The BCB Journal Club was founded by Matthew Moscou in Spring 2006. The goal is to survey biological as well as computational literature that is left unaddressed in class. Through the Journal Club, students throughout ISU with an interest in computational biology are brought together and can interact and discuss topics on a broad scale that go beyond what is possible in a classroom as lab setting.

This website serves both as a journal club record of past discussions, as well as a poster board for upcoming papers and announcements.


Summer 2006
  05/16 Lifschytz E, Lindsey DL, 1972. The Role of X-Chromosome Inactivation during Spermatogenesis. PNAS 69(1): 182-186. [Pubmed]
  05/12 Kellis M, Patterson N, Birren B, Berger B, Lander ES, 2004. Methods in comparative genomics: genome correspondence, gene identification and regulatory motif discovery. J Comput Biol 11(2-3):319-355 [Pubmed]
  Kellis M, Patterson N, Endrizzi M, Birren B, Lander ES, 2003. Sequencing and comparison of yeast species to identify genes and regulatory elements. Nature 423(6937):241-54 [Pubmed]
  05/09 Hardy GH, 1908. Mendelian proportions in a mixed population. Science 28:49-50.
  Wright S, 1922. Coefficients of inbreeding and relationship. The American Naturalist 56 (645): 330-338

Spring 2006
  04/07 Philippe H, Douady CJ, 2003. Horizontal gene transfer and phylogenetics. Curr Opin Microbiol. 6(5):498-505. [Pubmed]
  Kechris KJ, van Zwet E, Bickel PJ, Eisen MB, 2004. Genome Biol 5(7):R50. [Pubmed]
  de Ridder D, Staal FJ, van Dongen JJ, Reinders MJ, 2006. Maximum significance clustering of oligonucleotide microarrays. Bioinformatics 22(3):326-31. [Pubmed]
  Kechris KJ, van Zwet E, Bickel PJ, Eisen MB, 2004. Detecting DNA regulatory motifs by incorporating positional trends in information content. Genome Biol. 5(7):R50. [Pubmed]