Learnit Lab + Fabelier May 22th (Tuesday)
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alexandre dana
May 18, 2012, 10:11:09 AM5/18/12
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Hi all
Jerome Waldispuhl will be presenting Phylo, an online scientific discovery game on DNA sequencing, at Fabelier, Tuesday May 22th at 7pm.
TITLE: Helping Genetic Research Through Guilt-free Gaming
DESCRIPTION:
The comparison of the human genome with the DNA of other species of is
essential to decipher our genetic code and reveal the causes of various
genetic disorders.
In this talk, we introduce
Phylo a human-based computing framework applying ``crowd sourcing''
techniques to solve the Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) problem. The
key idea of Phylo is to convert the MSA problem into a casual puzzle
game that can be played by ordinary web users with a minimal prior
knowledge of the biological context. The solution collected are then
used to produce highly accuracy genome alignments that are publicly
released to help genetic research. Phylo is accessible at: http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca
TAKE
AWAY: We show how the computational power generated by gamers can be
recycled to solve a difficult computational genomic problem.
BIOGRAPHY:
Jérôme Waldispühl is an assistant professor in the School of Computer
Science at Montreal's McGill University and a member of the McGill
Centre for Bioinformatics. Jérôme and and his colleague, Mathieu
Blanchette, are the creators of Phylo, a pattern-matching genome
alignment online game that will give researchers deeper insight into
genetic codes and could help identify the origins of genetic disease.
Before joining McGill, he received a PhD in computer science from École
Polytechnique (France) and was an instructor in applied mathematics at
MIT.
WHERE: http://fabelier.org/where
See you there !
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