Daily Archives: 25.1.2016

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ILS Student Council mailing list
ils-council at helsinki dot fi
Contact for joining the council and for general information about what we do

Kornelia Mikula
kornelia.mikula at helsinki dot fi
Contact for joining the council and for general information about what we do

Gergana Gateva
gergana.gateva at helsinki dot fi

Heidi Haikala
heidi.haikala at helsinki dot fi

Elina Pietilä
elina.a.pietila at helsinki dot fi

Sigurdur Gudmundsson
sigurdur.gudmundsson at helsinki dot fi

Tuomo Hartonen
tuomo.hartonen at helsinki dot fi

Maarja Laos
maarja.laos at helsinki dot fi

Sawan Jha
jha.sawankumar at helsinki dot fi

Kul Shrestha
kul.shrestha at helsinki dot fi

Alok Jaiswal
alok.jaiswal at helsinki dot fi

Mridul Johari
mridul.johari at helsinki dot fi

Lydia Sagath
lydia.sagath at helsinki dot fi

Behnam Lak
behnam.lak at helsinki dot fi

Former ILS Student Council members

Markku Hakala

Heini Hakala

Kaisa Rajakylä

Rita Cerejeira Matos

Jaakko Lehtimäki

ILS PRISM

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Welcome to ILS PRISM. We are delighted to inaugurate the launch of a blog space from the ILS Doctoral Program. We hope that the blog will trigger the electrical impulses in the readers’ brain to be more inspired about science and also communicate it.

The ILS PRISM will serve as a space for:

(i) creative outlet in the form of writing or other medium of communication for ILS members
(ii) reporting news of ongoing activities at ILS
(ii) sharing some of the best scientific writing or related contents available in the web to read, watch, listen

We would like to invite the students and PIs in the ILS community to send your write-ups, and also of others that you read and think they are worth sharing to a wider community. We would be pleased to post your blog material if you are into blogging.

This blog is maintained by Alok Jaiswal and Mridul Johari from ILS Student Council. For more information email us at:

alok.jaiswal at helsinki dot fi
mridul.johari at helsinki dot fi
ils-council at helsinki dot fi

TOM – 03.02.2016

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Group Factor Analysis

Presented by:  Suleiman Ali Khan, Post-doc, Group Aittokallio, FIMM

http://users.ics.aalto.fi/suleiman/

A key underlying problem faced by informaticians in general and computational biologists in particular is to identify the dependencies between one or more datasets. Recent advancements in machine learning have led to creation of a series of methods that could identify statistical patterns shared between multiple datasets as well as enumerating those specific to anyone. ‘Group Factor Analysis (GFA)’ is a key tool that has recently come up to address these challenges, and in the first session of TOM I will give an overview GFA and some of its practical use cases in bioinformatics and computational biology.

For more reading:

http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/17/i497.full.pdf+html

http://research.cs.aalto.fi/pml/online-papers/khan2014ecml.pdf

http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings/papers/v22/virtanen12/virtanen12.pdf

TOM Schedule

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This is a tentative schedule for spring session 2016

Date Presenter Title of presentation
03.02 Suleiman Ali Khan Group Factor Analysis
17.02 Riku Katainen Analysis and visualization tool for next generation sequencing data
02.03

Arvydas Dapkunas

Ville Rantanen

Analyzing kidney development

NiceCSV
16.03 Simon Anders DESeq
30.03 Liye He

Phylogenetic reconstruction of cancer evolution using LICHeE
12.04 Svetlana Ovchinnikova Metric learning approaches
 27.04 Mikhail Shubin Data visualisation
11.05 Christian Benner  FINEMAP: Efficient variable selection using summary data from GWAS
25.05 TBD