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Postdoc Positions in Computational Biology available
We are looking for enthusiastic candidates for postdoctoral positions interested in applying/developing data analysis techniques for deep sequencing, systems biology and statistical genetics aiming to advance a) the systemic understanding of molecular and disease phenotypes and b) personalized medicine and treatment.
Machine Learning in Systems Biology meeting
We are co-organizing the Machine Learning in Systems Biology meeting in September 2012 in Basel (http://mlsb.cc).
Another successful HiTSeq this year
We coorganized the 5th Conference on High-throughput Sequencing in Long Beach, California (http://hitseq.org).
Group web servers and resources
We have updated and consolidated the web servers and resources provided/maintained by the group.
The group will join the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York City in January 2012
Most members of the group will join the cBio department at the Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York City in January 2012.
Paper on Transfer Learning and Sequence Segmentation accepted at NIPS'11
A paper "Hierarchical Multitask Structured Output Learning for Large-scale Sequence Segmentation" by Nico Görnitz, Christian Widmer, Georg Zeller, Sören Sonnenburg, and Gunnar Rätsch was accepted at NIPS 2011.
Paper on the Analysis of 19 Genomes and Transcriptomes of Arabidopsis thaliana has been published in Nature
The paper "Multiple reference genomes and transcriptomes for Arabidopsis thaliana" by Xiangchao Gan, Oliver Stegle, Jonas Behr, Joshua G. Steffen, Philipp Drewe, Katie L. Hildebrand, Rune Lyngsoe, Sebastian J. Schultheiss, Edward J. Osborne, Vipin T. Sreedharan, André Kahles, Regina Bohnert, Géraldine Jean, Paul Derwent, Paul Kersey, Eric J. Belfield, Nicholas P. Harberd, Eric Kemen, Christopher Toomajian, Paula X. Kover, Richard M. Clark, Gunnar Rätsch & Richard Mott has been published in Nature.
PLoS ONE accepts publication on Persistence and Availability of Web Services in Computational Biology
A publication on the Persistence and Availability of Web Services in Computational Biology by Sebastian J. Schultheiss, Marc-Christian Münch, Gergana D. Andreeva and Gunnar Rätsch has been accepted by PLoS ONE.
Best Oral Presentation Award Runner Up presented to Sebastian J. Schultheiss at SCS7
Sebastian J. Schultheiss received the 2nd place Oral Presentation Award at the 7th Student Council Symposium in Vienna, Austria.
Best paper award for paper on transfer learning
Christian Widmer and Gunnar Rätsch received the best paper award for their paper "Transfer Learning in Computational Biology".
Simple Alignment Filtering Tool (SAFT) released
We released the first version of the Simple Alignment Filtering Tool SAFT
Tutorial paper about how to use PALMapper was published in Current Protocols in Bioinformatics
A tutorial paper "RNA-Seq Read Alignments with PALMapper" by Geraldine Jean, Andre Kahles, Vipin T. Sreedharan, Fabio De Bona and Gunnar Raetsch was published in Current Protocols in Bioinformatics.
RNA-seq quantitation program rQuant source code release
We released the source code of rQuant, a tool for transcript quantitation from RNA-seq experiments.
Elisabeth Georgii's defense on Dec 15, 2010
Elisabeth Georgii will defend her doctoral thesis on Dec 15, 2010 at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.
