Time: 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 11th
Place: Austrian Theater (Clinical Research Building)
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA
FASTER GENETIC LINKAGE COMPUTATIONS
Dr Alejandro Schaffer,
National Center for Human Genome Research (NIH)
and
Department of Computer Science,
Rice University
Genetic linkage analysis is a statistical technique used to map genes and
find the approximate location of disease-causing genes. For the past
three years, we have been working to improve the performance of the most
popular general-purpose linkage analysis software package, called
LINKAGE. Our new package, called FASTLINK, is now in use around the world
on uniprocessors. We have also made parallel implementations of three of
the main programs in FASTLINK that run either on networks of
uniprocessors or on shared-memory multiprocessors.
