Biology for algorithms and algorithms for biology
Event details
| Date | 02.07.2014 |
| Hour | 11:00 › 12:00 |
| Speaker | James Zou, Microsoft Research New England and MIT |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
I will try to illustrate the fruitful and fun interplay between algorithms and biology through two recent vignettes. In the first part, I will describe how we can use slime mold to solve puzzles, including linear programming problems, as an example of biologically inspired algorithm. In the second, I will discuss an algorithm for deciphering the genomic ancestry of both parents from the DNA of the offspring. This is a basic problem of personal genomics. No biological background will be assumed for this talk.
Bio: James Zou is a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and MIT. He was recently a Simons fellow at U.C. Berkeley and a research associate at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He works on machine learning and computational genomics.
Bio: James Zou is a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and MIT. He was recently a Simons fellow at U.C. Berkeley and a research associate at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He works on machine learning and computational genomics.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Nisheeth Vishnoi