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News Releases for Bioinformatics

IU workshop to increase awareness about advantages of databases in research

Jake ChenAugust 21, 2009 — Rapid technological advances now offer new research opportunities through the unprecedented explosion of digital data. As a result, researchers are finding that manual processes for data and traditional tools such as Excel are no longer adequate and they need assistance with data-related issues.

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Jake Chen receives top-level designation by ACM; featured in campus Faculty Spotlight

May 20, 2009 — Jake Chen, assistant professor, IU School of Informatics at IUPUI, was recently recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as the recipient of the 2009 Senior Member. According to ACM, the senior member grade is an award that "recognizes those ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership who have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers."

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Bioinformatics program director featured in IU e-magazine story about School of Informatics

March 3, 2009 — Yaoqi Zhou, director, Bioinformatics Program, IU School of Informatics at IUPUI, is among several Bloomington and Indianapolis informatics researchers featured in an online report about the School. The feature appears in the current edition of IU's e-magazine, Home Pages.

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Bioinformatics grad student captures poster award

March 2, 2009 — Sudhir Chowbina, a master's degree student in the Indiana University School of Informatics, Bioinformatics program, claimed a high honor for his research poster at the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society conference recently. Chowbina, who is studying under the direction of Dr. Jake Y. Chen, earned an honorable mention award for his entry in the conference's posters presentation event.

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IU School of Informatics announces Semester II Colloquia

January 15, 2009 — The Indiana University School of Informatics at IUPUI is pleased to announce its academic colloquia series – six one-hour lectures that are free of charge and open to the public. Talk subjects range from human interaction with robots, to proteomics and systems biology; digital video sculpturing, to understanding application development using LEGO bricks.

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