Lecture: Probabilistic Graphical Models (Gastmodul Bioinformatik A) - Details

General information

Course name	Lecture: Probabilistic Graphical Models (Gastmodul Bioinformatik A)
Semester	SS 2013
Current number of participants	4
Home institute	Bioinformatik
participating institutes	Institut für Informatik
Courses type	Lecture in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date	Monday, 24.06.2013 10:00 - 14:00
Pre-requisites	Molekulare Phylogenie
Performance record	- Scheinerwerb durch Lösung der Aufgaben und aktive Teilnahme an den Übungen - mündliche Prüfung
Studiengänge (für)	Master Bioinformatik
SWS	3

Lecturers

• Prof. Dr. Ivo Grosse
• Dipl.-Bioinform. Yvonne Pöschl

Rooms and times

No room preference

Monday: 10:00 - 14:00, weekly(3x)

Fields of study

• Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III - Agrarwiss., Geowiss. und Informatik > Informatik > Institut für Informatik

Comment/Description

In the last twenty years, Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) have emerged as a most effective tool for solving artificial intelligence problem in general and in particular for bioinformatics applications. This course introduces what PGMs are and reviews the different types of questions that we can answer through its use. We cover algorithms that allow us to provide an exact answer to such questions, and establish when this answer can be provided in polynomial time. For those cases when no polynomial time exact algorithm exists, we review approximate inference techniques. In particular, we concentrate on structured variational approaches and variational expectation maximization. Along the course, exercise sessions will be used to show how the theoretical results in the lectures can be applied to particular bioinformatics problems, with an emphasis in molecular phylogenetics.