podcast

the bioinformatics chat

by Roman Cheplyaka

#70 Prioritizing drug target genes with Marie Sadler

21.12.2023 • 00:52:20

In this episode, Marie Sadler talks about her recent Cell Genomics paper, Multi-layered genetic approaches to identify approved drug targets. Previou...

#69 Suffix arrays in optimal compressed space and δ-SA with Tomasz Kociumaka and Dominik Kempa

29.09.2023 • 00:56:46

Today on the podcast we have Tomasz Kociumaka and Dominik Kempa, the authors of the preprint Collapsing the Hierarchy of Compressed Data Structures: S...

#68 Phylogenetic inference from raw reads and Read2Tree with David Dylus

28.08.2023 • 00:49:11

In this episode, David Dylus talks about Read2Tree, a tool that builds alignment matrices and phylogenetic trees from raw sequencing reads. By leverag...

#67 AlphaFold and variant effect prediction with Amelie Stein

29.07.2023 • 00:35:25

This is the third and final episode in the AlphaFold series, originally recorded on February 23, 2022, with Amelie Stein, now an associate professor a...

#66 AlphaFold and shape-mers with Janani Durairaj

10.07.2023 • 00:20:51

This is the second episode in the AlphaFold series, originally recorded on February 14, 2022, with Janani Durairaj, a postdoctoral researcher at the U...

#65 AlphaFold and protein interactions with Pedro Beltrao

21.06.2023 • 00:52:23

In this episode, originally recorded on February 9, 2022, Roman talks to Pedro Beltrao about AlphaFold, the software developed by DeepMind that predic...

#64 Enformer: predicting gene expression from sequence with Žiga Avsec

09.11.2021 • 00:59:41

In this episode, Jacob Schreiber interviews Žiga Avsec about a recently released model, Enformer. Their discussion begins with life differences betwee...

#63 Bioinformatics Contest 2021 with Maksym Kovalchuk and James Matthew Holt

27.09.2021 • 01:00:47

The Bioinformatics Contest is back this year, and we are back to discuss it! This year’s contest winners Maksym Kovalchuk (1st prize) and Matt Holt (...

#62 Steady states of metabolic networks and Dingo with Apostolos Chalkis

28.07.2021 • 00:38:25

In this episode, Apostolos Chalkis presents sampling steady states of metabolic networks as an alternative to the widely used flux balance analysis (F...

#61 3D genome organization and GRiNCH with Da-Inn Erika Lee

23.06.2021 • 01:09:41

In this episode, Jacob Schreiber interviews Da-Inn Erika Lee about data and computational methods for making sense of 3D genome structure. They begin...