From the Ising model to biological sequence analysis

Who:  Ralf Bundschuh - (Departments of Physics and Biochemistry, OSU)
Where:  1080 PRB, Robert Smith Seminar Room
When:  Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 04:00
Type:  Colloquium

Description: The life sciences accumulate an enormous amount of biological sequence information. E.g., GenBank, the central repository, currently holds about 250 billion bases and is growing exponentially with a doubling time shorter than the doubling time of computer power in Moore's law. In the talk, I will use a concrete biological phenomenon, namely RNA editing, to showcase how methods from Statistical Physics are exquisitely suited to analyze and make sense of this plethora of sequence information.

Additional Notes: Faculty Host: Mohit Randeria