Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics Reading Group
Autumn 2018

Time: Thursday 4:10-5:05 pm
Place: Cockins 228

For further information about this semester's reading group, please contact Shili Lin.

• Thursday, September 13, 2018
  Discussion Leader: Chenggong Han
  Estimating and accounting for tumor purity in the analysis of DNA methylation data from cancer studies
  by Zheng et al. Genome Biology (2017) 18:17
  
  
• Thursday, September 20, 2018
  Discussion Leader: Asuman Turkmen
  A hierarchical clustering method for dimension reduction in joint analysis of multiple phenotypes
  by Liang et al. Genetic Epidemiology Vol. 42, Iss. 4, June 2018, pp. 344-353
  
  
• Thursday, September 27, 2018
  Discussion Leader: Pei Yang
  Fused Lasso Approach in Regression Coefficients Clustering – Learning Parameter Heterogeneity in Data Integration
  by Tang and Song. Journal of Machine Learning Research 17 (2016) 1-23.
  
  
• Thursday, October 25, 2018
  Discussion Leader: Qing Xie
  Unsupervised embedding of single-cell Hi-C data
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• Thursday, November 1
  Discussion Leader: Xiaofei Zhou
  Boosting in Cox regression: a comparison between the likelihood-based and the model-based approaches with focus on the R-packages CoxBoost and mboost
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• Thursday, November 8, 2018
  Discussion Leader: Shuyuan Lou
  MAPS: model-based analysis of long-range chromatin interactions from PLAC-seq and HiChIP experiments
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• Thursday, November 15, 2018
  Discussion Leader: Chi Song
  Effect Sizes of Somatic Mutations in Cancer
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• Thursday, November 29, 2018
  Discussion Leader: Meng Wang
  
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