News

^{February 18, 2005}
New Study Makes Whole-Genome Association Studies Possible

San Diego and Berkeley, CA, February 17, 2005 - Computer scientists at ICSI and Calit2, research centers affiliated with the University of California, have teamed with biologists from Perlegen Sciences, Inc., to map key genetic signposts across three human populations. Their study - published in the Feb. 18 issue of Science - could make widely accessible the analysis of human variation based on whole-genome data, and speed efforts to pinpoint DNA variations that are associated with disease or with how patients respond differently to drugs.

^{February 10, 2005}
Press release written by Madelaine Plauche and Leah Hitchcock-Ybarra
February 8, 2005

Researchers at ICSI will demonstrate their speech recognition technology developed for India with UC Berkeley's TIER Project (Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions) as part of the UCB BEARS Conference on Thursday, February 10th.

^{January 21, 2005}
Srini Narayanan, leader of ICSI's AI group, started a new position as Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Berkeley in January.

^{January 2, 2005}
A new version of HAP, a software program designed to aid in identification of genetic factors in human disease, will be released in early 2005. Eran Halperin and Richard Karp of ICSI, and Eleazar Eskin of UC San Diego, developed this software, which has so far aided hundreds of researchers worldwide in decoding more than 4000 sets of genetic data. More information on HAP is available at the HAP information page as well as a recent article from the website of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.