Abstract
New sequencing technologies have resulted in a dramatic increase in the amount of data available to biologists. The large amounts of data being generated at a rapidly increasing pace, however, are testing the limits of the current computational infrastructure. In my talk I will describe several of the new sequencing technologies and highlight the computational challenges faced in trying to analyze the data they generate.
About the Speaker
Mihai Pop is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and holds a joint appointment in the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2000, and prior to his appointment at UMD, he has worked as a Bioinformatics Engineer at The Institute for Genomics Research, a leading genomics research institute. His research is focused on applications of sequencing technologies: the development of genome assembly algorithms and the analysis of microbial communities (metagenomics).
