Bioinformatics Journal
Club
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Leader |
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Topics |
Computational prediction of methylation status
in human genomic sequences. Download
paper here |
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Time |
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Place |
VIPBG (Biotech
Center One, Room 1-160 Conference room) |
Bioinformatics
is a relatively new discipline that is providing us unprecedented power and resource
as well as unforeseen challenges in the biological fields, especially in
systems biology and complex disease genetics. This bioinformatics journal club
is open to VCU faculty, students, post-doctoral fellows, and staff.
Everyone
who is interested in is very welcome! In principle, each participant will lead
the journal club in turn. However, you may participate in the reading and
discussion without taking leading role.
Style: Once every two weeks, one
participant will lead the reading and discussion of a recently published paper
(or a few related papers) in the fields of bioinformatics, genomics, systems
biology, etc. The paper may be directly related to the research projects of the
leading person, or of general interest to the field.
The club format
is expected to be flexible. We aim to learn as much as possible in a minimum
time and effort. The leading participant is not required to prepare a formal
presentation. Instead, he/she should select a paper one week in advance,
distribute it to the list (by email), prepare some points before the journal
club, and lead the reading and discussion.
Place: VIPBG
(Biotech Center One, Room 1-160 Conference room)
If you come from
Time: Friday
If you
are interested or have any suggestions, please contact Dr. Zhongming Zhao
(email: zzhao_at_vcu.edu).
Previous
events:
Leader:
Topics: The MicroArray
Quality Control (MAQC) project shows inter- and intraplatform
reproducibility of gene expression measurements. Download
paper here.
Time:
Place: The Carter Library and Conference room (Room B1-066-C, Sanger
Hall), Department of Biostatistics
Leader: Dr. Danail Bonchev, Director of Research
on Bioinformatics, CSBC
Topics: Modeling cellular machinery through
biological network comparison. Download
paper here.
Time:
Place: CSBC BCCL Lab, Trani Life Science Building Room 104
Leader:
Dr.
Topics:
Gene expression evolution
The
primary paper to read
Gene
Expression Evolves Faster in Narrowly Than in Broadly Expressed
Mammalian Genes appeared in MBE
He also covers the paper
A
gene atlas of the mouse and human protein-encoding transcriptomes,
appeared in PNAS