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UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Colloquium<\/h3>\n

1131 Bioinformatics Building<\/p>\n

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The BCB Colloquium Series welcomes Wesley Legant, Assistant\u00a0Professor<\/span>, Lampe Biomedical Engineering & Pharmacology, and Tarek Zikry, Assistant Professor, School of Data Science & Society, this week.<\/p>\n

Wesley Legant<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assistant\u00a0Professor<\/span>, Lampe Biomedical Engineering & Pharmacology<\/p>\n

Dissecting\u00a0tumor transcriptional heterogeneity from single-cell RNA-seq data by generalized binary covariance decomposition<\/em><\/p>\n

Tarek Zikry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assistant Professor, School of Data Science & Society<\/p>\n

Readable genomics analysis code with tidyomics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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