May - David Bujold, Nadia Tahiri, Nehme Hachem¶
Event Details
Date/Time:
Thursday, May 7th, 2015 16h00 - 18h00
Location:
Location: Main auditorium, IRCM
Schedule:
16h00 - 16h10 — Introduction, and open floor for questions, comments or announcements from the participants, Alexis Blanchet-Cohen
16h10 - 17h00 — David Bujold (McGill) — "Improving bioinformatics accessibility with the GenAP Portal"
17h00 - 17h15 — Snacks and beverages
17h15 - 17h45 — Nadia Tahiri (UQAM) — "Bioinformatics algorithms for the reconstruction of consensus trees and multiple supertrees"
17h45 - 18h00 — Nehme Hachem (IRCM) — "Assessing the impact of chemicals on human health from a toxicogenomics perspective"
We'd like to thank everyone for another great meeting on May 7th: the speakers, our sponsors (especially our new sponsor, Illumina), the attendees, and all the people working behind the scenes to ensure MonBUG's success.
We'd like to welcome our newest sponsor, Illumina! Just as a reminder, over 90% of all DNA data produced comes from Illumina machines (Regalado, 2014). We have some exciting collaborative projects with Illumina coming up, notably on Illumina BaseSpace.
Our presentations and our meetings are deliberately quite short, but you're welcome to stay after to pursue the discussion.
Speaker: David Bujold
Affiliation: McGill
Talk Title: Improving bioinformatics accessibility with the GenAP Portal
Abstract:
The GenAP bioinformatics software analysis pipelines having been the topic of a previous talk at MonBUG, this presentation will focus on the web services of the project.
The GenAP Portal (Genetics and Genomics Analysis Platform) is an online platform designed for life sciences researchers with the goals of making bioinformatics analyses and data sharing more accessible to non-bioinformaticians, and reducing the bottlenecks associated with genomics data processing. To reach these goals, it provides a web interface with user-friendly analysis tools leveraging Compute Canada resources, such as a Galaxy setup, a UCSC Genome Browser mirror and the IHEC Data Portal.
Speaker: Nadia Tahiri
Affiliation: UQAM
Talk Title: Bioinformatics algorithms for the reconstruction of consensus trees and multiple supertrees
Abstract:
(Translated from French) We will be presenting new algorithms refining the inference of consensus trees and supertrees obtained by the regrouping of phylogenetic trees (i.e., additive trees or X-trees). The advantage of our approach relative to the classical approaches, which always return a unique tree (i.e. consensus tree or supertree), is that our algorithms propose one or more trees (i.e. consensus tree or supertree) as a solution, depending on the topologies of the trees given in input. We use the k-means algorithm to obtain the optimal partitioning of the set of trees considered. We will apply the proposed algorithms to analyze numerous real and simulated datasets.
Speaker: Nehme Hachem
Affiliation: IRCM
Talk Title: Assessing the impact of chemicals on human health from a toxicogenomics perspective
Abstract:
Nehme Hachem will be presenting his bioinformatics analysis on the impact of chemicals on human health, from a toxicogenomics perspective.
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