[Bmi776] talk tomorrow, office hours

[Mark Craven]

Hi All,

First, there is a talk by a faculty canidate tomorrow (Monday) that you might find
interesting:
 Whole-genome alignments and polytopes for comparative genomics
 Colin Dewey
 UC Berkeley
 Monday, March 06, 2006
 1:30, 1111 Genetics-Biotechnology Center, 425 Henry Mall

 Whole-genome sequencing of many species has presented us with the opportunity to deduce
 the evolutionary relationships between each and every nucleotide. In this talk, I will
 present algorithms for this problem, which is that of multiple whole-genome alignment. 
 The sensitivity of whole-genome alignments to parameter values can be ascertained
 through the use of alignment polytopes, which will be explained. I will also show how
 whole-genome alignments are used in comparative genomics, including the identification
 of novel genes, the location of micro-RNA targets, and the elucidation of cis-regulatory
 element and splicing signal evolution. 

Second, because of this talk, my office hours will be pushed back by about 45
minutes tomorrow.  I'll have office hours from 2:45 until 4:30.

Mark