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This Friday's Biology Department Seminar speaker is:

Susanne Sindi, Ph.D.
University of California, Merced,

Structural Variant Discovery: Integrating Multiple Lines of Evidence.”

Friday, November 17, 2017
4:10 pm Seminar begins
Biology 19

Student Lunch: Students interested in joining Dr. Sindi for lunch should RSVP by emailing gonyerk@reed.edu ASAP since spaces are limited. Then plan to meet in B-115 shortly before noon on Friday. Commons dining room vouchers will be distributed at that time.

Abstract: Structural variants (SVs) – such as deletions, insertions, copy-number gains and inversions – are rearrangements of a region of DNA relative to a reference. Until relatively recently, SVs were thought to be rare in genomes of healthy individuals, especially mammals. However, advances in high-throughput DNA sequencing, combined with the availability of high-quality reference genomes, has demonstrated SVs to be common even in healthy individuals. I will give an overview of computational methods for SV discovery and discuss two novel likelihood based approaches under development. The first employs a Hidden Markov Model (HMMs) for split-read alignment allowing for a likelihood model consisting of all three common signals for SV prediction in a single individual. The second addresses simultaneous prediction of SVs in populations including related individuals by framing SV prediction in populations as a constrained optimization problem.

 

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