[Colloquium] Reminder: Guest Speaker @ TTI-C Today (5/4/06)

[Katherine Cumming]

**********TTI-C Guest Speaker Today***********
                                  May 4, 2006
        Presented by:  Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
 
 
 
 
 
Speaker:  Chris Wiggins, Columbia University
Speaker's home page:  http://www.columbia.edu/~chw2/ 
 
Date: Thursday, May 4, 2006 
Location: TTI-C Conference Room, Part of Bioinformatics Seminar
Time:  10:00am
 
Title:   Predictive Modeling of Network Evolution and Genetic Expression
 
Abstract:
 
High-throughput biological experiments now yield copious gene expression
data, sequence data, and network data, posing novel challenges to the
theoretical and computational community hoping to learn biology from these
abundant but heterogeneous datasets.  In this talk I hope to illustrate how
machine learning approaches can be brought to bear on two such network-level
problems in systems biology: `reverse-engineering` biological networks from
microarray and sequence data (including revealing sequence `motifs'), and
revealing which of several competing evolutionary design principles best
describes observed network topologies.  By posing these problems as
classification tasks, predictive and interpretable models are obtained.
Depending on whether the audience turns out to be computer scientists or
biologists, I will focus either on how to turn biology into boosting, or
vice versa. 
 
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If you have questions, or would like to meet the speaker, please contact
Katherine at 773-834-1994 or  <mailto:kcumming at tti-c.org> kcumming at tti-c.org
For information on future TTI-C talks and events, please go to the TTI-C
Events page:  http://www.tti-c.org/events.html.  TTI-C (1427 East 60th
Street, Chicago, IL  60637)
 
 
 
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