DATE: Every other Tuesday
TIME: 2pm – 3pm
LOCATION: Bldg 53 ERB 2535, The Jackson Laboratory
CONTACT: Peter Vedell (Postdoctoral Associate - Peter.Vedell@jax.org )

January 27, 2009 - Joel Graber
De novo fragment assembly with short mate-paired reads: Does the read length matter
Chaisson MJ, Brinza D, Pevzner PA.
Genome Res. 2009 Feb;19(2):336-46.

February 10, 2009 - Sharon Tsaih
Applying mouse complex-trait resources to behavioural genetics
Flint J, Mott R
Nature. 2008 Dec 11;456(7223):724-7.

February 24, 2009 - Hyuna Yang
Estimation and assessment of raw copy numbers at the single locus level
Bengtsson H, Irizarry R, Carvalho B, Speed TP
Bioinformatics. 2008 Mar 15;24(6):759-67.

March 10, 2009 - Gary Churchill
Accurate Discovery of Expression Quantitative Trait Loci Under Confounding From Spurious and Genuine Regulatory Hotspots
Kang HM, Ye C, Eskin E.
Genetics. 2008 Dec;180(4):1909-25.

Efficient Control of Population Structure in Model Organism Association Mapping
Kang HM, Zaitlen NA, Wade CM, Kirby A, Heckerman D, Daly MJ, Eskin E.
Genetics. 2008 Mar;178(3):1709-23.

April 7, 2009 - Ricardo Verdugo
Predicting Quantitative Traits with Regression Models for Dense Molecular Markers and Pedigrees
de Los Campos G, Naya H, Gianola D, Crossa J, Legarra A, Manfredi E, Weigel K, Cotes JM.
Genetics. 2009 Mar 16. [Epub ahead of print]

April 21, 2009 - Yong Woo
Evolution of chromosome organization driven by selection for reduced gene expression noise
Batada NN, Hurst LD.
Nat Genet. 2007 Aug;39(8):945-9.

May 5, 2009 - No journal club

May 19, 2009 - Keith Shephard
Recent software developments - no paper associated with presentation

June 2, 2009 - Rachael Hageman
Effects of Genetic and Environmental Factors on Trait Network Predictions From Quantitative Trait Locus Data
Remington DL.
Genetics. 2009 Mar;181(3):1087-99.

Summer Break

September 29, 2009 - Peter Vedell
Comments on the analysis of unbalanced microarray data
Kerr, KF.
Bioinformatics. 2009. 25(16):2035-2041.

October 27, 2009 - Nicole Leahy
Co-regulated transcriptional networks contribute to natural genetic variation in Drosophila sleep
Harbison ST, Carbone MA, Ayroles JF, Stone EA, Lyman RF, Mackay TF.
Nat Genet. 2009 Mar;41(3):371-5.

November 3, 2009 - Matt Hibbs
The Systems Biology Graphical Notation
Novere et al.
Nat Biotechnol. 2009 Aug;27(8):735-41.

November 17, 2009 - Joel Graber
FIRMA: a method for detection of alternative splicing from exon array data
Purdom E, Simpson KM, Robinson MD, Conboy JG, Lapuk AV, Speed TP.
Bioinformatics. 2008 Aug 1;24(15):1707-14.

Differential splicing using whole-transcript microarrays
Robinson MD, Speed TP.
BMC Bioinformatics. 2009 May 22;10:156.

December 1, 2009 - Sharon Tsaih

December 15, 2009 - Hyuna Yang