Jake Chen of 
who will speak to us about
"Bioinformatics: Managing
Biological Data and Discoveries"
Jake Chen of
who will speak to us about
"Bioinformatics: Managing
Biological Data and Discoveries"
Time: 6:30 p.m. Refreshments; 7:00 p.m. Speaker
Location: Hewlett Packard, Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room.
Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $10/year.
Bioinformatics is the capture, management, analysis, and dissemination of biological information related to the emerging drug-discovery and disease management paradigms. In this talk, I will begin by introducing bioinformatics both as an emerging interdisciplinary study and as an industrial pratice. I will briefly review several key bioinformatics research areas (such as computational sequence analysis) for the past 10-20 years. For the rest of the talk, I will go through a case study to demonstrate how database research in the biology domain helped large-scale biological data management and discovery projects. By the end of the talk, I hope to convince you that interdisciplinary computer science R&D in bioinformatics is so full of thrills and opportunities that you should seriously look into!
Jake Chen holds a doctorate degree in computer science from the University of Minnesota at the Twin Cities and a bachelor degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from Peking University of China. Since 1996, he has conducted large-scale high-throughput bioinformatics knowledge discovery research both in academia and in the biotech industry. He pioneered research in genomic data modeling, complex database query modeling, and discovery-oriented bioinformatics system development. As a bioinformatics computer scientist at Affymetrix since 1998, he has developed ~100GB level bioinformatics databases, and led sequence selections resulting in three Affymetrix commercial GeneChip probe arrays for human, mouse, and rat genomes. He has recently published or submitted research papers to major journals including "Information Systems", "IEEE Computer", and "Bioinformatics". He is also the major contributor of two pending US patents.