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Conferences

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University of Massachusetts Medical School Mar 2008

Invited by Zhiping Weng

Sequence Does not Determine the Biological Function of Some Transcription Factor Binding Motifs - but Position Can Help (Bioinformatics: PowerPoint 4.6 MB)

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NCBI Seminar Feb 2008

The Statistics of Gapped Sequence Alignments (Bioinformatics: PowerPoint 9.0 MB)

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University of South Carolina, Bioinformatics & Mathematics Departments, Nov 2007

Invited by Eva Czabarka

A Generalized ROC Analysis In Search of Barcode Locus for Plants (Bioinformatics: PowerPoint 8.0 MB)

The Statistics of Gapped Sequence Alignments (Bioinformatics: PowerPoint 8.0 MB)

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2^nd International Conference on Barcoding, Taipei, Taiwan, Sep 2007

Measuring the Classification Efficacy Of Barcode Loci (Presentation to the Plant Working Group: PowerPoint 1.1 MB)

A Generalized ROC Analysis Comparing Barcode Loci (Poster: PowerPoint 0.9 MB)

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Nov 2006

Invited by Andy Neuwald

The Identification of Complete Protein Domains with Accurate E-values (PowerPoint 7.5 MB)

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SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics Victoria, Jun 2006

The Statistics of Gapped Sequence Alignment (Invited Plenary Talk: PowerPoint 7.5 MB)

The Bootstrap Can Estimate the Database Sampling Error in the ROCn (Session Presentation: PowerPoint 0.8 MB)

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Boston University, Bioinformatics, Mar 2006

Student Lecture as Adjunct Professor

Database Statistics (PowerPoint 1.3 MB)

DNA Regulatory Elements (PowerPoint 4.6 MB)

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College of William and Mary, Statistics, Nov 2005

Invited by Eva Czabarka

The Identification of DNA Regulatory Elements (PowerPoint 4.8 MB)

The Gapped Alignment of Random Sequences and the Importance Sampling of Marginal Distributions (PowerPoint: 1.9 MB)

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ISMB Conference 2005, Detroit, Jun 2005

The Precise Positioning of Genomic Landmarks Can Aid in the Identification of Regulatory Elements (Session Presentation: PowerPoint 4.1 MB)

Alignments Anchored on Genomic Landmarks Can Aid in the Identification of Regulatory Elements (PubMed link to Paper)

GlaxoSmithKline Bioinformatics Prize for Best Paper

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Informal Site Review of Bioinformatics, Wuhan, People’s Republic of China, Mar 2004

Invited by Yanghong Zhou

NCBI Databases (PowerPoint: 7.7 MB)

Retrieval Measures (PowerPoint: 1.4 MB)

VAST (PowerPoint: 0.7 MB)

BLAST Algorithms (PowerPoint: 2.5 MB)

BLAST Statistics (PowerPoint: 2.0 MB)

Notes on BLAST Statistics (Word: 0.7 MB)

Photos (117 MB)

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ISMB Conference 2002, Edmonton, Canada, Aug 2002

Poster (PowerPoint: 6.5 MB)

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Workshop on Bioinformatics, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India, December 2001

Invited by Partha Majumder

NCBI Databases (PowerPoint: 6.5 MB)

BLAST Algorithms (PowerPoint: 3.0 MB)

BLAST Statistics (PowerPoint: 1.6 MB)

VAST and Retrieval Statistics (PowerPoint: 1.1 MB)

Notes on BLAST Statistics (Word: 0.7 MB)

Isotonic Regression (Word: 0.5 MB)

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Summer Workshop on Bioinformatics, Hsinchu, Taiwan, July 2001

Invited by Ping-Chang Lyu

NCBI Databases (PowerPoint: 6.4 MB)

BLAST and VAST (PowerPoint: 1.0 MB)

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Speaker at the Following Conferences

• 1999 Annual Meeting of the Institute of Human Virology, Baltimore
• 1998 Frontiers of Combinatorics in Biology, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 1992 5th Annual Meeting, National Cooperative Vaccine Development Groups for AIDS
• 1991 Annual Meeting of the Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology on HIV, NIH
• 1991 NIH Conference on Models of Non-Classical Reaction Rates: Session Chairman
• 1991 4th Annual Meeting, National Cooperative Vaccine Development Groups for AIDS, Marco Island FL
• 1988 Santa Fe Conference on the Interaction of HIV with the Immune System
• 1987 Santa Fe Conference on Theoretical Immunology
• 1986 UC Davis Conference on Statistical Mechanics
• 1984 Nice Conference on Kinetics of Gelation

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Last update: Dec 10, 2007
Comments or questions to John L. Spouge( spouge@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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