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COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY TALK
Speaker: Prof. Dave Penny,
Theoretical Biology,
Massey University, New Zealand
Title : The origin of modern humans, interesting problems with
large data sets.
Venue : Room 431, DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Busch Campus,
Rutgers University.
Time : Monday, 15 Dec (2:00pm).
(If you are interested in meeting with the speaker, please send mail to
yooseph at dimacs.rutgers.edu)
The origin of modern humans,
interesting problems with large data sets
Prof. Dave Penny
Massey University,
New Zealand
Faster DNA sequencing is resulting in large data sets that are difficult to
evaluate quantitatively. Standard methods of analyis were designed for
smaller numbers of sequences and may be surprisingly weak at detecting all
the information in larger data sets. Some new approachs, based on standard
tree comparison metrics will be described briefly and new ideas outlined.
The illustrations will be based on human mitochondrial DNA sequences and the
overall results allow some strong conclusions on the origin and dispersal of
modern humans.
