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             Wed, 8/1/2018,
                8:30 AM -
                10:20 AM  
         
        
            
            CC-West 111  
         
     
    
        
            Advances in Methods for the Accurate Measurement of High-Throughput Sequencing Data — Contributed Papers 
         
     
    
        
            Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics  
         
     
    
    
        
            Chair(s): Yinqiu  He, University of Michigan 
         
     
    
                    
                        
                            8:35 AM 
                         
                        
                            Joint Modeling of Multiple RNA-Seq Samples for Accurate Isoform Quantification 
                            
                             
                            Wei  Li, University of California, Los Angeles ; Jingyi  Li, University of California, Los Angeles; Anqi  Zhao, Harvard University; Shihua  Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            8:50 AM 
                         
                        
                            Accounting for Gene Expression Quantification Uncertainty Leads to Improved Performance in Differential Splicing Analysis 
                            
                             
                            Scott  Van Buren, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Naim  Rashid, UNC Chapel Hill 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            9:05 AM 
                         
                        
                            Improving Copy Number Variation Estimation by Incorporating BAF Using ModSaRa 
                            
                             
                            Feifei  Xiao, University of South Carolina ; Heping  Zhang, Yale University School of Public Health 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            9:20 AM 
                         
                        
                            Mitigating the Adverse Impact of Batch Effects in Sample Pattern Detection 
                            
                             
                            Teng  Fei, Emory University ; Tengjiao  Zhang, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University; Weiyang  Shi, School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University; Tianwei  Yu, Emory University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            9:35 AM 
                         
                        
                            Normalization of Transcript Degradation Improves Accuracy in RNA-Seq Analysis 
                            
                             
                            Ji-Ping  Wang, Northwestern University ; Bin  Xiong, Northwestern University; Yiben  Yang, Northwestern University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            9:50 AM 
                         
                        
                            RCRnorm: An Integrated System of Random-Coefficient Hierarchical Regression Models for Normalizing NanoString NCounter Data from FFPE Samples 
                            
                             
                            Gaoxiang  Jia, Southern Methodist University; Guanghua  Xiao, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; Xinlei (Sherry)  Wang, Southern Methodist University  
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            10:05 AM 
                         
                        
                            Vi-HMM: a Novel HMM-Based Method for Sequence Variant Identification in Short Read Data 
                              
                             
                            Man  Tang, Virginia Tech ; Mohammad  Shabbir Hasan, Virginia Tech; Liqing  Zhang, Virginia Tech; Hongxiao  Zhu, Virginia Tech University; Xiaowei  Wu, Virginia Tech