[Crib-list] SPEAKER: MICHAEL BAYM (Harvard) - Computational Research in Boston and Beyond Seminar -- Friday, December 2, 2011 -- TIME: 12:30 PM in Bldg. 32, Room 141 (Stata)

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 		COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON and BEYOND SEMINAR


DATE:		Friday, DECEMBER 2, 2011
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 32, Room 141  (Stata Center)

(Pizza and beverages will be provided at 12:15 PM outside Room 32-141)


TITLE:		BLASTing faster than light:
 		compressive genomics in the next-gen world


SPEAKER:	MICHAEL BAYM   (Harvard University)


ABSTRACT:

The last several years have seen an unprecedented increase in DNA 
sequencing capability.  The resulting accumulation of data has grown so 
fast as to far outstrip advances in computational or even storage 
capabilities.  Fundamental algorithmic improvements are necessary if we 
are to truly make use of these new technologies.  In this talk, we present 
an extension of BLAST on large datasets that not only is faster, but 
scales sublinearly in the size of the genomic library.  More broadly, we 
introduce compressive genomics, an approach to these increasingly large 
data sets that allows analysis to be performed directly on the compressed 
data.

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