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Data Mining and Predictive Analytics: Part 2 – Research Applications on Thursday Oct 13, 2011
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It was more of a set of company profiles than talks about actual data mining. That was probably good for the SFSU students who attended, and I should have realized that might be the emphasis. -
Excellent overview about challenges, strategies and approaches to deal with large datasets to extract meaningful knowledge in industry and academia. I love the discussion comment fro Thomas Wu, Genetech: "We don't use computers for everything, we just use people" when talking about pros&cons of machine learning. Clearly, as Stanford's Nick Tatoretti stated, "we need both, informaticists with algorithms, and biologists with deep scientific knowledge" to make sense of it all and to avoid biased results. -
Not much info for those not looking for a job. -
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Useful overview of 1 vendor's tools / integration framework. Was not as broad as the title implies. -
Yet another great meeting about a very relevant topic. We had an excellent speaker addressing a common challenge in bioinformatics. The framework introduced not only pipes together a number of tools but most importantly also enables the user to extend the framework via plugins and access a workstation farm. -
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Jeff Boore - Evolutionary Analysis As The Basis For Interpreting Genomes on Thursday Jul 21, 2011
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Was a great talk, learnt a lot !— saumitra
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Jeff delivered a very informative overview of the current state of genome sequencing technology and Phylogenomics techniques. I have personally struggled to understand some of the concepts of phylogenomics and am indebted to Jeff for explainIng them clearly and succinctly in a way that I feel I finally understand. These are powerful tools in any bioinformatician's toolbox and I feel that many people would benefit from learning more about them. -
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June Forum: Hector Garcia Martin - Modeling Microbial Metabolism on Wednesday Jun 22, 2011
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An excellent talk by a smart and forward looking researcher. Hector's enthusiasm and deep knowledge of the field made the talk interesting and informative. Dr Martin responded to lively discussion from the audience with a frank assessment of the current limitations of the field and a clear path towards solutions. Thank you to all who attended and thanks especially to Hector Garcia Martin for an excellent and stimulating talk.
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Excellent meeting and crowd.
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May Forum: Eric Olivares presents - SEQanswers online community for Next Gen Seq on Wednesday May 25, 2011
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NGS, beer, pizza, what more can one ask for? - Great location, great hosting, interesting and entertaining talks. I am using SEQanswers quite a bit myself and was curious to finally meet who is behind all of this and learn about some of the history.
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Great presentation by Eric, and others.
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Excellent topics, great presentation, and an enthusiastic crowd attending and talking long after the official ending - you cannot expect to have more from an event like this. Keep up the good work! Doug has sent out links to the presentations - thank you, Doug!
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The presenters were all interesting, I liked the web sites they pointed us to as well. -
Doug and Darryl put on a fantastic forum! BioCurious gives BayBifx 5 stars! -
It was nice to see such a large group. I liked the pfam and metagenomics talks! Did anyone catch Jennifers email address? She talked about a job across the street. I thought she said her company was called Synapse. I have a friend who is intersted in the job. -
Great set of lightning talks! We started out slow and basic with BLAST but quickly ramped up from there. Jon's talk on protein families was the perfect follow on to BLAST. This was the first tool I turned to when I noticed the obvious oxidase specific domain. Thanks to all who presented and all who attended!
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Excellent speaker, very engaging, a very nicely done presentation about an interesting topic.
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Great science. I completely understand the reluctance of a company presenter to reveal a trade secret. Protecting IP is vital to any company's long term success. But MeetUps are more useful when companies see their presentations as an opportunity to encounter expertise that they do not have in house. Silicon Valley is full of people who might save a growing company a lot of time - especially by avoiding dead ends. When I asked about Metabolic Control Analysis (MCA), I was thinking there might be a mutually profitable B2B opportunity since we have 30+ years of systems biology modeling experience. But when I approached one of the Codexis people after the talk, his answer was the same - the lawyers don't want us to talk. Of course, it could be that Codexis has a large staff of modeling and MCA experts, and they don't need any consulting help, but isn't it possible it would be worth a discussion to find out? A Meetup presenter could be looking for partners as well as customers. -
The talk wasn't exactly what I thought it would be -- not really about enzyme evolution per se but about the relationship between screening for mutants with desired properties to some ideas about evolution. Mostly, it was a talk about screening strategies. -
An excellent presentation with vital insight into the critical factors which make an evolution and strain screening platform successful. Dr. Fox excels at making complex mathematical topics clear and understandable through visual representations and intuitive analogies.
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As the speaker, I had fun. Despite the rainstorm, about 15 people came and asked thoughtful questions. I tried to strike a balance between speaking to experts and speaking to non-experts, and I had the sense that most attendees wished I'd focused on expert listeners. I'd appreciate hearing from you if you thought otherwise. The first questioner of the night asked a question that intrigued me. He said, "I can see how this approach might work for cells in culture, but I cannot see how it can work for animals or for humans." In response I talked about our experience with clinical investigation and how, typically, we test a model against each individual human subject's data, then average over the patient population and compare the mean parameters for control and disease, or control and perturbed, populations. If you are the man who asked this question, I was disappointed we did not have a chance to explore it further after my talk. Perhaps we can do so in e-mail: rphair(at)alum.mit.edu.
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Robert's insight and years of experience made for a very deep, intellectually engaging talk. Fascinating subject matter from a wise perspective. Thank you Robert!
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good meeting. Interesting tool.
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Very interesting talk from a great young professor!
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Nice relaxing event; good times, food, and drinks! Enjoyed the company! Happy Holidays everyone -
Nice relaxed atmosphere. It was a great opportunity to get to know people a little bit better.
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This was an excellent Meetup. There were many newcomers in the audience and this probably reflects the organizers' effort to invite mechanistic systems biology talks in addition to the mainstream of statistical bioinformatics work. We all benefit from this intra-disciplinary cross-fertilization. Doug and Shane and the other organizers deserve our thanks for catalyzing it.
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Adam was great, very clear and to the point
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