PLACE:

SPEAKER:
Bruce Weir
North Carolina State University

TITLE:
Snedecor Lecture
Bioinformatics: A New Discipline

ABSTRACT:
The human genome project is expected to provide a "rough draft" of the 3-billion base pair human genome in 2000. Such a large amount of data is merely a beginning. DNA sequence data will become available for different people in different populations and for many other species. The really large amounts of data are likely to emerge form gene expression studies that indicate  which of the 100,000 human genes are being expressed in certain tissues and under certain conditions.
Storing, managing and interpreting genomic data is termed bioinformatics. There is a critical need for people with training in this area and the supporting disciplines of molecular biology, computer science and statistics. This new field will be described in general terms, and then specifically with reference to the use of high-density genetic maps to locate genes affecting human health.

COFFEE:  7:45p.m.