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Synchronized neural activity is thought to underlie many aspects of cognition, including recognition, recall, perception, and attention. Coordinated neural activity in central pattern generators (CPGs) located in the spinal cords of vertebrates or the ganglia of invertebrates also underlies repetitive motor activity. Pathological synchrony is associated with epilepsy and tremor.

In this dissertation, we address two different genomic inference problems, namely, assembling viral quasispecies sequences and estimating their frequencies from ultra-deep sequencing data and inferring the allelic value of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from the set of chosen informative (tag) SNPs.

In this talk, I will discuss some of the latest data mining techniques and methods and their applications in bioinformatics study, focusing on bioinformatics data integration, biomedical literature mining, and graph-based data mining in biological networks. In bioinformatics data integration, I will present a semantic-based approach for multi source bioinformatics data integration.

The greatest challenge of the postgenomic era is to understand the function of genes and gene products in multiple organisms —including humans—both from fundamental and applied perspectives. This will ultimately enable the design of new diagnostic tools and pharmacological agents and facilitate efficacious treatment of many pathological processes.