The ENCODE Project and Us: Peter J. Bickel
Channel: Alter Lab
Date: 2015-04-07

April 3, 2015, Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute Distinguished Seminar, University of Utah.

https://alterlab.org/announcements/Bickel_2015_Seminar.pdf

Abstract: ENCODE (The Encyclopedia of DNA) is a massive project initiated on a pilot basis in 2003 by NHGRI. Its humble goal was "to functionally annotate all of the elements in the human genome." Our small statistical and computational group has been associated with the project, including its partner "modENCODE," since 2007. In this talk, after sketching briefly what I view as major accomplishments of this project, I will discuss some of the contributions of our statistical and computational group to this essentially wet-lab enterprise.

Biography: Peter J. Bickel is Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate degree from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem in 1986. He is past President of the Bernoulli Society and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a MacArthur Fellow, a COPSS prize winner, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Sciences.