[Data-Mongers] TODAY Monday, 12/19 Informatics Talk - A.M. Eren - Oligotyping: Mining Even Deeper for Information in 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene

[Holly Miller]

Today's Informal Lunch Talk will be:

When:  Noon, Monday, December 19, 2011
Where: Candle House 104/105 on the MBL Campus (map)
Who: A. Murat Eren, postdoctoral fellow in Bay Paul Center of MBL
Title: Oligotyping: Mining Even Deeper for Information in 16S Ribosomal RNA Gene


About the talk: 

16S Ribosomal RNA gene, a phylogenetically informative component of every bacterial genome, has been a substantial target for environmental studies aiming to understand more about our planet's most genetically diverse and abundant life form. However, relatively high error rates of massively parallel high-throughput sequencing platforms limit the amount of information that can be extracted from 16S Ribosomal RNA gene amplicon sequences confidently. Oligotyping is a Shannon entropy-based computational approach, increasing the resolution of discrimination of different bacterial types in an environmental sample by extracting more biologically relevant information from noisy sequences.

About the speaker:

A. Murat Eren is a post-doctoral scientist in MBL studying microbial ecology with his background in computer science.


The Monday Lunch talks are held every other Monday. We have created a wiki page for these and other Informatics events in Woods Hole. Please consider giving a talk, we have lot's of openings in 2012! Let us know if you about any informatics related event and we will add it to this page. Those of you who haven't subscribed to the Informatics discussion list, you might want to. Information on how to subscribe is on the wiki page above.

See you there!

Holly Miller 
hmiller at mbl.edu

Anne Thessen 
athessen at eol.org

Andrew Maffei 
amaffei at whoi.edu


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