On-site SIG meeting and early-bird ISMB registration will be in the lobby of the Westin Hotel (10135 – 100^th Street) beginning August 1. On-site registration for ISMB moves to the Shaw Conference Centre (meeting level) on August 3 beginning at 7:30am. 

Last updated on July 9, 2002

Agenda at a glance

Detailed Agenda
 

SATURDAY, August 3
7:30 - 18:00	Registration and information desk opens at the Shaw Conference Centre Assembly level
8:30 - 12:30	TUTORIALS 1 to 7, morning
10:00 - 17:00	Industry Exhibits set up
12:30 - 14:00	Luncheon
14:00 - 17:30	TUTORIALS 8 to 15, afternoon
18:00 - 20:30	Opening Reception at Shaw Conference Centre and Exhibits open
SUNDAY, August 4
7:30 - 18:00	Registration and information desk opens at the Shaw Conference Centre Assembly level
8:30 - 18:00	Software Demonstrations in Shaw Conference Centre
8:30 - 8:50	Opening remarks, David Wishart (ISMB 2002 chair);
8:50 - 9:00	Remarks by ISCB, Phil Bourne (ISCB president)
Session I: Protein motifs/families   Chair: Michael Gribskov
9:00 - 9:45	Presentation 1: Keynote: Michael Ashburner, Title: TBA
9:45 - 10:10	Presentation 2: Mining viral protease data to extract cleavage knowledge, A.Narayanan, X.Wu and Z.Rong Yang
10:10 - 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 - 11:15	Presentation 3: The metric space of proteins -- comparative study of clustering algorithms, O.Sasson, N.Linial and M. Linial
11:15 - 11:40	Presentation 4: DNA sequence and structure: direct and indirect recognition in protein-DNA binding, N.R.Steffen, S.D.Murphy, L.Tolleri, G.W.Hatfield and R.H Lathrop
11:40 - 12:05	Presentation 5: Beyond tandem repeats: complex pattern structures and distant regions of similarity, A.M.Hauth and D.A.Joseph
12:05 - 12:30	Presentation 6: The POPPs: clustering and searching using peptide probability profiles, M.J.Wise
12:00 - 20:30	Industry Exhibits open
12:30 - 14:00	Luncheon
Session II: Protein structure/function  Chair: Phil Bourne
14:00- 14:45	Presentation 7: Keynote: Barry Honig, Title: TBA
14:45 - 15:10	Presentation 8: A sequence-profile-based HMM for predicting and discriminating beta barrel membrane proteins, P.L.Martelli, P.Fariselli, A.Krogh and R.Casadio
15:10 - 15:40	Coffee break
15:40 - 16:05	Presentation 9: Fully automated ab initio protein structure prediction using I-SITES, HMMSTR and ROSETTA, C.Bystroff and Y.Shao
16:05 - 16:30	Presentation 10: Prediction of Contact Maps by GIOHMMS and recurrent neural networks using lateral propagation from all four cardinal corners.  G.Pollastri and P.Baldi
16:30 - 16:55	Presentation 11: Rate4Site: an algorithmic tool for the identification of functional regions in proteins by surface mapping of evolutionary determinants within their homologues.  T.Pupko, R.Bell, I.Mayrose, F.Glaser and N.Ben-Tal
16:55 - 17:20	Presentation 12: Inferring sub-cellular localization through automated lexical analysis.  R.Nair and B.Rost
17:30 - 21:00	POSTER SESSION 1 at Shaw Conference Centre
INDUSTRY NIGHT
18:00 - 20:30	Industry Night Reception at Shaw Conference Centre, Exhibition stands open until 20:30
MONDAY, August 5
7:30 - 18:00	Registration and information desk opens at the Shaw Conference Centre Assembly level
8:30 - 18:00	Software Demonstrations in Shaw Conference Centre
Session III: Expression 1 Chair: Terry Gaasterland
9:00 - 9:45	Presentation 13: Keynote: Isidore Rigoutsos, Title: TBA
9:45 - 10:10	Presentation 14: Support vector regression applied to the determination of the developmental age of a Drosophila Embryo from its segmentation gene expression patterns., E.Myasnikova, A.Samsonova, M.Samsonova and J.Reinitz
10:10 - 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 - 11:15	Presentation 15: Variance stablization applied to microarray data calibration and to quantification of differential expression., W.Huber, A.von Heydebreck, H.Sueltmann, A.Poustka and M.Vingron
11:15 - 11:40	Presentation 16: A variance-stabilizing transformation from gene-expression microarray data.  B.P.Durbin, J.S.Hardin, D.M.Hawkins and D.M.Rocke
11:40 - 12:05	Presentation 17: Binary tree - structured vector quantization approach to clustering and visualizing microarray data, M.Sultan, D.A.Wigle, C.A.Cumbaa, M.Maziarz, J.Glasgow, M.S. Tsao and I.Jurisica
12:05 - 12:30	Presentation 18: Linking gene expression data with patient survival times using partial least squares. P.J.Park, L.Tian and I.S.Kohane
12:00 - 18:00	Industry Exhibits open
12:30 - 12:45	Announcement from NSF
12:40 - 14:00	Luncheon
Session IV: Expression 2  Chair: Alfonso Valencia
14:00 - 14:45	Presentation 19: Keynote: Ford Doolittle, Title: TBA
14:45 - 15:10	Presentation 20: Microarray synthesis through multiple-use PCR primer design. R.J.Fernandes and S.S.Skiena
15:10 - 15:40	Coffee break
15:40 - 16:05	Presentation 21: Discovering statistically significant biclusters in gene expression data  A.Tanay, R.Sharan and R.Shamir
16:05 - 16:30	Presentation 22: Co-clustering of biological networks and gene expression data. D.Hanisch, A.Zien, R.Zimmer and T.Lengauer
16:30 - 16:55	Presentation 23: Statistical process control for large scale microarray experiments.  F.Model, T.Konig, C.Piepenbrock and P.Adorjan
16:55 - 17:20	Presentation 24: Evaluation machine learning approaches for aiding probe selection for gene-expression arrays. J.B.Tobler, M.N.Molla, E.F.Nuwaysir, R.D.Green and J.W.Shavlik
17:30 - 21:00	POSTER SESSION 2 at Shaw Conference Centre
TUESDAY, August 6
7:30 - 18:00	Registration and Help Desk open
8:30 - 18:00	Software Demonstrations in Shaw Conference Centre
Session V: Methods 1 Chair: Rob Russell
9:00 - 9:45	Presentation 25: Keynote:  Stephen Altschul Title: Assessing the accuracy of database search methods,and improving the performance of PSI-BLAST
9:45 - 10:10	Presentation 26: The degenerate primer design problem.  C.Linhart and R.Shamir
10:10 - 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 - 11:15	Presentation 27: Splicing graphs and EST assembly problem.  S.Heber, M.Alekseyev, S.-H. Sze, H.Tang and P.A.Pevzner
11:15 - 11:40	Presentation 28: Exact genetic linkage computations for general pedigrees.  M.Fishelson and D.Geiger
11:40 - 12:05	Presentation 29: Assigning probes into a small number of pools separable by electrophoresis.  T.Kivioja, M.Arvas, K.Kataja, M.Penttil, H.Soderlund and E.Ukkonen
12:05 - 12:30	Presentation 30: Representing genetic sequence data for pharmacogenomics: an evolutionary approach using ontological and relational models. D.L.Rubin, F.Shafa, D.E.Oliver, M.Hewett and R.B. Altman
12:00 - 18:00	Industry Exhibits open
12:30 - 13:30	ISCB meeting
13:00 - 14:00	Luncheon/Exhibits open till 18:00
Session VI: Networks Chair: Burkhard Rost
14:00 - 14:45	Presentation 31: Keynote: Terry Gaasterland, Title: TBA
14:45 - 15:10	Presentation 32: Evaluating functional network inference using simulations of complex biological systems.   V.A.Smith, E.D.Jarvis and A.J. Hartemink
15:10 - 15:50	Coffee break
15:50 - 16:15	Presentation 33: The Pathway Tools software.  P.Karp, S.Paley and P.Romero
16:15 - 16:40	Presentation 34: Discovering regulatory and signaling circuits in molecular interaction networks. T.Ideker, O.Ozier, B.Schwikowski and A.F.Siegel
16:40 - 17:05	Presentation 35: Modelling regulatory pathways in E. Coli from time series expression profiles. I.M. Ong, J.D.Glasner and D.Page
17:05 - 17:30	Presentation 36: Of truth and pathways: chasing bits of information through myriads of articles.  M.Krauthammer, P.Kra, I.Iossifov, S.M.Gomez, G.Hripcsak, V.Hatzivassiloglou, C.Friedman,and A.Rzhetsky
17:30 - 17:55	Presentation 37: Minreg: Inferring an active regulator set.,  D.Pe'er, A.Regev and A.Tanay
WESTERN BBQ AT FORT EDMONTON
18:00	Buses start departing from Shaw Conference Centre to Fort Edmonton
22:30	Buses start departing from Fort Edmonton to Downtown
WEDNESDAY, August 7
7:30 - 15:00	Registration and Help Desk open
8:30 - 18:00	Software Demonstrations in Shaw Conference Centre
8:30 - 9:00	ISCB welcome & presentation of ISMB 2003
Session VII: Methods 2 Chair: Rick Lathrop
9:00 - 9:45	Presentation 38: Keynote: John Reinitz, Title: TBA
9:45 - 10:10	Presentation 39: Marginalized kernels for biological sequences  K.Tsuda, T.Kin and K.Asai
10:10 - 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 - 11:15	Presentation 40: A tree kernel to analyze phylogenetic profiles.  J.-P.Vert
11:15 - 11:40	Presentation 41: Statistically based postprocessing of phylogenetic analysis by clustering.  C.Stockham, L.-S.Wang and T.Warnow
11:40 - 12:05	Presentation 42: Efficiently detecting polymorphisms during the fragment assembly process.   D.Fasulo, A.Halpern, I.Dew and C.Mobarry
12:00 - 15:00	Industry Exhibits open
12:05 - 12:30	Presentation 43: Multiple genome rearrangement: a general approach via the evolutionary genome graph.  D.Korkin and L.Goldfarb
12:30 - 12:55	Presentation 44: Efficient multiple genome alignment.  M.Hohl, S.Kurtz and E.Ohlebusch
12:55 - 14:00	Luncheon
Session VIII: Gene structure Chair: Janice Glasgow
14:00 - 14:45	Presentation 45: Overton Lecture:  David Baker Title: TBA
14:45 - 15:10	Presentation 46: PseudoViewer: automatic visualization of RNA pseudoknots.  K.Han, Y.Lee and W.Kim
15:10 - 15:40	Coffee break
15:40 - 16:05	Presentation 47: A powerful non-homology method for the prediction of operons in prokaryotes.  G.Moreno-Hagelsieb and J.Callado-Vides
16:05 - 16:30	Presentation 48: Identifying operons and untranslated regions of transcripts using Escherichia. coli RNA expression analysis. B.Tjaden, D.R.Haynor, S.Stolyar, C.Rosenow and E.Kolker
16:30 - 16:55	Presentation 49: Detecting recombination with MCMC. D.Husmeier and G.McGuire
16:55 - 17:20	Presentation 50: Finding composite regulatory patterns in DNA sequences.  E.Eskin and P.A.Pevzner
17:20 - 18:00	Awards for best paper Closing remarks

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