MIA: David Tse, Case studies in DNA and RNA assembly

Models, Inference and Algorithms
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
April 27, 2016

David Tse
Stanford University and U.C. Berkeley

The Science of Information: Case Studies in DNA and RNA Assembly

In this talk given as part of the 2016 Models, Inference & Algorithms series, David Tse from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, describes and benchmarks Shannon, a new program for assembling RNA sequences from shotgun sequencing data designed using the principles of information theory laid down nearly 70 years ago by mathematician and cryptographer Claude Shannon.

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