To keep you up to date with the latest developments in virus bioinformatics, especially new tools that might help you in your research, the European Virus Bioinformatics Center is organising a regular lecture series entitled viruses in silico.
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28 January 2027 | 4 pm CET
Alexandros Stamatakis (Institute of Computer Science at the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion/Crete, Greece)
Predicting & Propagating Uncertainty in the Bioinformatics Pipeline
In this talk I will discuss approaches to capture, use, and propagate the inherent uncertainty of Bioinformatics analysis results through the molecular data analysis pipeline. In particular I will discuss methods we have recently developed that allow to predict (via machine learning) the difficulty of multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic inference tasks, prior to executing the actual computational analysis. I will further show how these difficulty predictions can be used to accelerate the inference process and obtain more reliable results.