Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2018
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain a wealth of patient data useful to biomedical researchers. At present, both the extraction of data and methods for analyses are frequently designed to work with a single snapshot of a patient's record. Health ...
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2017
Reduction of preventable hospital readmissions that result from chronic or acute conditions like stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction and pneumonia remains a significant challenge for improving the outcomes and decreasing the cost of healthca...
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2017
Deep neural network (DNN) models have recently obtained state-of-the-art prediction accuracy for the transcription factor binding (TFBS) site classification task. However, it remains unclear how these approaches identify meaningful DNA sequence signa...
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2016
To support people trying to lose weight and stay healthy, more and more fitness apps have sprung up including the ability to track both calories intake and expenditure. Users of such apps are part of a wider "quantified self" movement and many opt-in...
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2016
We have previously developed a statistical method to identify gene sets enriched with condition-specific genetic dependencies. The method constructs gene dependency networks from bootstrapped samples in one condition and computes the divergence betwe...
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
Jan 1, 2015
The promise of personalized medicine will require rigorously validated molecular diagnostics developed on minimally invasive, clinically relevant samples. Measurement of DNA mutations is increasingly common in clinical settings but only higher-preval...