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SIGSIM: Systems Biology of E.coli

 

 

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

Sunday 29 June 2003
Time
Location
Event
0700 - 1830
Main Foyer
Registration
0745 - 0830
Mezzanine Level
Breakfast
TUTORIALS
0830 - 1230
Plaza 3
Bioethics for Bioinformatics
Wayne Hall
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Plaza 5
Introducing Workflow Integration of BioEnterprise Applications on a Java Platform
Tin Wee Tan
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Mezzanine 1
Statistical Issues in Microarray Data Analysis
Mark Reimers
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Mezzanine 3
Analysis of Regulatory Sequences Controlling the Expression of Gene Network
Wyeth Wasserman
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Plaza 4
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Analysis
Graziano Pesole
(download the abstract as a pdf)
Plaza 1
Molecular Modelling: Building a 3D Protein Structure from its Sequence
Shoba Ranganathan
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Mezzanine 2
Mining the Biomedical Literature Using Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing Techniques
Ronen Feldman
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Plaza 2
The EM Algorithm and Some of its Applications in Molecular Biology
Frederique Galisson
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1015 - 1030
TBD
Coffee Break
1100 - 1800
M5 & M6
ISCB Board Meeting
1235 - 1330
Mezzanine Level
Lunch
TUTORIALS
1330 - 1730
Plaza 2
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques for Bioinformatics
Ajit Narayanan
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Plaza 5
Computational Approaches to Detecting Gene-Gene Interactions
Jason Moore
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Mezzanine 1
Data warehousing in molecular biology
Vladimir Brusic
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Plaza 1
Microarray Data Normalisation and Transformation
John Quackenbush
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Mezzanine 2
Extracting Biological Information From System-Scale Protein Interactome Data
Sudir Sahasrabudhe
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Plaza 4
Molecular Evolution: Evolutionary Dynamics and Molecular Biophysics
David Pollock
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Plaza 3
Training and Support for Bioinformatics – Theoretical and Practical Aspects
Eitan Rubin
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1800 - 2030
Main Foyer
Welcome Reception in Trade Exhibition Hall

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
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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
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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
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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
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1540
Great Hall 1& 2
Combining Multiple Microarray Studies and Modeling Interstudy Variation
Jung Kyoon Choi, Ung Sik Yu, Sangsoo Kim, Ook Joon Yoo
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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
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1655
Great Hall 1& 2
Chain Functions and Scoring Functions in Genetic Networks
Ron Shamir and Irit Gat Viks
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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
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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

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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
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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
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1435
Great Hall 1& 2
Talisman - Rapid Application Development for the Grid
Tom Oinn
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1450
Great Hall 1& 2
myGrid: Personalised Bioinformatics on the Information Grid
Robert Stevens, Alan Robinson, Carole Goble
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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
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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
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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
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0910
Great Hall 1& 2
Remote Homology Detection: A Motif Based Approach Asa
Ben-Hur and Douglas Brutlag
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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
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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

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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

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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
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1605
Great Hall 1& 2
A Probabilistic Method to Detect Regulatory Modules
Saurabh Sinha, Erik van Nimwegen, Eric Siggia
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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
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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!!

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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
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0935
Great Hall 1& 2
Using Guide Trees to Construct Multiple-Sequence Evolutionary HMMs
Ian Holmes
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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
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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
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1145
Great Hall 1& 2
Dynamic Eukaryotic Transcriptome
Dr Yoshihide Hayashizaki RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Yokohama, Japan
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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

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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
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1540
Great Hall 1& 2
Processing of the Natural Language Queries to a Relational Database
Maria Samsonova, Andrei Pisarev, Maxim Blagov
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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
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1630
Great Hall 1& 2
Extracting Synonymous Gene and Protein Termsfrom Biological Literature
Hong Yu and Eugene Agichtein
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1655
Great Hall 1& 2
SNP and Mutation Discovery Using Base-specific Cleavage and MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry
Sebastian Boecker
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1720
Great Hall 1& 2
Closing Remarks / ISMB 2004