Distinguished Speaker Series: Exploiting Diversity and Strength of Sequence Patterns
Prof. Mark Borodovsky, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
21 March 2018, 12:00
Shreiber Building, Room 006
Abstract:
I will speak about algorithmic approaches to genome analysis that identify features of gene organization and gene expression (e.g. leaderless transcription) simultaneously with gene prediction. Our algorithms of this class, making iterative & unsupervised inference of both model structure and parameters, were used at NCBI (Bethesda, MD) to annotate 130,000+ prokaryotic genomes by December 2017 as well as 2,500+ fungal genomes in January 2018. Yet another algorithm helps DOE JGI (Walnut Creek, CA) to annotate the largest collection of metagenomes.
Host:
Prof. Uri Gophna, Email: urigo@tauex.tau.ac.il, Life Sciences Faculty, TAU
