Detailed Agenda Friday 27 June 2003 | Time | Location | Event | 0800 - 1700 | Main Foyer | SIG Registration | | 0815 - 0900 | TBD | Breakfast | | 0900 - 2100 | TBD | SIG: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) (more information) | | 0900 - 2100 | TBD | SIG: Biopathways (more information) | | 0900 - 1730 | TBD | SIG: Text-Mining (more information) | | Saturday 28 June 2003 | Time | Location | Event | 0800 - 1200 | Main Foyer | SIG Registration | | 0815 - 0900 | TBD | Breakfast | | 0900 - 2100 | TBD | SIG: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) (more information) | | 0900 - 2100 | TBD | SIG: Biopathways (more information) | | 0900 - 1730 | TBD | SIG: Bio-Ontologies (more information) | | 0900 - 1730 | TBD | SIG: WEB 03 (more information) | | 1400 - 1630 | Main Foyer | Ice Breaker – Orienteering Event (more information) | | 1400 - 1700 | Main Foyer | ISMB 2003 Registration | | Monday 30 June 2003 | Time | Location | Event | 0730 - 1800 | Main Foyer | Registration and Information Desk Open | | 0745 - 0830 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Breakfast | | 0830 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Hon. Paul Lucas MP Minister for Innovation and Information Economy | | 0835 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Opening Remarks, Gene Myers and Mark Ragan, Co-Chairs ISMB 2003 | | 0840 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Remarks by ISCB, Michael Gribskov (ISCB President) | Phylogeny and Genome Rearrangements | 0845 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Detection and Validation of Single Gene Inversions Jean-Francois Lefebvre, Nadia El-Mabrouk, Elizabeth Tillier, David Sankoff [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 0910 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Fast Identification and Statistical Evaluation of Segmental Homologies in Comparative Maps Peter P. Calabrese, Sugata Chakravarty, Todd J. Vision [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 0935 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Glocal Alignment: Finding Rearrangements During Alignment Michael Brudno, Sanket Malde, Alexander Poliakov, Chuong Do, Olivier Couronne, Inna Dubchak, Serafim Batzoglou [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1000 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Bayesian Gene/Species Tree Reconciliation and Orthology Analysis Using MCMC Lars Arvestad, Ann-Charlotte Berglund, Jens Lagergren and Bengt Sennblad [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1025 - 1055 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Morning Tea | | 1100 - 2030 | Mezzanine M2 | Software Demos - Industry (click here to access the software demo schedule) | 1100 - 2030 | Mezzanine M1 | Software Demos - Non-profit (click here to access the software demo schedule) | Phylogeny and Genome Rearrangements | 1055 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Scaling up Accurate Phylogenetic Reconstruction from Gene-Order Data Jijun Tang and Bernard Moret [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1120 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Deriving Phylogenetic Trees from the Similarity Analysis of Metabolic Pathways Maureen Heymans and Ambuj Singh [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1145 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Identifying functional elements in the human genome by tracing the evolutionary history of the bases: a key challenge for comparative genomics Dr David Haussler Howard Hughes Medical Centre, California, USA (read this keynote speaker's biography) (read this keynote speaker's abstract) | | 1230-1400 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Lunch | | 1230-1400 | M3 & M4 | ISCB Business Meeting | | 1230-1400 | TBD | Birds of a Feather Meetings | | 1400 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Hon. Peter Beattie MP Premier of Queensland and Minister for Trade | | 1405 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Programming of the autopoietic development of complex organisms: the hidden layer of noncoding RNA Professor John Mattick Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Qld, Australia (read this keynote speaker's biography) (read this keynote speaker's abstract) | | 1445 - 1515 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Afternoon Tea | | Expression Arrays and Networks | 1515 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Using Hidden Markov Models to Analyze Gene Expression Time Course Data Alexander Schliep, Alexander Schonhuth, Christine Steinhoff [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1540 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Combining Multiple Microarray Studies and Modeling Interstudy Variation Jung Kyoon Choi, Ung Sik Yu, Sangsoo Kim, Ook Joon Yoo [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1605 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Gene Structure-Based Splice Variant Deconvolution Using a Microarray Platform Hui Wang, Earl Hubbell, Jing-shan Hu, Gangwu Mei, Melissa Cline, Gang Lu, Tyson Clark, Michael A. Siani-Rose, Manuel Ares, David C. Kulp and David Haussler [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1630 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Discovering Molecular Pathways from Protein Interaction and Gene Expression Data Eran Segal, Haidong Wang, Daphe Koller [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1655 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Chain Functions and Scoring Functions in Genetic Networks Ron Shamir and Irit Gat Viks [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1725 - 2030 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Industry Night Reception and Poster Presentations 1 | | Tuesday 1 July 2003 | Time | Location | Event | 0730 - 1800 | Main Foyer | Registration and Information Desk Open | | 0800 - 0845 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Breakfast | | 0845 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Reconstructing Genetic Networks Professor Ron Shamir, Tel Aviv University, Isreal (read this keynote speaker's biography) | | 0930 | Great Hall 1& 2 | ISMB ECCB 2004 | | 0900 - 1830 | Mezzanine M2 | Software Demos - Industry (click here to access the software demo schedule) | 0900 - 1830 | Mezzanine M1 | Software Demos - Non-profit (click here to access the software demo schedule) | | 0945 - 1015 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Morning Tea | | Predicting Clinical Outcomes | 1015 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Predicting Phenotype from Patterns of Annotation Oliver King, Jeff Lee, Aimee Dudley, Daniel Janse, George Church, and Frederick Roth [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1040 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Methods for Optimising Antiviral Combination Therapies Niko Beerenwinkel, Thomas Lengauer, Martin Daumer, Rolf Kaiser, Hauke Walter,Klaus Korn, Daniel Hoffman, Joachim Selbig [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1105 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Patching and Painting the Human Genome William James Kent University of California Santa Cruz, California, USA (read this keynote speaker's biography) (read this keynote speaker's abstract) | | 1230-1400 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Lunch | | 1205 - 1320 | TBD | Birds of a Feather Meetings | | SIG Meeting Reports | 1320 | Mezzanine M3 & M4 | BOSC | | 1335 | Mezzanine M3 & M4 | BioPathways | | 1430 | Mezzanine M3 & M4 | Text Mining | | 1535 | Mezzanine M3 & M4 | BioOntologies | | 1610 | Mezzanine M3 & M4 | WEB 03 | | Short Papers | 1320 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Widespread Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay of Normal and Disease Genes Richard E. Green, Benjamin P. Lewis, R. Tyler Hillman, Marcho Blanchette, Liana F. Lareau, Aaron T. Garnett, Donald C. Rio, and Steven E. Brenner [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1335 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Skew in CG Content Near the Transcription Start Site in Arabidopsis Thaliana Tatiana Tatarinova, Vyacheslav Brover, Maxim Troukhan, Nickolai Alexandrov [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1350 | Great Hall 1& 2 | A New Approach to the Annotation of Bacterial Genomes Using Phylogenomic Profiles F. Enault, K. Suhre, C. Abergel, O. Poirot, J-M Claverie [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1405 | Great Hall 1& 2 | GeneLoc: Exon-based Integration of Human Genome Maps Naomi Rosen, Vered Chalifa-Caspi, Orit Shmueli, Avital Adato, Michal Lapidot, Julie Stampnitzky, Marilyn Safran, Doron Lancet [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1420 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Linking Genotype to Phenotype: the International Rice Information System (IRIS) Richard Bruskiewich, Alexander Cosico, William Eusebio,Arllet Portugal, Luralyn Ramos, Graham McLaren [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1435 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Talisman - Rapid Application Development for the Grid Tom Oinn [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1450 | Great Hall 1& 2 | myGrid: Personalised Bioinformatics on the Information Grid Robert Stevens, Alan Robinson, Carole Goble [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1505 - 1535 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Afternoon Tea | | Short Papers | 1535 | Great Hall 1& 2 | GENIA Corpus - A Semantically Annotated Corpus for Bio-Textmining Jin-Dong Kim, Tomoko Ohta, Yuka Tateisi, Jun'ichi Tsujii [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1550 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Combining NLP and Probabilistic Categorisation for Document andTerm Selection for SWISS-PROT Medical Annotation Pavel B. Dobrokhotov, Cyril Goutte, Anne-Lise Veuthey, Eric Gaussier [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1605 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Complexity Management in Visualizing Protein Interaction Networks Byong-Hyon Ju and Kyungsook Han [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1620 | Great Hall 1& 2 | PSI: Indexing Protein Structures for Fast Similarity Search Orhan Camoglu, Tamer Kahveci, and Ambuj Singh [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1635 | Great Hall 1& 2 | A Tool to Assist the Study of Specific Features at Protein Binding Sites Francisco Melo [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1705 - 2030 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Poster Presentations 2 | | Wednesday 2 July 2003 | Time | Location | Event | 0730 - 1800 | Main Foyer | Registration and Information Desk Open | | 0800 - 0845 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Breakfast | | 0900 - 1830 | Mezzanine M2 | Software Demos - Industry (click here to access the software demo schedule) | 0900 - 1830 | Mezzanine M1 | Software Demos - Non-profit (click here to access the software demo schedule) | | Protein Clustering, Alignment and Patterns | 0845 | Great Hall 1& 2 | APDB: A Novel Measure for Benchmarking Sequence Alignment Methods Without Reference Alignments Orla Osullivan, Marc Zehnder, Des Higgins, Philipp Bucher, Aurelien Grosdidier, Notredame Cedric [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 0910 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Remote Homology Detection: A Motif Based Approach Asa Ben-Hur and Douglas Brutlag [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 0935 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Detecting Protein Sequence Conservation Via Metric Embeddings Eran Halperin, Jeremy Buhler, Richard Karp, Robert Krauthgamer, Ben Westover [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1000 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Sensitive Pattern Discovery with 'Fuzzy' Alignments of Distantly Related Proteins Andreas Heger and Liisa Holm [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1025 - 1055 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Morning Tea | | Protein Clustering, Alignment and Patterns | 1055 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Extraction of Correlated Gene Clusters from Multiple Genomic Data by Generalized Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis Yoshihiro Yamanishi, Jean-Philippe Vert, Akihiro Nakaya, Minoru Kanehisa [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1120 | Great Hall 1& 2 | A Probabilistic Approach to Gene Function Assignment and Propagation in Protein Interaction Networks Stanley Letovsky and Simon Kasif [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1145 | Great Hall 1& 2 | The Parameters of Genome Rearrangement Professor David Sankoff University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (read this keynote speaker's biography) (read this keynote speaker's abstract) | | 1230-1400 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Lunch | | 1245 - 1400 | TBD | Birds of a Feather Meetings | | 1400 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Dynamic Programming Algorithms for Haplotype Block Partitioning Professor Michael Waterman University of Southern California, California, USA (read this keynote speaker's biography) (read this keynote speaker's abstract) | | 1445 - 1515 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Afternoon Tea | | Transcription Motifs and Modules | 1515 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Identification of Functional Clusters of Transcription Factor Binding Motifs in Genome Sequences: the Mscan Algorithm Ojvind Johansson, Wyeth W. Wasserman, Jens Lagergren [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1540 | Great Hall 1& 2 | CREME: A Framework for Identifying Cis-Regulatory Modules in Human-Mouse Conserved Segments Roded Sharan, Ivan Ovcharenko, Asa Ben-Hur, Richard Karp [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1605 | Great Hall 1& 2 | A Probabilistic Method to Detect Regulatory Modules Saurabh Sinha, Erik van Nimwegen, Eric Siggia [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1630 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Predicting Bacterial Transcription Units Using Sequence and Expression Data Joseph Bockhorst, Yu Qiu, Jeremy Glasner, Mingzhu Liu, Frederick Blattner, Mark Craven [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1655 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Genome-wide Discovery of Transcriptional Modules from DNA Sequence and Gene Expression Eran Segal, Roman Yelensky, and Daphne Koller [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1720 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Best Paper and Best Poster Awards sponsored by SGI | | 1900 - 2330 | "Dreamworld" on the Gold Coast | ISMB 2003 - Australian Extravaganza- evening event We are now delighted to invite you to a truly unique dining experience under the southern sky at "Dreamworld" on the Gold Coast. Don’t miss the opportunity to enjoy a variety of Australian tastes, entertainment, wild rides and wild life! We know you will enjoy this night of adventure and festivities with something for everyone including those who like to get their feet off the ground! We look forward to welcoming you to a night of exciting entertainment, fabulous food and wine and some wonderful SURPRISES along the way!! To see a flyer on this event, download this word document. | | Thursday 3 July 2003 | Time | Location | Event | 0730 - 1700 | Main Foyer | Registration and Information Desk Open | | 0800 - 0845 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Breakfast | | 0900 - 1830 | Mezzanine M2 | Software Demos - Industry (click here to access the software demo schedule) | 0900 - 1830 | Mezzanine M1 | Software Demos - Non-profit (click here to access the software demo schedule) | | Structure and HMMs | 0845 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Stochastic Modeling of RNA Pseudoknotted Structures: A Grammatical Approach Liming Cai, Russell Malmberg, and Yunzhou Wu [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 0910 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Pair Hidden Markov Models on Tree Structures Yasubumi Sakakibara [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 0935 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Using Guide Trees to Construct Multiple-Sequence Evolutionary HMMs Ian Holmes [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1000 | Great Hall 1& 2 | MASS: A Method for Multiple Structural Alignment by Secondary Structures Oranit Dror, Hadar Benyamini, Ruth Nussinov, and Haim Wolfson [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1025 - 1055 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Morning Tea | | Structure and HMMs | 1055 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Protein Structure Prediction Via Combinatorial Assembly of Sub-structural Units Yuval Inbar, Hadar Benyamini, Ruth Nussinov, and Haim Wolfson [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1120 | Great Hall 1& 2 | An Ensemble Machine Learning Approach For the Prediction of All-alpha Membrane Proteins Pier Luigi Martelli, Piero Fariselli, and Rita Casadio [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1145 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Dynamic Eukaryotic Transcriptome Dr Yoshihide Hayashizaki RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Yokohama, Japan (read this keynote speaker's biography) (read this keynote speaker's abstract) | | 1230-1400 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Lunch | | 1245 - 1400 | TBD | Birds of a Feather Meetings | | 1400 | Great Hall 1& 2 | The Evolution of Genes and Genomes Dr Sydney Brenner University of California Berkeley, California, USA (read this keynote speaker's biography) | | 1445 - 1515 | Trade Exhibition Hall | Afternoon Tea | | Text Mining and High Throughput Methods | 1515 | Great Hall 1& 2 | The Discovery Net System for High Throughput Bioinformatics Anthony Rowe, Yike Guo, Dimitrios Kalaitzopoulos, Michelle Osmond, Moustafa Ghanem [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1540 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Processing of the Natural Language Queries to a Relational Database Maria Samsonova, Andrei Pisarev, Maxim Blagov [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1605 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Evaluation of Text Data mining for Database Curation: LessonsLearned from the KDD Challenge Cup Alexander Yeh, Lynette Hirschman, Alexander Morgan [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1630 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Extracting Synonymous Gene and Protein Termsfrom Biological Literature Hong Yu and Eugene Agichtein [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1655 | Great Hall 1& 2 | SNP and Mutation Discovery Using Base-specific Cleavage and MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Sebastian Boecker [Download Abstract as a PDF] | | 1720 | Great Hall 1& 2 | Closing Remarks / ISMB 2004 | | |