important and creative contributions from the very beginning of his scientific career, including the development of what is now widely known as the Hannenhalli-Pevzner theory in the study of genomic rearrangements. In the last few years Sridhar has chosen to move even deeper into biological questions, becoming a leader in the important field of transcriptional regulation by using computational modeling and comparative genomics to characterize regulatory sites and regulatory networks.
Sergey Koren contributes to bonobo genome assembly
The bonobo (Pan paniscus) genome, a close living relative of humans and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) is described in an article which appeared today in the journal Nature. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany along with an international team of collaborators published results on the DNA of an 18-year-old female named Ulindi. The study reports on the evolutionary relationship of the bonobo with the chimpanzee and human genomes. Sergey Koren of the CBCB contributed to the assembly and validation of the genomic sequence.
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