Dissertation Talk: Computational Genetics: Detecting Family Relationships

Dissertation Talk: Computational Genetics: Detecting Family Relationships

Mar 8, 2011, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 306 Soda Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Bonnie Kirkpatrick
Can we find the family trees, or pedigree graphs, that relate the genomes of a group of individuals? Traditionally, geneticists construct these graphs from genealogical records in a very tedious process; invariably mistakes are made. As an alternative to manual methods, this thesis addresses the problem of automatically constructing pedigree graphs from genetic data.