Royal Statistical Society
Statistical Computing Section Meeting
Wednesday 23 January, 2pm - 5pm (tea at 3pm)
at
The Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol St, London EC1
(nearest UG stations, Barbican, Moorgate & Old Street)
Bioinformatics - Statistical Computing Challenges
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2:00pm - 3:00pm Karen Ayres (Reading)
"Statistical Genetics and Computing - general and specific
considerations"
Synopsis: An overview of statistical genetics will be given first,
highlighting some areas that rely heavily on statistical
computing. More details will then be presented on the
specific problem of estimating human mutation and recombination
rates from DNA sequence data via Markov chain Monte Carlo.
3pm - 3:30pm Tea
3:30pm - 4:15pm Pak Sham, Jing-Hua Zhao and Shaun Purcell
(Institute of Psychiatry)
"Gene-counting algorithms for haplotype frequency estimation and inference
of population substructure."
Synopsis: We introduce the problems of haplotype frequency
estimation and population substructure detection, and describe
gene-counting algorithms for finding maximum likelihood
estimates. Their performance of these methods will be evaluated
by real or simulated data.
4:15pm - 5:00pm Richard Durbin
(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute)
"The current state of gene prediction from genome sequence"
Synopsis: The talk will give an overview of the scientific
context and the statistical approaches currently used for
gene prediction
All are welcome. There is no need to book.
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