Bioinformatics Supergroup

The first Bioinformatics Supergroup of the year will be this coming Monday, Sep 24. The supergroup will start at 4 pm, in Ekeley W165/166 (the same room as SCR). The full schedule for the year is now available online at:

http://bayes.colorado.edu/bioinfo

This Monday, we will begin with brief (5-10 min each) updates from several speakers on high-throughput and computational tools here at CU Boulder, and will then have a longer seminar from Eric Nawrocki in Sean Eddy's lab at HHMI.

The plan for the brief updates is as follows:

Dan Timmons: Computational resources in MCDB

Kristen Barthel: GeneACT and other computational tools in the Liu lab

Katheryn Resing: Overview of the mass spec facility and new software development

Rob Knight: UniFrac, GO-Getter, and other computational tools in the Knight lab

Ken Krauter: Overview of the microarray facility

The main seminar will be given by Eric Nawrocki, in Sean Eddy's lab at HHMI. His title is "Rapid structural SSU rRNA alignment for phylogenetic analyses", and I've attached his abstract below. Many people on campus, especially those of you doing 16S rRNA sequencing, currently use NAST to align sequences -- this is a great opportunity to hear about the next generation of these kinds of tools. In particular, Eric's software can easily be extended to templates other than the 16S rRNA, e.g. fungal 18S rRNA sequences or functional molecules such as aptamers and riboswitches.

Anyway, it should be an exciting meeting -- hope to see you there!