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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