FRIDAY, April 21, 2006
Time: 2:00 PM
Constant Hall 1037

Title: Statistical Issues in Metabolomics

David Banks
Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Duke University

Metabolomics is a new area in bioinformatics, with great potential for diagnosis and health management. This talk reviews five specifically statistical challenges that arise in the capture and analysis of metabolomic data: assessment of variance components in the measurement process, instrument calibration, peak identification, data mining to predict disease status, and compartmental modeling to model describe flows in the metabolic network. Although the talk focuses on statistics, it will not be extremely mathematical.