DIMACS Workshop on Algorithmics in Human Population-Genomics

April 27 - 29, 2009
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:

Jaume Bertranpetit, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, jaume.bertranpetit at upf.edu

Dan Gusfield, University of California, gusfield@cs.ucdavis.edu

Laxmi Parida, IBM T J Watson Research, parida at us.ibm.com

This special focus is jointly sponsored by the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), the Biological, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences Interfaces Institute for Quantitative Biology (BioMaPS), and the Rutgers Center for Molecular Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry (MB Center).

Slides:

• Jaume Bertranpetit, Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
  Testing Continuous Distributions

• Petros Drineas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Dimensionality Reduction in the Analysis of Human Genetics Data

• Robert C. Elston, Case Western Reserve University
  More Powerful Genome-wide Association Methods for Case-control Data

• Dan Gusfield, UC Davis, USA
  Two Solutions in Search of Killer Apps.

• Jotun Hein, Oxford, UK
  Statistical Alignment and Footprinting

• Jody Hey, Rutgers University
  Methods for sampling genealogies in complex models of divergence

• Oscar Lao, Erasmus Medical Center (Rotterdam)
  Efficient algorithms for ascertaining markers for controlling for population substructure

• Ion Mandoiu, University of Connecticut
  Imputation-based local ancestry inference in admixed populations

• Paul Marjoram, Keck School of Medicine
  High-dimensional data-sets and the problems they cause

• Rasmus Nielsen, UC Berkeley, USA
  Population genetic analyses of shotgunsequencing data

• Laxmi Parida, IBM T J Watson Research
  RECOMBINOMICS: Myth or Reality?

• Noah Rosenberg, University of Michigan, USA
  Haplotypes and imputed genotypes in diverse human populations

• Saad Sheikh, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Half-Sibling Reconstruction A Theoretical Analysis

• Suyash Shringarpure and Eric Xing, Carnegie Mellon University
  mStruct: Structure under Mutations

• Yun Song, UC Berkeley
  Forensic DNA analysis and multi-locus match probability in finite populations: A fundamental difference between the Moran and Wright-Fisher models

• Jeff Wall, UC San Francisco, USA
  Inferring human demographic history from DNA sequence data

• Carsten Wiuf, Aarhus University, Denmark
  A fatgraph model of protein structure

• Yufeng Wu, University of Connecticut
  Exact Computation of Coalescent Likelihood under the Infinite Sites Model

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