Convergence Seminar
Maria Chikina, PhD
Genome scale technologies can measure thousands or even millions of molecules but the individual measurements are often noisy redouts of the internal biological state. For any computational approaches, the ultimate goal is to infer the true biological state parameters from their effects on a much larger set of experimental readouts. Indeed, much of genomic data analysis can be viewed as a special case of dimensionality reduction. Unlike a generic dimensionality reduction problem, however, in the biological case we have extensive prior knowledge about the data-generating process. In this talk, several methods will be discussed that exploit this prior knowledge to create interpretable low-dimensional representations for genome scale datasets.
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Dates
December 9, 2020Time
12:00-1:00pm PSTLocation
OnlineAudience
Gladstone and UCSFContact(s)
The Convergence Seminar is organized by Gladstone’s Institute for Data Science and Biotechnology. This seminar series brings together scientists from varying disciplines to solve complex scientific questions and accelerate the path to cures.
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