Initiative in Innovative Computing @ Harvard
Seminar Series
Wednesday, March 7, 2007; 4:00pm
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
Jill P. Mesirov, Associate Director and Chief Informatics Officer,
Director, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Seminar Title: Computational Paradigms for Genomic Medicine
Abstract
The completion of the human genome sequencing project, coupled with
the ever increasing scale and throughput of biological
experimentation, has the potential to greatly accelerate progress in
biomedicine. Discoveries in this new realm of "high-dimensional
biology" are dependent both upon sophisticated computation and the
ability to unify the analytical approaches of a variety of
disciplines. However, the lack of an integrated computational
environment that can provide both easy access to a set of universal
analytic tools, and support the development and dissemination of
novel algorithmic approaches, has resulted in the pace of data
acquisition greatly outstripping that of meaningful data analysis.
We will describe some of the challenging computational problems in
biomedicine, the techniques we use to address them, and a software
infrastructure to support this highly interdisciplinary field of
research.
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