Tutorial Title: Trends in Bioinformatics

Speaker: Dr. Deendayal Dinakarpandian (“Dinakar”), Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Abstract: Bioinformatics is a fast moving field that is multifaceted. This tutorial will consist of two main parts. The first part will focus on the role that Bioinformatics has played in advancing multi-disciplinary research to date. The second part will present vignettes of current frontiers and likely trends in the near future. In particular, an attempt will be made to give a candid assessment of open questions in the area. Attendees will leave with a sense of the absorbing nature of the field and its continuing evolution.

Prospective Audience: Graduate students, Researchers and Professionals with a biological or physical science background and an interest in multi-disciplinary research.

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Presenter’s Biography: Dr. Deendayal Dinakarpandian serves on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has an inter-disciplinary background in medicine, biochemistry and computer science. He has published in several different fields and his current interests are in biomedical modeling, machine learning and knowledge representation. His research is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and he has given both educational and research presentations in Bioinformatics at the annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology meetings. He is a frequent reviewer for journals in informatics and serves on the Publications and Public Affairs & Policies committees of the International Society of Computational Biology.