IDSC Presents at eMerge Americas 2015
The Institute for Data Science and Computing participated in 3 presentations at the cutting-edge technology and innovation event eMerge Americas held on May 1-5, 2015, at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
A Rule-Based Approach to Extracting Relations from Music Tidbits
This paper presents a rule based approach to extracting relations from unstructured music text sources. The proposed approach identifies and disambiguates musical entities in text, such as songs, bands, persons, albums and music genres. Candidate relations are then obtained by traversing the dependency parsing tree of each sentence in the text with at least two identified entities. Read more “A Rule-Based Approach to Extracting Relations from Music Tidbits”
Construction Begins on New Viz Lab
We’re excited to announce that construction on the new Visualization Laboratory is well underway at the IDSC location in the Arthur A. Ungar Building on the Coral Gables campus. Read more “Construction Begins on New Viz Lab”
Mining Library and University Data to Understand Library Use…
Library data are often hard to analyze because these data come from unconnected sources, and the data sets can be very large. Furthermore, the desire to protect user privacy has prevented the retention of data that could be used to correlate library data to non-library data. The research team used data mining to determine library use patterns and to determine whether library use correlated to students’ grade point average. Read more “Mining Library and University Data to Understand Library Use Patterns”
New Biomedical Data Science Course
Biomedical Data Science is a new 500/600 level course, cross listed between the Departments of Biology and Computer Science. The goal of this course is to teach students how to turn data into information. Students will learn the necessary computational skills for the analysis of genomic data sets. Read more “New Biomedical Data Science Course”
Software Carpentry Python Workshop 5/8-9/2015
Software Carpentry Workshop in Python May 18-19, 2015 | 9:00 AM-4:30 PM This is a two-day workshop, jointly hosted by the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and IDSC. Read more “Software Carpentry Python Workshop 5/8-9/2015”
IDSC Fellows Symposium features Janet Iwasa
The second annual IDSC Fellows Symposium took place on Friday, April 17, 2015, and opened with a presentation by Janet Iwasa, PhD, from University of Utah’s Dept. of Biochemistry. Read more “IDSC Fellows Symposium features Janet Iwasa”
Essentiality and Centrality in Protein Interaction Networks Revisited
Minimum dominating sets (MDSet) of protein interaction networks allow the control of underlying protein interaction networks through their topological placement. While essential proteins are enriched in MDSets, we hypothesize that the statistical properties of biological functions of essential genes are enhanced when we focus on essential MDSet proteins (e-MDSet). Read more “Essentiality and Centrality in Protein Interaction Networks Revisited”
Protein Interaction Networks Revisited
Minimum dominating sets (MDSet) of protein interaction networks allow the control of underlying protein interaction networks through their topological placement. While essential proteins are enriched in MDSets, we hypothesize that the statistical properties of biological functions of essential genes are enhanced when we focus on essential MDSet proteins (e-MDSet). Read more “Protein Interaction Networks Revisited”
3D Imaging of Axons in Transparent Spinal Cords from…
The histological assessment of spinal cord tissue in three dimensions has previously been very time consuming and prone to errors of interpretation. Advances in tissue clearing have significantly improved visualization of fluorescently labelled axons. Read more “3D Imaging of Axons in Transparent Spinal Cords from Rodents & Nonhuman Primates”