Editing BioMicroCenter:BIG meeting (section)

==2017-2018 academic year==
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 |Oct 5 
 |11 am
 |**NO MEETING**
 |MIT
 |68-156
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 |Oct 19
 |11 am
 |Vincent Butty (MIT)
 |MIT
 |68-156
 |RNA-Seq-based alternative isoform quantification, and benchmarking with spike-ins.
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 |Nov 2  
 |11 am
 |Brad Chapman (HSPH)
 |MIT
 |[http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=68 68-156]
 |[https://gist.github.com/chapmanb/8ee026fd85d07518570ac5a0cd7239f5 bcbio and Common Workflow Language interoperability progress]; [https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbb/blob/master/talks/big2017_bcbio_cwl/big2017_bcbio_cwl.pdf slides]; [https://youtu.be/nJEDS9Qol8M video]
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 |Nov 16
 |11 am
 |**NO MEETING**
 |MIT
 |68-156
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 |Dec 7
 |11 am
 |Lorena Pantano (HSPH)
 |MIT
 |68-156
 |Analyzing hundreds of small RNA samples with bcbio-nextgen; miRTop
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 |Dec 21
 |11 am
 |Charlie Whittaker
 |MIT
 |68-156
 |Vignettes: Gene expression, search for diagnostic markers; logFC shrinkage methods
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 |Jan 4
 |11 am
 |**NO MEETING**
 |MIT
 |7th floor
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 |Jan 18
 |11 am
 |Prat Thiru (WI)
 |Whitehead
 |7th floor
 |Reproducible research for bioinformatics: best practices [http://barc.wi.mit.edu/education/BIG_Meeting/BIG_MeetingJan2018.pdf (slides)]
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 |Feb 1
 |11 am
 |Kris Richardson (WI)
 | &nbsp; Whitehead &nbsp; 
 | &nbsp; 7th floor &nbsp; 
 |Highlights from Genome Informatics (Nov. 2017)
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 |Feb 15 
 |11 am
 |George Bell (WI)
 |Whitehead
 |7th floor
 |Fungal genome assembly and annotation 
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 |Mar 1
 |11 am
 |Stuart Levine (MIT)
 |MIT
 |68-156
 |Review of AGBT meeting: What is that light coming down the tunnel?
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 |Mar 15
 |11 am
 | &nbsp;  &nbsp; Radhika Khetani and Mary Piper (HSPH) &nbsp;  &nbsp; 
 |MIT
 |68-156
 |Adventures in Bioinformatics Training
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 |Apr 5
 |11 am
 |Bingbing Yuan (WI)
 |Whitehead
 |7th floor
 |Interactive Figures with R [http://barc.wi.mit.edu/education/BIG_Meeting/interactivePlots_Apr2018.pdf (slides)]
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 |Apr 19
 |11 am
 |Huiming Ding (MIT)
 |MIT
 |68-156 
 |Application of Machine Learning In Analyzing Cancer Mutations
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 |May 3
 |2pm
 |Priyanka Shivdasani, Renato Umeton, and Matthew Dukar
 |DFCI
 |Rm D1620, Dana building, 450 Brookline Ave, Boston
 |Building tools to fight cancer: three vignettes from the DFCI Data Science and Bioinformatics group
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 |May 17
 |11 am
 |Inma Barrasa (WI)
 |Whitehead
 |7th floor
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 |May 30 (Wed.)
 |11 am
 |Duanduan Ma (MIT)
 |MIT
 |68-156  
 |Reflection of 2018 May Institute: Computation and Statistics for mass spectrometry and proteomics
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