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CBCB faculty Mihai Pop delivered a keynote talk at Big Data Symposium
CBCB faculty Mihai Pop is named Interim Director of UMIACS
Fall Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meetup (M3) on November 1-2
We are happy to announce that the Fall Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meetup (M3) registration website is now online at: https://www.regonline.com/mcubed
This event is taking place on November 1-2, 2016 at the University of Maryland. For more information on this meetup, please see: http://blog.umd.edu/m3/upcoming-events/2016-fall-mid-atlantic-microbiome...
Mihai Pop co-organizes Dagstuhl workshop
CBCB scientist Todd Treangen and CBCB alumni Adam Phillippy and Sergey Koren publish a paper in Genome Biology describing Mash, a new software tool for fast genome and metagenome estimation based on MinHash dimensionality-reduction
CBCB faculty Todd Treangen and CBCB alumni Adam Phillippy and Sergey Koren have published a paper titled “Mash: fast genome and metagenome distance estimation using MinHash” in Genome Biology on June 20, 2016.
In the paper, they demonstrate several use cases of Mash, including the clustering of all 54,118 NCBI RefSeq genomes in 33 CPU h; real-time database search using assembled or unassembled Illumina, Pacific Biosciences, and Oxford Nanopore data; and the scalable clustering of hundreds of metagenomic samples by composition.
The paper can be found here: https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-016-0997-x
CBCB scientists Mahfuza Sharmin, Hector Corrada Bravo, and Sridhar Hannenhalli publish a paper in Genome Research on heterogeneity of transcription factor binding specificity models
CBCB graduate student and lead author Mahfuza Sharmin, and CBCB faculty Hector Corrada Bravo and Sridhar Hannenhalli, have published a paper titled "Heterogeneity of Transcription Factor binding specificity models within and across cell lines" in Genome Research on June 16, 2016.
In this paper, they develop an ensemble based approach (TRISECT) to identify heterogeneous binding rules of cell-type specific TF occupancy and analyze the inter-cell-type sharing of such rules. Their novel ensemble-based approach reveals, for the first time, a widespread heterogeneity of binding rules, comprising interaction partners within a cell-type, many of which nevertheless transcend cell-types. Notably, the putative targets of shared binding rules in different cell-types, while distinct, exhibit significant functional coherence.
The paper can be found here: http://genome.cshlp.org/content/early/2016/06/16/gr.199166.115?top=1
Free Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Genomics Workshop on June 15
Registration is now open for the ISCB DC area regional student group summer workshop on bioinformatics, computational biology and genomics!
The meeting will take place in the Biosciences Research Building (BRB) at the University of Maryland, College Park campus. The goal of the meeting is to bring together researchers from different institutions around the region to share ideas and learn from one another, and to foster collaborations across organizations.
Topics include:
◦ Genome-scale metabolic modeling
◦ Web application development for computational biology
◦ Bacterial genome assembly & annotation
◦ Analyzing sequence motifs through maximum entropy modeling
◦ Obtaining and Analyzing Data from the The Cancer Genome Atlas Project
◦ Co-expression network analysis using RNA-Seq data
Registration is FREE and includes lunch, kindly provided by the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Registration: http://tinyurl.com/iscb-dc-2016
Deadline : June 10, 2016
For more information about the meeting, including detailed schedule information, check out the meeting website at: http://iscb-dc-rsg.github.io/2016-summer-workshop/
Feel free to contact Keith Hughitt at khughitt@umd.edu if you have any questions or suggestions regarding the meeting.
CBCB Alumn Michael Schatz named the 21st Bloomberg Professor at Johns Hopkins University
CBCB researchers Jessica Goodheart and Keith Hughitt have received the 2015-2016 BISI Merit Award
CBCB scientists Joo Sang Lee, Avinash Das Sahu, and Eytan Ruppin are Invention of the Year award nominees
Each year, UMD honors exceptional inventions that have the potential to make an important impact on science, society, and the free market. The Invention of the Year award nominees come from three categories: Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Information Sciences. One invention from each category is selected to win the Invention of the Year Award.
CBCB postdocs Joo Sang Lee and Avinash Das Sahu, and CBCB faculty Eytan Ruppin, are finalists in the Physical Sciences category.
For more information, please see: http://research.umd.edu/news/news_story.php?id=9587
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