Hi all, Christos Ouzounis is giving an informal seminar this Friday, detailed in the attached flyer. He has been a major contributor to many aspects of the field and was a founding officer of the International Society for Computational Biology. One of his early efforts was the development of clustering algorithms for biological networks, including creation of TRIBE-MCL, an approach used for rapid and accurate clustering of protein sequences into families. The method relies on the Markov cluster (MCL) algorithm for the assignment of proteins into families based on precomputed sequence similarity information (PMID: 11917018). The title of Friday's talk is "Comparative Genomics 2.0: From reading to writing" -- Patricia Babbitt Professor, Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences and Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences Director, Graduate Program in Biological & Medical Informatics University of California, San Francisco UCSF MC 2550 Byers Hall Room508E 1700 4th Street San Francisco, CA 94143, USA Tel +1 (415) 476-3784 Fax +1 415-502-8193 Email: babbitt@cgl.ucsf.edu; Web http://babbittlab.ucsf.edu/ Assistant: Ms. Sydney Russell Leed, +1 415-514-1214, 415-514-9816 Sydney.RussellLeed@ucsf.edu <mailto:Sydney.RussellLeed@ucsf.edu>