Incremental Communication Error Analysis

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Bioinformatics Group at UNB Strengths in
Computer Science Virendra C. Bhavsar
Faculty of Computer Science University of New
Brunswick Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3 Canada
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OUTLINE
? Faculty of Computer Science at UNB ?
Research Groups ? Faculty interested in
Bioinformatics ? Interactions with the Faculty
of Science and others ? Conclusion
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The Faculty of CS at UNB
? The first Faculty of CS in Canada
(established in 1990) ? Largest CS
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Program in
Atlantic Canada ? Diverse Group of Highly
Interactive Scientists - interested in
challenges and opportunities presented by
modern biology ? Information Technology
Center (ITC)
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FCS Research Groups
? Artificial Intelligence Group ? Human
Computer Interaction Group ? Interactive
Computing Group ? Parallel/Distributed
Processing Group ? Computational Geometry
Group ? Automated Reasoning Group ?
Bioinformatics Group
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Interested CS Faculty
? Patricia Evans - Bioinformatics/Computational
Biology - Distributed Database searching ?
Lev Goldfarb - Inductive Learning ETS -
Pattern Recognition ? Joseph Horton -
Computational Geometry - Automated Reasoning ?
Bruce Spencer - Automated Reasoning -
LogicProgramming ? Alex Lopex-Ortiz - Internet
Computing - Computational Geometry ? David
Bremner - Computational Geometry ? Bradley
Nickerson - Spatial Databases - Knowledge-based
Systems - Director, ITC
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Interested CS Faculty(cont.)
? Rodney Cooper - Databases - Data Mining -
Cryptography ? William Hyslop - Databases -
Data Mining ? Ali Ghorbani - Artificial
Intelligence - Parallel/Distributed
Processing ? Claudia Iturriaga - Computational
Geometry ? Weichang Du - Parallel/Distributed
Processing ? Colin Ware - Human Computer
Interaction - Visualization ? Virendra Bhavsar
- Parallel/Distributed Processing - Pattern
Recognition - Intelligent Agents
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Bioinfomatics
? Computational Gene Finding, Protein
Classification and Functional Assignment
Genome data analyses Patricia Evans, Lev
Goldfarb, Alex Lopez-Ortiz, Ali Ghorbani, David
Bremner, Joseph Horton, Bruce Spencer, Claudia
Iturriaga, Virendra Bhavsar, Bradley Nickerson
? Heterogeneous hardware/software
Intelligent mobile software agents Lev Goldfarb,
Alex Lopez-Ortiz, Ali Ghorbani, Virendra Bhavsar,
Rod Cooper, William Hyslop, Weichang Du ? Data
Management/Data Mining/Data Warehousing Lev
Goldfarb, Rod Cooper, William Hyslop, Weichang Du

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Bioinformatics (cont.)
? Very high speed bioinformatic searches and
analyses - High Performance Computing Patricia
Evans, Alex Lopez-Ortiz, Virendra Bhavsar,
Weichang Du ? Visualization Colin Ware
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Collaborations/Interactions
? Patricia Evans - Denise Clark (Biology) -
Mariana Kant (U de Moncton) - Alex Lopex-Ortiz ?
Lev Goldfarb - Saba Mattar (Chemistry) - Ghislain
Deslongchamps - Virendra Bhavsar - William Hyslop
? Rod Cooper - Ghislain Deslongchamps ?
Virendra Bhavsar - C3.ca and HPCnet - Memorial
University of NF - NRC, Ottawa - Benerjee
(Statistics) - Saba Mattar ? Advanced
Computational Research Laboratory - CFI
proposal (CS, Sci. and Eng.)
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Conclusion
? Information Technology Center - Internet
Computing Laboratory (CFI) - Advanced
Computational Research Laboratory (CFI
proposal) ? Young and Dynamic Faculty in CS ?
Diverse Group of Highly Interactive Scientists
- enthusiastic about the challenges and
opportunities presented by modern
biology ? Strong interactions with the Faculty
of Science and others