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BDSI Interactive Forum Series

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From the earliest days of statistics, data science and life science have been deeply intertwined. Biological data science carries this forward to a modern era in which the methods for collecting life science data are increasingly automated digital sensors. This deluge of data is transforming life science research across diverse scales and domains. Biological data science, broadly defined, is key to this transformation, from molecules to ecosystems, and across agriculture, medicine, biodiversity and bioengineering. 

This interactive biological data science forum series aims to transect domains, connecting diverse researchers with a common interest in biological data science. The purpose is to invigorate interactions among us through an inclusive (fortnightly) forum that promotes the exchange of knowledge. We strive to define biological data science in the broadest sense, encompassing theory, methodology and applications as well as biological data acquisition, visualisation and analysis.

Forums held fortnightly from 12-1pm on Thursdays at Robertson #46 (DNA Room S104), light refreshments will follow.

To register a short presentation, please contact BDSI

All welcome to attend.

Past events

graph
4 Jul 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm

Deep graph matching techniques have shown promising results in recent years. In this work, we cast deep graph matching as a contrastive learning task and introduce a new objective function for contrastive mapping to exploit the relationships between matches and non-matches.

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education
20 Jun 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm

Explore an overview on several teaching initiatives and development in Statistics at Macquarie University over the last couple of years, including ASA DataFest, the revamping of the Statistics Major in the Bachelor of Science (BSc) program and if time permits, the establishment of the Alumni Connection Lead role within the school.

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Ai
6 Jun 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm

DEPLOY, an integrated deep learning framework that predicts DNA methylation from histopathology images, and subsequently classifies brain tumours into 10 major subtypes.

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r
23 May 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm

Do you have some code or functions in R that you would like to make and distribute as an R package? Refactoring your R code as modular functions or organising your functions as an R package is a useful endeavour for scientific dissemination.

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