Speaker: Mai Hamdalla
Day: Wednesday, 3/14/2007
Room: ITEB 336
Time: 2:00pm

Title: String Barcoding

Abstract:
The reliable identification of presence or absence of biological agents
(targets), such as viruses or bacteria, is crucial for many applications
from health care to biodiversity. If genomic sequences of targets are
known, hybridization reactions between oligonucleotide probes and targets
performed on suitable DNA microarrays will allow inferring presence or
absence from the observed pattern of hybridization. String barcoding is a
recently introduced technique for such identifications.

Reading: 
Rash and Dan Gusfield. (2002).String barcoding: uncovering optimal virus
signatures ., Proceeding of the 6th Annual International Conference on
Computational Biology, pp.254.261.