We got accepted a paper on Imputation of Quantitative Genetic Interactions in Epistatic MAPs by Interaction Propagation Matrix Completion to RECOMB 2014. Epistatic Miniarray Profile (E-MAP) is a popular large-scale gene interaction discovery...
I am participating at PSB 2014, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, an international conference of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance, which is held on the Big Island of...
Between December 2013 and August 2014 I am visiting the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. During my stay we will do research on computational methods for data fusion and their applications in...
The Winter 2013 issue of XRDS: Crossroads, the ACM magazine for students features the latest in wearable computing, such as wearable brain computer interface, human motion capturing and tracking how we read, the augmented reality and airwriting. In...
BioTechniques, The International Journal of Life Science Methods highlighted our recent paper on Discovering disease-disease associations by fusing systems-level molecular data, which was published by Nature's Scientific Reports. In the paper we...
Nature's Scientific Reports has published our latest paper on data fusion, Discovering disease-disease associations by fusing systems-level molecular data, in which we combine various sources of biological information to discover human disease-diseas...
The Fall 2013 issue of XRDS: Crossroads, the ACM magazine for students is about the complexities of privacy and anonymity. The issue is motivated by the current research problems and recent societal concerns about digital privacy. When real and...
This year I am participating at Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) that is held in Tübingen, Germany. The Summer School offers an opportunity to learn about fundamental and advanced aspects of machine learning, data analysis and inference, f...
This week Slavko Zitnik will present our paper (he is the first author) at ACL, ACL BioNLP Workshop on extending linear-chain conditional random fields (CRF) with skip-mentions to extract gene regulatory networks from biomedical literature a...
I participated in CAMDA Satellite Meeting on critical assessment of massive data analysis during 29th and 20th July at ISMB in Berlin, where I presented our matrix factorization-based data fusion approach to predicting drug-induced liver injury from...
This work was recognized as first prize winner for excellent research at ISMB/ECCB CAMDA 2013 Conference. I am giving a talk at CAMDA 2013 Conference, which runs as a satellite meeting of ISMB/ECCB 2013 Conference. CAMDA focuses on challenges in th...
I have spent some time recently studying matrix functions, both from theoretical and computational perspective. There is a nice book by Nick J. Higham on functions of matrices, which I highly recommend to interested reader and which provides a...
I had a talk at ACAT Summer school on computational topology and topological data analysis held at University of Ljubljana. Abstract: Fast growth in the amount of data emerging from studies across various scientific disciplines and engineering...
In May I participated at the first BioDay meeting organized by Hekovnik in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The aim of the BioDay events is the exchange of ideas, knowledge and fostering collaboration and networking between life scientists, computer scientists,...
I have recently participated in BioNLP Shared Task 2013 Challenge together with Slavko Zitnik and won the first place in the task extracting gene regulation networks. The goal of the challenge was to assess the performance of information extraction...
Some of the ACM XRDS Editors are participating these days in a meeting to discuss the magazine's future direction in print and online. We will do our best to further promote the XRDS, enhance its departments, improve web presence, build a community of...
In first week of December U of Ljubljana celebrates traditional "Week of University" (Why?) during which numerous invited lectures, presentations and award ceremonies are organized. This year, I was awarded the faculty award for best students an...
Recent days at Department of Computing, Imperial College London, were pleasant (though intense) and our efforts in data fusion produced some very good results. Below are images taken at Imperial and nearby Chrome Web Lab, located in Science Museum....
I have just arrived to London, United Kingdom, where I will stay until the end of November this year. I will be working at Imperial College London, Department of Computing, Computational Network Biology Research Group led by Prof. Dr. Natasa Przulj....
So what have I been up to in recent weeks here at Toronto? Highlights include my first ride with famous American yellow school bus to a reception at ICSB12 conference, some sightseeing in Toronto city and a trip to Niagara Falls. Besides, I hav...