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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Transcriptomics - Prof Brendan Frey (University
  of Toronto)
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CONTACT:Zoubin Ghahramani
DESCRIPTION:Whereas the genome encapsulates information that is passed fro
 m parent to child\, the transcriptome is a library of RNA sequences (eg\, 
 messenger RNAs) that emerge from the genome as a consequence of ubiquitous
  condition-dependent transcription and splicing in the cell nucleus. The h
 uman genome contains roughly 22\,000 genes\, but the human transcriptome m
 ay contain as many as 1 million or more RNA sequences. Understanding this\
 nlibrary of RNA sequences and the mechanisms controlling the condition-dep
 endent generation of RNA sequences is a central problem in modern biomolec
 ular science and engineering. In this tutorial\, I'll review what is and i
 s not known about the transcriptome and its regulation\, discuss open prob
 lems that could be approached using machine learning\, and describe\nrecen
 tly-published datasets that could be used to solve those problems.\n
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, LR4
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