Computational Molecular Biology Journal Club 
Computational Genetics Discussion Group

Course Listings

The Journal Club is a cross-listed 1 hour seminar for credit:

Course Masters:
Gary Stormo stormo@genetics.wustl.edu
Jeremy Buhler jbuhler@cse.wustl.edu

Website Contact:
Gary Stormo stormo@genetics.wustl.edu
 

Regular meetings:

4:45-5:45pm, Monday

Location: Genetics Library (Rm 823) McDonnell Sciences, Medical Campus.

Format of Group

The format will be one 30 minute presentations followed by open discussion.

 Fall 2007 Schedule

To sign up for an open date, email me (stormo@genetics.wustl.edu) with a date and (if possible) a paper you wish to present.

 

 

Date

Presenter

Topic/Paper

Sept. 10

 

Organization Meeting: We will decide the topics to be discussed this semester

Sept. 17

No meeting

 

 

 

TOPIC 1: Conditional Random Fields

Sept 24

Jeremy Buhler

Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data

Lafferty, McCallum and Pereira

Oct 1

Hongtao Sun

CONTRAlign: Discriminative Training for Protein Sequence Alignment
CB Do, SS Gross, S Batzoglou - RECOMB 2006, LNBI 3909, pp.160-174,2006

Oct 8

Sung Chun

Protein-protein interaction site prediction based on conditional random fields,

by Li et al. Bioinformatics 2007.

Oct 15

Zhehao Zhang

Gene Prediction with Conditional Random Fields

Aron Culotta, David Kulp and Andrew McCallum

Oct 22

Yue Zhao

CONTRAST: A Discriminative, Phylogeny-free Approach to Multiple Informant De Novo Gene Prediction

A submitted paper by Samuel S. Gross, Chuong B. Do, Marina Sirota, and Serafim Batzoglou

Oct 29

Gary Stormo

Genomic dissection of behavioral maturation in the honey bee.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 103(44):16068-75.

and Genome scan for cis-regulatory DNA motifs associated with social behavior in honey bees.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 103(44):16352-7
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by Gene Robinson and colleagues (Genetics seminar speaker on Nov 1)

 

 

Topic 2: Protein-Protein Docking

Nov 5

Diana Wong

Protein-ligand docking: current status and future challenges.
Proteins. 2006 Oct 1;65(1):15-26. Review. By Sousa SF, Fernandes PA, Ramos MJ.

Flexible protein-protein docking.
Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2006 Apr;16(2):194-200. A. Bonvin
Docking and scoring protein complexes: CAPRI 3rd Edition.
Proteins. 2007 Oct 5. by Lensink MF, Mendez R, Wodak SJ.

Nov 12

Xuefeng Zhou

A new protein–protein docking scoring function based on interface residue properties. Bioinformatics 2007 23(5):555-562 J. Bernauer, J. Aze, J. Janin and A. Poupon

Nov 19

Nick Lyle

RosettaDock in CAPRI rounds 6-12. Proteins: Structure, Function, and BioinformaticsVolume 69, 758-763 by Chu Wang, Ora Schueler-Furman, Ingemar Andre, Nir London, Sarel J. Fleishman, Philip Bradley, Bin Qian, David Baker

Background material on RosettaDock can be found in these papers:

Protein–protein docking with simultaneous optimization of rigid-body displacement and side-chain conformations. J Mol Biol 2003;331:281–299.

Improved side-chain modeling for protein–protein docking. Protein Sci 2005;14:1328–1339.

Improved beta-protein structure prediction by multilevel optimization of nonlocal strand pairings and local backbone conformation. Proteins 2006;65:922–929.

Nov 26

 

 

Dec 3

 

 

Dec 10

 

Martha Bulyk is the Genetics seminar speaker on Dec 13:

Inferring condition-specific transcription factor function from DNA binding and gene expression data

Molecular Systems Biology 3:100

by McCord RP, Berger MF, Philippakis AA, Bulyk ML.

 

Looking for a topic or paper?

 
List of Computational Biology related journals

PubMed literature search at NCBI


Related Seminars:


Previous Semesters

Spring 2007 schedule

Fall 2006 schedule
Spring 2006 schedule
Fall 2005 schedule
Spring 2005 schedule
Fall 2004 schedule
Spring 2004 schedule
Fall 2003 schedule
Spring 2003 schedule
Fall 2002 schedule


If you are in the Washington University community and would like to be added to the computational genetics discussion group email list, or have further questions, please send a message to Gary Stormo  stormo@genetics.wustl.edu


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last updated : Monday Sept 3, 2007