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Alexander Zien, Dr.

Postdoc (Alumnus)

Email: Alexander.Zien@tuebingen.mpg.de

Websites:

Biography:

From 2009 on I work for LIFE Biosystems (new email address: [myLastName] at lifebiosystems.com)
2006-2009 Research scientist with Gunnar Rätsch
2007-2009 Research scientist with Klaus-Robert Müller
2003-2007 Research scientist with Bernhard Schölkopf
2003 Doktor (~Ph.D.) in Bioinformatics with Thomas Lengauer

Workshops, Publications, Talks:

Workshops: Since 2005, I am part of the program committee of the annual workshops on "Statistical methods for post-genomic data" in France. For NIPS 2009, I am co-organizer of the workshop and symposium "Machine Learning in Computational Biology".
Publications: A couple of recent publications are listed here; for a larger list including older articles please see my old homepage (which is not up to date, though). Many of my papers can also be found in PubMed, in DBLP, and on Scientific Commons. New publications may appear here.
Talks and lectures: Some of my recent talks and lectures are listed here.

Research Interests:

Efficient Algorithms for Structured Output Learning:
Extracting Discriminative Motifs Based on SVM Detectors:
RNA Secondary Structure Prediction:
Gene Finding:
Protein Subcellular Localization:
Transcription Start and Stop Detection:

News: Paper on taxonomy-based transfer learning for Sequence classification of has been accepted for RECOMB 2010 Dec 15, 2009; Paper on Genome-wide SNP variation analysis in rice published in PNAS. Jul 14, 2009; New release of the spliced-alignment tool QPALMA Jul 13, 2009; Postdoctoral position available Jun 24, 2009; Paper on a novel Support Vector Machine-based Gene Finding System has been accepted for publication in Genome Research Jun 23, 2009; Web-based Gene finding system mGene.web available and published in Nucleic Acids Research Jun 03, 2009; Paper on Optimized Cutting Plane Algorithm accepted by Journal of Machine Learning Research Jun 01, 2009; The Scientists writes about QPALMA in the current issue Jun 01, 2009; More news…