CBCB Seminar Series
Most CBCB seminars are held from 2
p.m. until 3:15 p.m. on Thursdays
in the CBCB seminar room, 3118 at Biomolecular Sciences Building #296
Some external seminars are listed here. These, and some other
exceptions, will have a different time and/or place.
For directions to CBCB please scroll down.
2:00 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010
Title: HMMER: a new generation of homology search software
By: Sean Eddy, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Venue: 1103 Biosciences Research Bldg.
Abstact:
Database homology searching might be the most important application
in computational molecular biology, and since the 1990s, BLAST has
been our main workhorse. Since BLAST's introduction, theoretical
advances have been made in applying probabilistic inference methods
to homology searches using hidden Markov model (HMM) approaches.
General adoption of probabilistic methods has been limited by some
key problems, including the fact that the popular HMM
implementations (including my HMMER software) are computationally
demanding. I will talk about HMMER3, a new generation of HMMER that
aims to even more fully deploy probabilistic inference technology on
homology searches, while at the same time attaining (and perhaps
soon surpassing) BLAST's speed.
Speaker:
Sean Eddy is a group leader at Janelia Farm.
Bio
Web page
Scheduled Events
- Feb. 11, 2010: Sean
Eddy, HHMI Janelia Farm
- April 8, 2010: Olga Troyanskaya,
Princeton, "From genomics data integration to using
functional relationship networks to understand disease at the
molecular level"
- upcoming: Mei-Ling Ting Lee,
Maryland School of Public Health
Past Events
Other Events
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 12, 2009)
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 12, 2008)
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 13, 2007)
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 16, 2006)
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 17, 2005)
- UMCP Hosts NIH Bioinformatics Course (January 19 & 20, 2005)
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 4, 2004)
- UMCP Hosts NIH Bioinformatics Course (January 22 & 23, 2004)
- UMCP
Bioscience Research & Technology Review Day (November 5, 2003)
- UMCP Hosts NIH Bioinformatics Course (January 15 & 16, 2003)
Directions
More detailed transportation options to CBCB can be found here.
From the Capital Beltway to Parking
Lot:
- take Capital Beltway (I-495) Exit 25 and turn onto Baltimore
Avenue (US Route 1) South
- go two miles south on Baltimore Ave and enter the main gate at
Campus Drive
- take the right lane into campus and make first right turn onto
Paint Branch Drive
- stop at the first stop sign then pass Stadium Drive on the left
- stop at the second stop sign then pass Parking Lot XX2 on the
right
- look for the Paint Branch Drive Visitor Lot on the left
- turn left onto Technology Drive and park in the Paint Branch
Drive Visitor Lot
From Parking Lot to CBCB:
- the back of the Biomolecular Sciences Building #296 faces this
parking lot
- walk around to the front of the building and using the keypad
near the front door
- dial the number of one of the CBCB staff members in order to
gain entrance to the building
- CBCB is located on the third floor of the Biomolecular Sciences
Building #296
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