Center for Biological Language Modeling

 BLM Weekly Seminar Archives

Date Title Speaker
20-Feb-02 Words and meanings in biology - part I: structure of amino acids, peptides, proteins" Judith Klein-Seetharaman
23-Apr-02 Overview of the recent developments in bioinformatics research from RECOMB2002 (Washington) Deborah Weisser / Judith Klein-Seetharaman
30-Apr-02 Use of compression algorithms in biological sequence analysis Deborah Weisser
6-May-02 "Classifying G-Protein Coupled Receptors with Support Vector Machines" by Karchin, Karplus and Haussler. Judith Klein-Seetharaman
13-May-02 Building a dictionary for genomes: Identification of presumptive regulatory sites by statistical analysis" by Bussemaker, Li and Siggia Rose Hoberman
21-May-02 multiple sequence alignment Judith Klein-Seetharaman
4-Jun-02 language modeling techniques, i.e. whole-sentence modeling Roni Rosenfeld
25-Jun-02 Pattern Discovery in Biological Sequences (A. Brazma et al. (1997) Approaches to the automatic discovery of patterns in biosequences; B. Brejova et al. (2000) Finding patterns in biological sequences Chengxiang Zhai
2-Jul-02 Comparison of use of SVMs with alternative methods in homology detection (R. Karchin et al: Classifying G-protein coupled receptors with SVM; L. Liao & W.S. Noble: Combining pairwise sequence similarity and SVM for remote protein homology detection) Yiming Yang
9-Sep-02 Planning Seminar Judith Klein-Seetharaman
23-Sep-02 Biological significance of bioinformatics topics  Judith Klein-Seetharaman
30-Sep-02 Protein sequence analysis and classification   Judith Klein-Seetharaman
7-Oct-02 Predicting Structures I Judith Klein-Seetharaman
14-Oct-02  Predicting structures II Ivet Bahar
21-Oct-02  Predicting structures III Judith Klein-Seetharaman
31-Oct-02  Whole cell modeling Shlomo Ta'asan    
11-Nov-02 Protein-ligand interactions  Judith Klein-Seetharaman
18-Nov-02 Protein-protein interaction networks Judith Klein-Seetharaman
25-Nov-02 Protein folding  Ivet Bahar
2-Dec-02 Protein-protein interaction domains Judith Klein-Seetharaman
9-Dec-02 Sequence patterns in superfamilies Judith Klein-Seetharaman 
16-Dec-02 Sequence classification methods Betty Cheng
13-Jan-03 "State of the art in membrane protein prediction"  Paper: Chen and Rost (2002) Appl. Bioinf. Gulsum Anderson 
27-Jan-03 "Protein-protein interaction motifs in GPCR" Harpreet Kaur Dhiman  
3-Feb-03 Protein protein interaction experimental studies Harpreet Kaur Dhiman  
10-Feb-03     Clustering Methods      Jaime Carbonell
17-Mar-03   Protein flexibility predictions A. J. Rader 
7-Apr-03 "Dynamics of the p53-mdm2 loop in living cells, and the design-principles of biological feedback."  Galit Shenhar
14-Apr-03 Immune System Rose Hoberman 
21-Apr-03  Gaussian and anisotropic network models Basak Isin
28-Apr-03 DSSP definitions and dihedral angles Judith Klein-Seetharaman
2-Jun-03 host specificity of viruses Madhavi Ganapathiraju
16-Jun-03 A Probabilistic Approach for Calculating the Entropy and Free Energy of Macromolecular Systems with Computer Simulation Hagai Meirovitch    
30-Jun-03 Sequence classification using n-grams Dror Tobi
7-July-03  A survey of segmenting approaches applied to GPCR Deborah Weisser
31-Jul-03 Dynamical field theory Claudia Wilmzig
18-Aug-03 Dipeptide Substitution Matrices Oznur Tastan
25-Aug-03 A comprehensive analysis of protein-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae"- which talks about the protein interaction Database by CURAGEN(http://portal.curagen.com)- their  methodologies and scope Venkatesh Jitender
8-Sep-03 A Tale of Three Models-Simplified Molecular Modeling of Proteins Dan Zuckerman
15-Sep-03 Microarray Experiments Judith Klein-Seetharaman
22-Sep-03 IPSVAC - a bioinformatics platform Naveena Venkatakumari
29-Sep-03 PSI prediction Yan Liu
6-Oct-03  Protein protein interaction prediction Yanjun Qi
13-Oct-03 Computational hypolotyping Jiangbo Miao
20-Oct-03  Proceedings at this year's "European Conference on Computational Biology " Rose Hoberman
10-Nov-03  Prediction of G-protein Coupling Specificity of GPCRs Betty Cheng
17-Nov-03 "Modes of Differential Expression in Cancer: From Discovery Informatics to Translational Informatics"  Dr. James Lyons-Weiler
15-Dec-03 Golden mean structure of genetic sequences Madhavi Ganapathiraju
26-Jan-04 Short Time Series Microarray Data Jason Ernst
7-Feb-04 Halpert and Bruno: Evolutionary Distances for Protein-Coding Sequences: Modeling Site-Specific Residue Frequencies; McClellan and McCracken: Estimating the Influence of Selection on the Variable Amino Acid Sites of the Cytochrome b Protein Functional Domains; Dagan et al: Ratios of Radical to Conservative Amino Acid Replacement are Affected by Mutational and Compositional FActors and May Not be Indicative of Positive Darwinian Selection Rose Hoberman
15-Mar-04 Mechanism of Signal Transduction by Rhodopsin as a Model GPCR Basak Isin
22-Mar-04 Grid Computing - An Introduction and Applications Naveena Venkatakumari
5-Apr-04 A review of structure learning  methods and related comments Fan Liu
12-Apr-04 Structure alignment methods Venkatesh Jitender
19-Apr-04 Imbalanced set classification Yanjun Qui
26-Apr-04 Sequence-structure correlation and its applications Jiangbo Miao
10-May-04 The signature molecular descriptor Madhavi Ganapathiraju
17-May-04 Language of DNA, RNA & Proteins Betty Cheng
24-May-04 Large-scale expression of rhodopsin in the baculovirus system Harpreet Dhiman

7-Jun-04

"Physical Network Models and Multi-source Data Integration" Jason Ernst

14-Jun-04

Review of "First Annual RECOMB Workshop on Regulatory Genomics" March 26-27, 2004. Rose Hoberman
21-Jun-04 Membrane model for the G protein coupled receptor rhodopsin: hydrophobic interface and dynamical structure Basak Isin
28-Jun-04 A Queue-based Method for Simulation of Biological Self-Assembly Systems Farokh Jamalyaria
12-July-04 Modulation of intrinsic {phi}, {xi} propensities of amino acids by neighboring residues in the coil regions of protein structures: NMR analysis and dissection of a ß-hairpin peptide

Griffiths-Jones, S.R., Sharman, G.J., Maynard, A.J., and Searle, M.S.

Venkatesh Jitender
19-July-04 Hari Krishna
26-July-04 The regulatory network learned from microarray data using Lasso Fan Li
2-Aug-04 Structural genomics: computational methods for structure analysis Yan Liu
9-Aug-04 charization of transmembrane protein structure. Madhavi Ganapathiraju
16-Aug-04 Literature review about classification methods for unbalanced class distribution condition Yanjun Qi
23-Aug-04 No Seminar
30-Aug-04 An Analysis of helix-to-strand transition between peptides with Identical Sequences

-Zhou etal.

Viji Manoharan
7-Sep-04 No Seminar
14-Sep-04 Jiangbo Miao
21-Sep-04 No Seminar
28-Sep-04 Interaction 
between calcium-free calmodulin and IQ motif of neurogranin studied by NMR
David Man
5-Oct-04 Structural aspects and design of low-molecular-mass complement inhibitors" by D. Morikis and J.D. Lambris. Betty Cheng
12-Oct-04 Naturally occurring mutation of the opsin gene (T4R) in dogs affects glycosylation and stability of the G protein – coupled receptor"
Krzysztof Palczewski etal , JBC September 30, 2004.
Harpreet Dhiman
19-Oct-04 "Genomic analysis of regulatory network dynamics reveals large toplogical changes". Nature, Sep. 2004. Jason Ernst
26-Oct-04 A novel approach to the recognition of protein architecture from sequence using fourier analysis and neural networks
by Adrian J. Shepherd, Denise Gorse, Janet M. Thornton
MAdhavi Ganapathiraju
2-Nov-04 Sequence Comparisons Using Multiple Sequences Detect Three Times as Many Remote Homologues as Pairwise Methods' J. of Mol. Biol. 1998. Yong Lee
9-Nov-04 Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Peptides and Proteins with Amplified Collective Motions Basak Isin
16-Nov-04 Venkatesh Jitender
23-Nov-04 Hari Krishna
30-Nov-04 Fan Li