[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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