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Our paper ADEPT has just been accepted to the journal iScience!
Apr. 27, 2023—Our paper “ADEPT: autoencoder with differentially expressed genes and imputation for a robust spatial transcriptomics clustering“, has just been accepted to the journal iScience.
Congratulations to Yunfei (Oliver) for receiving the 2022-2023 Graduate School Travel Grant~
Mar. 20, 2023—Congratulations to Yunfei (Oliver) for receiving the 2022-2023 Graduate School Travel Grant~ He will present his work “ADEPT: autoencoder with differentially expressed genes and imputation for a robust spatial transcriptomics clustering” in Istanbul, Turkey, on April 15th at RECOMB-Seq. https://recomb-seq.github.io/program/
Yunfei (Oliver) and Yuying paper is accepted by the conference RECOMB-Seq!
Mar. 1, 2023—Congrats to Yunfei (Oliver) Hu and Yuying Zhao (from Prof. Derr’s lab)! Their paper, “ADEPT: autoencoder with differentially expressed genes and imputation for a robust spatial transcriptomics clustering” has been selected as a proceedings track paper for RECOMB-Seq 2023 and is also being considered for publication in iScience. https://recomb-seq.github.io/program/
We received funding support from Vanderbilt Brain Institute!
Feb. 9, 2023—A Trans-Institutional Program (TIPs) initiative of Vanderbilt Brain Institute has been developed to promote collaboration in Novel Ideas in Neuroscience, to provide support to investigators focused on cutting-edge approaches, both innovative ideas and tool development, and to provide seed funding that may serve as a foundation for future extramural support. We are one of the...
Can’s paper is published by the conference IEEE BIBM!
Jan. 26, 2023—Congrats to Can, Parth, and Henry! Their paper, “Haplotype-phasing of long-read HiFi data to enhance structural variant detection through a Skip-Gram model.” has just been published by the IEEE BIBM conference proceedings: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9995293
We received funding support from Complete Genomics for stLFR research!
Dec. 16, 2022—Our lab has received $120k+ from Complete Genomics Inc, a leader in human genome sequencing. The project aims to improve computational tools for assembly and genome-wide variant detection using a most recent DNA sequencing technology, called single-tube long fragment read (stLFR) sequencing. Vanderbilt engineering professor receives over $2 million in funding for genome sequencing research...
Congratulations to Can for receiving the 2022-2023 Graduate School Travel Grant~
Dec. 12, 2022—Congratulations to Can for receiving the 2022-2023 Graduate School Travel Grant~ She just presented her work “Haplotype-phasing of long-read HiFi data to enhance structural variant detection through a Skip-Gram model” at Las Vegas for IEEE BIBM.
Maizie is invited to speak at the 2nd Annual Spatial Biology Congress~
Dec. 12, 2022—Maizie is invited to speak at the 2nd Annual Spatial Biology Congress on 8th-9th June 2023 in Boston, USA.
Yunfei and Yichen pass their CS PhD prelim exams~
Nov. 16, 2022—Yunfei and Yichen pass their CS Ph.D. prelim exams~
Maizie is invited to give a DS talk at TSU ~
Nov. 14, 2022—Maizie has been invited to give a data science talk titled “Big genomic data: algorithm design and applications” on Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at the Department of Computer Science of Tennessee State University.