Advising for transcript assembly accepted for talk at ESCS 2018

My work on Parameter Advising for transcript assembly has been accepted for an oral presentation at the European Student Council Symposium in Athens, Greece. In addition I will be attending ECCB in September to present a poster at the main meeting.

ISCB-SC EIC Poster Receives Outstanding Poster at ISMB 2018

The Education and Internships Committee poster that I presented at ISMB in the Education COSI Track received the F1000 Outstanding Presentation Prize at ISMB. This is a great honor for the council and I hope it will improve the visibility of a vial program for our group. The poster focussed on our recent publication in PLOS Computational Biology which highlighted the process of the ISCB-SC Internships Program, I had mentioned it previously. The paper and poster are linked from internships.iscbsc.org. Thanks to the entire committee for making it such a great program.

Scallop Parameter Advising accepted as a talk at ISMB 2018

I will be presenting my most recent work, titled “Automatically eliminating errors induced by suboptimal parameter choices in transcript assembly”, at the Machine Learning in Computational and Systems Biology (MLCSB) COSI at ISMB 2018 in Chicago. More details about the talk as well as slides will be posted before the meeting. (slides) (video)

I will also be presenting the ISCB-SC Education and Internships Committee’s poster a the Education COSI meeting at ISMB. This is a highlight of our previously published paper in PLOS Computational Biology (see Publications > Service).

“Asymptotically optimal minimizers schemes” accepted to ISMB

Soon after joining the Kingsford group I began talking with Guillaume Marçais about his work on minimizer schemes. This year I contributed to the most recent publication in this line of work which describes the asymptotic bounds for the densities of these schemes. This work was accepted for presentation at ISMB 2018 in Chicago, IL. A preprint of the manuscript is on bioRxiv (see Publications).

Springer Monograph Published

The book based on my dissertation written along with my PhD advisor John Kececioglu is now available! The work is a part of Springer’s Computational Biology series. The book contains a chapter that had not been previously published and updated results not previously in my dissertation.