[Colloquium] Research at TTIC: Jinbo Xu, TTIC

[Dawn Ellis]

When:     Friday, April 3rd at noon

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

Who:       Jinbo Xu, TTIC

Title:       Probabilistic graphical models of multiple protein sequence
alignment

Abstract:

This talk will present the modeling of multiple protein sequence alignment
(MSA) by Markov Random Fields (MRF) and its applications to homology
detection, evolutionary coupling analysis and protein folding. In
particular, this talk will cover 1) modeling a set of related protein
families (each represented as an MSA) by group graphical lasso and its
application to joint evolutionary coupling analysis and protein contact
prediction; and 2) aligning two MSAs by aligning their respective MRFs and
its application to homology detection and fold recognition.




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*Dawn Ellis*
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