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SUMMARY:Mining viral datasets - Dr Simon Frost (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Zoubin Ghahramani
DESCRIPTION:Viruses are of great medical\, veterinary\, and agricultural i
 nterest. An enormous amount of data has amassed on viruses\, which also of
 fers great opportunities to employ viruses as model organisms\, for exampl
 e\, to help understand evolutionary processes. Specifically\, I will descr
 ibe how my colleagues and I are using viral datasets for:\n* virus identif
 ication\;\n* comparison of evolutionary pressures in possibly divergent vi
 ruses\;\n* tracking population dynamics of viruses over time\;\n* characte
 risation of antigenic properties of viruses\;\n* host-virus relationships.
 \n\nMy goal is to introduce the audience to the diversity of viral dataset
 s\, and the potential for employing sophisticated statistical and computat
 ional approaches.
LOCATION:Engineering Department\, CBL Room 438
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