Genome Databases Seminar

Spring Quarter Schedule 2003
CS 545G / BMI 345

Organized by: Peter D. Karp and Gio Wiederhold

Seminar Information

TIME: Fridays, 3:15 pm until 4:30pm. Please arrive 5 min. early to sign in!
LOCATION: Braun Auditorium, in Mudd Chemistry
(between Gates and the #1 Parking structure; across Campus Drive from the new Clark Center to be.)
DIRECTIONS: Transport and Parking options or a simple ASCII Map
MAILINGLIST: Please send an email to Marianne Siroker (siroker@cs.stanford.edu) if you want to subscribe/unsubscribe to the mailing list for seminar announcements.
POLICY: The Database Seminar is open to the public
FURTHER INFORMATION: Please contact Peter Karp: pkarp @ ai.sri.com
 

The theme of CS545G is the databases that are being constructed in academic and commercial life-sciences organizations to manage genome data. Presentation, demonstrations, and analysis devoted to database issues specific to their use to encode molecular-biology information, including DNA sequence, protein sequence and structure, gene expression, and other functional-genomics data. Emphasis is on representation and integration of the many diverse data sources, and their presentation for biomedical and pharmaceutical researchers. Issues: data structures and ontologies, cross referencing, quality control and error detection, search processes, suitability of different DBMSs, data provenance, and privacy protection for patient-derived information. Introduction and discussion by the instructors and presentations by experts from commercial and research organizations..