Physics Colloquium, November 10, 2009
From the Ising model to biological sequence analysis Ralf Bundschuh

Departments of Physics and Biochemistry, OSU

The life sciences accumulate an enormous amount of biological sequence information. E.g., GenBank, the central repository, currently holds about 250 billion bases and is growing exponentially with a doubling time shorter than the doubling time of computer power in Moore's law. In the talk, I will use a concrete biological phenomenon, namely RNA editing, to showcase how methods from Statistical Physics are exquisitely suited to analyze and make sense of this plethora of sequence information.

Dr. Bundschuh's Web Site

4:00 p.m., Physics Research Building (PRB), Room 1080

Reception at 3:45 p.m., Atrium, PRB