The first webinar of BioInfoNet series was given by Dr. Tolga Can from METU (Middle East Technical University), Ankara, Turkey. METU is one of the oldest, biggest and best universities in Turkey. Dr. Can has a bioinformatics lab. in the Computer Science Department.
His talk was on reconstruction of signaling networks from steady state perturbation data. You can find the recording of the webinar here on our community page and here on youtube.
My take-home message from this webinar (apart from the scientific part) is Dr. Can’s these words: “As computer scientists we do not say “OK this is a very difficult problem, we can not do that”. We offer a solution.”. This was something I have “noticed” before but never mentioned aloud as a statistician. When Dr. Can solidly stated this, I got it. Eventhough this was a statement about methodology, this sentence is now like a saying to me and I am trying to apply this insight to my everyday work.
Dr. Can and all participants mentioned that they enjoyed the webinar. Hope to see Dr. Can as a guest for many times in the future!