[Colloquium] REMINDER: Research at TTIC: Jinbo Xu, TTIC

[Dawn Ellis]

When:     Friday, March 21st at Noon

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room #526

Speaker: TTIC Faculty, Jinbo Xu

Title:      Computational Methods for Data-Driven Protein Study

Abstract:

High-throughput sequencing has been producing a large amount of
protein sequences, but many of them are missing solved structures and
functional annotations, which are essential to the understanding of
life process and diseases and also have tremendous implications to
drug discovery and design. This talk will focus on protein contact
prediction and protein homology detection, which are important for the
elucidation of protein structure and function as well as protein
evolutionary relationship. In particular, this talk will demonstrate
how statistical machine learning (e.g., joint graphical lasso) and
optimization methods (Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers) can
be applied to address some fundamental challenges by taking advantage
of high-throughput sequencing.

The technical details are described in the following two papers:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2988 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2668



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Research at TTIC Seminar Series

TTIC is hosting a weekly seminar series presenting the research currently
underway at the Institute. Every week a different TTIC faculty member will
present their research.  The lectures are intended both for students
seeking research topics and adviser, and for the general TTIC and
University of Chicago communities interested in hearing what their
colleagues are up to.

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Speaker details can be found at: http://www.ttic.edu/tticseminar.php.

For additional questions, please contact David McAllester at
mcallester at ttic.edu


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*Dawn Ellis*
Administrative Coordinator,
Bookkeeper
773-834-1757
dellis at ttic.edu

TTIC
6045 S. Kenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL. 60637
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