Presentation Slides (.pdf)

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Thursday – December 10, 2009
Keynote 1 Polypharmacology: Drug Discovery in the Era of Genomics and Proteomics

Philip E. Bourne, PhD Professor
Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCSD
Associate Director, RCSB Protein Data Bank
Editor in Chief, PLoS Computational Biology
Oral Presentation 1 Helping Biologists Understand their Data: An Update on the Hanalyzer System
William A. Baumgartner, Jr., University of Colorado
Oral Presentation 2 Thermodynamics-inspired ncRNA Search
Jennifer Smith, Boise State University
Oral Presentation 3 Algorithm to Improve Gene Consistency Across Bacterial Genomes
Judith D. Cohn, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Oral Presentation 4 A Genome-wide Analysis of Poised Promoters in Bacteria
Marko Djordjevic, Arkansas State University and The Arkansas Bioscience Institute
Oral Presentation 5 Structure-Based Prediction of DNA Binding Sites for Families of Transcription Factors
Julia Ponomarenko, University of California, San Diego
Oral Presentation 6 Genome-wide Discovery of Human Heart Enhancers
Ivan Ovcharenko, NIH
Oral Presentation 7 Development of Methods for Integrating Diverse Sources of Genome-Scale Data
Daniel Dvorkin, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 8 Visualizing Genomic Sequences in 2D
Josiah Seaman, Colorado State University
Oral Presentation 9 Automated Inference of Molecular Mechanisms of Disease from Amino Acid Substitutions
Biao Li, Indiana University
Oral Presentation 10 A User Study of Attribute Visualization Tools and Their Role in Understanding Biological Networks
Hande Kucuk, Eastern Michigan University
Oral Presentation 11 NeuroIE: Extracting Neuroimaging Study Results from the Literature
Yong Gao, Mass General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Oral Presentation 12 Analysis of a Local Huntingtin Protein Interaction Network
Corey Powell, Buck Institute for Age Research
Oral Presentation 13 In Silico Functional Profiling of Human Disease-Associated and Polymorphic Amino Acid Substitutions
Vidhya G. Krishnan, Buck Institute for Age Research
Keynote 2 Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Discovery in Cancer Metastasis

Anna Divoli, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar
Department of Medicine and Institute of Genomics and Systems Biology The University of Chicago
Oral Presentation 14 Accelerating Candidate Gene Discovery through Ontological Indexing of Large Scale Data Repositories
Simon Twigger, Medical College of Wisconsin
Oral Presentation 15 Knowledge Network Approach: Pathways and Drugs
Nikolai Daraselia, Ariadne
Oral Presentation 16 Can We Accurately Determine the Fittest Genes in Nature
Ramy K. Aziz, San Diego State University
Oral Presentation 17 Assessing Models of Protein Interaction Network Evolution
Todd A. Gibson, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 18 Gene and Genome Trees Conflict at Many Levels
Leanne S. Haggerty, NUI Maynooth
Oral Presentation 19 Protein-protein Interactions are Driven by Functional Evolution
Yiqiang Zhao, Buck Institute for Age Research
Oral Presentation 20 Evolutionary Study and Prediction of Protein-protein Interactions in Chromatin Modification Complexes
Xuejian Xiong, Hospital for Sick Children
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Friday – December 11, 2009
Keynote 3 Spanning Scales - The Combination of Mathematics and High Performance Computing impacts Computational Biology

Kirk E. Jordan, PhD, Emerging Solution Executive
Computational Science Center
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Oral Presentation 21 An Individual Based Modelling Approach to Studying the Evolution of Mate Choice Strategy
Robert Williamson, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Oral Presentation 22 MtHaplogroups: A Curated Web Resource for Mitochondrial Variation
Michael V. Osier, Rochester Institute of Technology
Oral Presentation 23 Posterior-Predictive Detection Of Molecular Co-Evolution Using Phylogenetically-Integrated Mutual Information
A.P. Jason de Koning, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 24 Bioinformatics Characterization Of The Plasmodium Glutathione S-Transferase
Emilee Colón, University of Puerto Rico
Oral Presentation 25 Leveraging Existing Biological Knowledge in Genome Wide Association Studies
Ronald Schuyler, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 26 Evaluating Microbial Diversity and Adaptation: New Opportunities for Insight in a Data Rich World
Catherine Lozupone, University of Colorado, Boulder
Oral Presentation 27 Wow! That's Really Interesting!
Hannah Tipney, University of Colorado, Boulder
Oral Presentation 28 Global Optimization in Nonlinear Models: Optimization and Evolution in Metabolic Networks
Albert Sorribas, CMB - IRBLLEIDA - University of Lleida
Oral Presentation 29 Virus Discovery by Deep Sequencing and Assembly of Virus-derived Small Silencing RNAs
Qingfa Wu, University of California, Riverside
Oral Presentation 30 Prediction of Protein Protein Interaction Sites and Their Impact on Genetic Disease
Angshuman Bagchi, Buck Institute for Age Research
Oral Presentation 31 Optimal Nearest Shrunken Centroids Method for High-dimensional Data Classification
Tiejun Tong, University of Colorado, Boulder
Oral Presentation 32 Retrobiosynthesis: Searching Backwards, Looking Forwards
Dan McShan, University of Colorado, Denver
Keynote 4
(Joint Keynote)
Strategies for Elaborating Cognitive Requirements of Bioinformatics Tools

Ben Keller, PhD, Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Eastern Michigan University

and

Barbara Mirel
Associate Research Scientist
School of Education, University of Michigan
NCIBI Core Director of Evaluation, Education and Training
Oral Presentation 33 Experiments with Biological Concept Recognition Tools
Karin Verspoor, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 34 Test Suite Design for Biomedical Ontology Concept Recognition Systems
K. Bretonnel Cohen, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 35 Predicting Protein Linkages in Bacteria: Which Method is Best Depends on Task
Anis Karimpour-Fard, University of Colorado, Denver
Oral Presentation 36 A Metagenomic Study of a Microbial Mat in a Hawaiian Lava Cave
Gayle K. Philip, NASA Astrobiology Institute
Oral Presentation 37 Mobile Metagenomics: Annotating DNA Sequences On A Cell Phone
Josh Hoffman, San Diego State University
Oral Presentation 38 The Colorado Richly Annotated Full-Text (CRAFT) Corpus: A Resource for BioNLP Research
Michael Bada, University of Colorado, Denver
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Saturday – December 12, 2009
Keynote 5 ChEMBL - Large-scale Open Access Data for Drug Discovery

John P. Overington, PhD CChem.
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
Oral Presentation 39 Subgraphs of Protein-protein Interaction Networks with High Connectivity
Suzanne Gallagher, University of Colorado, Boulder
Oral Presentation 40 TreeHugger: A New Test for Enrichment of Gene Ontology Terms
Daniel Jupiter, Texas A&M Health Science Center
Oral Presentation 41 Pattern-Based Extraction of Argumentation from the Scientific Literature
Elizabeth White, University of Colorado, Boulder
Oral Presentation 42 Early Host Response During Influenza Infections
Christian V. Forst, University of Texas
Oral Presentation 43 Boolean Network Models of Human Aging
Michael Verdicchio, Arizona State University
Oral Presentation 44 Positive Selection and Functional Shift: Human Heme Peroxidase Case Study
Mary J. O'Connell, Dublin City University
Oral Presentation 45 Delving into the Bacteriome:Protein-protein Interactions in E. coli
John Parkinson, Hospital for Sick Children
Oral Presentation 46 Simplified Clustering with Dirichlet Process and Other Process Mixtures
Matthew Shotwell, Medical University of South Carolina
Oral Presentation 47 Real Time Metagenomics
Robert Edwards, San Diego State University
Oral Presentation 48 Structure Discovery in PPI Networks Using Pattern-Based Network Decomposition
Ying Liu, University of Texas, Dallas
Oral Presentation 49 Data Mining Over Directed Transcription Factor Networks
Rauf Malick, Bahria University
Keynote 6 Informatics Challenges for Pharmacogenetic

Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD
Professor of Bioengineering Genetics, Medicine
(& Computer Science, by courtesy)
Chair, Bioengineering Director
Biomedical Informatics Training Program
Stanford University

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