The Merck Computational Biology and Chemistry Program |
Distinguished Seminar Abstract |
Dr. Ron Shamir
Professor, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Reverse Engineering of Genetic Networks
February 19, 2004
3:00 PM, Wean Hall 7500
We are involved in an ongoing effort to model, understand
and eventually reverse engineer genetic networks based on
high-throughput heterogeneous genomic data. I will describe
several ongoing projects in this direction, including:
- a biclustering algorithm for detecting tight regulatory
modules, which allowed annotations of numerous unknown yeast
genes at high specificity, and provides novel global views
of the yeast system
- a genome-wide in-silico method for the determination of
transcriptional regulation modules controlling cell cycle
in human cells.
- a novel model for gene regulation and metabolic pathways
and an inference methodology developed for the model.