题目：An Interactive and Integrative Computing Environment for Phylogenetic Analysis
报告人：周兵兵博士 澳大利亚悉尼大学
地点：西十二教学楼N404教室
时间：12月22日上午10：10

报告摘要：
　　Phylogenetic tree reconstruction is a prominent problem in computational biology. It is of great practical significance to many important biological applications. In the literature a number of algorithms have been proposed for solving the problem. However, the models used in most automated methods are not very biologically realistic. In practice manually refined results are often found to be superior to purely automated methods. In this talk I’ll discuss one of our current research projects on designing and implementing an interactive computing system named Qphyl for phylogenetic analysis. A distinct feature of this system is that it enables biologists to effectively interact with the computation, e.g., to move the computation back and forth to different stages so users can check the intermediate results, compare results from different methods and carry out certain manual refinements using their biological domain-specific knowledge in the decision making on how a tree should be reconstructed to greatly improve the final results. Using this research as an example I’d like also to discuss with the students some issues on how to conduct effective academic research.

报告人简介：
　　Dr Bing Bing Zhou is Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of Sydney. He graduated in electronic engineering in 1982 from Southeast University in China and received his PhD in Computer Science in 1989 at Australian National University, Australia. Currently he is one of the key members of University Centre for Distributed and High Performance Computing at University of Sydney. Dr Zhou has published over 100 papers in international journals and conferences and his research interests are in the areas of distributed computing, high performance computing, algorithms and bioinformatics.