The bioinformatics chat is a podcast about computational biology, bioinformatics, and next generation sequencing.
The bioinformatics chat is produced by Roman Cheplyaka.
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#21 Linear mixed models, GWAS, and lme4qtl with Andrey Ziyatdinov
May 31, 2018
Linear mixed models are used to analyze GWAS data and detect QTLs. Andrey Ziyatdinov recently released an R package, lme4qtl, that can be used to formulate and fit these models. In this episode Andrey and I discuss linear mixed models, genome-wide association studies, and strengths and weaknesses of lme4qtl.
#20 B cell receptor substitution profile prediction and SPURF with Kristian Davidsen and Amrit Dhar
April 30, 2018
In this episode Kristian Davidsen and Amrit Dhar present their project called SPURF. SPURF can predict the B cell receptor (BCR) substitution profile of a given clonal family based on a single representative sequence from that family. SPURF works by fitting a tensor regression model to publicly available Rep-seq data.
#19 Genome fingerprints with Gustavo Glusman
April 7, 2018
In this episode Gustavo Glusman explains his method of reducing a VCF file to a small “fingerprint”, which could be then used to detect duplicate genomes, infer relatedness, map the population structure, and more.
Previous episodes
#18 Bioinformatics Contest 2018 with Alexey Sergushichev and Ekaterina Vyahhi
#17 Rarefaction, alpha diversity, and statistics with Amy Willis
#16 Javier Quilez on what makes large sequencing projects successful
#15 Optimal transport for single-cell expression data with Geoffrey Schiebinger
#14 Generating functions for read mapping with Guillaume Filion
#12 Modelling the immune system and C-ImmSim with Filippo Castiglione
#11 Collective cell migration with Linus Schumacher
#10 Spatially variable genes and SpatialDE with Valentine Svensson
#9 Michael Tessler and Christopher Mason on 16S amplicon vs shotgun sequencing
#8 Perfect k-mer hashing in Sailfish
#5 Relative data analysis and propr with Thom Quinn
#4 ChIP-seq and GenoGAM with Georg Stricker and Julien Gagneur
#3 miRNA target site prediction and seedVicious with Antonio Marco