Students will do an oral presentation on either a paper of their choice or a small project, described more fully here.
Presentation schedule -- please read articles before class
Presentation schedule -- please read articles before class
November 19
Rigel Christian: Vertebrate conserved non coding DNA regions have a high persistence length and a short persistence time Link to PubMed
November 24
Ulli Hain: Alignment of multiple protein structures based on sequence and structure features Link to PubMed
December 3
Haochang Shou: A statistical score for assessing the quality of multiple sequence alignments. Link to PubMed
December 8
Zhenke Wu: A Bayesian Approach to DNA Sequence Segmentation. Link to PubMed
Li Chen: An evolutionary method for learning HMM structure: prediction of protein secondary structure. Link to PubMed
Li Chen: An evolutionary method for learning HMM structure: prediction of protein secondary structure. Link to PubMed
December 10
Jeongyong Kim: A Model of the Statistical Power of Comparative Genome Sequence Analysis. Link to PubMed
Zheng Kuang
Zheng Kuang
December 15
Gerald Sun
Oon Tek Ng
Oon Tek Ng
December 17
Joseph Babcock: Phylogeny-aware gap placement prevents errors in sequence alignment and evolutionary analysis. Link to PubMed
Ronica Lu: Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome Link to PubMed
Ronica Lu: Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome Link to PubMed
December 22
Kirsten Lum: Finding motifs in the twilight zone Link to PubMed
Tom Prior
Tom Prior