4 Weeks in BKK

Four weeks in Bangkok were such a short period. I did many things and missed many things.

I have learned something about genetics with Biotec folk, worked with them for many days. I did not only have Thai food but Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, especially seafood which I had really missed.

I did not go travel, did not have enough time to go and no one had free time to go with me. But that was not a big deal. My purpose was to see my family.

New Interest of My Research

I just talked to the staffs of Biotec in Bangkok. They are interested in exploiting GPGPU in their application. They would like to apply some algorithms (now they are using EM) to infer haploid genotype. Anyhow this genetic area is new to me. I will study about it during summer. Hopefully I will be able to gain something to write about before fall.

Note:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplotype
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM_algorithm

keywords: monte carlo, EM algo (Expectation-maximization algo), expectation maximization haplotyping