Statistical Issues in Metabolomics Seminar
- Time:
- 13:00
- Date:
- 21 February 2008
- Venue:
- Building 54 (Maths) Lecture Room 4A
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Mrs Jane Revell at j.revell@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
Special seminar
Metabolomics is an emerging area of bioinformatics that uses measurements on metabolites in tissue samples to assess health status, evaluate drug toxicity, and learn about key biochemical pathways. The area has several advantages over proteomics and genomics, but from a statistical perspective it poses five significant problems: error modeling, signal extraction, cross-platform comparisons, inference with large p and small n, and network modeling. This talk focuses on all but the last of these.
Speaker information
Professor David Banks , Duke Uiversity, USA. David Banks is Professor of the Practice of Statistics at Duke University, USA, and current editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association. His research interests cover a wide range of areas: social networks, data mining, game theory and risk analysis with applications in, for example, disaster response, medicine and eCommerce.