Fri Apr 25 Functional characterization of microbial communities

<p> <strong>Computer Science Colloquium</strong></p> <p> Title:<strong>Toward a scalable algorithmic framework for functional characterization of microbial communities</strong><br /> Speaker: <strong>Ananth Kalyanaraman</strong>, Washington State Univ.<br /> Date: <strong>Friday, April 25</strong>, 2014<br /> Time: <strong>10:30 a.m</strong>.<br /> Place: <strong>E &amp; CS Auditorium, First Floor</strong><br /> <strong>Brief Abstract</strong>: Novel parallel approaches for metagenomics data from microbial communities utilize graph-theoretic models and heuristics to achieve dramatic improvements in time to solution of clustering operations that reveal tightly knit communities within the data that share homology or function.<br /> <strong>Longer Abstract</strong>: <a href="http://webspace.cs.odu.edu/~ibl/public/colloquium/spr14/kalyanaraman.txt">http://webspace.cs.odu.edu/~ibl/public/colloquium/spr14/kalyanaraman.txt</a><br /> &nbsp;</p>

Posted By: Irwin Levinstein
Date: Sun Apr 20 21:53:12 EDT 2014