Last update: 3 May 2007

Contact:
Korbinian Strimmer
strimmer@uni-leipzig.de

Time and Place:
Summer term 2007
IMISE, Zi. 230
Thursday 11:00-12:30

Purpose:
Discussion of recent research papers in statistics and/or bioinformatics

Papers and Dates:

24 May 2007 - Disease Specific Genomic Analysis

• Nicolau, M, et al. 2007. Disease-specific genomic analysis: identifying the signature of pathologic biology. Bioinformatics 23: 957-965. http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/8/957

10 May 2007 - Correlation Sharing

• Tibshirani, R, and L. Wassermann. 2006. Correlation sharing for detection of differential expression. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608061

26 April 2007 - Gene Enrichment II

• Efron, B. and R. Tibshirani. 2007. Testing the significance of sets of genes. Ann. Appl. Statist. in press. http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~brad/papers/genesetpaper.pdf

• Newton, M. A., et al. 2007. Random set methods identify distinct aspects of the enrichment signal in gene set analysis. Ann. Appl. Statist. in press. http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~newton/papers/publications/aoas.pdf

19 April 2007 - Gene Enrichment I

• Subramanian, A., et al. 2005. Gene set enrichment analysis: a knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles. PNAS 102: 15545-15550. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/102/43/15545

• Mootha, V. K., et al. 2003. PGC-1alpha-responsive genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation are coordinately downregulated in human diabetes. Nat. Genet. 34: 267-273. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1038/ng1180