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HIIT scientists make a breakthrough in genome-wide epistasis analysis

Miikka2020-05-27T20:32:21+03:00

Epistatic interactions between polymorphisms in DNA are recognized as important drivers of evolution in numerous organisms. Study of epistasis in bacteria has been hampered by the lack of densely sampled population genomic data, suitable statistical models and inference algorithms sufficiently powered for extremely high-dimensional parameter spaces. In an article published in PloS Genetics, a HIIT team introduced [...]

HIIT scientists make a breakthrough in genome-wide epistasis analysisMiikka2020-05-27T20:32:21+03:00

Best student paper award at WSDM 2017

Best student paper award at WSDM 2017

Miikka2020-05-27T20:29:32+03:00

At this year's International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2017), the best student paper award went to “Reducing Controversy by Connecting Opposing Views” by Venkata Rama Kiran Garimella, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Aristides Gionis, and Michael Mathioudakis, from Aalto University and Qatar Computing Research Institute. [...]

Best student paper award at WSDM 2017Miikka2020-05-27T20:29:32+03:00

Adventures in building Emotional Intelligence Technologies

Adventures in building Emotional Intelligence Technologies

Miikka2021-12-09T13:35:00+02:00

Rosalind Picard

MIT Media Lab

February 3, 2017 at 3.15pm
in Small Hall, Main Building, University of Helsinki,
Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki

Video

Adventures in building Emotional Intelligence TechnologiesMiikka2021-12-09T13:35:00+02:00

Election candidates engage in battles also in social media

Election candidates engage in battles also in social media

Miikka2020-05-27T20:29:53+03:00

In the recent work on "Working the fields of big data: Using big-data-augmented online ethnography to study candidate–candidate interaction at election time" published in Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Matti Nelimarkka, Mari Tuokko, Mari Marttila, Arto Kekkonen and Mikko Vili explore how ethnography can be used to support computational data analysis, developing a novel observation that candidates engage [...]

Election candidates engage in battles also in social mediaMiikka2020-05-27T20:29:53+03:00

Discovering the evolution of Burkholderia pseudomallei, a dangerous tropical soil bacterium

Discovering the evolution of Burkholderia pseudomallei, a dangerous tropical soil bacterium

Miikka2020-05-27T20:29:59+03:00

A HIIT research team led by professor Jukka Corander collaborated with the pathogen genomics group at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute to unearth the evolution of Burkholderia pseudomallei, a notorius soil bacterium causing serious human infections in tropics. Contrary to previous understanding, the genomic analyses revealed that the origin of B. pseudomallei isolates on the [...]

Discovering the evolution of Burkholderia pseudomallei, a dangerous tropical soil bacteriumMiikka2020-05-27T20:29:59+03:00

A new mutation mechanism was found in human and bacterial genomes

A new mutation mechanism was found in human and bacterial genomes

Miikka2020-05-27T20:30:05+03:00

An international research team has found a new replacement mechanism that causes mutations in both humans and bacteria. The mechanism can cause several changes to a short stretch of DNA simultaneously. The research was conducted by observing fragments of DNA sequence that contained plenty of mutations.

‘In order to find out how common the new mutation mechanism is [...]

A new mutation mechanism was found in human and bacterial genomesMiikka2020-05-27T20:30:05+03:00